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Depends on how short-sighted and/or narrow-minded they are. It is frequently not in your best interests to get something for the lowest possible price, because of the consequences. It is frequently not in the future's best interests to get something for the lowest possible price. I try not to...

Though, in my experience, neither of these is a particularly good option for RPGs. Very few libraries seem to stock them at all (and, in those i've asked about it, it's because they go missing so fast it's pointless). And while there is a used-RPG market, eBay has driven prices up to where the...

Was the setting a significant selling point for Arcana Unearthed? Did i completely miss that? I bought it for the rules, and my recollection of the advertising, especially the Design Diaries, was that it was very much of the "look at my cool new rules! oh yeah, and if you're interested i'll...

Huh. I don't remember much debate on the female dwarven beard front, and i read Dragon religiously from #88 to ~#250. All i remember is the consistent stance that female dwarves have beards, and the occasional letter saying "that's dumb" or "well, not in*my* campaign". Oh yeah, and then D&D3E...

Maybe i'm just confused, but aren't you making $0 per copy until you hit the break-even point, by definition? I mean, isn't the definition of a break-even point the point where you've made back all your costs, and then *everything* after that point is profit--so, $12/ea, if you're getting that...

Maybe her objection to religion in RL is because she's an idealist? I've certainly known a fair number of people who are deeply faithful, but don't belong to any organized religion because they see organized religion as a corruption of "the real thing". Anyway, if that's the case, playing a...

What books are you comparing to? I can't remember the last time i saw a non-RPG book full of illustrations (not photos), and where every bit of the content had to be created from scratch (rather than researched), of a comparable page-count that was cheaper than an RPG book. Only things i can...

You're each commuting ~50mi one-way, or you have gas-guzzlers? Anyway, two thoughts on this: 1) We're still only paying something like a quarter of the cost of a gallon of gas, the rest being made up for by general revenues (mostly state/municipal property tax and federal income tax), so i see...

Agreed--my only complaint with AU was that he didn't change the combat rules, since everything that was changed was for the better, and it fixed my problems with the races, classes, and magic. I want to see Malhavoc's take on fixing the combat rules (which, after the classes, is probably the...

Maybe my position is misunderstood: I'm claiming that changes to setting are not wholly independent of changes to rules, and vice versa. The only argument that counters that is one wherein there are no exceptions. Conceding an exception supports my argument. I never claimed that there is an...

IOW, you *did* change your setting when you changed rulesets, even if it's just in one area, and even if you had an element of your setting that allowed it without "breaking" the setting. So, the "physics" changed because you changed rulesets. I don't understand how your example supports your...

Ah, i see what you're saying. I guess it never occurred to me that, just because fluff and crunch are separable, that they are disjoint. I, like you, expect them to mesh more-or-less seemlessly, and get jarred out of the game when the rules say one thing and the setting another. But that doesn't...

That's one POV. I disagree. In fact, the more gamelike an RPG is, the less i like it. Rules that "facillitate gameplay" often actively detract from my RPing experience. Rules that don't match/provide the underlying physics of the world, likewise, tend not to interest me--unless the rules are so...

I'm more than a decade out of date, but last i checked (at one point, i was reading the research of all 3 of the guys doing significant octopus studies), there was no consensus among octopus experts on the English plural of octopus--octopus, octopi, and octopuses are all accepted. Among...

Anchored to, yes; functional without, yes--the trunk has no bones within it, which was my point, and most of what it does is relevant without the leverage that the rest of the elephant supplies. But now we're really digressing. ;) It was both in jest and serious. Analogies are wonderful...

Nitpick: in D&D3E terms, Velociraptor is probably Small, and Deinonychus merely Medium. We're talking ~35# and ~150#, respectively. Jurassic Park has almost perfectly-depicted Deinonychuses, it just called them Velociraptors for some reason. (Particularly baffling to me, since every book on...

i'm almost exactly the opposite--i'm just starting to buy D20 System stuff. I didn't see anything D20 System thai thought was worth buying [at cover price] before Nyambe and Spycraft. Last year was the first year that produced more than 3-4 D20 System products that interested me. 2005 is shaping...

Well, that is a problem-- the fact that neither term has (1) precise or (2) agreed-upon meanings. I see them as tautologically complete--if it's not crunch, it's fluff, and vice-versa, by definition. Everything in an RPG book, save the credits and copyright notice, is one or the other. And...

Is it rules? No? Then it's fluff, by definition. It is if you define it as so--which i thought the terms "fluff" and "crunch" implicitly did.

Different? Yes. Clearer? Debatable. Is a table for randomly generating weight/height for a fantasy race rules or flavor text? It would be relevant with a completely different rules system, so it strikes me as flavor text. But it could be worded as one of the "rules" of character generation...