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I love Necromancer stuff as well, but they'd have to release another book changing a fairly large number of base 4E rules to get me to switch to 4E, but if they did I'd likely bite (Can't imagine any new GSL ALLOWING that though). For now I'll have to be content with about 3000 pages of...

Perhaps before someone actually DOES this, can't you create a really flippant and dismissively short summary of ANY rules system?

4e really does nothing for ME -- which says zero about what it should or does do for YOU. Charm is not an absolute, even if you provide some clear definition - it's a matter of opinion. Having said that, I do have a clearer grasp now of the things that do seem to prevent me from digging it...

and now I bring this thread back from the dead, as I just remembered a campaign I've run where there was a valid explanation as well: Consider death as a force, or deity unto itself...or perhaps create a deity whose dominion is death. Death is natural, and comes to all creatures, perhaps even...

Perhaps reading more into it than I should, but it appears, then, that the GSL is not 'time sensitive'...I would think that something that has been expected by many partners and customers and has been announced as days away for months, would be time sensitive, even if originally it was not a...

With respect to making money 'off' the OGL/d20 way of working. This is an incredibly complex system, and I would wager that WOTC has neither the time nor the mathematical / financial horsepower to ever truly establish whether or not the OGL was in total a good/bad thing. You could model...

There was a tiny bit of seriousness in my Toltec post, but in all seriousness I don't think it has to be all meta, and I don't think it has to be ONE reason. Perhaps like all economies, it is a complex system where it is often hard to explain WHY something costs what it does without knowing...

This quite obviously could be tied to the Toltec concept of the (translated from the Nahuatl language) 'Soul Hole'. As the warrior defeats other enemies, he gains a bit of power, and his soul becomes heavy with the trophies of his prey, which are draped over him as one might drape the skins of...

And now, your Honor, I'd like to make a speech.... For me, the biggest issue with alignment since somewhere around the Dawn of Time is the words used to describe the concepts. The second biggest problem was caused when writers for D&D decided to 'clarify' very specific ideas about alignments...

It's obvious from your post that you didn't intend this, but when I see terms like 'nerfed' I normally figure there's an edition war coming. My opinion is that 'nerfed' is a relative term. Comparing 3.x to 4th, it seems like wizards were made MORE powerful in terms of damage output...

This didn't really feel like a 3.5 RULES issue, but if this belongs elsewhere, mods, feel free to use the thread translocationator on it. Here's the scenario -- Campaign based in 3.5 ruleset. Group of 5-6 players. Each of the characters is going to start at 1st level, with a class/race/etc...

In comes the old, bald man to spoil the fun. As mentioned by others, I don't think it's a distinct genre...for me, I like to play with basically a mix tape (my 15-year old son "What's a mix tape?") In no particular order, things I would put on it would be not just metal/hard rock, but the...

"Mostly, I just want to see at least one moment in each combat encounter when the PCs are thinking, "Oh man, we're so not going to win this fight." " Nah...I can agree with this statement until I realized you were saying 'each combat encounter'...then I give it a 'nope'...some encounters...

Mechanically speaking pretty much everything people have said here. For me, in what appears to be a nonsensical phrase, epic play is boring. I would suggest that to accurately represent current rules for epic play, but simultaneously streamline the combat and make it less painful, you do...

There's a lot of things at play...in Knoxville, TN an inch of snow/ice can shut down the whole world - not because they aren't made of Super Canuckinol (TM), but because they aren't prepared and never really get much. The cities aren't often ready with salt/plows, and the people aren't used to...

Download ALL FOUR - - there are four books - - silly way to name them, but if you don't have all four you're missing something - -four different color-coded books. That's why there are four entries - - as far as the 20 downloads each - - can only theorize, but some of the files are HUGE, so...

An economy of any kind is an extremely complex system. I don't want to devolve into politics, either...but I think it's poor practice to believe that there has to be blame assigned when economies fall, or praise when they do well. Actual blame normally can't be assigned because too many...

If he converted to 4e, I believe he would be legally required to destroy all 3rd edition comics within 90 days, and he would not be able to produce any new 3.5 cartoons. He would also have to declare that jokes about Attacks of Opportunity are no longer funny, and would have to staple a...

I didn't mean to imply a porny situation, just thought it was an amusing way to end the post. Just don't go to crazy with the gender switches - you don't want to become Thieves World - - it seemed like any time one of those authors got made at another, they would switch genders of a character...

Well, that's a rather personal question! Actually, it's not the size of your grid, it's the spacing (okay, now even I have no idea what I'm on about). For my True20 games we usually fly without any grid, and just use our imaginations, sketching on the map (graph paper) when that doesn't...