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by shadzar
Thu Sep 24, 2009 4:51 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Making Retreats viable
Replies: 34
Views: 5042

Where did the other thread go? The one that I guess led to this one with my mention of fleeing from a great wyrm?
by shadzar
Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:06 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: WOTC boards back on-line
Replies: 68
Views: 9377

Opera lets you watch the file size of a website as it loads. Wizards.com/dnd: 1.4MB Wizards Community: 1.1MB Wizards Community Blogs: 1.1MB For a website, this file size is gargantuan. The website design team seem to have no idea that this is the case. Their layouts are cluttered and their font siz...
by shadzar
Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:34 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: What does a survey tell you about RPG players?
Replies: 7
Views: 1484

HASBRO, first does NOT do customer research very well. Secondly does no research for WotC. WotC hires out to another company to do their surveys and give them the selective results they want, not entirely a full scope of the results of what the survey says, since it is self-selecting. I cannot argue...
by shadzar
Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:27 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: WOTC boards back on-line
Replies: 68
Views: 9377

It has been too long to not post back2back so here is this new post.... http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4spot/2009September Wizards of the Coast: Is there a timeline for the end of beta and the formal launch of the new Wizards Online Community? When can we expect the fully armed and operati...
by shadzar
Fri Sep 18, 2009 3:48 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: What does a survey tell you about RPG players?
Replies: 7
Views: 1484

cthulhu wrote:1) They are usually pretty good, because they are staking money on it

2) Yes.
:confused:

So you put faith into a companies survey results even though you know that it could be completely and utterly flawed with made up results and findings?
by shadzar
Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:33 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: What does a survey tell you about RPG players?
Replies: 7
Views: 1484

What does a survey tell you about RPG players?

Sense the group here seems quite logical, and I have limited survey statistics knowledge, I figure someone here could answer this question spurred by my lurking on ENWorld... http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/265196-dragon-con-sight-schism-action-9.html#post4936026 Abciximab writes...
by shadzar
Thu Sep 17, 2009 6:56 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Truisms of any magical item economy.
Replies: 62
Views: 8227

But if the adventurers can't just slap the town guard around, why are they the ones solving the fucking crimes and killing the manticores in the first place? In short, adventurers are acting as the law men of the town, if there are actual lawmen who are better than they are, their job doesn't exist...
by shadzar
Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:05 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Target: Creature and Objects In 4E
Replies: 51
Views: 8477

As a random question, 2e did not have attacks of opportunity, correct? That was introduced in a 2e splatbook ("Tactics & Options", I think it was called). Player's Option: Combat and Tactics Fun Book. :confused: Really, I hated the Player/DM Options and didn't use any of it, but still...
by shadzar
Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:40 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Truisms of any magical item economy.
Replies: 62
Views: 8227

I have seen grown men cry because a magic item got destroyed....tough titty said the kitty cause the milks gone dry. You...have seen...grown men...crying...over DnD? You must have an exceptionally strange group. I like a good table that gives equal chance for results. No DM interference cannot make...
by shadzar
Sun Sep 13, 2009 1:10 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Truisms of any magical item economy.
Replies: 62
Views: 8227

Nothing to call someone a douchebag for. There are other things you could call Gary a douchebag for, but for DMing his game consistent? I would like to see more DMs not play favoritism in games, and be as universal in their decisions as this. Mr. Gygax's flaw is that he never connected the doucheba...
by shadzar
Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:07 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Truisms of any magical item economy.
Replies: 62
Views: 8227

You also have to be careful when mixing the models or else you will pull a Gygax and make your son cry when you set his Cloak of Displacement on fire. Wait, what? Did Gygax actually do that? Yeh, true story. His 10 year old son played Melf from "Melf's Acid Arrow" fame in Gygax's old Grey...
by shadzar
Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:24 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: WOTC boards back on-line
Replies: 68
Views: 9377

Actually no. You don't need to piss your credentials everywhere to discuss a topic on the internet. One reason there is no proof but your word that what you say is true. Anonymity has a funny way of making people on the internet out to be more than what they are, so check any of that at the door. Th...
by shadzar
Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:54 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: WOTC boards back on-line
Replies: 68
Views: 9377

