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I'm genuinely still not clear why you think this, nor why you think it is an particularly notable or important point. 'A story isn't a story until it is done' vs. 'a story isn't complete until it is done' -- why do you think one vs. the other, and why is it important?

Please please please do not. Do not give that credibility. We do this every time we discuss TSR-style (lower=better) AC. We do this every time we discuss ThAC0. We do this every time someone mentions tracking GURPS characters with a spreadsheet. We do this every time someone mentions Hero...

Yes, I thought I covered that:

I think this would depend significantly on what polymorph actually does in your game (also how magic works, etc.). So, what can you polymorph into? If, say, when you turn into a horse -- are you turning into a specific horse (one you've seen? one you can imagine?)? The Platonic ideal of...

I feel like I've seen that done by other companies as parody, but not by MGM itself. It might be a great big no-no -- either from corporate on-high (once we start letting people do that, every film we make will feel compelled to do the same), or maybe for legal reasons (diluting one's own IP...

I generally assume it is cost of people and/or space when such things happen. Schools and sporting events and parades are a problem, in that you want a whole bunch of extras just doing/being in the background. If you can have individual classes and only see a brief hallway scene of massively...

This is definitely a concern. On the other hand, I've picked up The Colour of Magic at least 3-4 times and just bounced hard. If you had to do it in order, I would never have gotten into Discworld. Is there a cost to doing otherwise? Of course, but sometimes an earlier book (or film) is just not...

The stat blocks of various creatures (like 'dwarf') do not necessarily match what a dwarf player character might have. The same was true in most versions of the game, excluding 3e (IIRC). Whether the current iteration is too far in this or not is a YMMV situation.

The film is called Masters of the Universe, not He-Man, or He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Most things do. Other than early paychecks for Lundgren and Courtney Cox and giving Frank Langella a chance to show how much he can chew the scenery when he just doesn't care, that one was not...

There have been several revivals. It's also a at least as easy a story to jump into as a bunch of other GenX properties that have gotten cinematic reintroductions (Transformers, most notably). Intriguingly, if you're mostly bringing in new viewers, it is a interesting that there already is a...

This is definitely possible. I'm talking about the reason for choices and changes (or really just what our evidentiary support regarding such is), not whether they were the right choices to be made. Regardless, this is unsurprising. Loud voices bemoaning/advocating for X, Y, or Z and...

Perhaps, but it can be in terms of aesthetics or tone or presentation or yes potentially mechanics. That does not mean that a given mechanic was inspired or attempting to emulate a mechanic of the thing whose audience an edition that introduced the mechanic was trying to capture. Additional...

I mean, that's my (secondary) point -- even if they were in fact (as Riggs indicates) borrowing cooldowns by way of AEDU, it was addressing an incredibly longstanding frustration many had had with the game.

Interesting. I stand corrected (if we take Riggs as an accurate source). I stand by the generalized statement: the notion that the 4e devs wanted to capture the gamer market exemplified by WoW at the time does not directly imply that any given 4e innovation was either 'WoW-like,' nor made the...

But, it should be noted, that is all (that we know definitively). They wanted to capture that audience, full stop. Not emulate MMOs or mirror mechanics or anything else specific like that. Individual notions like AEDU being meant to emulate cool-downs are conjecture.

Also preemptive (and hopefully obviously)-- this is all In My Opinion I feel like this is kind of a 'there's no such thing as instantaneous velocity'* kind of argument. A story that is unfinished at the time of being noted isn't not a story, it's an incomplete one. It doesn't go along as...

This seems like a un-argument/violently agreeing. You can have +0 be relatively incompetent and +4 be default starting, or +0 be default starting and -4 be relatively incompetent. It's all up against an enemy armor scale that is rated against these same expectations. Again, you're saying...

Yes. oD&D didn't have non-military weapons (the reason why basic-classic Magic Users used daggers -- there were no staves as weapons). Original playable druids could use 'sickle-like swords' (which swords were sickle-like? ask your DM). In AD&D PHB, that became scimitars, as they were still...

I'd also say that his role as a onetime TSR employee is hardly definitional to how any of us know or interact with him*. It seems odd to see him drag this out and pretend it gives him great insight into the downfall of the company. I mean, I get it, it gives him an air of relevance that lets him...

Your point made at the time others commented was that before 3e, the max was 18. This is clearly not the case. If it was correct except for things that you define as mistakes, we can accept it as a no-true-Scotsman style statement. But why not just say, 'Sorry, I misspoke. What I meant was...