Recent content by SpiralBound

You're welcome. Personally, I'd go with saddling them with the nigh insurmountable birth rate because I think it would create more interesting challenges, both for the Gnomes from a worldbuilding perspective and for the players from a character decision perspective. Gnomes with potentially...

Very interesting. So the vast majority, 90% or more, of all Gnomes are NOT raised by their birth parents, but by another couple, who themselves don't have children of their own. So a society of primarily adopted people. This might result in some interesting views on families, parental roles...

That is some serious fecundity. More so than Goblins canonically. This could have some interesting consequences. With such birth rates is infant or child mortality high? If so, why? Disease? Cultural practices? Environmental hazards? Culling by dangerous animals? Even if all of those...

It might be interesting to have a setting where Human reproduction levels tend to decrease in higher background levels of magic and increase the less ambient magic there is. Meanwhile, the reverse is true for Elves and Dwarves... This would create an inherent tension and conflict between the...

DeOGLify is the newly-coined term you're looking for. ;-)

The inherent "freeloader" aspect of RPGs is one of the reasons why I believe the RPG industry will always be much smaller than other segments of the hobby industry. If only 1 in 4 (or even 1 in 2) RPG players are customers, then the profitability of producing RPG products is accordingly lower...

These charts are informative, but only tell part of the story. For consumers, they are as detailed as they need to be. If one is a prospective solo producer of a hobby game though, these pie charts are missing one important piece of information - how "open" are those market segments? For...

You can! The D6 system was open sourced by the previous owner of West End Games. You can download all the generic WEG D6 books from DriveThruRPG for free. To make your own D6 game, just write the specifics of your desired game, slap the OGL on the end, click "save as pdf", and upload it to a...

I agree. I was only riffing off the comment you had replied to. "5E Compatible" would be a more recognizable phrase, although it wouldn't surprise me if WoTC took exception to this as it is VERY close to simply saying "D&D 5E Compatible". I believe the tricky issue for WoTC is that they want...

This is true, at first, putting "SRD5 Compatible" on a product might not be immediately understood to be a stand-in for "D&D 5E Compatible", but if it were used by enough it would quickly gain its own brand identity. All it needs is a serviceable logo, and that wouldn't be difficult to do - I...

As someone else said, you're the GM, what is within your dungeons is up to you. If you're looking for ideas, guidelines, or some such thing to customize your loot and make it stand out, then I would recommend you consider what your mini-dungeon is first. If your mini-dungeon (as an off the...

I've permitted it in my campaigns with the caveat that I get to review any feat before allowing it. Some of the feats are overpowered, "S on the chest", munchkin-bait feats, but most of them are well balanced. Well balanced does NOT preclude powerful though. You still need to check if they...

I too feel the same way, I understand why this had to occur, yet I still miss the 'good ol days' when 3E was an active concern on EnWorld. I've tried 4E and while I can see that it would be a lot of fun for Today's Gamer (TM) it's not for me, so watching EnWorld become practically all 4E in...

I don't think that a technical solution is the answer - that way will only result in the proponents of the 'chosen system' engaging in an arms race to build a better mouse trap, with those who want to defraud the system anteing up to meet any improvements in the technical safeguards. We can see...

A Positive Solution We can all easily condemn this obviously stupid move. There were numerous actions Le could have taken other than deception. Why he didn't just ask the community for product reviews is beyond me. Sometimes the simplest solutions are those that elude us the most.... If...