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Well, good thing to know...makes it easier for Hasbro to simply BUY the RPG that most customers want next time, and slap the D&D label on it, and still be able to sell it off as the "Word's most popular Fantasy Roleplaying Game" when it's time for 5E to roll around. Also saves on having to pay...

Nah, not just now, but apparently for a few years already. People, especially WotC designers just weren't allowed to speak up about it. But now that 3.X is in its death throes, the chains have fallen, and we all can be regaled by tales how 3.X has so many flaws and hooks and clunky bits. Corp...

What wingsandsword is trying to point out is that the current cosmology was and is (with slight modifications for each edition) the default cosmology for AD&D. If you don't believe me, read the threads that deal with the topic, there's enough material in there to show it is. What he dislikes is...

Why don't you ask him yourself? I mean, he's still alive and does answer the questions posted in his thread. Then you'd not have to guess and assume, but would know directly from the creator. ;)

That's easy...he was my best friend. The fights we had were epic. Ah, puberty... :lol:

Dunno...I took it as "don't play older editions and spurn newer editions just because you think doing so will enable you to relive your youth, but try to create some new good memories with the new games available", which is why I agree with it. :)

No, of course not...because there was only one heaven to go to, so only one heavenly sphere necessary. Now take that sphere, partition it into 17 planes, and you're back on track again. :)

My thoughts exactly. :) Which is what makes a lot of the current "It's (not) D&D" discussions so...erm...interesting. :lol: Oh, and from an experienced Das Schwarze Auge player, it's pretty much NOT D&D. The systems are totally incompatible, the power level is completely different (we used to...

Brrrrrr, I never said people shouldn't play the older editions of D&D! :lol: Quite the contrary, I believe that the older editions have a lot going for them. Also, nostalgia is nothing bad, it means somebody has GOOD memories about those editions that he treasures instead of traumas and bad...

Dunno, I can see the basic platonic foundation in the old D&D cosmologies...just because he chose to call "spheres" planes, and didn't put them up in an exact onion-like model with inner and outer planes layers, and chose to sub-partition the heavenly sphere into different planes according to...

Just for completeness sake... Bolding mine. Bolding mine. Interestingly enough, I couldn't find a similar quote from the 2E DMG. Maybe somebody else can supply it. So, as you can see, most editions of D&D not only accepted it as a DM's purview to overrule any dice roll when he saw fit...

Yeah, and that's the point I disagree with, mainly because that'll only work if people are seen as similar as well. Take a look around here, and you'll find a LOT of different experiences from AD&D, even from people who played the game by following the "rules" written down in the book. One of...

Yeah, but I think that's the point...4E will be a completely different animal compared to its progenitors. So essentially, you're going to try to port over D&D stuff into a "new game". You could as well try to port AD&D stuff into Earthdawn, or Exalted, or any other fantasy RPG that has its own...

Sure, if you want to limit the "experience" of a game to applying the rules and rolling a few dice. And if you want to believe that people are all inherently the same, and thus get the same experience out of the same thing. And no, not everybody will simply start at the default AD&D setting. ;)...

Valiant speech...you still realize that most truth is in the eye of the beholder, right? At least where stuff like RPGs are concerned. :)

To quote something TwinBahamut said on the thread about the Elemental Planes... I can't help myself, but it looks like the "points of light" assumption is brought to the planes as well...seething elemental chaos containing the Abyss at its core, and a few stable points of elemental matter...

Nah...well, maybe, but actually it's just the extension of the "points of light" setting assumption onto the planar level. Even the Astral Sea will probably be a vast and wild environment, with the astral abodes being the points of light inside it. At least that's how it sounds to me. And it...

But it's the "minutiae", the smaller details, that differentiate games. Otherwise I could claim that my L5R campaign was D&D, too (which it wasn't, being entirely d10 1E), or even my Shadowrun games, if I'm so inclined. And it is a lot easier to differentiate between game systems than between...

You know, you could try to tune down the "Your version of the game is CRAP, and mine is the true future" rhetoric a little. It's quite insulting in its own way, and people might start taking offense after reading it once too often, and you've been slinging it around for the last 3 weeks with...

Hmm...I'm not too senile to type in numbers yet, I hope. ;) See, that's why I said the kinetic energy should be in Joule. The kinetic energy before impact is 81286.31 Joule. The force of impact is 812863.19 N (given by that same calculator). Now Newton is kg*m/s^2, so if you want to know what...