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Sorry, it's not clear to me... what exactly are you asking is OGC in terms of the products? BESMd20? SASd20? Presumably it's not M&M. Like I said, I've got the Stingy Gamer's edition of both of them so it's easy enough to pull what exactly is OGC. Chapter 2 is declared as OGC for SASd20 by not...

Heh. I do tend to go on at times. :) Since I've the luxury of time at the moment, I'll go ahead and address your points... Rule Zero is a surprisingly contentious thing. How a person deals with it is... *shrug*... well, personal. I won't expound really on this other than noting your point. I...

No offense, but I'll disagree. Popular convention is that people expect/demand that a point system be absolute. There is no actual requirement that it be so, simply that the audience be informed as to the nature of the point system in the first place. BESMd20 does so. The fact that D&D/d20 fans...

Standardized rules? Sort of. You can look at "Craft Points" in the d20 online SRD; they're a variant set of rules from WotC's Unearthed Arcana. You can find them here: Craft Points :: d20srd.org The rules for crafting are here: Craft :: d20srd.org Crafting in 3.x in general seems to be a...

Wu Xing: The Ninja Crusade - Third Eye Games | RPGNow.com Looks like it's got some potential. Finding a good kung-fu/anime game is surprisingly difficult, as they're either too rulesy (Exalted, Anima) or they're loose enough in how they're set up that I can use one of my already existing...

I have some experience in running a BESMd20-derived game; I've pimped the game before (Everstone) as a solid enough game, despite being a bit "rough" in some places. It really depends on what you're after though, as to how much if any help or suggestions I could give. To be perfectly honest...

The Stingy Gamer Edition _looks_ like it's up to date, but I do see an error on the Halfling race cost in my SGE; it still lists the Halfling cost as "1", but the Halfling cost in the 3.5 update is listed as 6 points. SGE and the Anime SRD both list it as 1. It looks like the Update is...

So someone left the comment: Discussing player styles _can_ be useful. The problem is that it doesn't ever actually stop at discussing; you get this thread. Arguing. The difference between a discussion and an argument being defined by me as "A discussion is an exchange of ideas. Additionally...

In case people are trying to figure out what it is that he linked to, it's "A quick primer for Old School gaming". I have no comment about the article itself because I think arguing about playstyles is about as useful as arguing whether chocolate or strawberry is a better flavour. *shrug* YMMV

"Important" in the sense that "if you don't have access to the internet or an internet connection, we don't care if you play our game or get involved in the hobby or not." I had a longer reply prepared, but... I'm actually just going to step out of this thread. I can't see having anything to...

I've used: L7EXMRMF7K9K Thanks and I'll check it out.

I've used: LYA9HJAFNE4F I'll check it out too. Disappointing to hear that it doesn't actually include everything advertised, but I'll reserve overall judgment until I've gone through the whole thing.

I'm a bit ambivalent myself. It means that if you don't have easy access to the internet, you're basically not important. That's also an evolving fact of life, but it irks me when the hobby moves that way. Especially given that NZ for example has internet caps on everything. That just ups the...

While this can work for some people and some groups, it's definitely not what I'm talking about. For one thing, this falls into the category of the GM screwing the players. D&D is already littered with decades of this. For another thing, I personally don't happen to like being dishonest with my...

One thing that makes this entire conversation difficult is "who's the target market for D&D?" See, WotC has used the number "6 million" for the number of D&D players. It's not been specified which edition that is, but WotC did use 6 million as part of its legal proceedings against the file...

Heh. This is something else I've noticed... lots of folks seem to run the "average" HP given as the straight up number of HP. But... it _is_ listed as a dice range, so there's nothing really stopping a GM from darn near doubling the HP or halving it for that matter. Interestingly, lots of...

Hmmmm. So the problem I see is that this then means that Pathfinder has been designed with the _explicit_ expectation that everyone is a character optimizer. Because if they're not, you've just severely increased the amount of time that non-optimizers are going to be spending in combat, as...

This is sort of what I'm getting at. I like the idea of players _getting_ a specific benefit. Preferably one that's strong. That's part of the reason _why_ cursed objects are able to keep claiming people in the first place; they offer power and people think they'll be able to use it and escape...

In my opinion, bumping monsters HP up because you've powered up clases is stupid. Period. Hit points, AC, DR... these are things that increase the length of time in combat; damage output etc lowers combat time. This means that classes _shouldn't_ have gotten a power bump in the first place. If...

I guess vaguely it might be... but not really. At least, not more than Action Points are. If it helps you picture/understand what I'm describing better, think of it as a magic item giving an enhanced Action Point or two for each plus of the item. Ok, now this right here? This is the sort of...