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So if I tie a few diamonds to a stick and throw it, a dog won't bring it back because he'll be trying to calculate the net value of the transaction? Does he do so based on current diamond values? Or those from 10,000 years ago? (If your campaign world is that old). There's no real basis for...

Well you probably haven't seen a gold dragon around lately either. There's any given number of justifications for the existence (or lack of) for any fantasy species in a fantasy world. Whether or not Bahamut ordered all non-good gold dragons to be hunted down and slain, and whether he was...

Said the domestic dog to the gray wolf.

Why would someone's mistatement of one theory be expected to conflict with another? In any case, unaligned gold dragons were unable to adapt to the conditions in my campaign world and so they have gone extinct. Had they been good-aligned, their altruism would have been recognized by...

I think you make valid points that are based entirely on a preferred kind of gaming. Some folks actually like the idea of rooting around through dungeons and dumpsters and finding things that give their character a tiny bonus. Those folks are will to do the math, and trade away "beloved old...

Many "concerned" parents (and I would use another word) don't want their kids exposed to science, country music, or brown people either. Frankly, I think RPG publishers should recognize that their product ITSELF is an anathema to some "concerned" parents. Plus, where did this whole "satanism"...

I know a few neo-pagans that game. Nothing in the neo-pagan literature that I've read has been particularly useful to my game - most of the information on folklore is available in other places. I personally get more milage out of fantasy books (and especially short stories) for gaming ideas...

Exactly why there was no reason to change it in the first place. The original 1e gold dragons served a Lawful Good god and if they, as a group, aren't aligned with Good I think of any other creature that should be. So far I've seen no artistic/conceptual justification for this change, just...

Agreed. The record graphic was funny but I don't really see how it addresses the issue. For one: the chromatic dragons have an evil alignment. Secondly: gold dragons in the past had a more unearthly nature to them - dwelling with Bahamut behind the east wind and so forth. Otherworldly...

:) He could base it on the 1st edition Ad&d unarmed combat rules.

I think it's better just to be honest with the players and tell them that the game was not designed to provide a rational economic component at all. I don't think the costs of selling a 525,000 gp suit of Angelsteel Armor can be justified to return only 20% of the value. Having an NPC act out...

I think the price of the scroll is ok. The basic costs (as for anything) would be cost of materials plus cost of labor. In the case of rituals that's the component cost. But labor? Comprehend language is a 50 gp market price (cost that it took the wizard to scribe it into his book)...

But IMO this makes my point. Think of it this way: chance of dying from witchcraft nowadays = 0%. Chance of dying from witchcraft during the 1600s = 0%. Nothing has actually changed about the underlying statistics - so it is very much about what people *thought*. It's also very arguable...

I disagree with this generalization. I think people freak out as much about stuff that has no chance of happening (think about the genre-appropriate example of the witch hysteria) as they do ignore other things. People go to great lengths to protect themselves from threats that are entirely...

I draw the line where it's sufficient for me to give the players some idea that there's a possible reason why castles exist in the world, for example. If you have both a "rock to mud" spell and an "anti-rock to mud" spell existing in the world, then I think it's easier to argue that somehow...

I don't see how the rarity thing can work (other than the DM just saying it). I think the accessibility of a resource isn't the only factor. It's also it's influence. AFAICT all it would take is a few people with a spell that renders 10's of thousands of gold pieces worth of expenditure...

Does anyone know the reason why "ki" wasn't just considered a culture-specific term for the martial power source to begin with?

But logically, magic could also render it feasible. IMO DnD simply suffers from a lack of development of counter-measures for these things. There's fireball, but inexplicably no "waterball". Wands of waterball would make a city of wood and thatch a more comfortable place. I see no reason...

Whereas IRL combatants confine themselves to seperate 5 ft squares? There is hardly anything about 3E combat that is realistic and I'm somewhat baffled as to why someone would think it's a simulator for anything (or prior editions for that matter). The flavor text in 4E is as easily ignored...

So you, as the DM, want a player to take an interest in some part of the game and they're not doing that. You want them to pay attention to the NPCs motivations, and think of clever ways of roleplaying their character, for example. And the player would rather look for a more powerful magic...