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    Is the RPG Industry on Life Support? (Merged w/"Nothing Dies")

    Fact is, a lot of people I know use homebrew, and just mine published stuff for occasional crunch and bits of inspiration. if books stopped coming out for D&D, or even RPG's in general, we'd keep on playing just fine, for ever. We've got more than enough rules. We've got more than enough...
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    Does Combat Expertise lower my 'opposed attack roll' for disarm?

    Two weapon fighting penalties should apply, certainly, as it is more difficult to concentrate on holding on to two weapons at once, and you only have one hand to do it with per weapon...especially bad if its your offhand. Fighting defensively? No way. Its harder to disarm someone being careful...
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    Harry Potter and the skill-based magic system

    Spellcasting strikes me as Charisma based. All the most powerful wizards in the Harry Potter world have strong personalities. The more unsure they are (Neville, Hagrid) the less power they have. Dumbledore and Harry are very charismatic, as demonstrated by the fact that they are focused on by...
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    CSI: Sharn (Help create 100 corpses)

    At first glance, this is the body of a human male. Age is apparently late thirties. The deceased is bald, with a small red goatee beard. Platinum earrings in the ears have not been touched. There is no sign of decomposition of the body, but his clothes have rotted almost completely away. The...
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    Simple: Barbarian v. Fighter

    If the fighter has weapon specialization, he's doing +2 damage....same as the barbarian does while raging. Damage potential between the two is actually the same, and the fighter can do more different things. With a better ac and not much lower hit points, the fighter usually wins. Especially if...
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    WotC Seeking Your Setting Proposals (was "Big Wizard announcement")

    Nobody on this list seems to have paid a great deal of attention to question #5. If as some have suggested, they are hinting at the sorts of worlds and settings they would like by the nature of the questions, then the nature of magic and its source are fairly crucial. It is a difficult balancing...
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