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I admit to not being a great fan of some of the Quintessential series, but of course I wasn't much of a fan of a number of WoTC spaltbooks either. Within the last few years, Mongoose has become a great game company that produces excellent RPing game materials. Conan D20, Runquest, Elric...

Strength bonus to hit represents brawn pounding through someone's defenses. Getting rid of that would be ridiculous. A powerful warrior raining blows down on someone struggling to maintain their defenses because of the force of the blows is completely believable. Strength matters and D&D needs...

Good luck man. :) With the coming of 4e, due to what I have been hearing until the recent Mearls' interview regarding non-combat related RPing, I have much more fallen into line with the 4e doubters. I am looking forward to folks like you, Paizo, Green Ronin, Mongoose, Paradigm and others...

The similarities I am referring to are martial, not that they are both aescetic, spiritual archetypes. Wyrmshadows

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There is absolutely no connection between the medieval Christian monk and the Shou Lin monk upon whose archetype the D&D monk is built. Friar Tuck of Robin Hood fame would not be a monk just because he fights with a staff. He would be a monastic cleric in the Western mold. I am saying this...

Though fantasy is by its nature somewhat fantastic, there is one striking similarity between reality and fantasy fiction and that is people die and, sometimes at least, death is permanent. With death or any other sort of unique situation (read: every encounter) that involves serious...

You have to be able to see the difference between someone retaking a driving test and let's say a police officer entering a house containing armed criminals. In the former the "reset" button is in taking a new test, its the same test when it comes to the questions and required answers, but time...

After some thought, I have to say that I too am rather disturbed by the player's audacity to say that he might quit playing if he is forced to create another character. If the DM is playing fair, even hard but fair, and the player feels this way, maybe he needs to find a new hobby. This is...

Well I think that I can live without save or die effects myself, because I, as a storyteller DM, want my players to enjoy the contiunuity of a character over perhaps years of play. However, having said that, the threat of death is a meaningful portion of the drama within a campaign that...

If I may add to this melange of opinion. If dragonborn females suckle their young after their born, or hatch or whatever, then they should have boobs. I don't care if they are repitilian, mammalian or whatnot, the only question is "Do they suckle their young?" If they suckle their young, then...

I agree with you. The problem is that D&D's alignment system is too simplistic and of course cannot possibly grok the complete picture of human ethical/moral systems, however it isn't its mere simplicity that is problematic. I see huge illogical holes in it that make room for silly paradoxical...

I think you are right, but it is quite a thing to conflate the two when D&D has such clear, black and white assumptions about these things. If this were Michael Moorcock's universe I would agree that both law and chaos must be balanced. As it stands now, D&D's alignment system being what it is...

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Allow me to add, in response to a prevalent idea in D&D "morality" that good must be balanced out against evil or it becomes a dangerous force. Nonsense. There is nothing destructive to life about good, there is nothing inherently dangerous about good, their is nothing needlessly cruel about...

My point is that justifying the unjustifiable in the context of a role playing game with moral absolutes should be very difficult, but in D&D it isn't. In fact people think it sensible that paladins and devils go to war against elves who've teamed up with demons because the former team is lawful...

You should realize that Nietzsche would in a high fantasy game like D&D, be LE. He is a proponant of the superman who determines his own morality and is a proponant of a moral darwinism that stands in direct opposition to anything that D&D or any fantasy fiction for that matter would consider...

He can handle anything he wants any way he wants. Read my posts again where I state more tha once that it isn't that law and chaos doesn't work, it is when they are combined with a good and evil axis it becomes unworkable. In Moorcock's universe there is no good and evil axis, there is only law...

I'm not saying that its a supportable belief or an official belief. It's not. If anything the idea that God and Satan are two tides of the same coin or that if you believe in one you must by necessity believe in the other is like a wierd meme among some Christians who never actually examined...