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Tieflings as a core race. Which, admittingly, has nothing to do with good old Ashi.

Armor as DR means (1) rolling to hit, adding the attack modifier, and comparing to AC, (2) rolling damage dice and adding fixed damage modifiers, (3) subtracting (opponent-dependent, so not fixed) DR from damage, (4) subtracting damage from hit points. This is more complicated than armor as AC...

Very good post indeed.

I don't have any problem with devils and demons being gods. I think it's appropriate, especially for archdevils, to grant power to their acolytes. It would be better to grant disciples of the chaotic demons independent (arcane) power, as that will lead to a more chaotic power structure. I would...

In one of my last session I've had the pleasure of hearing a paladin, encountering a bunch of dwarves in the underdark and scanning them, pull out his sword and declare "they're evil, let's kill them". Before anyone even approached or talked to them. Despite this, I have zero problems with...

Aren't projects like GMGen (part of PCGen) and MapTools attempting this? The advantage WotC has is that they have the rights over the official books. If you want to play a Binder or use a Dark Creeper as a monster or so on - you need to use WotC's text and pictures. Only WotC can (legally)...

I liked the summary on Mike Mearls given in the last design & development: Very informative. :)

Aw, gods. How do you use even a small fraction of that? I'm having a hard time lugging around the relevant 3E books as it is, and I basically only use the Complete series... I don't even have enough library space for all of that! :eek: :confused: :uhoh: Yeah, I'd be surprised if this isn't so.

An idea I was playing with was having damage be a bonus on top of your attack roll. So a soldier's attack might be Melee sword +5 (+6) and his armor provides a bonus that opposes the extra damage, so his opponent might have AC 15, DR 20 The effect is like AC as DR, but the math involved is only...

I doubt they'd move to 4e OGL. For the most part these products rely on things in the 3.5e SRD and/or 3rd-party products released under the current OGL. This will make it difficult, if not impossible, to release them under the new upcoming OGL, as (unlike some other similar licenses) the OGL...

It made for a more consistent game, sure, but also a far slower and more difficult one for the DM. I much prefer to have PCs and Monsters follow seperate rules. Monsters should be designed to challenge the PCs and be easy to run and advance or modify on the fly. PCs should be designed to be...

I'd add that while we are assured there would be an OGL and SRD, what will happen to the d20STL is far from clear. To me, anyways. If I'm reading the entrails correctly, Wizards will withdraw the d20 system trademark license (which, apparently, 3rd party publishers don't really want to use now)...

Depends on the edition, I suppose. I can say that Ars Magica Fifth Edition was welcomed as an edition whose time has come, and that was carried out well. I'm continually impressed by the new edition's high quality and innovations.

Interesting. His Cthulhu is stunning. So is his Dragon in Archives, or Avandu. Excellent use of exposition. A few unnatural poses - see the twisted girl here, and here. I like many of his pictures, e.g. this, this, this, this, and more. Thanks for introducing us. :) Yeah.... he's good, but I...

:) Definitely. I guess she took of the breatplate after the fight... I really like the way her face shows up under the light, though. It's beautiful. I definitely like Elmore a lot. I mean, who can compete with that? I was disappointed with his late pictures, however, like this one, where the...

After being disappointed by the new 4e covers, I've been wondering about who are the fantasy art artists and who I like. I really like the art of Todd Lockwood. Excellent depictions of beautiful evocative scenes, complex pictures, and characters with character. The artist I like best is...

I'm actually planning a virtual tabletop Ars Magica saga, which I was gonna host with MapTools. Now I'm looking at the D&D Initiative as an option too... if it can provide me with a good tabletop for an outdoor adventure, dice, chat, and voice, I really don't care much about the rules... Whether...

I'm wondering about catagorizing settings into niches, or roles. Here's what I've got so far - A Baseline Setting provides for the archetypal game of D&D. It has medieval-like kingdoms, evil organizations, ties in to the multiverse, ancient dungeons, and so on. The prime example would be...

At this rate, I won't see a republished Birthright in five years or so. Unacceptable. I demand more of you vote for Birthright! :mad: I voted for Birthright (could you tell?) because I like its idea of divine bloodline, the conflict between nature & magic and civilization & religion, and the...

The main barrier behind me not having a subscription to Dragon or Dungeon was the price and unpredictability of oversees shipping. With an online publication this isn't an issue, so DI is a strong possibility. However, the price isn't inconsequential and I just don't need the content. Certainly...