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Why not go first? What have you done, and why?

No, sorry, your summary didn't help to clarify. Let's start here: Since he could crash or not crash his castle at any time, why not bring Tiamat about and THEN crash it?

I should have been clearer, sorry: the giant has no motivation that I can understand. It just makes no sense. "In order to have a worthy foe to fight, I am going to temporarily betray my people so we can be a taxi service. But only until I die. If that happens I will crash the taxi service...

We're discussing actual games, though, or so you said. So were you a player or the GM, and how did you handle each situation?

I'm not aware of any actual games fitting your Entitled GM situation, either. So that must make both equally non-existent? Not since 1994 or so, anyway.

I don't know of any actual games, but have seen actual forum posts complaining about exactly your example - the GM creating his own NPCs instead of using only the ones in the book.

This dichotomy seems a bit lopsided. Wouldn't the proper opposite to 'Entitled GM' be 'Entitled Players' where it's the Players' world and their characters' story to which the GM is graciously permitted to enslave himself? Why are you comparing the extreme to the middle ground?

Those are the biggest issues I recall from my own list, too. Though I would add that the time spent in the caravan should add more familiarity with the NPCs, and there's no motivation for the giant to let them use his castle.

This makes the biggest problem faced by the Terminator story worse: paradoxes. See this 'setting' seems to employ paradoxes when they help the story and ignore them when they don't. So if Sarah was now raised by 'Pops', she probably knows all about Skynet, etc. And as we all recall Sarah is a...

It also bears noting that the stats only matter if she absolutely must succeed at the skill/attribute checks. And that's as much a function of adventure design as it is anything else.

Kind of like the laser weapons, I imagine. "If the DM allows it, here are some rules for it."

For sure, but I was rebutting the idea that people only wanted a subscription, or that WotC would only release it, or whatever slippery slope that was. I think loads of people would use a free tool, just like loads of people have downloaded Basic.

Wouldn't you also use zero-dollar tools, if they sought to offer those?

You said it wasn't possible because of the level of change towards the end of release. That was the 'intent' of your statement, to say it was 'too hard' as to be 'impossible'. Do you or do you not still feel the level of change towards the end of release made it impossible? And you still have...

Here's the standard you set: You never said it couldn't be 'butt ugly' or that descriptive text was required. You also haven't demonstrated how ugliness or descriptive text creates additional barriers that would be exacerbated by last minute changes to the PHB. It's free. Why pay for free...

Then how did http://pathguy.com/ddnext.htm manage to do it? I realize there would have been a need for a patch, and possibly a downtime, somewhere after release, but dead-tree books are much more difficult to change than electronic resources. HotDQ went to print early enough to hit shelves...

Well, considering the alternatives seem to have been: A) Let the deadlines slip, therefore releasing nothing. B) Release an unfinished product with the promise you'll fix it later. C) End the exclusivity and compete against yourself. ...and that's about all I can imagine. If you're seeing a...

I didn't get the impression that this was the case, otherwise I wouldn't have said anything. These two stand in contrast to each other. On the one hand, there's the call for maturity, and on the next the statement that the topic isn't that important. The first one cuts both ways, though...

This may be true, but it IS appealing. I mean, I can't live in that world, but if a forum member is genuinely in a place where the whole system 'fits' and there's no whiff of metagame, who am I to mess that up? It's a bit like telling kids there's no such thing as Santa. Why would you do...

I agree. Telling the truth is very much underrated these days. This, however, I cannot agree with, because killing a project is hardly a dysfunctional thing to do.