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If there is natural immunity then there is a vaccine. All a vaccine does is present the body a target to instigate immunity. The potential terror comes if natural immunity is fleeting or only partial. A secondary success would come from anti-viral medications that can lessen severity in...

No one in this has done the latter. I, and at least one other, have asked for underlying motivation. Certainly, in my case, it is to better tailor potential responses. In fact, I've already given alternative suggestions as to how to make spellbooks more personalized without resorting to...

MERS hasn't vanished. It's just modestly hard to catch and a primary carrier is camels which tend not to be in day-to-day life in North America..

Fundamentally because the OP proffered a solution "make wizard spell sharing harder" rather than describing a problem "all the wizards want the same spells and I'm afraid it will make them too alike" or "I think the group needs more breadth than depth in spell casting and it would be tactically...

d20 Modern suffers from a poorly thought through wealth/income system. The split class system of 'Basic' classes and 'Advanced' classes works about as well as a class system can. All in all, it is workable with some areas that need patching. I didn't find it particularly inspired or...

I am curious why you care? If Steve wants a spell that Dave already has, why is that an issue? And how are you going to arrange for each to have a chance to gain 'better' spells since the spell lists have duds through must-haves at each spell level? Is it to maintain uniqueness of ability...

I kept being accused of that -- even though I was quite capable of backing my assertions up with citations as needed. I parroted nothing, but it was a common accusation.

I would take issue with 4e being well-designed for a target audience. The original triplet is somewhat incoherent as to what and to whom is attempting to appeal. A target group was able to take the game and make it hum despite rather than because of the rigor of its design. Later books...

Heck, even when one is able to specifically articulate why, one gets told the concerns are inconsequential, wrong, and/or symptoms of underlying prejudice.

I didn't agree with your characterization and I'll type anything I darn well please, thank you very much. Feel free to censor yourself. I did make my point, I think. Human society will continue though and past this calamity. This calamity will cause many small networks pain from individual...

I didn't say individual pain would be disregarded. In fact I said the opposite.

Everyone dies. Humans society has generally come to accept that. The societal pain felt by the pandemic will exceed the sum of individual pain for losing loved ones since it will include that spread widely as well as other forms of pain that specifically target those who live.

To the individual and to a lesser degree the small network around him. To human society at large, not so much.

Greek myth has a whole lot of rapey/semi-rapey stuff. Maybe they wanted to keep that distant.

Fearsome. As in dire wolf: canis dirus.

Your job and my job obviously differ. I would agree when running FATE or Champions that the situations depend on the PCs. The system mechanics and character creation almost make it mandatory. When I run D&D, the situations start entirely indifferent to the PCs. How those situations change...

Heh. I've seen that reaction destroy a campaign. I was running 1e/2e hybrid with ~7-9th level PCs who were operating a private investigator / troubleshooting company. Hades had captured Artemis in his chair of forgetfulness and a contingent of priests approached the group about mounting a...

Yeah, I'd tell the player that their plot line is best handled when they add another 10 levels to the character and develop allies and resources that are simply completely out of reach to a 7th level character. Further, I'd have in-game history and legends suggesting a far better approach (as...

Somehow you attributed my quotes to Geppeto. I have no idea how. And that prior mining is the primary complaint from players that are reluctant to provide backstories. Their histories were modified, sometimes quite heavily by DMs without their knowledge or consent. And the DMs changed things...

Yes, should the players arrange a TPK then it should happen. It' doesn't mean the rest of the campaign can't continue depending on the mood at the table. The players can create new PCs and become the new heroes of the story near the current position. It exposes one the serious weak points of...