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I'm glad that the plan is to get around to d20 Moderner eventually. A lot of the changes previewed in SW Saga and D&D 4.0 seem like they'd be good fits. And Vig can do "Blood & Fists: Reninjad" and take some more of my money.

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Hey! Just checked your blog not ten minutes ago, Core. Yeah, CD, I understand that you don't think the OGL applies to you, or you don't need it, or whatever. So what are you waiting for? Finish that baby up and get it out there! If you get sued, you can just print out this thread and...

People always stop and look at a train wreck, CD. To restate my previous point . . . as an attorney, I think the issue here is not whether your interpretation of IP/copyright law is correct...it's whether it makes more sense to use the OGL or to risk legal action which will be a massive...

On the other hand.... I have often wanted to roleplay a fight between a microscopic organism and a planet. Tell me more of these rules, that my gaming experience might be enriched!

Hey, law stuff! I'm a lawyer! And here's what I tell folks every time this sort of talk starts up: Don't worry about whether you think you are ultimately acting within the law. Worry about what you are actually going to do when you get that cease-and-desist, and then get served with a...

Bingo. Don't turn a game into bookkeeping. We never see Mal sit down and balance the checkbook, so don't make the players do the same. If they pull off a job, the ship keeps flying and presumably Jayne sends some money to Mom and Kaylee buys some batteries and Wash and Zoe sock some money...

I hate to burn skill points on something like this, so I'd do it as a feat. Call it something like "Trick Shot" and give a +4 with ranged weapons when trying to do something other than inflict direct damage. Nice character concept. I've always liked the idea of a super-skilled shooter who...

Barsoomcore, my imaginary friend from the Interweb. Vigilance, so we can talk about old-school martial arts comics and such.

I see your point, but there's this scene from "The Hills of the Dead" that gets me every time: "Mighty men, we be!" declared N'Longa with deep approval. "Vampire city be silent now, sure 'nough! No walking dead man live along these hills." "I do not understand," said Kane, resting chin on...

I think these guys just might be the PCs from my next one-shot.

Interesting. I think the skill benefits are a good angle --- new class skills a la Blood & Fists for d20 Modern don't work as well in True 20, with the smaller skill list. I tried to stat up some martial arts fighters using True 20, and found that there just weren't enough feats to work with...

My point is that the d20/OGL licenses allow WotC to maintain some control over its rules set without getting into a lot of legal wrangling over how closely someone else is copying their IP. It also lets 3rd party publishers use the D&D rules without going through the hassle of rewording every...

Your honeyed words give me pause, sir. To answer Ulric's question: I don't know if WotC would ever try to put the genie back in the bottle, so to speak, or whether they could if they tried (practically speaking; or even from a legal standpoint, since it's questionable whether you can copyright...

I'm not. What are we supposed to be mad about? "Dragon" and "Dungeon" getting canceled?

Granted, some campaigns and genres will demand a high-resolution skill system, but Star Wars probably isn't one of them. Y'know what bothers me? An infinite number of Craft and Profession skills...Craft (droids) and Craft (lightsabers) and Craft (starship)....I prefer d20 Modern's system of...

I had a player in early 2nd Edition play a cambion fighter who aspired to paladinhood, and eventually achieved it, using a wish. Good times, being fifteen and nerdy....

I assume you have "Dragonmarked"? An awful lot of good stuff for folks with aberrant dragonmarks. Keith Baker wrote a great article for Dragon a few months back dealing with "dragonmarked sorcerers", who either (a) manifest dragonmark-like markings and have a spell list consistent with the...

Certainly, there are a lot of pulp / cinematic genres where that's the norm for the heroes. With James Bond, perhaps it's more a matter of "this guy is the best of the best of the best", while in Star Wars, I see it more as the universe gettting out of the way so the Hero can achieve his...

I'm liking all of these changes. Of course Star Wars heroes have a decent shot at defusing a bomb. One lucky shot by a farmboy blows up the Death Star and you think the bombs are going to be hero-proof? No, sir. Now, to get to that bomb, you will have a lot of people shoot at you and miss...