More 4th edition D&D
I mentioned earlier that I bought the three corebooks of 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons. Some people will be bored mindless by this subject, so if I end up mentioning more in lieu of an actual review, I'll put my various complaints/praises under a cut to save sanity.
Just to begin with though, I have to mention this, as it applies to any reference book: why couldn't the manual(s) have a decent index? It's next to impossible to find anything with the single page they've provided. 3rd edition had a 3 page index and a 10 page glossary, why is this not in 4th ed? Jules may have learnt to index by hand when she trained to be a librarian, but we have computers to do things like this these days.
Entirely unrelated to D&D, my old landlord (Adam Raphael) is back in the UK, and we're planning a trip to Cramond Island on Saturday, 5 July (exactly when we leave will depend on the tides). I know some people like zotz and fizzyboot mentioned an interest last time I went, so I'm going to announce this sufficiently in advance so people know about it.
Just to begin with though, I have to mention this, as it applies to any reference book: why couldn't the manual(s) have a decent index? It's next to impossible to find anything with the single page they've provided. 3rd edition had a 3 page index and a 10 page glossary, why is this not in 4th ed? Jules may have learnt to index by hand when she trained to be a librarian, but we have computers to do things like this these days.
Entirely unrelated to D&D, my old landlord (Adam Raphael) is back in the UK, and we're planning a trip to Cramond Island on Saturday, 5 July (exactly when we leave will depend on the tides). I know some people like zotz and fizzyboot mentioned an interest last time I went, so I'm going to announce this sufficiently in advance so people know about it.