Video Slashdot's Rob Rozeboom Interviews D&D Designer Mike Mearls (video) 139
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Mike Mearls is the Senior Manager for the Dungeons and Dragons Design Team. He's been with D&D publishers Wizards of the Coast (a subsidiary of Hasbro) since 2005, Before that he was a free-lance game writer and designer. In this conversation with Slashdot editor Rob "samzenpus" Rozeboom, he talks about changes in the latest version of D&D and how the company interacts with players. (We'll have some more chat with Mike next week, different wizard time, same wizard channel, so stay tuned.)
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Re:No thanks (Score:3, Funny)
Codemonkey response: you need a single =, no quotes, and to define what enumerated type has a numeric definition of sucks. Or alternatively, single =, double quotes, and fix your variable placement. As it is currently, you are doing a numeric check, followed by checking to see whether that number is also equal to the single character 'sucks' (which is not a single character) and then completely ignoring the result of that check.
Gamer response: Not true. D&D 3.8E is quite fun. (Where 3.8E is the interesting hybrid version used by DDO)
Re:Bring Back AD&D 2nd Edition (Score:4, Funny)
THAC0 was the pinnacle of table top RPG innovation. All other mechanics since were also rans.