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I have to agree here. Have you looked at a 17- or 18-year-old lately (and I don't mean the "teenage amateur internet models" variety)? I teach a class of high school students - ages 14 to 18 - every morning, and Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint would fit right in with them...

Don't have any spare cash for donations right this second, but I'll throw some prize packages into the pot... five donators (selected at random by the staff of d20 Magazine Rack and PMed to me) will receive a set of "every work I've published to date through S.T. Cooley Publishing." That would...

Seconded. Any chance some nice FFG rep can poke his head in here and make this happen? ;)

50%, tops. Let's do a little math here... it has been stated here on ENWorld several times that, in general, a publisher can expect to see about 25% of the MSRP of a book. For a $30 book, then, the publisher expects to see about $7.50... the rest is eaten up by retailers and distributors...

Depends on who you believe. The official Star Wars site says that it does in fact disappear. http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/darthvader/ "He then died, his body disappearing into the light side of the Force. Luke burned the dark armor that had encased Anakin's crippled body in a...

Heh... I got my degree in Physics at UC Irvine... so naturally, I work in the business insurance industry. ;) (Hey, it pays the bills and feeds my kids). --The Sigil

This is likely to be as good a fit as any. The system I used in Buy the Numbers was done in increments of 5 XP and so will not track perfectly with a curve, but was meant to be an exponentially increasing system of cost - which means a natural log function (as provided above) should work nicely...

Holy freakin' crap, Mark, that is the funniest thing I have seen all month. "Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky" (sp?) redone as the Open Gaming License song. Brilliant! I was reading that in Tom Lehrer's affected Russian accent and it was hi-frickin-larious. :) --The Sigil

Hey, Ari, you want Basic, just check my .sig! ;) Seriously, the person I would love to see write an "Alternate Players Handbook" would be... Kevin Siembieda. The guy's a great idea guy, but the mechanics of his system (Palladium) are a bit kludgy... just get Kevin to crank out the ideas and...

An orc and a pie, on the other hand... ;)

Saw this link today, and it made me think of Hal... http://www.oudaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/08/42560662046e5?in_archive=1 Then I thought to myself, what holidays do you have in YOUR game worlds that might be similarly oddball? I could tell you about playing in one campaign world...

Yoink! (Well, pay & download). I've actually gotten quite a few GR titles in PDF (I love PDFs, if you can't tell) as well as print (though admittedly I've slowed my print purchases now that I can find some stuff in PDF; I'll take PDF over print any day). Any chance of seeing M&M come to PDF...

e-Alchemy by Bastion Press is free... and their "Alchemy & Herbalists" book (which is now, sadly, out of print if I'm not mistaken). Occult Lore (you should be able to find a PDF at rpgnow.com) has some stuff as well. I know there are more sources out there, but can't think of any off hand...

Here's what Bill Coffin thinks of the Palladium situation, for those who care (have it bookmarked, I do, because it's a hella funny read, true or not). http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?p=1445566 --The Sigil

LOL... I didn't have my ring of fire resistance on, just was under the effect of a "Internet Blindness/Deafness" spell due to being busy at work. True that an OGL work can contain XP charts. I do not believe I reproduced the actual 3/3.5e experience chart in it, however (going off memory)...

Warning: self-promotion follows Try "The Burning Sage's Demesne" - PDF, for 4th level characters, and can't beat the price (free). Link: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=782&src=EnWorld Originally written for Eric Noah's Adventure Contest (and a winner, to boot!) Try it, I...

The spreadsheets are REAL simple, hopefully they won't make you too allergic; they basically just "do the math" presented for you. As to alchemy, have a cut & paste... from the book... I won't claim to have the "perfect" economic system for 3e (I doubt such a thing exists), but I at least...

*chuckles* Don't feel bad about responding. Just because I "got published" (yeah, in a self-published PDF, big deal ;)) doesn't mean I'm perfect. Rather than respond to the points you outlined (I agree with some of them, in fact, but when I wrote my book I didn't want to deviate too far from...

Besides, altering material costs to fit the (realistic?) economy of your world - even only in specific areas due to scarcity - is trivially easy for a GM to do. Just change the materials cost on the spreadsheet and the result will pop out adjusted for this. --The Sigil

Of course. I'll give you a rough idea of time required, too. Time is now 13:14 by my watch. Pine has a craft DC modifier of +0, and a progress check of -1 (pine is a bit difficult to work with due to its tendency to splinter). Cost is 4 sp per pound. It has a weight factor of 3/5 wood. So...