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Well, the use of 'sharing' and repeated use of the word 'labor' seems very suggestive. And I only ask not to label, but if you are a strong believer in socialism, there are axiomatic differences between us that pretty much render conversation on this topic impossible.

Actually, it is possible to have a system rely on Rule 0 and be functionally useful. Such a system sells itself by being a coherent, useful core that can be modified and toggled in countless ways to suit whatever game you want to run. Some people claim that was a strength of 1e. A good example...

Let me guess, Xechnao; you're a socialist?

I'm talking about ideas people would pay for. Like inventions. Or a cool song. If I come up with a nifty song and jot it down on a piece of paper, nobody's paying me based on the cost of paper and ink. They are paying for the idea that just happens to be rendered in paper and ink. If someone...

I suspect most people arguing 'knowledge should be free' are folks who never came up with an idea anyone else would pay for. I mean, as it is, the gaming industry suffers because ideas are paid for so poorly that everyone who gets a chance goes to some other creative endeavor that actually pays...

Personally, I find settings where 'the goblins are innately evil and nasty and so we are justified doing anything to them' a lot creepier than 'the goblins want our land, we want their land, no compromise has ever worked, so it's all-out war.'

Oh cool! Can I borrow your magical 'what if' machine and see what life would be like if I had married Angelina Jolie??

I am taking a very liberal view of 'like' in this usage. :) Actually, if 4e skill challenges pan out, it'd be VERY interesting to try a more truly Gandhi-like character -- one who does fight true evil (like undead, no reasoning there), but among sentient creatures is a true pacifist and...

Actually, Gandhi-like character would be awesome. Monk, vow of poverty (let's pretend it's not horribly broken), vow of peace (ditto), always does non-lethal damage (barring undead and constructs, which I'm guessing a pacifist probably would have no problem dispatching, assuming there aren't...

Re: Spellclerics: Great to hear, thanks!

I will be VERY disappointed if the nonmelee cleric isn't viable in 4e. Very very very disappointed. One of the things I loved about Complete Divine and Complete Warrior was that it gave clerics a little more ability to be meaningfully diverse. Couple that with cloistered cleric, and you could...

Here are some supernatural auras: Aura of Menace (Su): A righteous aura surrounds archons that fight or get angry. Any hostile creature within a 20-foot radius of an archon must succeed on a Will save to resist its effects. The save DC varies with the type of archon, is Charisma-based, and...

A friend of mine made this really cool lifepath generator for a Trav-inspired scifi game. The thing that's nice about Lifepath systems is that they, ideally, really inspire you to sew together events. For example, my main character was a scientist, so I was rolling to get into a good school...

Undead often have absurdly high HD, particularly once you get past CR 5. It's one of the annoying things about turn undead, too, since the ability craps out once you start facing things like Drowned. The problem is, of course, that undead HD are pretty anemic, so you have to pile them on to be...

I dunno, maybe a lot of people find watching spin cycle fascinating.

Yeah, but how often is the party killing nonevil/sentient enemies? I'm in a gestalt TT game playing a paladin/Monte Cook variant bard. (DM waived bard alignment restrictions on ground that the combination sounded cool/sensible) The Monte Cook bard folds bardic music/spellcasting into 'songs,'...

<X kills elves.> "Ok, Joe, half of your body dies." 'Which half?' "Every other cell." '... Crap.'

Well, it's also pretty incorrect; in pitch darkness, the human eye can see a candle several miles away. Now, in anything but pitch darkness, I actually agree with the RCRAW; if there are shadows and flickering lights in various places, or motes reflecting in the distance, you may very well not...

I threw a drowned against two PCs, level 9 and 11, wondering how bad it'd get... Yeah, one was a monk/cleric with Water Breathing prepped. BOOM. The drowned lasted 5 rounds.

Description of the ability says 'A drowned gives off a 30' radius emanation of suffocating drowning' Looking at some other supernatural abilities (winterwight cold aura, for example), I'm pretty sure the usage of 'aura' corresponds to a constant area effect. That is, I think the intent and...