Recent content by Planesdragon

Actually, Lizard... I think they listened to us. The OGL we can recite by heart has two HUGE flaws, that are room for improvement: explicit permission to indicate derivation, and the necessity of a separate license for trademarks. WotC will release a new, official version of the "Open Gaming...

I have my quite-different bundle of house rules I intend on releasing, hopefully in the next year or so. Before that, I want to throw up a new company name, and release some freebie cap-systems and tools to build the brand.

Everything in Product A's Section 15, plus Product X's copyright statement, unless Product A's publisher otherwise told you what the correct COPYRIGHT NOTICE is for the OGC that you are using. If you are contacted by a third party -- i.e., not the publisher of Product A -- who claims that you...

Probably. That's why we wrote the Prometheus trademark license. It's OGL-style perpetual; "we" (not me, but the current trademark-holder) can't do anything to stop you from using it if you follow the fairly simple license terms. If WotC doesn't allow 3e or 3.5e "d20" once 4e comes about, your...

That's the hazard. If all you give a programmer is a compiled file, you haven't given him something that can be derived from. You've jumped right out of what Ryan and Clark have called the "safe harbor", and got yourself a trial waiting to happen. One solution to the problem is to have the...

It's deja vu all over again. Wow. We move to a new forum, and all of the OGF-L topics come up again. :) Let me cover a few things here, as I recall from being in the heat of the OGF-L discussions WAY back to my first day of replying to a dozen threads at once in one day. :D The OGL does...

Ahhhh!!!! It's "Meerschaert". Three e's, only one of which is actually pronounced. ("Mer shart") After the got it wrong on the Mindcraft cover, I'm a wee bit sensitive about that one. :D

My solution.... Many months ago, I re-vamped the entire multiple attack system IMC. Iterative attacks, which require multiple calculations of different numbers, were tossed out the window. Getting more than one attack either requires actual TWF, or picking up the "Extra Attack" feat. All...

Innocence is, well, different. It's a lot more cerebral than either the first movie or SAC, kind of like Perfect Blue (?). It shares a continuity with the first movie, where the Major didn't so much get stuck in a kid's body as she was merged with a S.A.C. and moved wholly onto the net; it's...

It seems a bit unusual, partly out of how you're explaining it. Since it's a new work, why not place it on The OGL-wiki? (http://ogl.jonnydigital.com/wiki/Main_Page) That way it won't get lost in the sea of EnWorld "new ideas", and you can watch the final product grow. If you have any...

I used this IMC for a few months, before eventually abandoning it in an effort to simplify the game. (In fact, it was tossed out with the iterative attacks system...) The system is very simple. All "medium" speed weapons are at a Delay of Medium (5) -- longsword, quarterstaff, that sort of...

No, not really. Depending on how you read the rules, though, you CAN "create a new wand" using your current wand to deduct from the cost. I fail to see how this in any way upsets the niches of the other spell-carrying items. Potions are used without casting, so it doesn't tie up a caster's...

Never, NEVER run from a dog. They are faster than humans along the short term, and are evolved to hamstring and kill larger mammals that are running away from them. Luckilly, though, they're lacking arms, and a human who keeps a level head can keep most dogs at bay--although for the big dogs you...

By the core rules, I'd say "badly." In an ideal game, any creature that can be polymorphed into would include a unique spell in its description -- so instead of a generic polymorph spell, you'd have a polymorph into stone giant, polymorph into hydra, and all the rest. IMC, polymorph works...

Could I interest you in a balanced system that gives you two out of four, a less gamish way of changing ones self, and a hurling energy as requring a fundamental aleration of the character be worth it? What if the same system includes rules for totemic items, moving via the ethereal plane, or...