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So the PCs are essentially ta'veren? If I understand you correctly, in a regular game, the world exists, and the PCs interact with it. In a scene-framing game, the PC's actions create the world. Or perhaps a variant of Chekhov's gun. If the PCs choose to interact with something, it is...

I don't think it would go over well. The purpose of Kickstarter is to allow ordinary people to fund the creation of things that the big corporations won't. That are too small, too niche, or too experimental to attract "real" money. D&D, on the other hand, has a corp with "real" money behind...

I feel that this thread would strongly benefit from a very simple example illustrating the two systems.

No problems. But it did look more like theatre than film. It looked more real, but I think my mind identified the "more realness" as watching a theatre production on the stage.

It was good, but it could have been much better. Jackson should have cut ruthlessly. It was a very indulgent movie. The thing is that if he had cut more here, the story would have ended much farther along. Pretty much cut an hour out this movie, and fill it with what will be in the second...

That's a really interesting question. My initial thought is that most people who play clerics are pragmatists. They're choosing to play the cleric so that they can heal the group. They're less concerned with how they heal the group, and more concerned that the group gets healed. I would expect...

What was chosen first? The adventure or the party? If the adventure is chosen first, or predetermined like using an Adventure Path, then I think it's the player's responsibility to make a party that matches that adventure. If they refuse to, maybe throw in an NPC that can take some of the grunt...

I dunno if you have time for it, but the 2003 movie Master and Commander: Far Side of the World (starring Russell Crowe) had a number of these rituals and an interesting look at naval life in the Napoleonic age.

The problem I see with your scenario is that it's always the humans who are the "real" bad guys. Sometimes it's nice to have a race where the monsters are the actual monsters. I say leave the Yuan-Ti as they have traditionally been, and maybe make a new race that works in the inverse manner.

I think the canonical hobbies of this type would be stamp collecting and coin collecting. They're possibly outside the geek nexus because they are much older.

Ravenloft needs to be updated for the new generation. I suggest a Twilight-style sparkly vampire Dark Lord.

One thing about one billion years is that it is a long enough timescale for evolution to really kick in. Other timescales being bandied around, like a hundred thousand, or even one million years, are too short to really see major changes on an evolutionary scale. A billion might be a bit too...

I dunno. It's very common to use the form and layout of a famous painting for parodies. For example, Grant Wood's American Gothic or Edvard Munch's The Scream. To me, this seems very similar to all the works that mimic American Gothic. The only thing might be that the D&D painting might not be...

Most social ranks (that matter) go off birth, and the family one is born into, not so much your current job. A person can move up or down a few ranks (at least in the British-style system), but usually not that much. Another big thing to take into account is marriage. If you have a person of...

Here's another idea: Teleporting is very draining on the caster. For one hour after the teleport, the caster cannot cast spells. This is not swingy, the teleport is reliable, and useful. At the same time, it's not something wizard likes doing, and you certainly don't want to teleport into danger.

I dunno. I really like tightly edited films, that have been cut to the bone, and where no time is wasted. I thought the theatrical releases of LoTR were excellent compared to the extended versions. The extended versions were great fun for fans of the books, but the theatrical versions were...

What about the reverse direction? For example, does Iago bear any responsibility for the actions of Othello?

I think "responsibility" is the wrong word. "Self-interest" would be a better one. On the topic of methods, it seems to me that WotC has been severely hampered by the current situation with the computer game licences. We all remember SSI's gold box games, and Bioware/Interplay's Baldur's Gate...

It's more for the situation when a player cannot make the session that night. And it's more non-combat than combat. High-level casters can compress distance greatly. Like if I build an adventure around scrying, or something which requires magic travel, then if the player who can scry/magic...

I usually DM, and I worry about caster balance. In my experience, the presence/absence of the caster player makes a *massive* difference whether my adventure is viable. If the caster isn't there, suddenly whole swaths of challenges become impossible. If she is there, another huge set of...