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I find the two items I emphasized above are often referred to as if they were the same thing. Role playing, at least to me, falls largely outside mechanics. I definitely support robust mechanics for noncombat skills. Success in interaction should be based on character abilities, not the...

Sounds like they were capable of deciding that the "cosmological good force" was not "good as they defined it". Or are we now saying that the Heavens are not those 25+INT/WIS exemplars of good who can never be mistaken as to what Good really is?

I'm saying the original modules were just that - modular components designed to be plugged into pretty much any campaign setting. They are a subset of "adventures", some of which are modules and others of which are not as modular. An adventure with strong ties to a specific campaign setting...

Good for the grognard, bad for the newbie, for sure. The question is how many are prepared to pay a higher price to subsidize recruiting new players. WoTC can, as this thread comments, force that. They can bump the price of the PHB to fund low, or no, margins on a mass-marketed beginner's box...

According to https://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rg/20040720a, no 5' step is available while dazed. Given no actions can be taken, that seems reasonable to me, but no rules cite is included.

I'm saying the latter is moving away from a "module" as it cannot easily be inserted into an existing game world. The B series need to be assessed on their own merits, but the early ones, at least, were pretty modular. They were not tied to the Mystara setting, and could easily be plunked down...

Agreed. "Labour of love" seems more and more the tagline for RPG products. Very true. I see a lot of "loyalty to the company", "loyalty to the store" and "loyalty to the hobby" arguments presented in this regard. WoTC is not required to sell at a price I find acceptable. Neither am I...

If the GM already has a clear, certain conception of “honour”, then where is the mental overhead several posters have indicated is required in adjudicating alignment? The GM **knows** what Honour means, at least in his game. If that mental overhead is, in fact required, then both player and GM...

Let's move back to the term "module". What does it mean? To me, it means a component part suitable for insertion in a larger whole. So that implies a module set in "a large seaport", not one set in a specific location on a specific game world, but a module that can plug into a large seaport...

The cold, harsh reality here is that, if the price at which the product will be purchased falls short of the price required for the producer to cover all of its costs and generate a profit, the product will no longer be produced. Brick and mortar game stores are fewer and further between...

They are, however, some tangible cosmic force which empowers and disempowers, however. The 3e discussion of alignment made that pretty clear. Thus, I am not being judged by "what I believe to be Good", "what the GM believes to be good" or even "what is truly Good", but "what the cosmological...

In fairness, I think pemerton has indicated that, at least to him, it is not simply a matter of scale. He perceives some bright line that I, at least, do not in two respects - that the reduction of access to PC resources by their temporary removal, with some indefinite recovery time, at some...

More to the point, is the Succubus actually Evil if she never takes any Evil actions? In any case, if I were concerned about this, my concern would be more with divination spells in general than mechanical alignment. If I can detect she is lying when she says she means us no harm, or cast an...

I think your approach is reasonable. If they haven't buffed their moves, then the turns should move pretty fast ("double move for 40'; I had 15' left over from last round, so I move 2 squares and have 5' into next round". As a simplifying assumption, maybe all diagonals are 35', instead of...

And I remember that, and that they were removed from later printings, once you said it...post edited. True, dat (and edited) - sory, can't XP you for the fix. I think 3e was the first edition planned for splatbooks, though. Even the OGL seemed geared at making others write those low-profit...

Most characters move at 30', 20' or 15'. How do you plan on linking that with the 25' squares? There's no easy answer - once we move past 5' squares, some mechanism will be needed. Just curious on your plans in that regard.

Ummm... OD&D came in one tiny box, followed by supplements. I guess that's one edition released all at once although I think you may have needed Chainmail to play it) BECMI was released one letter at a time, I believe. EDIT: A different, layered, approach (release by levels rather than...

So classifying the character as a"backsliding sometimes-devotee" does not judge his actions? In thwarting Vecna, he served the interests of the Raven Queen. Vecna judged the action as meriting punishment. RQ judged the action as not meriting a reward. Two NPC deities judged that character...

Which begs the question "how much is the COMPLETE Core rules?" If you need the PHB, DMG and MM II and III, it's a lot more expensive, even if each books sells for, say, $25. IIRC, one criticism levied against WoTC when 4e was released was the "missing" races and classes in the initial release...

So, basically, it could happen under the action resolution mechanics, so it is OK for the GM to impose it outside the action resolution mechanics. So how, in the fiction, did the player redirect the souls? I could see something as simple as "stop that", but it does not explain why the...