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The Escapist's Extra Credits video series recently had one of the best, most informed takes on the issue of piracy: The Escapist : Video Galleries : Extra Credits : Piracy When I have to think about why I stopped gaming on computers, though, it had very little to do with piracy: 1) My...

I think it's a combination of many, many things. You can't break it down to just one major contributing factor. They sacrificed a lot of sacred cows. And really, I think the tree of D&D gaming needed to be watered in the blood of a few of those cows. I like 4E, and don't know if I would have...

I think that people are on the right track with suggestions of a setting that is not based on fantasy medieval Europe. However, thus far all of the settings like that have been developed by American developers for primarily American audiences. That's been the case for all of D&D's almost 40...

I was a subscriber for a while, and continued to subscribe until it was clear they weren't going to provide us with Dark Sun updates for the original tools. Several things bothered me about the whole ordeal that took place late last summer and through the fall: The "pee on my leg and tell me...

The last D&D books that I bought were the Dark Sun Campaign Guide and the Dark Sun Creature Catalog. After taking a hard look at what was to follow, for me, it felt like the line ended there. At least it was a high note. Although I probably would've bought the supplement they announced...

No, I haven't kicked a player directly. I have aborted a campaign or two because it got out of hand and the main culprit wasn't invited back. In one of them, in the days just before Mutants and Masterminds, I was using Hero System. We were playing a mutants-themed storyline similar to the...

This Christmas, my friend wanted the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 3rd Edition Core Set. I was skeptical about it, it seemed like there was a lot of gimmickry about it, and we already had tons of games. But this was what he wanted and I was determined to give it to him. As it sat on my table...

My partner and I are about to embark on the journey to find a new group. He is younger, and most of his friends are college age, and very soon they'll be scattering to the four winds with graduation. Meanwhile, there's a lot of new stuff we want to try out. This past Christmas, he got a ton...

I think I've walked out on a total of three different games. The first one was Vampire: The Masquerade. I had the books for a good long while, but this was the first time I had tried playing with a group, and I found one online. The core group was all friends, but they didn't seem so overtly...

Primarily the 4e Bard (no surprise there), followed by a Ranger / Rogue multiclass or just a Rogue, then Wizard. I briefly played a Ranger | Seeker hybrid that I loved and I've been tempted to return to that design. If I had to play a defender, though, it would be a Warden. I've been severely...

I think if Essentials were done like Basic D&D was, no one would be having a problem. Everyone would be excited. But some major differences exist: Basic and AD&D existed as distinct, parallel game systems. One wasn't an update to the other. They had their core advanced line in development...

I was just saying in another thread here that I think we've got people looking at Essentials from two different directions. Group A thinks of "the rules" as the core combat and encounter resolution mechanics, and sees very little change taking place. Group B thinks of "the rules" as the system...

I think that the distinction that can be made here is that you have two different character building systems (one with the same level-based chart for everyone that is about as close to the toolkit approach as one can get with classes and levels, and one with class-based leveling charts that is...

I too was somewhat pleased by the prospect of a portable Rules Compendium... I don't think that I'd want character building information in that same format, though. And I have to say... even though I'm not a fan of the Essentials changes, I'm getting no end of gleeful entertainment from the...

I was able to get it to run on my computer, and got a little excited when I started seeing the reprint tiles in there. Alas, there's only a small portion of them reused from the first few sets that are in the mapper. It's simple and unpolished, sure. I guess my feeling was that it would be...

Sorry about that, link added to my original post.

With 30% of Wizards' new "permanently in stock" Essentials line being dungeon tile master sets, wouldn't it make sense for Wizards to bring back a tool that they had already had way back when, so that we can view and save maps of our tiles and plan how we're going to use them with adventures in...

Indeed. I was a lifelong player of chaotic characters, and being something of a 'method actor' I draw from my own experiences. If real people fit into alignment categories, I'd consider myself having something of a chaotic bent. But my characters (and myself) aren't really impulsive. They'll...

The one time I walked out of a game and never came back, it was this, after four months with the group. We found out, in character from an informant, that the combat-oriented member of the group was really an assassin. Her mission: to find out everything the rest of the PCs knew about the main...

Occam's Aesthetic? While I'm not sure if Occam had an aesthetic rule, perhaps the simplest option would be the most pleasing. You've got hu-mans in the world (although I'm not sure what a Hu is), so why not call those with both fey and human traits the feyman? It's a little dopey, but no more...