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That is sad to hear His game balance left somethings to be desired but he was by far the best game author ever when it gets to conveying the atmosphere and making you want to play. I stil get goose-bumps when I read some of the parts of "Ivid" or the "From the Ashes".

Where do I draw the line ? In terms of the moral outrage, I have yet to feel it with regard to the game or gaming situation (real life moral outrage ofcourse, my characters and NPC are plenty outraged when appropriate). In terms of gratuity I draw it very strictly. I hate sex because of sex...

OK, I'm more likely to get this then the book of prestige classes #73 BUT I am not sure we realy need the photoshoped photographs. Fnatasy art through the ages seems to have been quite sufficient. We are counting on the demographic that is supposed to have some imagination after all. Also, if...

Thanks Monte, I still do not like BoVD much, but now I know were you wanted to go with it. I guess what I was hopping for was something that would change tenor of DnD, towards something more like Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" or Moorcock's "Von Beck". I understand that was not the book you...

Sorry Monte, but what was BoVD supposed to be ?

Ah, yes and if the rules and setting depicted would also be low-magic ish (at least lower then in the core DnD) which is consistent with the rather grim idea of having to actualy sacrifice something (innocence, soul, fellow humans...) for power. Then I would think I have died and gone to...

Could not agree more, the BovD was one of the more dissapointing 3ed products for its sheer timidity and the idea that "icky" and gross are somehow substitute for evil. A) Yes, the maketing research before 3ed pointed that the target audience for the d20 were coledge aged folks, COnsiderable...

OK, I am confused again: So you can give the XP chart that says something like XP X = Level Y you can describe the class that says Level Y = Abilities Z (if you could not then all those splat books and others that have their own prestige/base classes would be in trouble) so what is left that...

Thank you both, It seems that the OGL is much better suited for what I had in mind....

A point of interest for me that I hope someone here would be able to elucidate... I recall from somewhere that there are some very stringent restrictions as to what I can do with XP within OGL and d20 but I am not sure what those are. Say, I am writing a d20 based game intended for low...

Gods, some people are easily worked up... I did not even notice the language. But Martin is *very much* in place in Fantasy Gaming magazine, he is most influential fantasy author living and some of us do like the literary inspiration for our campaing. Feels to me publishing the leading fantasy...

What I would realy like to see is a detailed and truly *alternative* d20 magic system. It could be based on some of your EA but should not be pluggable into PHB one but rather made to replace. Something as elegant and balanced as Demonology or the system from Slaine but extended further and...

A nod from one more who remebers We are few and far between these days...

It is WAY better then official, particularily the kind of crap they are pushing this days (I swear they have reduced the number of pieces per box of the same size in all of their Legoland lines by at least 30% in the last 10 years) As a huge fan of both Lego and LOTR I salute you ser as a...

You guys should listen to 2WS-Steve he is probably the best game theorist in gaming this side of Johnatan Tweet. And also entirely correct in this issue. I liked the Bayes' theorem explanation best and if noone minds I would like to put it in a bit more layman's terms. Sigil is wrong on a very...

September 1999 I am positive of that as that is when I got a 4-month job that was giving me enormous ammount of surfing time. I was not keen on the boards untill some few months after but even there, of the people that are here now I only remeber Henry as being ahead of me. Henry has once...

OK, I know that XP rules are sort of of the limit for the OGL stuff but I am wondering where the line on that is drawn. For example if want to give advice as to XP awards in adventure I write is that kosher. Also if I am writing a new d20 game and want to use standard XP table but get rid of...

I sent you an email. I have no website but can mail you some stuff. Let me know if that works for you...

Setting I am currently working on... Neu Ungren -Magic: strictly based on mythical sterotypes: Necromancers do only necromancy, Demonologists summon demons, Alchemists fiddle with potions and try to make elixir of life (not to mention metalic transmutations). Spells are slow to cast require...

Actually when I was talking about the penny-pinchers with trade-routes I had Zhentarim in mind: "...Zhentarim desire to control the most economical trade routes between the established lands of the Sword Coast and the rich young kingdoms of Moonsea eventualy extending into political influence in...