Recent content by Storm Raven

I've been thinking about using a variant of this idea that involves dividing the amount of experience awarded by the level of the character in question. (Alternatively, one could mulitply the amount of experience needed to advance by the level of the character). This would allow characters to...

What I have always found useful is not merely to sit down and write, but write something else. Don't write the adventure. Instead write some campaign background - an NPC personality, an organization, some ritual one sect of a religion does, or something. Keep writing stuff. Since you are just...

Having a risky option produced by someone else that turned out to be a large hit provides more people using the d20 engine as their gaming system of choice, tying them to WotC's larger overall product line. For every M&M, there were numerous risky products that flopped, and WotC didn't have to...

Interesting. Now I have to wonder what ways you think IP is not defined as property.

Property is defined by law. IP is defined by law as property. Ergo, it is property in fact, not by analogy.

Your post implied that this was a current problem, which it doesn't appear to be. I'd argue that the ignorance wasn't among the people who were "giving" the songs away, it was among those who were defering to the copyright rather than fighting it. There's no way those alleged copyrights could...

Umm, copyright doesn't work that way. A singer could copyright their own performance of a song that isn't subject to copyright, but that wouldn't exclude others from using the song. Just from using that singer's recording. Copyright (in the U.S.) only applies to "original works of authorship"...

I'm trying to figure out what problems this sort of ruling would have in a 3e game, and I can't seem to think of any.

Well, the first thing is to reiterate the point that what was meant by "balance" in the 1e era is very different than what game designers refer to as "balance" now, to such an extent that the current definition would have been unrecognizable to Gygax as a game concern in 1972. I would further...

A 10 x 10 room is really big?

For me: B2: The Keep on the Borderlands. A1-4 (Slave Pits of the Undercity, Secret of the Slavers Stockade, Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords, and In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords). GDQ 1-7 Queen of the Spiders (encompassing Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, Glacial Rift of the Frist...

You know, for anyone who had trouble using A-G in Traveller stats, you could always use the radical process of using the numbers 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16. That's what we did.

How many people do you think have not heard John Lennon's Imagine before? You seem to think that the fact that those lyrics were penned by him will come as a surprise to someone.

Imagine the cries of social injustice that would engender. It would probably make selling indulgences seem like taking too many pennies from the "give one, take one" cup.

1. I can DM unless someone else wants to. I'm comfortable being on either side of the screen. It will take me a few weeks to get everything together to be ready to run a game. 2. Let's table this until we see where everyone who is interested is. 3. Either way works for me. 4. Saturday...