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I'd probably go further, and make most class abilities accessible via something like feats or d20 Modern's talents. So instead of branching into a new class, you'd take a feat/talent/whatever appropriate to the sort of class abilities you want to pick up, if you had the prerequisites (and many...

Teenage Mutant Ninja <whatevers>. It must be public domain by now.

Not really, IMHO. The non-revised 5th edition book has plenty of examples and explanation, it's quite a good book on its own merits, IMHO. And the best resource for any questions or to learn how to do things has always been other gamers, which you can get to at the Hero Games site...

I prefer to Hero to M&M for campaign play. M&M has some balance problems (not surprisingly, Hero has had a lot longer to iron out the kinks), and while it plays fast it suffers (IMHO) from a lot of fencepost conditions that lead to high variance results. This is fine for one-shots and the like...

I don't care so long as it's readable and usable. I honestly couldn't tell you whether the maps from my (recent) favourite adventures are hand-drawn or computer generated, and I have little interest in finding out. I buy a final product, not a process.

Sure, but those are at least relatively thorough treatments. d20 Past is the Forgotten Realms, Eberron, and Greyhawk all released in one 96 page book, with no further material planned. I don't think such a product would be particularly successful in the D&D market, so it shouldn't come as a...

Dunno about Dungeon, but some pirate or pirate-like adventures are: The U-series of modules for AD&D (Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh, Danger at Dunwater, and a third one whose name I can't recall) were nautically themed. They involved unraveling a conspiracy that lead to threat of invasion...

I see. So you believe that comparing other tastes to a desire to be spoon-fed or hand-held is actually an indication of respect. Well, perhaps it's a communication problem, then - where I come from that would be considered a personal insult. Good luck with your d20 Past campaign, and be sure and...

I'd rather have it as the previously mentioned toolkit than either of those. So getting a few sketchy settings is OK by you - great, more power to you, I hope you get a lot of enjoyment out of them. But noting that those sketchy settings are (A) not useful to every gamer in the world, and (B)...

The whole sentence is: "You are not being forced to, the campaign will be long and even if you guy dies any new character will be 25 point buy, and all characterswill be treated the same." So even though you're not being forced to, if your guy dies any new ones will also be 25 points. Or...

The particular sentence (from which you quoted only part) doesn't actually make sense. So if you expected your cough to clarify anything, so sorry, try again.

I have played much weaker characters - in terms of stats - than the rest of the group quite successfully in the past, but always using random rolling methods (I am either very unlucky or naively honest about what I rolled, I suspect the latter). I probably wouldn't play such a character in a...

If it was intended as that, then it is one of the most abject failures WOTC have ever released. What it actually does is give you sketchy info for three campaign settings. I have a feeling that's what it was actually intended to do, too, since usually the WOTC authors are pretty good about that...

For a relatively standard D&D campaign, 25 is about the low point I like, and 32 about the high point. I'll play outside those ranges for specific campaign concepts, but for standard D&D it tends to get a bit too strange for my tastes with either godlike or very ordinary characters. When I run...

Been a while since I read Wulf's story hour, but I believe the halfling was executed for his actions (edit - rather than specifically his alignment), wasn't he? In-game, whether or not he was evil wasn't a huge factor either way. It seems to me it's possible to be evil and not have done anything...

A lot of companies, when they advertise a job publically, put down a dream list of qualifications and don't actually expect to hire somebody with all of the qualfications (generally because they're not offering enough money to do so). If they list five separate qualifications, they'll hope to...

I dunno off-hand, but it seems like it'd be trivial to modify an existing spell (change Stoneskin from 10/adamantine to 10/cold iron and call it "Fey Aura" or some such thing, for example). Is there any particular reason why you couldn't?

The planes can't both be unusual and also be used for a large number of adventures. I rarely run planar adventures specifically because I want them to be really special when I do run them. Of course, I also don't use the "everything-including-the-kitchen-sink" default cosmology, so in terms of...

It's a day when teachers (are supposed to) go on courses and seminars, so the kids get the day off school. Might just be a Canadian thing, I dunno. Canada is great. When I and some friends first started playing D&D around grade 7 (25 years ago, geez I feel old), one of our teachers set aside...

I looked at it briefly at my FLGS, and was fairly underwhelmed. It's just too short to serve as both a rulebook for "the past" and a setting book with multiple settings, so I can't justify dropping the bucks on it. Particularly when it's relatively easy to houserule d20 Modern into something...