Critiques are not bad. Complaints are not bad either. Do you know which yours was? For my money, your comment staked out the extreme position of maximum hyperbole: everything is bad, nothing is right… (View Post)

I agree that talking of "balance" as if it were cosmic law is to rather miss the point. Why? Because not everybody derives pleasure from completing the game. Not everybody derives pleasure … (View Post)

Roy: LG human fighter Elan: CG human bard Haley: CG human thief Belkar: CE halfling barbarian Durkon: LG dwarven cleric Vaarsuvius: N elf mage I realize Belkar is a ranger who dual-classes to barbari… (View Post)

And which, pray tell, do you propose those to be? Losing all gold is trivial, and changing the sex of a character is temporary and meaningless. Since those don't matter to ME, therefore they are not … (View Post)

And if they'd announced it last week, there would be people saying "They should've given us two weeks!" And if they'd given us two weeks, there would be people saying "They should have… (View Post)