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If they were to make a D&D movie/series in the vein of LotR or GoT with the intent of making tons of money on serials, their options of settings and characters are pretty limited. It would pretty much have to be Drizzt. A movie needs a story brand, and that's their golden goose from the underda...

I think Hasbro has made a conscious decision to slash D&D's production and maintenance costs to almost nothing. That's why the lead designers have all stopped working full-time, and why even what they are releasing on their glacial schedule is actually being farmed out to third parties. The D&am...

Mike Mearls has always been lazy Well, at least it's out there now. Edit: For some strange reason if I try to put in a link it eats the post. http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/randomness-clever-dm’s-helper Eh, I'm pretty pro-laziness, especially in situations like that post where it's about ...

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Well, at least it's out there now.

Edit: For some strange reason if I try to put in a link it eats the post. http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/feature ... m’s-helper

Well, at least they're coming out up front and saying, "We have no idea how pacing in games works. We don't even have a working theory on this. We just glued someone else's IP onto a resolution mechanic that sounded groovy. We think games are just a series of random die rolls glued together wit...

I was one of Roll20's original backers. The other VTT options had high learning curves and cluttered interfaces that I didn't have the time/motivation to learn to be comfortable with. Roll20's interface is far more streamlined, while bringing a surprising amount of features for the price point. It's...

They're keeping it around for naming rights and bragging rights and that is about it. Maybe down the line they'll try to monetize it with another crack at a movie or try a television show. With Game of Thrones being shit-hot and all the superhero movies making money hand over fist, hey. Just having...

Have you been lurking here for 5 years just to say that?

I'm gonna break forum rules here and say OK, you're right. It looked like Kaelik was saying that this list of graphic sex scenes was necessary because of these consequences, and I explained my argument against that proposition. Looking back, I thought icyshadowlord was making a much more nuanced cr...

I don't think he's a puppet, just a troll who we had the good fortune of not meeting until very recently. A quick googling shows a 4rry Captpike trolling over at gitp. A favorite post of mine from this search: akaddk 2014-08-07, 12:39 AM I blame Lokiare he tends to start stuff up. Well at least Cap...

Leress wrote:Shit, I'm slipping.

CaptPike is pulling a Balance fallacy.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy

Relevant serious journalism.

Guys. Guys. Why do you keep attacking CaptPike? I think he's really on to something. I mean, he said that we don't know and will never know whether 4e was a success, but isn't he right ? I mean, how do we really know anything? Every sense we have is fallible, and there's no outside observer we can ...

"more likely" is not good enough, you might as well flip a coin. Your entire standard of truth here is wrong, for 2 reasons: 1) "More likely than not" is by definition not a coin flip , so you're either a moron who didn't realize the two things he equated were defined by their d...

Is skillful martial artist, as a concept, not viable in a game of D&D? So far as I know there's nothing wrong with the Monk concept , its execution was just balls in 3.X. Frank's description of the Martial Artist isn't a Monk, it's a Fighter: The Martial Artist type doesn't necessarily practice...

I will say it again WHEN PATHFINDER AND 4E WERE IN DIRECT COMPETITION, 4E WAS WAY AHEAD ON BEST SELLER LISTS. I do not CARE how much 3e sold ten years before, that does not matter, I do not care that after that time when 4e had no new books out pathfinder sold more. at that point how much 4e sold s...

Forbes interviews Nathan Stewart on the "future of D&D" But I will tell you that we don’t even have a full year of sales on this yet, and we believe very, very strongly that this will finish out on the current trajectory to be the best launch we’ve ever had, both in terms of dollars a...

That... isn't the worst counter argument I've seen until you realize that the entire dating system of Star Wars as a setting is dependent on the metaplot event of the Battle of Yavin. Like seriously even the RPGs use phrases like "20 years ABY" for After the Battle of Yavin. If someone as...

Unless we're talking about the Jungian aspect, metaplot's not a term used by most fiction writers and I've never heard it used outside of TTRPG systems. Well, yeah, because only a handful of mediums really have this capability, but it's absolutely the case that whenever multiple lines of stories sh...

Forbes interviews Nathan Stewart on the "future of D&D" But I will tell you that we don’t even have a full year of sales on this yet, and we believe very, very strongly that this will finish out on the current trajectory to be the best launch we’ve ever had, both in terms of dollars a...

They did put out a call for freelance adventure material a few months back.

To answer the question: whenever the group challenges in the game cover a numerical spectrum that exceeds one RNG's length, i.e. whenever group challenges will push non-specialists off the same RNG as the specialists, you probably need to convert to levels, and tier your group challenges accordingly...

There's no way anything has been decided as far as whether or not to file a claim this fast. Silva is blowing smoke, or at the very least his "source" is blowing smoke to reassure a backer.

@Orion: So, what you're saying is, PCs should have WARF saves , while NPCs should have WARF defenses , with the conversion set to mathematically equivalent numbers? That was my next thought, as well. If you want to keep everything the same for the players, have them roll everything, both attacks an...

Yeah, converting F/R/W into defenses that worked the same as other defenses was one of the very few objectively good changes that 4e made from 3e Why is this such a good change? Is it just because it's one less resolution mechanic to worry about when they all work the same? Or is there some aspect ...

Oh, don't worry. They'll fill the production gaps with errata. Just like the rules gaps. Seriously, though, by issuing errata and these half-hearted adventure paths, I think they hope to keep people talking about it until their next half-hearted release. Just string something along, anything, and it...