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Bah! It's only a purgatory, I tell you! They let me out after two years.

Hear! Hear! And I'll just add that altough I believe that as a matter of principle all the participants deserve to have fun, I observe that as a matter of fact if the GM is not having fun, none of the character-players will have fun either. A GM just can't achieve as much with a game that he or...

'Even' by the D&D rules? You make it sound as though they suggest low numbers. It includes characters with such levels among its population, yes. That is not to say that it supports them in the profession of priest, living by the altar. And it is certainly not the same as suggesting that each...

It's something I would have done. In fact something that I once did do. The game I was using didn't have levels, and for that matter equipment was not as important as it is in D&D either. But at the end of a bit of a quest and a significant story arc a party ended up killing a very nasty dragon...

The head prefect in my year at high school was named Richard Head. He was also captain of the First XV and the First XI, and no-one ever called him 'Dick'.

When I DM I use them as written, but sparingly. I figure that they have an essential role in balancing hit-point inflation, and restoring some of the dramatic, tactical, and political mojo of an assassin's blade or a marksman's high-powered rifle. Without save-or-die effects in high-level play...

You're probably right from a balance point of view (though I wouldn't like to bet my camapign against the off-chance of some player finding an abusive combination). I was just trying to discourage players from introducing yet more weird world features based entirely on game mechanics.

It may be one of the things you say. But it is not what you said when you said this: A barter economy means no such thing. The issue is poverty, not barter.

Perhaps it couldn't. The guy doesn't sound like a good match for the group. In fact, his combination of giving wide offence and taking offence easily makes him sound pretty hard to place. Well, I think that in general it is never a good idea to tell anyone that someone else has complained about...

Variety is more likely, yes. But variety won't increase the capacity of the economy and population to build temples and support priests. A given number of people will still only be able to afford to support a given number of priests. If there are multiple competing religions, each one will draw...

Yeah. But the issue there is poverty, not barter. Luxuries like diamonds display a high price-elasticity of demand, so their price is comparatively low when everyone is poor. Well, there's no shame in not knowing. The shame is in not trying to find out. Takes about two minutes with Google to...

And while we're being picky: it is Westley, not Wesley.

It's not so much a different system as a different part of the same system. To paraphrase PJ O'Rourke, when you are paying your own money for someone else's safety they end up with lime green nylon socks in their Christmas box.

I don't think the rules address the question. Personally I'd be inclined to simplify the problem by Rule-Zeroing all but one kind of elf out of my campaign, and making different 'races' of elf no more distinct than different than different races of human. Or else I'd go with Aristotlean ideas...

You seem to have forgotten that [mammal] females have two X chromosomes, one from their mother and one from their father. So if the X held the stat mods baby boys would take after their mother (or someone on their mother's side, if the mother's ancestry were mixed) and baby girls after some...

… it becomes very difficult to cut them. Besides, does anyone know what the mechanical properties of Kimberlite are? Were diamonds even mined from Kimberlite pipes before the 19th Century? I thought they were found in streambeds.

PCs get maximum hit points on their first hit die. NPCs' characteristics are notionally rolled on 3d6, though there is some selection bias among those that get to be significant figures.

How do you figure that? Money wasn't invented until about the 7th century BC (Lydia or somewhere like that), but gemstones were already precious in Egypt in 1800 BC. A barter economy just means taht rich people pay a lot of goods for pretty baubles, instead of paying a lot of cash for pretty...

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

<groan> If this turns into a pun thread I shall vote with my feet.