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Haven't read the others, but to be honest I was dissapointed (the opinion on RPG.net is downright scathing, which might be a bit much, but still). For what it's worth - I've bought it on this board's recommendation, and have never used it - I use the Internet and my library for my research...

Well, it's more like $20,000 and everything you know about computers, really :-p Seriously though, I now have a 17th leve wizard and unless you gave him something that made the XP cost irrelevant (scroll of wish, etc.) - he wouldn't do it. There are more important things for him to spend his...

It's bordering on not being d20 anymore. Switch to 2d10 and you will have something like the 2d10 system I'm making (which, oddly, I'm designing to allow the swappage of attributes, the modern version will roll strength and constitution into the same stat, because they both lose importance with...

I roll as part of a house rule. I do, however, make sure they will not outshine the players in this regard (they might at low levels though). Gaining advancement HD is just fine - in fact better - than ditching companions, for both roleplaying purposes and it is in fact less powerful than...

Different metals have different affinities for magnatism. Iron is the strongest in this regard, followed by nickel. Other metals can be made into magnets or controlled magnetically (well, anything can) but this takes an immense amount of energy. For rust monsters, I just say they perform...

They worshipped the gods to placate the forces of nature and humanity that they represented. The Greeks fell away from this over time, slowly turning to a kind of atheism in a manner which some have paralleled to modern times, but I digress. The Romans and Hindus performed these rituals to the...

Well, I see there was an original point about members of godless religions not having (ahem) kewl powerz which is what I was originally argueing against, but noone has responded to the last posts I made on that subject.

Bottom 5% would have an int of 5 or lower (and are generally the really unfortunate people in our society that I wonder how many on these boards have gotten to know, reading this thread.) Which would raise the 'average' to about 11 rather than 10.5.

80% of the population thinks they are in the 60-80th percentile in many things (driving, intelligence...) What was funny, is that the people who were in the bottom third were the ones driving it up, despite people in the top sixth thinking they were merely average. As I've mentioned before...

The no edged weapons was from Egypt, I believe (Amenhotep forbid the use of edged weapons. Preisthood didn't like him and made sure his son, Tutenkhamen, didn't get so far). Those flails often death death with very pointy parts. But there is no hard line rule that says the cleric class must...

I believe it's supposed to reflect the 'holy warrior' ideal. Which made me wonder about Paladins after Skills and Powers in 2e, but that's a digression. Non-proselytize religions tend to have utterly seperate warrior and 'priestly' castes, as in Hinduism and ancient Persian faith, I believe...

Ever heard of the Dalai Lama? Or a Buddhist Monk? Serving in something called a Pagoda? There are frequent walking on water legends (My favourite though is: Monk1: I've done it. For fifteen years, I have tried and failed, but yesterday I managed to walk on water. Monk2: You moron, you've...

Greatswords are 15 lbs, historically they were about 8-10 lbs though there is a claymore from the ~8th century that weighed 15 pounds. D&D has been improving in this arena, as it is some touching up is all that's needed now (though John Wick defending the longsword weighing 40 pounds and a...

There was a radio guy in WWII who, weighing 135 libs, carried 180 pounds of gear. While a pack is only going to take so much wear period, I imagine 130 pounds of water is not out of the question.

By the way, I'm by no means advocating that these philosophies can allow someone to pick two random domains and ignore the philosophy, either. A boddhistava has still followed the eightfold path (a long way), and though the religion does not have the concept of sin as such, you can lose your...

There is a problem with that view, however. Taoist and Buddhist practicioners frequently end up with kewl powerz in legend. If D&D is supposed to emulate legend, then calling them merely scholars is WestoCentric. If you can tell me how any skill, partial skill, group of skills represents...

There is, naturally, a small difference between your personal spiritual path and one six to seven hundred million people aspire to. :-p

For the record, I dig your new avatar. Please don't go back to your old one :-p

Siddhartha Guatema walked on water too (according to legend) - amongst a large number of other miracles - but he never espoused faith in a god. In fact, when asked whether or not there was a god, he refused to answer, because in knowing the answer you would focus overmuch on it and risk losing...

You are dismissing their faith as mere knowledge of the mortal realm. Just because Buddhism, Taoism, Confucionism and others (including some forms of early Christianity) have no 'god' does not mean that they aren't spiritual - it's just that the existance or nonexistance of such a god is...