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I feel a great disturbance in the force. My initial reaction was that the announcement had to be a fake. Color me stunned.

As with a lot of the rule system, it depends on the type of campaign and players. On the one hand, if I'm running a west marches style sandbox with a large player base of whom only a limited number will show up for a given day, I will absolutely assign xp on a session by session basis. On the...

Have only gotten through first couple posts, but just wanted to say this sort of summary where you see how a campaign develops is very interesting. Thanks for posting it!

If I'm playing a sandboxy game, I'm fine starting out with just the same competency as a regular town guard. I have to use the info I gather to pick my own fights. On the other hand, if I'm playing an adventure path, I would rather have my character start a bit better than that so that to be...

I like the idea of specialization opening up special maneuvers rather than damage or attack bonuses. The general problem I see with weapon specialization is that I would like fighters to be able to pick up whatever cool random magical weapon they find without the player feeling that they...

To me, active means that a deity would at least answer a commune spell asking whether something constitutes a heresy.

Here's another one, maybe more setting related. I want gods to have active involvement with their clergy, but I also want priests who secretly worship demons etc.

I agree with much of that. May simply be an issue of meaning of "defining." I think in 3E characters are less defined by their items. I remember 1e discussions of "My wizard who found a wand of lightning bolts" or "My fighter who got a girdle of giant strength." In 3e IME you were more...

You could go for in-jokes, like having Scott Baluka, Michael J. Fox and Keanu Reeves show up. To me the most important feature is that the Doctor is British. Age, skin color and social class don't seem important. I think even a female Doctor could work. There are handwaves as to why it...

I don't want characters defined by their magic items. Yet I want magic items to be powerful relative to character abilities.

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"Aioli" might sound like some fancy new condiment, but if you leave out the flavorings, it's just mayo. Folks who want their expertise dice spread as plain damage bonus mayo can have that. It seems to me that what CNN has gotten used to is a turkey sandwich with the 3.5 cranberry chutney...

I like the idea the specialists getting a "kicker" on some spells. For example -charm person does normally not affect a creature in combat, but that is waived for an enchanter -magic missile requires a to hit roll, but is auto-hit for an evoker -phantasmal force is level 2 spell, but level 1...

A Google search of "F700 is a douche" gives 261,000 hits. What's up with that?

I hope that some day someone's NDA expires and we can find out the internal process that led to the GSL.

Those interested in parody defense in the US should compare the fact patterns of Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp. and Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. v. Penguin Books USA Inc.

Lin kompreno, the beast at Tanagra Paces makes sense, yet there is something about an orc and a pie in a 10 foot square room. However, I think we can all agree that currency should be measured in quatloos.

This. If you are worried about disruption to the narrative, then the PC is now an NPC. Done. What would you do if the player simply stopped showing up at all?

Vault of Larin-Karr is smaller in scope than Barakas, but is also a very good example of hybrid. Wilderlands struck me as basically pure sandbox, but maybe I'm misremembering. Nod and Hexcrawl Chronicles would be more along the same lines of basically sandbox.