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Copyright isn't intended to shut down things like home brew games. What it does shut down is the ability/right to copy their own work. (hence the term "copyright".) The OGL spells out specifically what people can use and republish and what they can't. If his postings are as similar to the...

This one is system independent, so feel free to jump in. Since early role playing (cough-D&D-cough) I've seen a few hundred answers to how/where PC's turn loot into cash, or where they go to find needed items or specialized supplies. The classic "You meet in a Pub/Bar" was the way PC's got...

I disagree. The game world is a dramatic portrayal of an escapist fantasy world. Exact realism isn't always called for, and in some cases is what we're trying to escape. What games like this call for is a world/economy that's credible, in the theatrical sense. In theatre, as in writing...

Magic will break any "realistic" economic model, if only because it isn't "realistic". Over the different editions we've joked about the simple exploits of the published prices: In one edition iron pots sold for less, per pound, than iron as a trade commodity. In theory you could buy pots and...

I'm currently the DM in our 3,5 campaign, though this discussion is more or less system/revision independent. In my game the party is on the Elemental Plane of Fire. In D&D terms, the predominant society is "Lawful Evil". So what does that imply, in terms of the way society works? When the...

You're right, some people can't be bought. That has noting to do with my point though, unless the person who can't be bought is unique in the entire world. Otherwise you can buy somebody, and that's all I actually said. Need military might? That's what mercenaries/adventurers are for. Need...

Having seen the construction costs in the D&D 3.5 rules, a friend suggested a scene: A castle, solid and secure, with a treasure room holding a single gold coin. The rest of the royal treasury sent to build the defenses. :) Money can be used to buy magic. Or loyalty. Or military might. Or...

Does anyone remeber Smaug's bed in the Hobbit movie? Or how much gold the Dwarves had, molten and ready to pour over him? All of the gold there is in the real world (and I'm including the gold fillings your great-great grandfather got buried with) could fill an Olympic sized swimming pool. So...

Lasers aren't very effective as weapons, particularly against the human body. We're mostly water, and it's circulating. Our bodies are actually designed specifically to dissipate heat. You can surface burn someone's skin, but instant death is incredibly difficult. The old science-fiction...

Let's start with a clarification: You titled this thread using the terms "economy" and "wages", but what you discussed was actually currency, which is something completely different. So let's talk currencies for a moment. Consider the ridiculous presumption in game that, as PCs travel to...

My point was that actual science can't actually do any of those things. No death-rays, no time machines, no reanimation of the dead. The huge spider from the Wild Wild West remake couldn't have stood up, or even existed: The metal legs depicted would have buckled, and putting that much weight...

Classic items for the genre would be steam engines, steam ships and steam powered Zepelin. All classic and useful, but better suited to an operational base. If we could communicate art on a game map it would have a lot of brass, of course. Common weapons, such as swords and firearms, would be...

Those feats don't even work until caster level of 7th or higher. They all require a spell of at least 4th level to be "reserved". And I agree, the damage dealing ones are small potatoes at that level, but they are an endless supply of those small potatoes, so they are worth something. Some of...

The original question's specifics were about 3.5's Ring of Telekinesis, so no, it wasn't a "weird hold over". The larger question was, what would you do as a player if you found your character in possession of an item that you found way too easy to abuse? The TK ring was simply the example at...

You didn't specify an edition, so I'll give you the 3.5 answer: If the person was standing against a stone wall, it might be possible. Might be. Every other spell that imprisons someone like that allows a Save, so that use should as well. If you're talking about a "body cast" form, you'd...

By the spell you can "violent thrust" a target in any direction, up to a total distance of 10 feet per caster level. Attempting to pick up and carry via "sustained force", they move at a maximum of 20' per round, so using that a caster could slow hoist, over a number of rounds, up to the...

Continual Flame has it's uses, but costs a bit in terms of Ruby dust. Consider Permanent Illusion to create a well lit ceiling. Saves you all of the trouble of scrubbing the real one and gives the effect of modern indirect lighting. Or, if you prefer, create the illusion of a stone channel...

Saw a replica in a fantasy/game shop and had a chance to handle it. The hand grips were a bit thin on that particular one, so it could easily twist in your grip and not always hit edge first. Fix that, though, and yeah, it's entirely practical. It's essentially an axe though, as in, it's a...

We ran an entire Grecco-Roman campaign and it was a blast. The entire mythology of the region was there to play with, not just Greek and Roman, but any other culture the Roman empire had contact with: Egypt, Ireland/Scotland, North Africa, the middle east, the Norse, all of it. With all of...

Hmm. 25 D6 is achieved by simply hoisting a target up to maximum spell range (100 feet +10 per level) and dropping them. Of course, this all presumes that you're someplace where you can hoist/fling someone that hard/far. BAB isn't that big an issue for the personal fling, since it's based on...