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Campaign settings are a pretty hard sell in any case, compared to books of rules, and with the restrictions of the GSL -- for example, the fact that you can't have an "elf" in your setting without it being precisely the same as the 4th edition elf in all regards -- I'd say it's unlikely that too...

I wish my players were a bit more like yours -- not totally, but closer. ;) I always run intrigue-style adventures, anyway, with only a very occasional combat -- we often go weeks without mayhem breaking loose -- but the paranoid resistance of my players to plot hooks is still a source of...

This looks like the closest to a Merry Christmas thread, so .... ;) Merry Christmas and a peaceful, happy, and blessed holiday season to all!!!!!!!!! :D

Judging by the fact that the Aztecs had an extremely violent, militaristic culture .... .....whose governmental system was organized around continually attacking the neighboring tribes and taking thousands of them for sacrifice and cannibalism .... ..... that ritual self-mutilation was a...

If, as was suggested earlier in the thread, trusting game designers means that you'll buy a book by them sight unseen, just because it has their name on it, then I'm afraid I've never trusted any of them, and probably never will. :o There have been maybe 2 occasions when I've bought a game book...

Quite true .... as long as you use the 4th edition rules, of course. ;)

Well, I haven't read the 4th edition DMG, only the PHB, so my comments don't include that. ;) However, I'd have to rank the 1st edition DMG as the one that's given me the most entertainment value. I had a great time when I was younger generating stuff with the random tables at the back, and I'd...

I just tell them what the NPC says. If they choose to make a Sense Motive roll, then I make a Bluff roll, whether or not the NPC is actually bluffing. They also know that I will make the roll whether or not the NPC is bluffing, so they know that the use of dice doesn't indicate anything. In...

Some of the reactions to this over there sound a bit like they're discussing the future of world peace, and not the publication of an RPG product. A few random thoughts on the subject: 1. Gail Gygax owns the material now, and can basically do whatever she wants with it, with or without fan...

I can't help but note that this thread has wandered far afield from the original topic .... :D

"Trust" seems like a weird way to put it, anyway. "Trust" and "distrust" are for questions like, "can I leave my wallet with this person while I go into surgery," or "can I tell this person my social security number," and doesn't have a dang thing to do with game rules, that I can tell. For...

Actually, it's not just about the feel -- it's a real mechanical problem with high-level play, that both skill levels and DCs inflate endlessly, while the random part -- the d20 -- grows less and less significant. In particular, it creates an imbalance where some characters will almost always...

I pretty much agree with Kamikaze Midget. One of my major gripes with 4th edition is that the character classes are now purely wads of combat abilities, and you're supposed to just extemporize everything else. For example, a rogue is no longer someone good at sneaking, stealing, disarming...

I bought the PHB, which turned out to be plenty and to spare from my viewpoint. ;)

I've always said "jen - AH - see" also, for what that's worth. :D

Well, I don't doubt that they're decent chaps, but I can report that they don't answer e-mails. Submitted stuff to them eons ago and they never bothered to respond. I didn't expect any different, since I've dealt with the publishing world before ;), but please don't go into this with unrealistic...

I don't go out of my way to advertise it, but I don't care about revealing it if it comes up in conversation. Then again, I don't share my life story with many people anyway, so it's fairly rare for it come up anyway. ;) That said, I've gotten more harassment and sneers from people for being a...

Personally, I loathe low starting hit points with the utmost intensity. Any boost to low-level survivability is a boon to me. As a DM most of the time, the low levels were always appalling to design adventures for -- basically, the characters were so fragile that I had to do stuff like reduce...

' Just look at Games Workshop for something similar. "This 40K RPG sold out the first printing on preorders, before it even hit the stores -- let's discontinue it 2 days after its release."

Hm .... one must wonder if she got a bit too outspoken for her own good about the GSL. Be that as it may, I like your signature, Einan -- very solid words! :)