Sadly those "tags" or BBCode, that is standard on 98% of forums today, is not something ONESITE.com adheres to, so it will take a lot of work for posts on the new forums to be fixed. Speaking as someone who actually writes software (including social software)... no, it's really not "...
by shadzar
Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:45 am
Forum: MPSIMS
Topic: President Obama's Healthcare Speech
Replies: 123
Views: 15038

The only thing I know about the address to congress was...."You lie". :shrug:
by shadzar
Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:23 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: WOTC boards back on-line
Replies: 68
Views: 9377

Sadly those "tags" or BBCode, that is standard on 98% of forums today, is not something ONESITE.com adheres to, so it will take a lot of work for posts on the new forums to be fixed. You can often see quoted messages that have the proper text to quote, but the new code doesn't understand t...
by shadzar
Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:41 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: WOTC boards back on-line
Replies: 68
Views: 9377

I, for one, miss Gamer_Zer0. Why? All 37 of your accounts argued with him endlessly...oh wait..I just answered my own question. :rofl: Was I the reason he left, or did he actually get fired in a cut-back where his abilities and job function weren't required anymore? I just wonder if/when they will ...
by shadzar
Thu Sep 10, 2009 4:16 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: WOTC boards back on-line
Replies: 68
Views: 9377

WotC's very own sit on my facebook and I'll twitter your myspace! Looks like it was built on some sort of early 90's design philosophy to just cram in flashy things to get people's attention that doesn't really work cause they just want to count page hits. The sad thing is that there's actually a s...
by shadzar
Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:36 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Quality of D&D Writers?
Replies: 87
Views: 21398

Well the archive does have all 7 issues of Strategic Review, as well as 250 issues of Dragon in it...at a buck each that is cheap for back issues. I think I got my copy for $40 and it came with a bonus Forgotten Realms Interactive Atlas. Just watch for it cause it has a tendency to pop up on occasio...
by shadzar
Tue Sep 08, 2009 3:14 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Quality of D&D Writers?
Replies: 87
Views: 21398

This guy?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenard_Lakofka What were his articles like? I would have to read every Dragon again to explain them but all the Leomund's Tiny Huts were good. They went into how to change classes, races, or anything about the game to tailor it to your needs. Say someone thou...
by shadzar
Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:55 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: WOTC boards back on-line
Replies: 68
Views: 9377

WotC's very own sit on my facebook and I'll twitter your myspace!

Looks like it was built on some sort of early 90's design philosophy to just cram in flashy things to get people's attention that doesn't really work cause they just want to count page hits.
by shadzar
Mon Sep 07, 2009 1:44 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Quality of D&D Writers?
Replies: 87
Views: 21398

Hope I am not late to this party.... BAD: Bill Slaveilisik (whatever that last name is) Rich Baker Alternity...seriously!? This was an attempt at a Star Wars D&D. I can't really find any other things by them for actual D&D I ever liked either. GOOD?: I recall liking stuff from Len Lekofka(sp)
by shadzar
Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:57 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Skill Challenges
Replies: 267
Views: 65299

I'm not saying what you want is 'wrong', you should play what you want after all, but I am saying that what you suggest is wrong in the context of 4E D&D. Trying to reinsert it into this particular system does little more than showcase your ignorance of the system and its core design decisions ...
by shadzar
Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:14 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Skill Challenges
Replies: 267
Views: 65299

One of the goal of the skill challenges was to help make the game more accessible, and part of this was to make it for those "shy" players to be able to participate more readily. This means a system of only rolling dice is all that is needed, and no real talking. So the system failed befo...
by shadzar
Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:09 pm
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Skill Challenges
Replies: 267
Views: 65299

Shad, I'm afraid I'm going to have to call you out as being evasive and deceptive in your answers. How many people watch a clock or really care how much of the game is combat? What game are they playing? What game are they trying to play? You may call it what you will but the fact is D&D, as I ...
by shadzar
Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:39 am
Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
Topic: Anatomy of Failed Design: Skill Challenges
Replies: 267
Views: 65299

Shadzar, you have two characters, Bardy McBard the Charismatic, and Ugly McQuiet the Hated. A good system should involve Bardy McBard being better at convincing people of things than Ugly McQuiet regardless of which player is controlling them. There are people who are good at being convincing. Ther...