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This is what you want. http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=4037& If the characters want to fight a whole unit "by themselves" use mobs and swarms. Otherwise use the above. --The Sigil

Heh. Ditto. --The Sigil

Congratulations to all the winners. Would have liked to be there myself to congratulate them all, but this will have to do. CONGRATULATIONS!!! --The Sigil

As far as Strength goes, don't forget: 1 - Halflings are the size of (roughly) a 5-year old human child... and they only get a -2. 2 - Square-cube law. Kids are on the "good side" of it. I am six feet tall and about 270 lbs. My son (who is four years old) is about half my height...

I'll try to give my opinions on stuff by pulling a Gandalf - "I am Saruman - or rather, Saruman as he should have been." I'll list the WotC Product that I feel has a much better third-party replacement(s) and then follow it with the third-party products that are what WotC's product should have...

Shameless link: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=134&src=EnWorld - 144 pages of Bardy Goodness. And if money's an issue, look at the free demo (a complete work in and of itself, this is actually the "old, unrevised" version of the above)...

LINK: http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/d20Guidev5.rtf The section you're looking for (on page 10 in my window): Is that what you were looking for? --The Sigil

And Ennie-nominated, at that! :) Myself, I prefer the free-form structure for advanced players, but when I'm DMing with newer players (as seems to often be the case; I'm a 20+ year vet DM who has almost never had a group with more than half non-newbs), I prefer Class & Level. Class & Level is...

Which is one of the reasons I'm refraining from making mention of - or even hinting at where to find - the channel I'm thinking of in my posts. You know, "the knowledge of sin tempteth to commission" and all that. ;) --The Sigil

While I don't think it is that easy to download any product at any time, there do exist channels out there where you can get very nearly any RPG product - regardless of whether it was ever released in a form other than hard copy - for download within 72 hours. That's not quite "any product at...

Ah, but the point of copyright is not to enrich the creator, but to enrich the public. As it is set up now, the creator gets 99.99% of the benefit. I don't think that's equitable. I may agree with you that Britney Spears' stuff will be worthless in 15 years. If so, why are we giving record...

Only a Sith deals in absolutes! :) --The Sigil

Not really. In the second half, the "little guy" is the "guy sharing on the internet" - that's publishing a work (small-scale). :) Sorry, I didn't mean it to be loaded... perhaps I should say, "the big fish and the little fish." I just thought of "Shark" when I thought of "animal that eats...

I'm not sure what the alternative is. I know the current system is horribly broken, however, and that something needs to change. I personally think copyright law - at least in its present incarnation - is unworkable. From my vantage point, there are four major changes that can be made to make...

Here's one of the quirks I find amusing about copyright in its current incarnation: Copyright was originally created to protect "the little guy" - a writer/publisher - from the "piratical booksellers" - the big corporate conglomerates that would get a copy of his work and then reprint it en...

"For most of human history, we have not had copyright, and art has still been generated, and powerfully so." And the "counter-counter-argument" to this goes, "that's because they had patrons." And thus art is monopolized by the rich and only generated through their largesse; there is no way...

From the beginning, it has been noted that "copyright" is a form of abridgement of "Free Speech." As to whether it is wrong an unethical to make that "property"... a tough call. I'll go with MacAuley (again)... I have to agree in that I am willing to submit to some form of copyright in order...

Best point in the theft/copyright infringement battle I've seen in a LONG time (here and elsewhere). Mind if I file that away for future use? And may I reproduce it? --The Sigil

I should note one other thing. There's a reason I've tried to steer clear of the "theft/infringement" debate here (which goes back and forth, etc.). I think it's because of the way I look at problems. When there is a problem, we resort to the six basic questions: Who? What? Where? How...

Actually, I can think of one great example off the top of my head that survives in copyright law today... the advent of player pianos. Old technology: a musician playing sheet music on a piano. New technology: a piano playing itself thanks to a "digital translation" of the music (as expressed...