Opinions on the "Full-Time Wizard" articles

[Wormwood]

I like 'em.

But I have to admit that I get massive schadenfreude from the nerd rage they generated.

Delicious.

 

[tombowings]

I like 'em.

But I have to admit that I get massive schadenfreude from the nerd rage they generated.

Delicious.

I wonder if the barbarian gets that? Nerd Rage, must have something to do with alchemy.

 

[kennew142]

My wife finds them humorous and entertaining, and she never reads gaming stuff. We've been gaming together since 1980, and I still can't get her to read the PHB. My seven year old son reads the PHB - not my wife. When it comes time to level her character, she makes me do it. If she finds out about a cool feat that her character doesn't have, she says "Why didn't you give me this feat?" Then I need to fix it.

I'm not really kvetching. We've been married for 21 years, and I consider myself very lucky to be able to game with my wife.

Ironically, she loves gaming (especially if she can play a cleric of Athena or halberd wielding amazon); she just hates reading rules.

 

[Gloombunny]

There have been three so far, right? I found the second kind of dull, but I liked the first and third pretty well. Overall I'll be pretty happy to see more.

 

[GlassJaw]

I'm in between "lame" and "s'alright" but I voted s'alright to be nice.

 

[The Grackle]

poetry, soul, and so forth.

She's funny. I imagine her kinda like the Maria Bamford of D&D.

 

[delericho]

The first one was okay (although perhaps a little unintentionally patronising, given the subject matter and timing). I hated the second one. I liked the third one.

Ask me again in April.

As for the question of whether they fit in Dragon or not: I don't mind them being there. I won't buy Dragon just because of those articles, but then I don't think anyone would. I won't not buy Dragon because of them. And I'm not of the opinion that 100% of Dragon must be directly game-relevant 100% of the time, so if the rest of Dragon is aright, then I'm fine with the articles taking up a bit of space... and would be even if I hated them.

Now, the problem at the moment is that e-Dragon is not currently a good product, but that's another thread for another time.

 

[vagabundo]

I really like her stuff too.

And I laff at the nerd rage too. Sometimes people forget this is suppose to be fun!!

'Some people believe DND is a matter of life and death.
I'm very disappointed with that attitude.
I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.' Bill Shankly...

 

[Bagpuss]

So, what do people think of the "Full-Time Wizard" articles that have been published as part of the online Dragon magazine so far?

What do you think? I can't see your vote.

 

[skullking]

i don't like it.

An example of the narrative:

'“You sound like an 8th grader who just found out her crush asked her best friend to the dance.”

(Weird. That actually happened in 8th grade. 9th grade too.)'

It just comes over as juvenile to me. I don't care what happened to her in 8th or 9th grade and I don't care for analogies based around schoolgirl crushes. If the writing made her seem as if she was taking the game half seriously rather than as just a mere ditzy pastime I would be able to endure it. As it stands I half expect a childish "tee hee" at the end of every paragraph.

Judging by the poll and the comments above I seem to be in a minority though.