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Look at it in perspective. For RPG's it's the 'Gone of the Wind' of games. It isn't an indy. It is THE biggest RPG production to exist, and among the oldest. And it STILL isn't helping keep local game store afloat.

I wasn't looking at pathfinder. Rumors stated the paizo planned to realease a full game under the OGL, including play testing. Again, with the GSL's various clauses, I'm not sure how that will work anymore. If the game gets bigger than D&D. wizards canpull the GSL for their 4th ed products. Not...

But this is less likely to generate revinue. It's similar to saying a movie theater can survive on indie films as well as they could with the big budget productions. This is not the case for either industry. Buying a product that won't sell is lost money, not an investment. Our LGS isn't...

RUmor is that Paizo is attempting to create a backwards compatible 3.5, and if anyone could re-establish the OGL it would be them. Unfortunately, those rumors were heard before the GSL release. I haven't heard anything since.

Which is what everyone else has done since the beginning of time. Cars, architecure, art, electronics, weapons, and pretty much everything else that has been invented has gone through this. It's just how things work. I don't fault the wotc for GSL. It didn't kill OGL. And I can't really fault...

The only problem I have with the comparison is that's it's apples to oranges. Open source programming has a defined objective goal. Even Mr. Mearls states this. Roleplaying has always been subjective, more of an art form. Mechanics are 'better' or 'worse' based on how a group accepts them. It...

Any other ideas? Speed while gliding, etc??

Found a vid for wing suits on this site: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=20040287 Now, who wouldn't want their character to do this in their Modern/Future games?? Any ideas as to how it can be stated out?

A slight hi-jack... I hope they re-open LARP Village soon. I loved downloading my consciousness into my barbarian clone! The best week I've ever had :). I still have my Tarrasque head trophy. It's a great center piece in my office. It really motivates the employees :] . Too bad about last...

Wouldn't call it evidence so much as reading into their actions. They've pulled licensing from nearly all sources (Paizo, Margret Wies, possibly Krenzer, etc). With WotC bringing everything in-house, it's unlikely they'll allow 4th ed to be used by competitors.

OGL will most likely be non-existant for 4th ed, forcing me to buy WotC products if I want to play the system at all. Even when those OGL companies are better at game design then WotC (just my opinion, but it's valid). That the current OGL companies most likely won't continue making 3rd ed...

The OGL maintained. Won't happen, but it's nice to dream.

So how about making it a simple weapon, but creating feats that effect how it's thrown (similar to a baseball pitcher)?

Sort of. The opened object looks almost like the cursor widget that followed the characters around in Tron (can't find a good picture at the moment). Great pic though. :) So maybe 1d4 damage, 19-20/x2, and a 30 ft range increment (to make it more appealling than a dart). Make them small and...

Maybe apply penalties to deflect arrows, as the entire surface is edged/pointy?

We have a toy at our local gaming shop that looks like a plastic ball, until you spin it. Centripitle force causes it to open, revealing something out of an Eicher painting. Suppose you had a weapon that did something similar? It looked like a ball until throw, in which it would unfold to...

Sorry if this sounds like a sales pitch... Paizo has the critical hit deck. WHile it isn't any more realistic, you trade out hp damage for some gruesome effect. It also works with magic effects (those that roll to hit anyway...). Might be worth looking into.

Depends on the player then. I haven't seen a magic item that gives a +2 initiative bonus to all allies within 30 ft and bonus damage to your weapons effectively for free (bluesteel bracers). Or an item that gives claws doing acid damage as well as bonuses to Hide and Move Silently, also for free...

My two cents: 1) Look at it from a different angle; soulmelders can fill every magic item slot with worthwhile items/abilities (and switch those items out for others regularly) without spending insane amounts of cash/exp to do so. 2) Choosing to use a soulmeld over a magic item is no different...

I'm getting impressions of a voluntary Running Man style game...