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This is an interesting problem of taxonomy. I would have said that the first rule doesn't at all apply to issue of player control over character. Unless you have to put the money in the kitty only when the you, as the player, have your character say the dirty word. And I would have also said...

Is it worth pointing out that there is a melee build for the Ranger? We've seen it referenced a couple of times and I'd hate to see the Ranger as pegged solely for ranged attacks. Conversely, I'm pretty confident that we will see ranged attack options for other classes. Isn't Feather Me Yon...

Why would they expect that? Isn't it inefficient for the system to mimic player control settings for elements that clearly don't need them? All they need are rules governing how they interact with player controlled elements. And, theoretically, each other.

It's worth noting that the group I had such a positive experience with got together specifically to play the demo (and party) so even though I had played with all of the experienced players in the past there was no past history or continuity to work around. Seriously, how are you supposed to...

Yeah, but a DJ who spins vinyl is orders of magnitude cooler than DJ who goes with CDs or is pure hardrive.

What I don't understand is how the rules are the physics of the world rather than the physics of the player controlling the character in the world. I've always thought of the rules as an interface system rather than an operating system. Treating it otherwise always breaks verisimilitude for me...

There are plenty of human beings who fail to possess all of the key qualities of a human.

I tried it out several weeks ago with a group that had a mix of experienced players and several people who had never played before. Three of the players, representing a spread across the experienced and unexperienced crowd, were WoW players. It went wonderfully. Everyone had a fantastic time...

Yeah, I may still go third party, Weapons of the Gods say or Spirit of the Century, but for the moment Iron Heroes is looking like my next two months.

Really, Freeing Tibet just makes sense. That's all I'm saying.

What kind of conversion are you trying to do? My own temptation would be to let characters switch over to 4E appropriate classes and then plug and play the system features I liked. Let's see: Archer -> Ranger Armiger -> Fighter, maybe Paladin or Warlord Berzerker -> Executioner -> Rogue...

Well, the last time I saw it treated the official position seemed to be that there were multiple conflicting official positions. One the one hand, the games of divinity were super awesome and addictive sublime experiences that may have been a cursed gift of the Yozis. The gods are addicted to...

Naw, if I were going for something similar it would have to be a grenadier. Guns are just, well, second place to explosions.

It has changed, but I don't know that it's changed in a direction you would like. Could you tell us more about how you found it offensive?

I'd say that there may be an Eberron style explanation where disjunctions between the planes cause occassional unusual stresses that empires find difficult to survive. Alternately, it's actually weird conjunctions of the planes that make it possible to form empires at all. Then it's just a...

I should specify. I'm not saying I want PoL to be a corner case circumstance in Imperial Britain or Rome, simply that the concept is more flexible than we sometimes seem to be treating it. A strict PoL orthodoxy doesn't seem like the best thing we could bring out of this thread.

If there were monsters it would have been. I don't know. I think the operative aspects of PoL are as follows: There is a countryside with its own denizens and threats. Travel beyond the bounds is dangerous. Imperial Power is unreliable/there is no recourse to the Rule of Law. Given those...

Plenty of things could, though, slave revolts, natural disasters, patrician economic scheming, barbarian raids, or civil wars were all perennial threats depending on your region and period.

Personally I'd be tempted to just make Exalted demi-gods or angelic servitors. Leave them as monsters, and then create Paragon Paths or Epic Destinies that relate to them. Basicaly, I'd be using DnD to add an epic adventuring option for mortals beyond becoming exalted. I'd also stat out the...

I don't know that it is. The primary problem with Exalted social charms is that they pretty much function as instant wins. Which isn't very DnD. Or at least I thought that was the problem being referred to.