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Yes, definitly. Reasonable, bright, and intelligent people more than likely have something meaningful to contribute to politics, and in certain viewpoints these smart folks have a duty to their country to get involved in running it. Politics aren't important on an apolictical business site, or...

My solution is two parts. The first part is easy: Cure Wounds spells now require the binding of injuries as a somatic component. This increases thier casting time to a full minute (or longer--haven't looked at the book in a few weeks) and gives healers both a reason to carry bandages and a...

Screw a question about real-world history. (Guns, btw, were just the latest in a line of massed-army fighting that ended the medieval way of life. The pike and the longbow did as much to end medieval chivalry as the flintlock--and firearms were around even during chivalry's peak. They just...

To use an old standby, "that's not a bug, that's a feature." If you're playing Merlin, the 20th level spellcaster with a +20 in various spell-skills, you would expect to be able to do piddly little stuff without any chance of harm. Just like a 20th level marksman can take shots that a 1st...

Cool. A happy ending, of sorts... Although I'm less worried about Logan's friends and more worried about Logan.

Well, remember that the assassin was going to try and get the dwarf alone--a 4th level dwarf PC by himself is only EL 2 or 3, not 4. But, in any case... I'd have the assassin take the long-term route. Hide out in the ship's hold until he sees an opportunity, then ambush the dwarf and take...

1: Not used an assassin two levels higher than the party. 3: Had the assassin kidnap the dwarf, and bring him to the merchant's home. there's no rule that an aassassin can't use nonlethal damage for one--a sap works great for this. You'd give the sleeping PCs a whole second chance to wake up...

Pick up Alea Publishing Group's Whisper of Horses Insanity Rules are in the back.

Naming You know, I saw this thread when it was new and I didn't actually *read* the darn thing until it came in my e-mail. If no one's got their heart set on RPGEngine, I'd like to humbly suggest the name "Prometheus," or "PRD-XML." While I can see an argument for keeping them apart, it would...

It's easier. It lets a GM spend less of their time wrestling with their rulebook and more of their time either running a game or creating material for their game. Not to mention that it's customizable, extensible, and facilitates the one activity that is common to every roleplaying game I've...

A natural consequence of creating an XML standard for marking Open-Gaming text. A GM, having purchased XML-formatted versions of the five books he's going to loot for his home game, loads them all on his PC, selects the rules and sections he's gonig to use, and adds them all into one file...

MS's Word .DOC format has an *option* of etiher tracking changes or saving a previous version. Both of these are not turned on by default, and can baloon a document's size to unwiedly proportions. Just a Wednesday night FYI.

While I'm not a lawyer, a "writing style" strikes me as impossible to protect. If I have to re-write your entire work to use it, then it's not OGC. (I could re-write Storyteller and release it as my own OGC if I really wanted to and were willing to risk legal review.) Maybe I missed something...

Actually, a well-done XML (or other metadata-enabled) format can answer all of those questions, and still remain inside the bounds of the OGL. Assuming that one cannot get the publisher's blessing, a "megaSRD" (or whatever you call it) would need to include metadata that lists all of the...

AOP? Care to elaborate for the peanut gallery? Yes, exactly. Die rolling is easy enough -- either write something that takes the integers from 1d8+1 out and generates it, or just flash a message box saying "Roll 1d8+1". Yes, they would. Or, rather, they would for a program that runs the...

FGA gets the XML bug As you know by know if you're on the d20-XML or FGA-Prometheus Yahoogroups (or if you've just checked www.theFGA.com), the FGA is going ahead with our XML plan. I'll attach our first draft of an XML standard. It details a few of the basics, and as a sample file and sample...

So what you're suggesting is to make a XML-based format for describing mechanics, so that a theoretical program can handle changes to the rules as easily as an unchanged rule set? Sounds like an interesting idea. I'm not sure how worthwhile it will be, as opposed to simply making a library of...

News Saturday Just an FYI: The FGA will either pass or accept my thought on Saturday. (Essentially, we don't want to announce something new on April Fool's Day.) My view is that we should work to have a "common language" that data can be shared with, rather than a decreed format (which...

Don't let them. Have each of your players choose class, race, and feats, and give you all of the following: 1: Their character's history. 2: Their character's greatest strength 3: Their character's weakness. 4: Their character's family. 5: Their character's goal. 6: Thier character's, well...

d20-XML and the FGA (FGA-Prometheus) both would have an interested in that. d20-XML has hit a few snags, and is more of a forum for those that do XML things than a place to collaborate a project on. The FGA--well, I want to give everyone a chance to recover from Easter. E-mail me off EnWorld...