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Orcs of Thar was one of my favourites. It even came with a little mini wargame thing as well.

I think I still have that book somewhere. I remember a long time ago playing UO when animal tamers would control giant herds of sheep and goats and see how many fire breathing demons they could kill with them.

Rather than requiring different feats I would be inclined to say that you had to be trained in the skill the ritual is based on, whether it requires a roll or not, before you could use it. It keeps things down to one feat and prevents overspill unless the player decides to go in that direction.

You took pyrotechnics over Glitterdust, Web or even the subpar (but still probably better) Scorching Burst? Pyrotechnics! The "make some smoke spell"?

I am beginning to despair a little on the ritual side of things. I do think its something they really could start to loosen up on. I can control a mighty army of 3 whole sparrows at Epic Level! Three, fear me yea tyrants of the world and my small flock of pigeons. Would it really be so...

Pendragon is probably the oldest example of a game including social and relationship mechanics but there are plenty more out there. oWoD had them as did Exalted although they were made much more explicit in Exalted 2e. They are common in a lot of indie games, see for example Spirit of the...

I am curious, how did you think your post would help move the thread into a useful direction? Because it looks like throwing petrol onto the (potential) flames.

While there has certainly been some excellent material produced under the OGL my impression is that it was outweighed by large quantities of low quality, poorly written rubbish which glutted the market. It made picking out the useful from the dross pretty damn difficult.

I have yet to see this happen. I would be very surprised at a "huge customer uprising" against another publisher who took action against someone reproducing large chunks of their material and making them freely available, whether online or not.

You say this as if there is some sort of conspiracy of silence at WotC to conceal the position and yet I dont recall seeing them publish sale figures at any point in their history. In fact, I dont recall seeing TSR publish such information nor any other company in the industry. Its hard to...

Copyright laws have been around since before America existed as an independant nation never mind Hasbro.

Copyright doesnt work that way. Trademarks do, Copyright doesnt.

I think that Conan, Ffahrd, Aragorn and a whole host of other non spellcasters would disagree with you.

How does a Huge White Dragon stalk anyone?

This is a very odd thing to get all up in arms about. Given the amount of stuff published in the course of the last 30 years I would be surprised if anyone had a complete set of everything ever produced.

Masters of the Planes is out as well with a whole boatload of new Epic Destinies.

Personally I would avoid the use of any solo which is more than 2 levels higher than the party. I would be particularly careful with soldier solos as they have higher defences. For "boss" encounters I have generally used roughly equal level solos or elites with a healthy dose of extra...

It would be awesome because Inigo would be a player in an ongoing game rather than a character in a movie with a definite end point.

Of course this very much varied by edition. 3e IIRC had you heal HP equal to your level every day if you were reasonably rested. You could go from nearly dead to perfectly fine in a matter of a few days while sitting in a field receiving no assistance whatsoever. I struggle so see how this...

Reading this I have to wonder if you have actually read the thread. HP ARE ABSTRACT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THERE IS NO IN GAME EXPLANATION BUT THAT THE EXPLANATION IS TAILORED TO FIT THE SITUATION