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Well, you're right, money is obviously being lost there, since friends A and B would have otherwise bought the product. I don't think anyone has disputed that point, however. What has been said is that if someone is not willing to pay the price of a book and instead chooses to download it...

I use #3, roll the dice and then roleplay the situation. If a character has a high Diplomacy skill and a good roll, then the player won't have to do much to get the NPC to react the way he wants. On the other hand, if your character has 0 ranks in a skill and a Charisma penalty of -3, you'd...

My illegal PDF downloads fall into two categories: previewing a book I'm considering buying, or downloading a book that has no PDF version for sale that I'm not going to use enough of to justify paying for a print copy. I live in an area with no FLGS; the closest is an hour or so away, the F...

Ok, this is freaky enough that I have to add it to the thread. I've just been sitting here catching up on this thread for the past half hour or so. My suitemate (I'm in a college dorm) walked in a minute ago and asked me what I was reading. I told him it was basically a collection of peoples'...

At the risk of going OT slightly, this is one reason that I prefer a VP/WP type system. IMC, VP loss depends on how much the attack roll exceeded your AC by, rather than the weapon's damage. However, I consider that to be a nifty bonus that's easily "plugged into" that HP system, whereas I don't...

Wow, what a waste of forum space. It wasn't the least bit funny, so the humor defense really doesn't hold any water. And while what he said may be a truism, its still worth mentioning since some of the posts in this thread have been fairly negative towards one style of play or the other...

I think that, as a DM, the campaigns I run probably fall into both the "low magic" and "grim and gritty" groups, although both of these terms are extremely subjective and have come to possess nearly as many meanings as "munchkin." ManicFuel already covered most of the reasons that I like this...

My only experience using the generic classes thus far is in a new homebrewed rare-magic world with a custom generic spellcaster, but I'll mention the things I've discovered thus far. NPC Classes: Fortunately I've been able to avoid actually statting out the NPC classes thus far, but in the...

IMC we use option #3 because its by far the easiest to keep track of and to balance spells against. If you're worried about the realism aspect of it, describe VP loss along the same lines that you would if the character had used Evasion instead of just sucking up the damage with his VP. You...

I'm firmly in the 20+ category. My latest campaign started off as "low magic D&D" and has very quickly turned into a new homebrewed d20 game altogether.

I would rule it the same way in my game, but since there's no requirement saying you have to spell out what body part you're using for an unarmed attack, it's silly to penalize yourself by specifying that you are using your off-hand (see below). Multiple attacks by virtue of a high BAB means...

Hi all, apologies if this has been addressed previously, but I didn't see a thread on it. My next campaign will be running in a lower-magic world where magic items are extremely rare and nigh impossible to create any more. Given this, does anyone have suggestions on how to tweak the classes in...