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Slashdot's Rob Rozeboom Interviews D&D Designer Mike Mearls (video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the my-imaginary-friend-is-a-giant-lizard-that-breathes-fire dept.

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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  1. Re:No thanks by Anonymous Coward · · 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)

  2. Re:Bring Back AD&D 2nd Edition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    THAC0 was the pinnacle of table top RPG innovation. All other mechanics since were also rans.