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Over on LibraryThing, several RPG authors are listed in their author database, but a lot of biographical information is missing for some of them. I'm trying to clean up the entires a little, but can't seem to find any background information about these guys. if anyone knows anything about these...

Fascist? I don't get it. I've read almost everything he wrote, and I just don't see it. This came up in an article about the centennial of his birth, and a book store manager said "I don't recommend him because he was a fascist". I can see a lot of things to criticize him for - he tends to...

I'm seriously considering a significant overhaul of the alignment system. I'm not going to get into whether the standard D&D alignment system is "unrealistic" or anything like that, because I think it works fine for what it was intended for (an ethical system for dungeon delving adventurers...

Has the hoopla over 4e obscured this important update? http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0482.html

I saw this somewhat interesting quote, and rather than derail the thread in which the statement was made, I moved it here. Here's my question: which version of D&D do you think "failed"? And what definition of "failed" and what metric do you use to make that assessment?

Well, bad Christmas gifts anyway. Here's how it is - for the last several years I have gotten bad Christmas gifts from most of my family except my wife, who usually does a good job at getting me what I want, since she listens when I give suggestions. The rest of my family and her family appear...

Hello, Our group is currently looking to add one or two more players. We are currently playing a 3.5e D&D campaign set in a home brew world of my creation (characters are all currently 2nd or 3rd level). The campaign is currently set in the town of Dinnewrac, on the edge of an empire fallen...

Seeing Hurricane Katrina and the devestation it has wrought has made me think about natural disasters. Has anyone here used a natural disaster as a plot point in one of their campaigns? Say, an earthquake, or hurricane, volcano eruption, or even something exotic like a meteor strike, or a hiccup...

Sorry I got into this late, I was out of touch most of the weekend. In any event - Starbuck returns with the arrow. Everyone hates Sharon, but she knows the way to the tomb on Kobol. Lee Adama seems to be in love with Starbuck. Commander Adama makes some poor choices in personnel replacement...

I am currently recruiting players for my group, we have a couple sessions under our belt, but it is early in the current campaign. Here is the "opening pitch" for the current campaign. Drop me a line if you are interested. Game Details: The campaign is a a D&D campaign, using the 3.5e rule set...

When you apply one of the alignment based templates to vermin (such as making a fiendish monstrous spider, such as could be summoned with a summon monster spell), their Intelligence becomes 3 (because that is the minimum for a fiendish creature, per the template). Does this eliminate the...

[/b] Just for information purposes, the justifications you cite have fairly well defined legal meanings under U.S. law, defined by caselaw for the most part, and posting material on an internet bulletin board does not fall within them. Fair use is much more restricted than most people who are...

I've been looking and I can't find the answers to two questions concerning scribing new spells into a wizard's spell book. (1) Can a wizard scribe a spell that is too high a level for him to cast into his spell book? In other words, provided he made the requisite skills checks, spent the...