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Nothing about the Great Wheel made it "D&D", either. It was just Greyhawk's cosmology. It only really works in a setting that places a strong emphasis on alignment as the building blocks of existence (particularly given that the sort order of the Outer Planes was absolutely alignment-based)...

This is how it feels to me, too. Think of four "zones" of reality. The first zone: the Prime. The second zone: its shadows, both vibrant (Feywild) and dark (Shadowfell). The third zone: the building blocks of the first two, both physical (Elemental Maelstrom/Abyss) and spiritual (Astral...

I recall that quote, but it's still pretty much entirely vague about any actual method of doing so. In any case, using how the math/probabilities work for a span that, in the prior edition, consisted of 40% of normal advancement, and extrapolating that to a broader span of the game, isn't...

When I ran 2nd Edition AD&D, I had a forty-five page house rules document. I had made massive changes to several areas of the game. Was I not playing D&D anymore? Oddly enough, when 3rd edition came out, I threw out that document completely. Why? Because many of my changes were included in...

Can you provide examples of instances where 3e is closer to 1e than to 2e, or than 2e is to 1e? Without refuting any of my comments about your points, the statement that '3E swung it back very close to the central edition nigh-1E' becomes unsupported. So was 2e. In fact, 2e's attack roll and...

Hmm, now that you mention S&P, I just realized that might be what the 1e people thought of as "2e" (as a note: they weren't, given that the actual names of the S&P books were "Player's Option", making them explicitly non-core)... But again, even if 3e was a reversal of S&P, it was a reversal...

I don't, personally, find 3e to be derived much from 2e (or 1e), while 2e is unquestionably derived directly from 1e. I just don't see how the huge differences between 3e and both 1e and 2e can possibly be considered to be 3e returning towards 1e, particularly when 3e tended to go in a...

I'm with Ari here... Purely from memory, which may be faulty: All 2e classes except bard are closer to the 1e classes than the 3e classes are. The 3e bard is more like the 2e bard than the 1e bard. 2e races were more like 1e than 3e races are; the relegation of subraces to the MM actually...

Whoops, first try in this thread got trumped by Rechan. Second try: The main issue with the believability of hit points isn't the "getting hit in the chest" issue, since the abstraction takes care of that. The main issue with the believability of hit points is merely that more "guaranteed...

How many posters would it take to convince you that there are "masses" of people professing these objections? I provided over twenty after a cursory search, and that wasn't good enough. What number should I aim for? No, I did not. I don't see a Search option in these fora (it's been a while...

You asked for evidence that there were objections. I provided that evidence. I also didn't feel like sifting through several thousand pages of posts, so I grabbed a few standout posts I saw, just from skimming, jumping by ten to a hundred pages at a time. The warlock exists as an alternative...

Here are a few examples: From the D&D Rules forum here: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=205560 http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=204596 http://www.enworld.org/showpost.php?p=3703125&postcount=2 (3/4 the way down in the list)...

Nah. It'll be Raxivort. :D

If you plan to use the Great Wheel, the books are fine. If you don't, they weren't very useful anyway (such as for an FR or Eberron game).

I've seen your character galleries. ... You've got my vote. :D

I forget in which source I saw this, but I use the suggestion that new cleric and druid spell choices only be added by removing existing choices (unless the spell fills what I see as an existing hole in divine casting capability).

We recently moved to Lima, Ohio, and we're looking for Dungeons & Dragons players. We play D&D 3.5, with several intuitive house rules readily available, and we are willing to try new systems as a secondary game (d20 Modern, d20 Future, the newest World of Darkness edition, et cetera, are all...

d20 Cyberscape By Owen K. C. Stephens (Additional Design: Rodney Thompson; Editor: Tammie Webb Ryan) Published by Wizards of the Coast 96 Page Softcover (no Open Game Content) First printing, September 2005 = DISCLAIMER = This is not a playtest review. d20 Cyberscape is intended to be used...

Thanks for the quick response.

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