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Lorefinder?... I need to look that up, thanks! The Auld Grump

Not at the cost of verisimilitude. Not at the cost of things that make a game more believable and fun for the other players, including the GM. The GM is responsible for the setting. What classes/races/feats are available is part of that responsibility. I would boot that player in a New York...

Wrong, actually, by their own statements they have decided that they need to address the OGL/GSL issue. They have acknowledged that problem. The question is whether the method that they use to address it is any better than the stinking pile that was the GSL. * "We'll have more information on...

Exactly. Carrion Crown would also be fun in a Victorian style setting, most likely in Bavaria or the like. The Auld Grump

DM "Bye bye, we already filled your seat." If you have a player making demands that don't fit the game and would rather play WoW than follow the guidelines? Let him go, he is not worth the trouble. The Auld Grump Dragonborn are 'kewl' not 'cool'. :p The

Hmmm, a list.... Wilderness Survival Guide - I wish that the 3.5 terrain books had been half as useful. A Mighty Fortress - paralleled with my homebrew setting, was used more often in 3.X than 2e. Heroes of Battle - one of the few books that I can honestly point to and say 'that book changed...

Heh, the only screen that I haven't had that problem with was the Scarred Lands screen for 3e... because it had a page number next to the the rule for reference... why that made it more likely for me to look... maybe in my head it was linked as an index? The Auld Grump

I run Spycraft, which uses a similar system of Stamina and Wounds. Works for me. The Auld Grump

I think, if anything, your descriptions are worse. :( Not all 'thinking' is combat focused. Power gaming is not the same as strategist. So, I will revert to the terminology that I prefer. I have dominant elements of character actor and storyteller. A good deal of thinker, and little if any...

I was upset about 4e (still am, for that matter). But Pathfinder came out, I switched, and continued on running my games, happy that the game that the 3.X architecture would continue. So, not upset at all about 5e - at the very worst it leaves me in the same position as 4e, happily running...

For the fans, yes, but apparently at least some folks at WotC were surprised when 3PP did not jump on board with the GSL - and for the 3PP, who made 3.X as popular as it was , the GSL was the poison pill. I have many times the 3PP material than I do WotC - but bought WotC material to support...

No skills or having 4e style skills = no sale. Simple math in my case. It was one of the many choking points that I had with 4e, and with Castles & Crusades, for that matter. Not that it matters, my hopes are kind of low at this point regarding 5e. I will hope to be wrong, but then one of the...

A quick comparison on the above - 3.X has OGL, sells very well. 4e has GSL, sales poor enough that WotC began talking internally about 5e in 2010.... So, yes, the OGL does make a difference. The Auld Grump

I run Pathfinder, and I already have more players, and folks that want to be players, than I have room for. I am currently running two games a week (more accurately, I have three campaigns, one of Spycraft, the rest Pathfinder, with two alternating weeks and the third (Pathfinder) game weekly)...

A profit, certainly. 50 - 100 million? Not likely. Rather than expanding the market with 4e WotC instead split the market. Not good, not good at all. :( I think that 5e is an attempt to regain lost ground rather than trying to grab the brass ring. That they are not trying to reach $50 Million...

Not... easily. :erm: Adamant did a version of the scaling NPC system, let me take a quick look.... Foe Factory - Here - might be easier than trying to convert from Fantasy Craft. I can tell you that trying to do the state of Florida as a sandbox for Fallout would not have been possible without...

How do I like my elves? Covered in bees! The Auld Grump

A restoration or destruction of faith? No. I will admit to a certain level of vindictive satisfaction, was glad to see word of an open playtest.... But my faith in WotC has already been pretty much destroyed, and I will not put much credence in the open Beta until I see it - I remember the...

Yes. 4e as 4e? Maybe. 4e as D&D? No. Most folks, outside of places hidden in the darkest corners of the interweb, do not call 4e 4e, they call it D&D. The folks that call 4e by that name likely are aware of both games. So it is only folks in a bookstore/gamestore/etc. that are likely to look at...

Read what I said again. I did not make a statement about setting, I made a statement about fiction used in the place of setting material. And that I would rather know the hows and whys of a setting than have bits of fiction. That is not setting light, it is wanting to look at the parts that...