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Wooooooo! Jade Empire in the hizzzzzouse! Until BioWare opts to make a p&p RPG from Jade :), I'd suggest one of two or three solutions: - Take a setting that works for you, be it Rokugan or Oriental Adventures or even a setting from a non-d20 source (GURPS has some great setting material)...

As do I. Profoundly, and many.

But by your standards, that is not an objective statement, as I said above. The standards you use for art, when applied to your statement, would result in it failing the objective test. If touch a red-hot heating element made of a material that gets red-hot at 100 degrees, you will not be...

(Note: Referring to the Zen & Motorcycle Maintenance post:) Except that the ability or inability to see certain qualities in a book (character, setting, plot, and voice, to use the four upon which I always harp) is not based on subjective personal taste. It is based on training and study...

Quite the opposite. I believe he's saying that the average person doesn't limit "objective standard" to red hot heating elements and breathing water. When you put that level of limitation on what's discussable, it supports your argument really well, but it also makes it unlikely that anyone else...

Beyond the friendships I've found, it has improved my writing a bunch and gotten me my current job at BioWare.

Responds to the original post with an argument that's been brought up, argued over, broken into countless sub-arguments, and eventually beaten to death over hundreds of posts while casually tossing in an "I didn't read all those posts, because some people don't know how to keep their posts...

Did you play Jade Empire on the Xbox? It's coming out on the PC relatively soon. (I'm at home, and I'm not sure if we're allowed to say exactly when as of yet.) If you played it on the Xbox, you've played it. :) But if you haven't, it's got updated (and pretty rockin') graphics and monsters...

Excellent point, Marlowe. I think what bugged me about some of Merlion's earlier points is that he was saying, "It's all subjective!" with the same finality that, for example, science-doubters say, "But evolution is just a THEORY, not a fact!" Regardless of whether you believe in evolution or...

Cool deal! There are constructs, and you can easily use any of the golems from the D&D monster manual or the SRD, available online at: http://www.d20srd.org/ The core d20 Modern book doesn't have golem templates, and I'm not sure that anyone has made a golem template specifically for d20...

Although hopefully this is the kind of thanks that ends up helping Wulf in return. I gave a presentation (mentioned in other threads) at a local con up here in Edmonton about working at BioWare as a writer. That was today. On Friday, two days ago, I found out that my idle, "Sure, I might be...

Of course, that's what we said about Infinite Dungeons, too... :) It's definitely the final one, unless it isn't.

Actually, just an incredibly poorly timed vacation. :) Last Tuesday, the wife and dude and I drove from Edmonton to Albuquerque, and this Tuesday, we drove back. Got back Thursday around midnight with a cold (compliments of the wife's folks), and then drugged myself silly so that I could sound...

Clarification: Modern-modern or Victorian-modern? In Victorian-modern, ammo is a much larger concern -- a few rounds of combat, and they're out. If you're fighting a vampire, the first thing I'd have that vampire do is come in via gaseous form or invisible or bat-form or something and then pop...

Cool deal. I apologize for misreading you. I blame the sleep debt. :) (1800 miles since Tuesday) Nothing that's come out yet. I'm with BioWare, and I'm in the fun but frustrating position of working on a game that hasn't been publically announced yet. I did some work for Dragon Age, but they...

Cool deal. Nope. The author's age isn't evidence of it being bad. Using your parents' connections to get the book published isn't evidence of it being bad. It being bad is evidence of it being bad, though. And after the fact, once I have a bad book, I look for reasons that the bad book got...

No, really, they can't. Some people are going to like some shoes, and some people will like other shoes. There are questions of comfort, of weight positioning, of the width in various locations, and so forth. If we go with your "there is no bad" theory, even a pair of shoes that falls apart...

First off, Icy Cool: As you said you didn't read all the posts in this thread, you may not be aware that I answered many of the questions you asked. Feel free to ask follow-up questions after reading. You and I were the ones conversing. I took "anyone" to include me, which is why I believed I...

Hey Umbran, I didn't intend to say any such thing. When I said that the book was bad, he didn't disagree with me by making an argument for the book being good. He said (paraphrasing) that good and bad are too subjective to use in any kind of objective way. When I disagreed, he asked who I was...

Heh. Again, he says. Good points -- I'm in a slow-net, no-books neighborhood, and I didn't look at the numbers. If I wanted to go with the relatively simple one, then, I'd try: 2d6 Initial Inhalation, Fort DC15 to avoid getting it into the lungs 2d6 each round it's in the lungs, DC15 each...