Of the WotC Forums and the OTT

[jonesy]

Something I wouldn't say or show to my grandmother? That reminds me, I need to see if she'd be up for a trip to Vegas for a Chippendale show. If not I can just get them to sign a picture for her.

I know what you mean. My grandma could talk back to a navy staff sergeant and win. I think it might be better if it said 'something you would not say or show to a someone elses grandma', since it refers to the very special grandmother of the person who created this site.

 

[Klirshon]

I am not certain but it seems everyone that has been banned from the forums had their join date updated to Dec. 1969

{If that is the case, Draco managed to not get banned like the rest of us.}

 

[PigKnight]

We have experienced a lot of edition warring in the past. We are well and truly tired of it, and are unlikely to put up with much of it. Similarly, while we encourage constructive criticism and discussion of merits of work, outright bashing on a publisher or designer may not be a good idea.

We at the OTT accept all forms of edition and game. We might not like or play them but we don't bash them (except FATAL, and I think Hoodsie once really hated a version of some wargame because it was legitimantly badly made but that was a long time ago and not germaine to the subject at hand). Gotta love the Edition Wars; those were good games.

When 4th Edition came out and there was all that edition warring, I decided to make an actual turn-based RISK-like game and RP in the Off Topic Tavern parodying it where the forces of the 3rd Edition Kingdom warred against the 4th Edition Empire (at some point the forces of no gaming at all tried to destroy all Editions or something; it was a long time ago and I wasn't as good a GM). It was good fun, not many people joined though, surprisingly everyone had fun with it and no was actually edition warred in the Edition War. Anyway, what I'm getting at here is the only edition warring we do is the RP kind.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

...they also cancelled my DDI subscription...

Hmm. Hadn't considered that possibility.

Yet another reason to buy the books instead of or in addition to getting a DDI account.

 

[Morrus]

Hmm. Hadn't considered that possibility.

Yet another reason to buy the books instead of or in addition to getting a DDI account.

That's the biggest issue with the DDI model - they can throw you off the forums for any reason, but that also seems to mean firing you as a customer, too, and losing access to materials you've effectively paid for. I guess the answer to that is to make sure you always download anything you like or think you might use in the future.

 

[EscherEnigma]

We [formerlly of the] OTT [...]

Fixed.

 

[The_Silversword]

I am not certain but it seems everyone that has been banned from the forums had their join date updated to Dec. 1969

{If that is the case, Draco managed to not get banned like the rest of us.}

Draco got banned too, but Count Von CoC is still active, go figure.

 

[Kramodlog]

The count won't be active for long. Once you log in with an alt it's life expectency is reduce to a few hours at best. I'm not sure how they do it, but they terminated like 20 of my alts.

 

[Herschel]

Well I'm here now. ZB and his 35k+ posts got killed off for reasons that were not explained.

Because they don't want you to grow up to be adult zombies?

Erm, wait......I think I need the Monster Manual or Van Richten Guide for that one....

 

[Kramodlog]

I greated a group and invited everyone (I think). PM me if I forgot about you.