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But then, to quote myself "The Pro-Torrent side will quietly fade away, acting as if anonymous comments on message boards are considered a "counter-culture", when really all it is flies in the soup."

I bow to your knowledge, sir. However, a quick fact-based web-search shows that we're talking about a group that only results in 0.63% of the vote in 2006 and hasn't gained a seat. If the resulting 2009 elections result in a single seat being gained, I would owe you a Coke out of apology for...

You won't find many avowed and experienced criminals espousing the nature of their illicit deeds in any public forum. The Pro-Torrent side will quietly fade away, acting as if anonymous comments on message boards are considered a "counter-culture", when really all it is flies in the soup.

The only way to establish a foothold of D&D, or PnP RPGs in general, in the minds of the younger generation would be to have a mass imprisonment of an entire generation. PnP role-playing games are among the most popular games for the intellectual prison population because the time invested into...

No, you don't. Because every explanation of a magical world is by nature reduced to "A Wizard Did It", not because the so-called perfect simulation of a magical world hasn't been created, but because Intellectually-Derived Magic is the only thing that requires explanation for people not adapted...

"A Wizard Did It" is all the explanation you need for ANYTHING in a magic-based game.

I think what you are trying to create is a solely a simulationist Economy- Plate mail costs what it would cost to make in comparison to a sword, which would cost as much as it would cost in comparison to creating a spear, etc. First of all, you have to assume that Gods or their equivalents do...

I would hope that there would be a 10-20 page Errata for all the phase-one Core books (PHB, DMG, MM) for people who don't want to print up stuff from the internet to use and reference on their off-line table.

Well, that would mean that one choice couldn't be considered overpowered over another (in my own "strictly better" sense) because they are comparible instead of one being the Paragon of Awesome. And anyway, we're really just playing with exactly when the extra feat is overpowered. It isn't...

The problem with killing massive groups of people, even ones that are "(Almost) Always Evil" is that they are not Always Evil to a Fault. Evil characters, even Black Dragons, impact and shape the world around them, commonly in ways that provide stability or limitations on other random or evil...

I think whomever wrote this had very little knowledge of HASBRO's history regarding unprofitable product lines and has not taken into account any number of corner-case issues that the current economy might bring up. 1- HASBRO's response to an unprofitable product line is never to sell...

Deciding not to use Sure Strike as-is and it's companions is the primary reason people find "grinding". Having only attacks that do +bajillion damage but only hits 55% of the time (or worse) is a far worse choice than using an attack that hits 65% of the time and can kill a dude low-HP most of...

Argument by Analogy is a pretty hard sell to a lot of people in the first place, and shouldn't even be used. If we are to say that 3E was a class-based system that contained a multiclassing sub-system that proceeded with point-based system attributes, does that make 3E a Dog, a Cat, a Turtle, a...

Obviously, the land of Valentine's Day is in the Astral Sea, the Dominion of the God Hallmarkius

Well, first, I was using "lying" in the sense in what you were reacting to, not the broad-brush stroke that might get used later in the discussion; specifically, fudging or shafting a use or result of a player's ability. And, in the scheme of things, an ad hoc rules-barrier of Ward Ritual or...

That's only a semantic difference that is derived from timing, not of intent.

To correct you, I assumed that Iron Maidens would be used in stable prison/dungeon environments and fully-enclosed head cages would be used in ad hoc situations such as those you describe, because Head Cages are easier to store/carry or even assemble as needed. That said, I agree that there is...

Is it really "intrusion", considering that the player still has the ability to choose their own action? And further, wouldn't that choice be a greater expression of that player's narrative control, because it shows that the player is acting counter to the implied/gamist correct choice so as to...

Full-enclosed Head-cages, or even Iron Maidens. Historically proven, conceptually strong. Or is this just an exercise in playing contrary?

The true incentive for prolonged haggling sessions is a patient and passive GM- not specifically a bad one, but not one I'd enjoy playing under personally. "Wanna get a better price? Kill my competitors, ya worthless thug, and maybe then I could afford it!" Boom, Adventure, Narrative, and...