D&D 5E Comment on the negative article by John Dodd

[Mark CMG]

Pretty silly. You can buy it for 11.99 online. The review should basically read:

"You can buy D&D's new game for a small pizza. That is potentially hundreds of hours of enjoyment versus 1. I'm pretty sure you like pizza. Well, 100 > 1."

Oh, Manbearcat, surely we here can all eat a small pizza in far less than an hour . . .

 

[fanboy2000]

This review is a lot like a review comparing a Sherlock Holmes movie to a tv version without ever mentioning that one is a movie and the other is an episode of a tv show.

Now that I think about it, people do that all the time! I remember unfavorable comparisons between Robert Downey Jr's movie and Jeremy Brett's tv show.

 

[Manbearcat]

Oh, Manbearcat, surely we here can all eat a small pizza in far less than an hour . . .

Its funny you mention that! Just last night, I brought home a large pizza home from our favorite joint. The dastardly pizza attacked my mouth on my way home and I bravely fought it off, slaying 3 of the beasts in the 10 minute drive home. This seems to keep happening every time I get the pizza I've been trying to convince my S.O. that the pizza-makers are forming their dough in the shape of a Pac Man instead of a circle for whatever reason (they probably just like old-school arcade games).

I think she is on to me.

Ok, so if the calculation should be pizza = 1/2 hour of enjoyment and D&D > 100, it tilts the scale even further. I would have to revise my review.

 

[Mark CMG]

Its funny you mention that! Just last night, I brought home a large pizza home from our favorite joint. The dastardly pizza attacked my mouth on my way home and I bravely fought it off, slaying 3 of the beasts in the 10 minute drive home. This seems to keep happening every time I get the pizza I've been trying to convince my S.O. that the pizza-makers are forming their dough in the shape of a Pac Man instead of a circle for whatever reason (they probably just like old-school arcade games).

I think she is on to me.

Ok, so if the calculation should be pizza = 1/2 hour of enjoyment and D&D > 100, it tilts the scale even further. I would have to revise my review.

I had pizza the other day at the movies because the pizzeria is attached to the movie house, so you get rewards points and it's just $5. Part of it made it through the credits. The opening credits.

 

[Jake Johnson]

Here’s the thing: I picked up the D&D starter set because it was…D&D.

It looked, smelled and felt like D&D too (unlike some previous editions). I don’t know how much use I’ll give the set, when the Player’s Handbook et al. get released in a month or so, but I still wanted to see how the game was shaping up. I am pleased with the direction it is heading. I was pleasantly surprised that the adventure provided was pretty decent, the character sheets were neat and the text was written on glossy paper too. I will probably use the box for storing other D&D books and dice.

I didn’t feel the need to pick up the Pathfinder Box set, despite hearing good things about it a couple of years ago….because it wasn’t D&D. I don’t need or want a D&D clone. I don’t want to play a RPG based on grid-based miniatures combat either.

It doesn’t matter what the comparison people want to make about the two products. One suits what I want and the other doesn’t. I’m not surprised the Pathfinder box wants to be twice as good (and twice the price!) - it has to try twice as hard to get D&D fans like me to buy it.

This is close to my sentiment upon coming back to the hobby. When I mentioned the idea of starting a D&D 5E group to some younger colleagues, they suggested we look at Pathfinder. My response was (and still is) that I'm not interested in what I've come to understand as the Pathfinder play style or the idea of playing a D&D-like game that isn't D&D. The price of the Starter Set didn't figure in at all for me, although I appreciate the value at $12 from Amazon.com. I can understand shopping on price, but that's only one factor. It was more import to me that we're getting a few good play sessions worth of adventure to hold us over until the PH(B) and Hoard of the Dragon Queen ship.

 

[Jake Johnson]

Oh, Manbearcat, surely we here can all eat a small pizza in far less than an hour . . .

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it would have to be a large pizza to take more than 30 minutes to eat.

 

[Agamon]

A large pizza? Geez, that would take me more than a day...

What were we talking about?

 

[TwoSix]

A large pizza? Geez, that would take me more than a day...

What were we talking about?

I think you just outed yourself as "not a real gamer". Everyone knows you need one large pie per player at the gaming table, otherwise there's nothing in your stomach to soak up the Mountain Dew.

 

[Manbearcat]

This is now a thread about pizza reviews:

http://www.valentinopizzeria.com/menu.htm in Sarasota, Florida. Their classic Margherita is to die for and the below is the greatest pizza in the history of the universe. Even better than the Tatooine's Jabba Hutt's pizza. *****

BRUSCHETTA PIZZA
fresh tomato, basil, red onion, arugula, fresh mozzarella tossed & served on our warm brick oven crust (toppings are cold)

 

[Mistwell]

I started my diet 10 days ago.

You guys are killing me with all this pizza talk.

Hate. You.