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You're being pedantic. Yes, the only brain cells that aren't active on some level are dead. Pointing that nuance out adds nothing to the discussion.

No. You'd have a seizure. That's essentially what a seizure is - all of the neurons of the brain firing at once in panic cascades. The more of the brain that's involved, the more severe (and dangerous) the seizure.

I have been working on this play, now titled "Stand Still," for the better part of 4 years, though for the first half of this year I set it aside to do other things. If I go back to the earliest draft I'd have to go back 16 years to a play I wrote in college, then lost all copies of, and...

I enjoyed it. Then again, I was just looking to be entertained, not educated. Also, on the 10% business - my understanding is that at any given time only 10% to 20% of the brain is active - BUT - the exact areas that are active changes by activity. Like right now I'm sitting. The part of my...

The feat is balanced *if* you give out treasure to the rest of the party at the rate 3e recommends. If you don't want to give out treasure at that rate it can quickly become broken. To be honest, Vow of Poverty is the ugliest example of 3e's enforced handout of treasure in order to progress...

Two can play that game. You're the one making the assertions here, so you can do the justifications... Why? Why? Why? False equivalence. I've known some surgeons out there take the time to learn how to program, especially in the areas of prostetic (sp?) limbs.

It is the original explanation from 2e why healing magic was off limit to wizards though. You can keep the class lists and remove the divide, but it's illogical.

Game balance does demand that not all options be available at all times. Consider Magic: The Gathering. That game splits the spell effects across five colors. Each color is good at certain things, and bad at others. In the absence of this color wheel, only the best spells would be played...

D&D rules, as written don't logically follow this principle. If magic has no sentience then anyone can invoke it - hence in the world view above there cannot logically be a split between the spells of wizards and clerics. Game balance demands otherwise though - so we arrive at a quandary. My...

There are a great many words in all the languages of the world that have multiple meanings. I'm quite aware of the existence of the Gnostic sect of Christianity. In the context of my argument it should be quite clear I'm not referring to that sect.

Care to debate the existence of trees then? Seriously, I'm long since tired of these arguments, made by people who wish to foist a modern perception of the world on a fantasy setting. I find their arguments flat out absurd and hold them in contempt.

First off, the "very, very, very powerful" beings argument is a fallicious argument - specifically moving the goalposts. If we go by the classical meaning of the term "god" - a being with ability and authority to change the world or a specific aspect of the world under their purview at will...

Complexity can come from many areas, and one area that rarely adds anything to any game is inconsistency. I'll be honest, I will probably be writing a new group of spells for my setting rather than do what I did last time and that was tack on around 600 spells to 3e to give the setting the feel...

Of course not. Are they really getting the shaft? See below... Not thorough enough. I've used this awhile now and this is what I've noted about the change. First, the logic is that cure spells should heal proportionately the same amount to characters regardless of who they are. The...

Use the die of the favored class - the one with the most levels.

A house rule I've been running in Pathfinder is instead of using d8's, use a die of the target's favored class (The one with the most levels). So cure serious wounds on a barbarian is 3d12+caster level. The rule does shaft the classes with d6's a bit, but taking their power down a notch...

If I convert my setting to 5e (and that's a pretty big if, I still need to read, completely, the three core books) I'll have quite a bit of things to convert around. There are 600 spells in the Dusk setting. I'm also itching to further explore the "at higher levels" concept. So at the moment...

While it would make playing a spellcaster a little more complicated, the tradeoff in saved page count and cleaner spell entries is worth it. The change - don't repeat redundancy. That is.. Casting Time - if it's one action, don't list it. Players should assume a spell without a casting time...

Spell memorization mastery: Memorize the entry of a spell. Before play begins prove to the DM you can recite the spell's entry in the rules from memory. If you do you can use the spell in addition to the spells your character has prepared, and without using a spell slot. Lotsa flavah...

This feat sucks pretty soundly on those measures though. First, unless the player with the feat is great at math, the game will be slowed down. Second, the feat is completely unfair to the players who aren't math savants because now even if they want to play a character according to the flavor...