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Thank you. The level of disrespect 'gamists' have for people with a different perspective is just plain unacceptable. You can easily make a setting meet the bulk of needs for all three core camps, and there's no place for such a dismissive tone towards those who find simulation important in a...

So when does "Magical Society: Colonization, Conquest, and the Age of Imperialism" come out? :D --- I'm actually working on a setting with empire building as a core theme.

That's a false statistic because until recently most of the USA was not actually the USA - Washington only thought it was. The settled regions had higher density. You can't look at total land, you need to look at settled/controlled land. If Eberron assumes most of the claimed land is not...

I'm going to have to remember this one. I can see some fun uses for it. For some of us, the density is a vital 'plot stuff' element. If they tell me in the number that yes, that huge city with towers has only one other guy in it... then I get jarred out of the plot as a player, or have issue...

You're wrong about the food, but see my response to your second quote for that. Actually no to what you presumed of me, and what you said in response. Not because you're wrong (you're correct), but because you're making a point about B, when I'm talking about A. I'm not talking about the...

Because for many of us these issues are -DIRECTLY- linked to enjoyability. It does -NOT- take an expert to get this stuff right. All you have to do is read TSR's own World Builder's Handbook, or Expeditious Retreat's Ecology and Culture, or this VERY SHORT website: Medieval Demographics Made...

Still running Kalamar in DnD 3.5, still running MnM, still playing Kalamar. Slowly working to revise my home setting. Last time I wrote Fahla I tried to cram my imagination into DnD's way of thinking, and it didn't work. This time I've chosen to cram d20 into my way of thinking - so I've picked...

That shows both that you know nearly nothing about Inuit and that you missed the core point. I'll skip the Inuit lesson, start here if you want to learn it. The point is that you get nomadic bands that wander the land searching out resources. They cannot hold a settlement together, even in the...

Fact is not the same thing as opinion. If you can't get food, reproductive diversity, security, and goods to your people you cannot maintain them. That is fact, not opinion. As for opinion, if a setting can answer those four needs, then it isn't broken with regards to this aspect of suspension...

How cheap is that caravan, how able to distribute goods in mass is it? Caravan travel is nortoriously difficult and expensive. It costs as much to go one mile inland as it does a hundred by river, if not more so. You will note that I've said an equivalant is needed, not the same thing. If...

All flawed excuses aside, at the end of the day you have to, on a mundane daily level be able to meet four basics needs for your population in order to hold a civilization: you need the ability to manufacture or import and then disperse food, reproduction, law-security, and basic goods. Without...

About 40,000 years. DNA shows that Europeans, Native Americans, and Asians share a common ancestor who's line is still living in Central Asia (Afghanistan and its neighbors). We all left Africa way back when, went to Central Asia, and there from there all split at around the same time for our...

Large countries with low density are only possible with trucking, refrigeration, and highways. Food need to get from farm to market, and goods need to be dispersed. Traditional pattern has always been dense populations, even going back to primordial prehuman days - humans lived in tight bands...

Now normally I write very long, very detailed and hopefully in depth reviews, but this one's gonna be just a short warning to your wallet. For BESM d20, you can already find many great reviews that will tell you why you should buy it, why it's one of the best buys out there for d20. BESM d20...

The only one on the market worth buying is Mutants and Masterminds. You can soundly ignore all the others. If you wanted to not do d20, you could then consider Silver Age Sentinels in the tri-stat version. But Mutants and Masterminds is better than that as well, so why bother unless you don't...

Back around 1990 or so... A book called Strikeforce or something like that came out for Champions and suggessted the idea of 'blue booking' to increase the presense of roleplay and subplots. In blue booking you write it down, as if in a chat room... I got a punch of pads and passed them out...

Grids just make it easier to do movement quickly. I tried gridless once, and the player all took minutes to move, and nobody ever grabbed all the rulers I had lying around. One play would just grab his figure, drop it down anywhere and say "I go here". Every turn I had to point out that he...

3.5 DMG: 169 My 3.0 DMG is lost somewhere at my sister's house... But it was something like page 19 or 20...

You obviously haven't met Contact's DM - I think even the mice had class levels... More variety works for both ends. Opening up the ability pick everything just allows you to create real people. I haven't seen Sigil's product, but if it's like BESM d20 it allows you to do away with classes and...

I'm actually shocked that in -this day and age- somebody would do a poll like this without even mentioning some version of point-buy. I would wager that some value of it is the second most used methodology, and in some communities the primary one. Depending on which set of regulars are...