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The thing is, it's really one one sentence in the entire post that has anything to do with Wyatt. The rest of the post is a critique of the idea he was putting forth in the quoted paragraph. One paragraph - again, having nothing to do with Wyatt personally - was an analagous situation that...

Page 27 of the DMG: ".., but don't let them short-circuit your whole adventure by using rituals, either. For instance, the Observe Creature ritual requires the caster to be extremely specific when describing the ritual's intended target. If allowing the ritual to succeed would throw a monkey...

One of the challenges/problems with basing an in-character perspective on folklore or history is that AFAIK magic was always described from the perspective of an outsider. In DnD terms - wizards in stories are always NPCs - at least in folklore. When actual occult practices, like the...

Maybe you're defining magic in a way that's not obvious to me, but I think there are tons of counter-examples to what you're claiming here. The first two that come to mind: 1. Aladdin and the magic lamp 2. Tristan, Iseult, and the love potion. These two are examples of people using magic not...

I'm not saying either one of these things, and based on your other comments I think you misunderstood my post. In the case of the phoenix on the sword, Conan didn't perform a ritual. But "benefitting from someone else's magic" is way too conveniently vague. That would fit better for the case...

In a magical system, human beings are at the center of the universe and are the measure of reality. The stones and trees have an intelligence because people do, and people project themselves and their psychologies onto the surrounding reality. This makes the reality of a magical world...

Closest I can think of is "The Phoenix on the Sword". Assuming that phoenix symbol qualifies as "ritualistic magic" then Conan is using the results of that ritual. He's not preforming the ritual, but in the context of the magic vs. technology thing, a race car driver probably doesn't work on...

My least favorite 2e element were priest spell spheres. Neat idea, but horrible execution. The basically took the spell lists from 1e and just ported them without seemingly any review of power or theme. Nature spells, like reflecting pool, became merged with other redundant divination spells...

Let me reframe your question in a way that makes it more humorous and yet more fitting to what my answer to this is: You've worked on making the dynamics of your world (player choice, etc.) as close to the real world as possible. The real world presents people with choices with infinite...

Not necessarily any point - your question is based on a premise that may not be valid. Gygax didn't say "you can't use guns in your game", though it depends on how you interpret the phrase "Official ADnD game worlds". The 1E DMG has rules for running DnD characters within a Boot Hill game...

Bring on the viruses. :-) WotC could publish the rules as wiki or in some sort of format (like XML) and open it up to developers for a variety of purposes - but I think the whole thing is limited far more by IP/money issues than any sort of technological limitations. I don't think WotC is...

The tricky thing is that you seem to be both relying on and trying to punish metagame knowledge. It's a difficult issue as a DM, to be sure. The PC in your world has probably heard of "drow" before, with the proper definition (according to your campaign). After all, the PC grew up there...

I don't agree that the clear choice for the 9th level barbarian, either from a tactical or roleplaying viewpoint, was to cower behind the cleric (who would instead be the proud recipient of 2 negative energy levels). I don't think the situation is as clear as you think when you're a player and...

I'm not asking you to accept anything I say outside of the plain facts, which come with their own "credentials" and I think are subject to some discussion without the permissions of an authority figure. I don't know enough about these companies decision making processes (where the actual law is...

What random guy are you talking about and why did you italicize this? And what grasp, exactly, are you talking about that's relevant to this? My question (not a grasp, in case that's not clear) is why non-WotC/TSR companies haven't done more with the Outer Planes in the style of DnD, since in...

Your analogy is oversimplified I think. The City of Brass from the Arabian Nights and the DnD City of Brass share a name and that's about it. It's the difference between creating a character based on the Thor of Norse mythology, and one that resembles Marvel comics Thor (except those two...

I'm strictly speaking of WotC/4e. And this is because WotC are the owners of the intellectual property we're discussing - even though in the case of CoB these have probably been circumvented for reasons somewhat outside the scope of what I'm talking about. IMO WotC is in the best position to...

The idea of people becoming slaves because of breaking laws, owing money (which is probably a subset of the first condition) or being captured in war (which the City of Brass article leaves an open question) is pretty standard historical stuff. Some folks might appreciate a rehash of basic...

I'm not a fan of WotC's publishing of 3 page snippets on iconic planar settings - which seems to be all that they've ever done. The last thing I bought from them that did this was the Fiendish Codex II. The details in products like this seem rather superficial and uninspiring. For example, if...

I'm not sure anyone does, which is probably why you're not getting an answer to your original question. One internet site said 10 feet square for a peasants hovel. "Life in a Medieval Village" gives 10 ft x 20 ft. A google search would probably give you a floorplan for manors, churches, and...