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I have no argument with your analysis of the game balance of the spell. But I was arguing rules interpretation, not game design, in that post.

That thread was either before my time at ENWorld or out of my ken. Without rehashing that issue, I don't think it's facially unreasonable to use any of the following: 1) The blindness lasts for the duration of the spell. As I noted, I think this is the strongest interpretation. As you noted...

Since Sunbeam has a duration, it would certainly be a supportable ruling that the blindness lasts only for that duration or until dispelled. I don't see anything in the description that indicates that the blindness is either Permanent or Instantaneous.

That was a really good encounter in which to be a flying warlock with Voracious Dispelling. 8-)

Those aren't dire rats, they are Rodents of Unusual Size (ROUSs). I assume that reports of flame spurts and lightning sand are just awaiting publication. (Juried articles can be a bit slow to appear.)

Fleeing from the Zykon tyranny the last battlejunk leads a rag-tag, fugitive fleet on a lonely quest. A shining colony known as ....

Monks had a similar restriction at one point -- at higher levels, there could be only one of each level in the world. I wouldn't characterize that as "wrong", but it unnecessarily restricts a DM's ability to tailor his world's society without using house rules.

The Wedding Clearly, it's Vaarsuvius and .... "Shhhhh." Oops, sorry.

You're not wrong to have a world that reacts in horror to the sort of freak-show PCs you describe. You would also not be wrong to require that all the players play itinerant outcasts from a gnomish monastery. (Which, come to think of it.... 8-) That said, if you are going to be running a...

Nope; "malodorous". And the plural of "malodorous" is "convention".

Since your description doesn't indicate that there is any link between traps, I'd treat it as multiple EL1 encounters. The players can choose to stop their interaction at any time and walk away at will, so mere physical proximity doesn't make that a single encounter, IMO. FWIW, I will...

I wish I had a hat of d02. It would go so perfectly with my penny loafers. I'd probably want one with limits though; my ego is large, but not unbounded. 8-)

Two miles per hour is a really low average speed. The top speed of a good first rate ship of the line (the biggest sorts of ships during the Napoleonic period) was about 10 knots (11.5 mph). Clipper ships are recorded as having gone up to 20 knots over long distances. Without considering...

I was in one of my local gaming stores yesterday and they had a special "What was WotC thinking sale" on this book -- 30% off already. I looked at it and decided that 30% off wasn't enough.

No argument there; the ends of fads can be particularly painful. If you keep making the wrong decisions, there's not much you can do. But not selling merchandise doesn't do much for the bottom line either.

A simplified practical example: Let's say you have $1000 (MSRP) of dead stock. For the purpose of this example, we will assume that the dead stock will sell through in 2 years. (In many cases, this is wildly optimistic.) So, after two years, if you don't reinvest the money, or use it for...

Judges Guild. It was one of their better modules, too.

If you have more than one version of Wilderlands, does your vote count twice? 8-)

I don't have the numbers for 6d6 keep three best, but here are the probabilities that a particular number will be rolled in a single instance for 4d6 and 5d6: 4d6 3 0.077160% 4 0.308642% 5 0.771605% 6 1.620370% 7 2.932099% 8 4.783951% 9 7.021605% 10 9.413580% 11 11.419753% 12...

From the Dungeons section of the Hypertext d20 SRD: "Like traps, dangerous slimes and molds have CRs, and characters earn XP for encountering them." Note that this experience would be split evenly by the group if you are using the standard experience rules.