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Congratulations. I have enjoyed your previous work. I hope you will be in a position to supervise the development of the next edition of D&D. Soon. Given the present edition’s advanced state of development, I don’t see much of an opportunity for you to change the state of the “current...

To answer the “now what” PAIZO CEO question, I think it is important to begin with a clear understanding of what and why is PAIZO, post-Dungeon and Dragon publisher. The what and why can be immediately answered to a farethewell by reference to the PAIZO message board postings around the time...

Clark specifically invited comment. I hold in my heart a special place for Clark with respect to D&D. He helped sell the tulip bulbs and not dispassionately but with extreme enthusiasm, lending his credibility and that of Necromancer to Wotc - for less than nothing as it turns out. He also...

Well, Clark (if I can call you Clark). It’s a start. But you are not done admitting you were wrong, I think. So. You held back 3X product, hoping to go 4e. And you were wrong. So. You thought the GSL could be “fixed.” And you were wrong. Congrats for starting your public confession tour...

I will agree with this entirely but from, maybe, a different angle. I don't play 4e. I am, however, willing to buy 4e products that I can adapt to my game of choice, just as I've purchased non-D&D material for every edition that I thought was cool and that I thought I could adapt to my D&D...

Thank you for the link to the preview. I’ll look at this because of the original but the preview is not impressive. Another uber dude needs _YOU_ to SAVE THE WORLD!!! From an ‘ancient evil.’ Ya don’t say? Yawn. This bears no passing resemblance to the original where an ordinary human king...

IMO. FR was the first 4e setting for the obvious reason that it is the RPGA setting du jour for 4e. Eberron was next because it had barely gotten going in 3.5 when 4e debuted. Dark Sun was this year because it sincs up with the psionics rules coming out and provides some synergy on paper...

I disagree with the ban. Accepting for purposes of discussion of the ban that “5e” is code for “4e sucks” and hence “edition warring,” something important is being missed, I think. The biggest story to emerge from 4e is how the D&D community has been split; edition wars are merely the most...

Excellent description except that, to me, it does come across as a hodge-podge or crazy-quilt setting. There are few connections between the regions that overarch the setting and thereby unite it into a coherent whole. Its too much like every region exits in a semi-vacuum. This makes it...

Yes. The GSL as part of a 4e launch that split the market is a fiasco. Whether the split is 30-40% (split) vs 70-60% (going witgh 4e) as someone attributed to a Wotc source up thread or 20% (split)vs 80% (going with 4e) as Mistwell optimistically imagined upthread that big of a loss due to...

Agreed. Organizations are not monolithic. There will be differing points of view. At the end of the day, however, what is actually done and put into practice is the corporate policy. Any voices contrary to the objective evidence of corporate action are necessarily in the moinority for their...

The "threat" is not financial, I think. It is brand oriented. The OGL left Wotc in less than full control of their brand. From that flows the potential for harm to the brand and only then to harm to the bottom line coming from harm to the brand.

Wonderful thread! And I think your comments very well considered. However, I will venture to disagree with the above quote, if you meant it to apply to more than 4e. I agree the D&D audience has been split by 4e and 4e cannot put Humpty Dumpty back together again. 5e may be able to do so...

So there I am roaming through Half Price Books this weekend and I come to the used games section and what to my wondering eyes should appear than all the basic 4e D&D books (multiple copies of each) and some of the follow on products. At subsequent stops on my Half Price Books tour, I see more...

Title - Expedition to the Ruins of Castle Greyhawk Publisher - Wotc Format - Hardback Pages - 224 MSRP - $34.95 Reviewer - Glenn Vincent Dammerung aka GVDammerung Reviewer’s Note - I am and have been a long time Greyhawk fan. I do not have a dominant preference for a particular iteration of the...

This is the MOST INSIGHTFUL comment in the entire thread!

I agree with the nod to Darksun and Birthright. I could see a Spelljammer even more easily and productively, and a Mystara. The key to the effort is appreciating what 4e brings to the table and which settings can best use what 4e brings to the table. Shoehorning 4e into a setting where the...

Bingo! Wotc would not be backtracking unless 4e needed the help. If 4e sales were rocking there would be no leverage internally with legal, I suspect, for this kind of a reversal. Of course, it remains to be seen if the actual changes are substantive or merely cosmetic. I'll guess minor...

2nd post and we have a thread winner! But let's wait and see just what changes get made: 1) At will termination clause? 2) Absolute termination of content when termination occurs? 3) Can't use OGL and GSL? Let's wait and see. I think that this move to adjust the language, we'll see how...

I'm not shocked or stunned Necro is not going 4e. For reasons others have well explained, the GSL is problematic in the extreme. What shocks and surprises me is that Necro is _still_ holdoing out hope for a change, modification or "clarification" (that would change the legal essence of the...