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I'm waiting for it to hit RPGNow - hopefully that will be a week or less. I suspect others may be doing the same for their favorite online retailer.

The d20 version captures the feel of the show extremely well. There's a lot of good support material and the season books do a great job of providing RPG hooks for every episode. Before commenting further, I should point out that there is a second edition scheduled for February. I don't know...

http://mongoosepublishing.com/home/detail.php?qsID=858 I understand Mongoose has a whole line of these in the wings. Unfortunately no shops I know of in NZ have carried any B5 material since the Centauri book.

It's quite adaptable; I've used it in a variety of settings with little to no work. As written, there is a bit of a bias towards a psionics feel (many of the spells 'require' mental contact to be established through Mind Touch) but that pretty much be ignored; I substitute physical contact or...

I was using "good" in the loosest sense of the word. Probably a bad idea (in the loosest sense of the word "bad") in the context of an alignment discussion. I stand by heroic, though. :)

Oh, and in answer to your question; theology aside, of course not. You're talking about fictional characters in a fictional world adhering to a fictional and artificial definition of morality. It's, um, fiction. So you can rewrite it. Generally speaking, characters cast against type make for...

This is something that has been considered frequently in literature; some good examples off the top of my head - Drizzt in the Forgotten Realms books is from an otherwise unremittingly evil race. Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman, has characters from both sides who defy the usual classification. The...

I picked out Cecily Rose after reading "The Importance of Being Earnest" (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/tiobe10h.htm). It was very important that she be named after a character in the public domain. My wife and I decided on it about five minutes after we started dating - seven years...

There's always the Blake's 7 setup. The PCs start off as prisoners; early on the prison ship runs across an advanced (but abandoned) alien ship. Two crew members are sent over to claim it but are killed. So the prisoners are sent over, overpower the automatic defenses and escape with the ship...

I'd just like to point out that copyright law is not homogenous nor universal. I believe that most posters are working off the assumptions of US or Canadian law. Rather than cite all the laws I am familiar with, I will point out a few oddities you may not be aware of. In China, copyright...

One I used in my last campaign - the players were all members of the king's council. Especially useful for higher-level campaigns but might be appropriate for some people's low-level games. Crown of Shadow has one group of PCs acting as guides for the second group, who were supposed to...

For my current campaign I started the PCs off as captives on a slave galley. Their very first order of business was to engineer an escape, of course. We have a couple of really vicious individuals throwing in their lots with innocent people wrongly convicted. While it's the kind of hook that...

Why, yes, yes I am. And I thankfully work for a (non-gaming, dead tree) publisher so I know *exactly* how big that elephant is. I'm also doing all the layout work by hand - print ready copy can take a while, as you well know. It's a phenomenal amount of work and the printing of the hardcover...

I was racking my brains last night trying to think of analogous situations that we could mone for data. IIRC, there were a number of compilation works a couple of years back - things like "Ultimate Feats", "Arms and Equipment Guide", and so on. And of course Wizards released Unearthed Arcana...

Sorry, I meant the impact of putting the SRD on the wiki. Obviously you can extropolate from your prior experiences. If you're going from 2 copies down to 1 (or conversely up to 3), it's not really possible to explicitly determine if it's being influenced by the wiki. Or a different business...

So if it does have an impact, it'd have to be positive, right? :) It does sound like we'd be unable to distinguish a negative impact from zero impact; numbers are probably too low to discern a trend in that specific instance. Sounds like we'll need a sacrificial victim - someone who isn't...

Well, here's an idea that might make it easier for industry people to stomach. We *could* start the wiki as an invitation-only experiment. We seed the content with SRD material and freely (as in beer) available content - publishers who are already providing work for free are unlikely to complain...

Oooh, good, feedback on specifics. Thank you, I worked for a long time on that one. The policy itself is licensed under a Creative Commons 2.5-Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/) if anyone wants to use it. Knock yourself out. I'm thinking the classic SRD content...

I might have believed that before. But I've spent the last five years totally immersed in the free software world, debating a wide variety of "open" licenses, and I don't believe that. In that world, I'm building on other people's IP all the time. Constantly. And I can take what they've done...

I'll need to procure hosting and bandwidth. Can do so with my current provider but it'll be a couple of weeks before I can afford to. Only reason I haven't opened one yet. If someone offers hosting/bandwidth I'll take it.