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Peak in terms of sales was actually 2E (with nearly 20M players according to WoTC sources). It enjoyed a resurgence in 3E but it never equalled its heyday (with 6-8M or so playing). In all fairness, it's rather hard to count exactly how many people are playing a tabletop RPG at one time. D&D ha...

A lot of people are concerned that the use of classic D&D magic in D&D Next—where casters prepare spells each day, consume them as they cast them, and regain spells after they rest—encourages groups to get into one fight then camp. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as the five-minute...

Re: the 5 minute workday, I guess there needs to be a tangible incentive not to be pissing away in-game time, and a Doomsday Clock seems like a lot of book keeping, what with all the different timers, then combat, the take 20s and shit. I was trying to point out the flaws of the "monsters only...

Ok, so because of this thread, I think when my players go erranting for money tomorrow night, they're going to run into a crazed mind flayer who's decimated a village, constructing a brain golem from surplus brains, created a shrine to The Sleeping God, and longs to become an "angel" (or ...

EDIT well that weird weird but some link I was trying to put on here was causing the post to meltdown. ANYWAY, What I was trying to say is the following: This [VTT cancellation] was mentioned in the Pahtfinder thread but I thought it deserved some specific attention. Here is the pretty hilarious En...

That would work. Ilithid biotech can and should be really crazy, and some sort of bug thing they implanted onto the neck stump of people whose head they ate to turn it into some sort of crazy flesh puppet to do manual labor with is awesome. I could totally accept that mind flayers would have someth...

That's like the 3rd time that comic has been posted in this forum this week. Perhaps now we can just say "ham.jpg" and people will know what you mean. It really does summarize how the WOTC design staff behaves though. Declare victory, ignore/dismiss all negative feedback, haul out sockpup...

If you want to talk about it in context, there's a thread for that sort of suggestion / discussion. Unless you wanted it to go in whatever these guys are working on instead. It would be interesting to see what they get out of it. The TOP is great, but individual allotment of skill points leads to s...

No, don't do that. Make your own thing, something better . Then I can mine it for ideas or adopt it wholesale. Well, it was a tremendous step in the right direction. As opposed to 3e skills (UMD and concentration Vs profession and pick lock), tome skills all gave level-appropriate benefits to chara...

http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/325932-losing-interest-d-d-next-playtest.html Losing Interest in the D&D Next Playtest? I've seen a number of threads in the past few days all along the lines of folks losing interest in the playtest. Some of them because what they saw didn't appeal to them, wh...

I'm guessing that at this point it would be better to use TOP as a starting point?

Flauros, you don't really understand that the "PF is backwards-compatible" line is complete shit, do you? Pathfinder was designed to be backwards compatible. Regardless of whether or not you houserule that it isn't, then the game as it is has failed you. Either you play it as if it was ba...

Those are hilariously crappy prizes. They dont seem to be giving out plane tickets and hotel rooms or anything to go with these Dream Dates. Basically their prizes are "pay to hang out with some socially inept nerds for a few hours." Hell, I bet Paizo will make the poor sucker who wins th...

So, I don't like playing wargames, but I'm still interested in the rules, and seeing what's going on - 6E WH40k has many improvements and is quite interesting, although it also has several downsides (various "mysterious terrain" things which will really shit people up the wall, especially...

I never understood that paralyzing fear of not having all the spells . I mean, you can contribute just fine casting nothing but Conjuration spells for your whole career, so losing out on a few schools is hardly crippling. In general, the list of spells you can't ever cast as a specialist (anywhere ...

www.enworld.org/forum/news/326037-lunch-mike-mearls-cocktails-erik-mona-star-bidding.html The text: Lunch with Mike Mearls? Cocktails with Erik Mona? Star bidding! The ENnies Dream Dates are an important part of the Gen Con EN World RPG Awards fundraising efforts. The ENnies have substantial runnin...

Because you have an at-will spell that fucking kills people that scales with your level and has no HD limit from level 1. Slumber (Su): A witch can cause a creature within 30 feet to fall into a deep, magical sleep, as per the spell sleep. The creature receives a Will save to negate the effect. If ...

He was talking about 4e vs AD&D if 3e had never existed. He's not saying 4e skills are better than 3e skills, he's saying 4e skills are better than failing your Fire Building check. You got it; I was trying to do OgreBattle's "Mearls time travels back to the year 2000 and convinces WOTC to...

And what if no one gives a shit about Bob's backstory or his 'role'? They just care that he's throwing tornados about. No one wants a fucking monologue about the DM's latest NPC. Tell that to RA Salvatore. Nevermind that I'm laughing at the idea of D&D players surrendering (to 20 orcs no less)....

Ah, is this one of those 'half-orcs don't count, so suck off your dm until he gives in to your whim' style of things? Why would anyone play a witch? A level 11 primalist scryer wizard has: extra spell slot at each level for divination spells +5 initiative increase saving throw DC of scrying detect ...

One of the fun parts of working with a public playtest is that player feedback compels us to reconsider how we do things and to look at our traditional assumptions about Dungeon Masters, players, and the game. The biggest goal of the public test, beyond simply kicking the tires and making sure the ...

On the minus side for 4E: Some of 4E's changes would simply be incomprehensible to those not familiar with 3E fighter powers perhaps If you got BO9S, you could understand fighter powers. or giving monsters ability scores which don't do anything See: the troll's cha score, the hydras int score, etc....

So that's what they use Tom LaPille for nowadays. Bad enough he contributed to wrecking MtG, now he's moved on to helping wreck DnD. What's his next job gonna be - Official WotC Cheerio-Pisser? Look no further than http://community.wizards.com/dndnext/blog/2012/06/22/reacting_to_the_reaction in whi...

So reading the 13th age flames now has me paranoid that my resolution mechanic is terrible and I should feel bad. Durations All day - This lasts 24 hours, or an entire in game day. You turn it on every morning and forget about it, but other people could potentially turn it off. Regardless this ends...

Tactical Narrative Combat Module How It Works When you make a melee attack, you can declare one of the following actions. If you do, you take the indicated penalty to the attack roll. If you hit with the attack, the extra effect listed takes place in addition to whatever damage your attack would de...