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Wikipedia has a bunch of stuff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dökkálfar_and_Ljósálfar Note that "dark elves" originally was synonymous with "dwarves"... ;)

My guess is that it isn't about page count or complexity, but rather a Hasbro boss somewhere concerned about Concerned Parents.

We used the Dragonstar Science-Fiction setting for D&D 3E in a campaign that was in part influenced by the Marines of the movie Aliens. The idea was that each player should have a stable of characters, from which we handpicked one each for any given mission. Predictable enough, most players...

Yep, that auto-substitution 4E Eladrin -> Elf really confused me when I read the Pathfinder version of the players guide, especially as the 4E elves kept being elves..... "The elven females died, so elven females was kidnapped and sold to be polymorphed into elven females... HUH?"

"I swing at him with my sword!" "But he's fifty feet away! You could not possibly hit him!" "No worries, I do damage even on a miss..." :D

Well, you could use it as a kind of Turing test... As Baldor the Brave crosses square X, a crossbow dart shoots out of a tiny hole in the wall. Was it a trap, or an orc hidden behind a murder hole with a crossbow and a delayed action? We can determine this by simply observing whether Baldor...

From http://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/traps-hazards-and-special-terrains/traps : "Traps that attack with arrows, sweeping blades, and other types of weaponry make normal attack rolls, ... "

Love Pathfinder's Archetype system.

A great difference between combat rolls and skill rolls is that skill rolls often are linked, whenever you make even the simplest plan. Let's pick this simple example, something a skilled rogue would expect to do: "I sneak past the guard, climb up the wall, and then listen at the window."...

My favorite for playing D&D-esque adventures is my GM's homebrew: http://hastur.net/wiki/Action, which has very different mechanics, but picks up D&D/Pathfinders adventures, settings and mood real well. That said, Parthfinder has surprised me favorably as a player. There are enough oddities...

This is spot on the problem with "before Y failures". If a bad shot caused a fight to be lost by shooting four misses in a row, then the party would very soon start shouting "put *down* that crossbow!"...

In my personal opinion, I'd say that "Line'm up an' knock'em down" gets pretty boring after a while. D&D is so much more, and has to be much more. If all you want to do is kill monsters, then Descent is a much better board-game for that, and there are hundreds upon hundreds of computer games...

I play in Starfox home-brew mentioned above. In fact, we play a Pathfinder campaign using the "Skull and Shackles" Paizo AP in parallel with the home-brew campaign, which uses the "Crimson Throne" Paizo AP. Both throw in a lot of other "extra" D&D/Pathfinder scenarios scrounged from Starfox'...

I would not say that they are few. As a point sample, my unfiltered front page of this forum when writing this is: 11 Pathfinder threads 9 5E threads 6 all edition threads 4 3/3.5 threads 1 1E thread 1 2E thread 1 4E thread 7 others out of 40 threads.

Nailed it in one! :D

Just think of how capricious Microsoft has been with edition names: Windows 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8... Perhaps the should call the version after "D&D Next" "D&D Try"? (Let's see how many get *that* reference... :D )

There is a very nice dice probability calculator at http://anydice.com Just put this as two separate lines into the big input field: output 3d6-3d6 output d20-d20 and press first the "Graph" and then the "Calculate" button. This will give you a nice comparison graph of the probabilities of...

Depends on how willing the DM is to let the players get away with intentionally and repeatedly putting their low roll result characters in harm's way and getting them killed, until they get a "keeper" with a high roll result.... :D :D

In our "Savage Tide" D&D 3.5 campaign, I had a fairy that liked to tinker with mechanical inventions. The group's ranger wanted a nice rifle, so I crafted one for him. Now, my DM ( Starfox ) house-rules "crits" on skill rolls in the same way as for attacks (reroll for confirm on a natural 20)...

High-level cmd-Z? :D