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Fairness to a Game The only way to be "unfair" to a game, IMHO, is to present it in a completely different light than its creators intended. The way I see it, fairness, which is, ironically, a loaded concept, can only be judged impartially by comparing what actually happens with the obligations...

IMO, not much longer than they did. TSR was leveraged up the yin-yang (Ryan Dancey spoke of not being sure WOTC could rescue the D&D IP from all the various creditors that had a stake in it), and the house of cards didn't have long to stand. There seems to have been an air of "waiting for the...

Why would *I* do so? Had I but world enough, and time, I'd develop my own setting, replete with plot hooks, NPCs, places to explore, and whatnot. In lieu of that, a "bare bones" setting seems like it could be a good alternative. It'd give me some of what I'd want to spend time on while leaving...

Because, in essence, we're only seeing one at a time, they've been designed to appeal more broadly to the player base, and they're not being "supported" with a heaping pile of products nobody but completionists want to buy. JMHO. As to the OP, it depends on your criteria. TSR clearly was not...

Indeed. The flip side of the thread's title might be, "Why force yourself to agglomerate stuff from multiple campaign settings?" The answer (to both questions) is, "Because it's fun." Of course, YMMV, so the other-answer is, "Do whatever you and your players find fun."

In a 2E campaign I ran, the characters cleared out, moved into, and occupied a castle which (they discovered the next morning) appeared somewhere new every time a new adventure was about to start. I called it the Demiplane of Hope and set it in a sort of opposition to the Demiplane of Dread...

Congratulations and here's to a long and happy run of xp in your new character class.

I don't, and shan't pretend to, speak for Morrus, but my own personal take on it is this: copyrighted content that is distributed for free is still copyrighted. In other words, I would posit that while EN Publishing distributes the Player's Guide and Campaign Guide "for free" -- that is, at...

If anything, since Berne, creative works retain copyright status in the US longer than they do elsewhere. Tolkien's works are not in the public domain in the US, AFAICT.

I found some references to the idea that the copyright might have expired in a couple of countries prior to the adoption of the Berne Convention. But I don't think anything written by Tolkien is in the public domain (in a Berne convention country), either.

Nothing created and published by TSR or WOTC is in the public domain. The copyrights are still in force.

Well, if it were written by WOTC, it would be many times clearer. But compare to Practiced Spellcaster (Complete Arcane Excerpt), which increases your effective casting level in one class to your total level, or by 4, whichever is lower. IIUC, Practiced Spellcaster is considered more or less a...

If I read correctly, the character's level dropped to 12th. So no. If it had dropped to 11th, after which the character then regained 12th, possibly a different story.

I don't think there's any reason to hate mages/wizards/arcane casters in all this, when it's the player trying to put one over on the DM. Apparently house rules are just fine when this player comes up with them...? This sounds like one of those "trust" issues to me... the player doesn't trust...

No.

DMG p. 143, Starting at Higher Level.

Just because the PCs solved a problem (and therefore got XP) doesn't mean it was the "right" problem to solve, or that it was even necessarily a good idea. If it still troubles you, take a Magic Marker to your printout, cross the encounter out, and don't even present the PCs with it. Have the...

Speaking as a sometime editor, I would say the surest way to irritate me is to foul things up so badly it becomes clear you're not even trying to write "naturally." Stilted, artificial writing -- especially writing that is so convoluted it's incomprehensible -- is my bane. At least with "purple"...

And I would argue Sanctum Spell doesn't get you there either, as it (in this case) only allows the character to cast a 1st-level spell with a higher "effective" spell level while in a specific place (a site that can be no larger than 100 feet in diameter prior to the character's level reaching...