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UOTE=BryonD;5603832]Certainly, and I didn't suggest they should cater to "gronards". But not recognizing the difference between prospective new players and going for the public at large was a big mistake. Toh-may-toe, toe-mah-to. I think that you're conflating 3.x grognards with the gaming...

Hum. Paizo certainly didn't "Care" enough about the legacy of D&D to fix the crippling flaws in 3.X. They didn't even bother to do something simple and critically important like fix the saving throw ratios, much less repair the crippling of the warrior types and the overpowering of...

in 3.X Locate Object or Person would be FINE...if the kidnappers decided to hide out 800 feet or less away. Likewise Clairvoyance would be excellent...IF the location of the item was known. Y'know, these aren't exactly the best criticisms, here. :p FWIW, in 4E there's a variety of divination...

to each Or at least terminally gauche. Of all the devils, I can see the leaders of the succubi conspiring as much for the thrill of it a for any advantage. They probably also get together and broad each other's hair, while saying really cutting and bitchy things to each other.

I don't think the unintelligent monsters would last very long in the city very long without being discovered- especially creatures like slimes or lurkers above. I would vote for creatures that can at least part of the time appear human, such as kitsune, tanuki, obakenekko, tengu, raksasha and...

I agree that allowing players to talk their way past obstacles is anathema to D&D the way it is played. Trying to persuade NPCs leads to amateur thespianism, which leads to men wearing mascara and wearing black trenchcoats in summer. Fortunately, this is an easy problem to solve; just have NPCs...

While my actual plans for D&D are secret, I think we all can agree on the following: 1. The core rules should be distributed for free: in the Brave New World of Net 2.0 there's no excuse for charging money for a product, no m atter howe much time or parolee have been involved. In fact, WOTC...

As far as different old-school play styles go... " never mind searching for an entrance, I'm going to have my Type VI demon will just dig through the side of the mound." "I'll have my pet bronze dragon help!" Damn munchkins. And then there was the plane-traveling group of Arduin characters...

I have a fondness for fast, smart bricks. I like being able to grab the enemy, jump straight up, at the top of my arc throw the villain upwards, land, and then wait for the baddy to land on my haymaker. And then watch as the gm sadly starts totalling up the damage I did to his supposedly "super...

Here's what we get when we take a Traveller 2300 alien and replace the word "Kafer" with "Orc": "The nature of Orc intelligence has posed a serious problem for human scholars attempting to understand their behavior. Orcs appear slow-witted, even stupid, at first. Numerous observers have...

Granted I don't have a copy of Mongoose Runequest, but I've got a copy of RQII, and I haven't found the magic rules difficult to understand at all. There's common magic which anyone can buy, spirit binding, and then the special powers and spells of Rune Priests and Rune Lords. It's pretty basic...

I myself think that once a game starts having characters that can destroy cities with a spell, or travel between planes, then reality is pretty much out the window. But it's amazing how people who won't bat an eye at the idea of giant flying birds, or humanoids a hundred feet tall, will suddenly...

I think it might be helpful to go back and consider a couple of fantasy sources in this debate over balance: Let's go back to the source for D&D magic: Spells from Jack Vance's "Dying Earth. This spells are powerful, no doubt, and they don't really follow any rhyme or reason. But they have the...

Why are railroaded games bad and wrong? Because of this account from usennet, the very DEFINITION of a railroaded game. And the sad thing is? I've seen worse.

Totally random character generation? I can't even pick my social background or race? What the hell do you think this is, Warhammer Fantasy Role Playing Game? And I've told you time and time again; rules for guns absolutely destroys game. I mean, look at how many times this "M-16" can fire...

It's a bit of an annoyance to have to rely on "its magic" to explain critters- unfortunately in D&D that's pretty much required for most monsters. In the "hard fantasy" world I'm currently working on, I obey physics as much as possible, and even then I'm having to play fast and loose with the...

No you aren't. Not at all.

Airships will also have a huge economic and social impact, assuming there is nothing like steam rail or telegraph. For a start, compared to overland travel, airship travel is FAST. Primitive airships can go something like 10 kilometers in under 30 minutes; more advanced ones can do the...

After playing 4E for a couple months, I and the rest of the group have been enjoying it quite a bit. The role-playing is good and largely tangental to the system, the only dungeon we've seen was the one we bribed a prisoner out of, and the combat has been fairly minimal. My wife, who...

I haven't had any at all since we fumigated the house. Of course getting the players not to leave food around helped. ...what?