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Regarding the Creative Commons bit... I can't place the concept of "wolf" into creative commons because it's literally thousands of years old (at least in so far as a traceable language etymology exists), and therefore public domain. A similar issue exists with much of the other content that...

And if you use that point to argue that 6f is unenforceable, WotC can then turn around and use item 9 to invalidate the entire licence for you. It's a lose-lose situation.

Something to note about that morality clause. "Obscene" isn't the only threshold. "Harmful" and "illegal" is in there too. That means content that models breaking and entry, murder, and theft can be banned. Many US prisons have in the past banned, or tried to ban, D&D, for exactly this reason...

I've never seen those sherbet sour ones. I have, however, seen "Love Hearts" sold in suspiciously similar packaging, shape, and variety of colours. Perhaps the only difference between Love Hearts and those is that Love Hearts typically have a heart shape and pithy word or two embossed on them...

As presented in OA and UA 1st edition, barbarians, the character class, came from three distinct areas: tundra, grasslands, and jungle. Given the focus that TSR had at the time on pushing Oriental Adventures and its related products, it seems clear to me that their underlying thoughts were that...

The usual solution is to present "goblinoid $culture" in the same product that you present "human $culture". For example, GAZ2 (Ylaruam) could get away with presenting gnolls as bedouin expies because it also presented humans doing the exact same thing. That tends to fall flat as a rework for...

So, there's a campaign setting that I wrote once. It's mostly complete, but because I'm not really happy with it in its current form, it has never seen the light of day. By the rules that anti-censorship aficionados in this thread here have put out, it seems that I am now guilty of censorship...

Regarding the "Sitting Drool" issue... When making a fictional people or character based off a real world culture, it's important to avoid causing offence both to the actual culture group, and to any expats of that culture group. Japanese-Americans have different concerns from those of Japanese...

I state that GAZ10 is less racist that 16th century Spanish colonists as a statement of fact. I'm not apologising for the author of GAZ10. If he feels it appropriate, that's for him to do. If you want to interpret that statement of fact as an apology on behalf of GAZ10, that's you putting words...

Considering that 16th century Spanish colonisers (eg Antonio Montesinos) openly discussed whether or not American Indians even had souls and thus qualified to be considered as better than livestock animals, GAZ 10 is an improvement on that. Not by much, and certainly not by enough to ever boast...

@DnDPhilmont Yes, I reported her to WotC for suspected IP infringement. Guilty as charged. As owner of The Piazza, I have a duty to protect the integrity of the forum I run. Had I not done so when I became aware, it would invite questions as to whether and to what extent my forum protects IP...

That clause in Fort saving throws properly refers to spells that can affects objects or creatures. Consider these three cases: Spell affects creatures only, Fort save allowed: Undead are immune, as it is a Fort save spell that does not affect objects. Spell affects objects only, Fort save...

I prefer to make items have an encumbrance equal to their weight in pounds or their length in feet, whichever is greater. Items which can be carried together (eg. arrows) are counted as single items for this purpose, so a quiver of 20 arrows would "weigh" 3 lb (based on length), regardless of...

http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=9881 There was a website briefly visible (though obviously under construction) in whic a little of what we speculate to be WotC's new online publishing model was revealed. Salient points * The back end of the site appeared to be drivethrurpg...

My house rules have Stealth (Hide and Move Silently rolled together) and Perception (Spot, Listen, and Search rolled together).

That was true of 3.0e. 3.5e changed the weapon terminology to light/one-handed/two-handed; 3.5e doesn't officially define weapon size as Small/Medium/Large anywhere. Also, bear in mijnd that text in italics is typically "fluff" text, and should be disregarded in any rules interpretation.

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/adventuring/actionPoints.htm It's a variant rule, makingitoptional in the same waythatprestige classes , or virtually anything at all in the DMG, optional.

Do you have any idea how hard blue text is to read on a black background?

How about Jason the cleric, Mary-Lee the wizard, and Linda the rogue?

No, because each ranged touch attack is an attack action, so you'd have to do some action economy tricks to abuse it. Unless stated otherwise, a ranged touch attack is still an attack action, not a free action.