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I think I know what this sentence means. I think it means that I wasn't exposed to as much marketing as you were. Which is bullcrap. I read every single design diary that came out before the book came out, and had spent plenty of time on the Monte Cook boards reading everything the...

It's not a problem that you make personal judgements based on your personal preferences. It's bad if you say the game is bad because it doesn't meet your expectations. It's bad if you say, "This is a bad game," or, "they weren't being honest with me," because something fails to fit your...

The complaints about this remind me of a problem I have with the human race in general, and intenet "fans" in particular. There seems to be this rising expectation that producers of entertainment products (or goods and services in general) are able to tailor a product to one's exact...

I want to be harsher with death, too, but with what Monte has done, it's much easier to exise the death-defying spells. There are fewer of them, and they're more rarified, and everyone has the same spell lists so we're not unfairly slanting things to one or another class by taking them out.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: From his wife... Just about everything you've said amounts to, "I don't like it, so it's bad, and everyone hates it." That was the point of my first post on this thread, to illuminate this sickness in your part of the discussion. Bullcrap. You don't like the setting, that...

Point the first: Art is irrelevant in a gaming book. Content and ideas are. Art is distraction and a way to easily recognize what page a particular piece of text is on. If you complain about it, you are wrong. Point the second: If you paid attention to either the marketing of the book, or...

Yeah, Monte has confirmed this on his own boards. Which, incidentally, are at http://pub102.ezboard.com/bokayyourturn

I don't have books easy to hand at the moment, so I'm going ot make up numbers. Let's say that level 5's XP total is 7000 and level 6's is 13000. I am 5th level, and at the end of session, my XP total is 13249. I tell my DM, "Instead of gaining 6th level in Whatzis, I want to be a Runechild."...

It's not a variant monk class. They don't just not use armor, they don't use tools. They actually have reasons for all their limitations: They believe in maximizing the potential in themselves, as channeled through the power of their dedication to the oath, and regard tool use as a crutch...

Well, it sounds to me like that makes 4. To keep it on topic (at least vaguely), I would like to runn or play in an Arcana Unearthed game. Email me off-the-boards and maybe we can get something going.

It is patently unreasonable to expect an author to predict the reading comprehension levels and biases of everyone who might buy their book. Monte clearly intended AU to stand on its own, and if you read it as its own book, rather than comparing it to D&D, you'll see that everything is very...

Actually, we just lost two players, however the one I normally play in is down in Monmouth County. I don't know if you want to go that far. But if you do, we have a game on Saturday, and you can email me privately if you're interested (bowell@rci.rutgers.edu). Also, we're not yet playing AU...

??? You're kidding, right? It says in every Spells section, the word any. Can prepare any (complex, simple, whatever) spell. How much more clear can it be. Should it say, "He can prepare any simple spell. No, really. Honest. Any one. I mean it. I promise. Any simple spell."? I think...

It's pretty clear. I'll use the Mageblade, since you do in your question. Page 40: Mage blades have access to simple spells. A mage blade may choose to ready any simple spell provided she can cast psells of that level. Emphasis mine. How more clearly could it have been put? I don't mean...

The scales have fallen away from my eyes (or something) I can't really explain how enthusiastic I am about this book. I had basically given up all remaining love my heart had for D&D (for the second time, actually, came back for 3E and then became disillusioned again). But reading this thing...

This description would also seem to fit your presence on this thread.

Thanks for the info, Gospog. I'm not currently DMing, so all this "work" is being done on behalf of others. I think I know what I'm going to recommend, however. I'm going to suggest we use the Wheel of Time method with the addition of an X-factor that I'll call Competency. So the formula is...

Can you give me a vague overview? If I remember correctly, that issue's pretty old, might be hard to find.

Mercule! Dude! Long time, no talk. How's DND-L? And by the way, you are a godsend. Thanks for the help.

Do you know what these rules are?