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#1 | | One Root Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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|  The D&D Designers Answer Your Questions
Check out this Slashdot article for the questions [submitted by slashdot readers] and the answers [from the D&D designers].
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#2 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: ft lauderdale
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|  Re: The D&D Designers Answer Your Questions
why after reading that do i think these people have never played with real dice before
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#3 | | Lich Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: On the moon with the rest of the space kitties
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Wow, it sounds like WotSC are actually considering pay-to-play for tabletop. "oooh it's digital! but you gotta pay us to activate it, after you already bought the book". What a worthless, despicable, backwoods incompetent gaming company! They should stick to Pokemon.
The release of D&D 4.0 will result in the rennaissance of Shadowrun campaigns.
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I liked Shadowrun 
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02-19-08, 08:25 PM
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#5 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do...
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For myself, I'll keep playing 3.5e.
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#6 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: State of Paranoia
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Shadowrun is pretty cool. Then again Rolemaster grew on me too.
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#7 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: ft lauderdale
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i keep playing 2nd
love my thac0
wow never knew i could put that many thoughts in type to have 1000 posts on anything
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| Re: The D&D Designers Answer Your Questions
Just about any RPG can be pretty cool if you've got a good set of players/gm's to enhance it. Some others I love come to mind:
Star Frontiers (Alpha Dawn, Knight Hawks, & Zebulon's (Revised rules))
Gamma World (Gotta love the mutations both good and bad....) 
Dark Conspiracy
I could go on with others too....but I think you folks get the picture. It's we who play the games that really make 'em great (or not).
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#9 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do...
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Death to THAC0!
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#10 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: ft lauderdale
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no thac0 rocked
nothing like neg ac going head to head with neg ac
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#11 | | Lich Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: On the moon with the rest of the space kitties
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| Re: The D&D Designers Answer Your Questions
The only thing I couldn't stand about 2nd edition was when THAC0 went negative, and when rogue charts started spewing numbers above 100%. That was the day mathematics as we know it died and turned into some convoluted XY axis of evil.
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03-12-08, 02:08 PM
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#12 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: ft lauderdale
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*pats lon on the shoulder* its ok we know math is bad
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It's not that it was math. It's that it was a ridiculous code almost -designed- to exclude non-enthusiasts. Straight-up AC is better - I'm sure 4e will improve on combat even further, but I don't care enough to throw money at WotC's latest mad scheme for more money.
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#14 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: ft lauderdale
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actually 3rd 3.5 and 4th are versions made by wotc for money period
though i love nwn wotc made dnd for dummies
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Originally Posted by Falonthas  actually 3rd 3.5 and 4th are versions made by wotc for money period | Agree. The Microsoft "versions" mentality has infected everything.
Thank gods they can't come and take my books away! I'll be passing on 4.0, especially with the emphasis on "simplification". We already have WoW.
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I don't mind simple. Simple includes things like consistency of rules, which is always good, and sometimes things just need to be simple in order to get them done, like combat. I'd rather a session last a long time because the party is RPing than because we have to look up every other action in the rulebook, y'know?
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#17 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Wrong! Looking up the rulebook and arguing semantics was what made D&D great!
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