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Don't have one monolithic thieves guild. Have crime families and lesser gangs. The crime families are tolerated by the "real" (but totally ineffective government) because they keep the lesser gangs and solo rogues in check a good amount of the time. There could be a "Thieves Guild" but it...

I don' think it's hard to imagine a community run by thieves... most U.S. communities are run by members of the Democrat and Republican parties after all. (that's humor, feel free to replace the real world parties above with Liberal Dagonists and Anno Leaning Thuggans)

too far. It's a playable fantasy game, it just isn't really D&D. The balance is extreme, no class really stands out much in different situations compared to another classes (play experience could change this). Wizards are just not as versatile and powerful. Most of the non-fighters fight as...

Games change, even the classics. Chess has undergone a 1000 years of change, monopoly came from a small family of similar games that evolved for a couple of decades before becoming the classic version, it's been spitting out spin-off versions and imitators for decades. Scrabble went through a...

How unique does a rpg character have to be? Totally original or simply noticeably unique from other characters being played in the campaign? If there is only ever one Half-Elf Paladin in the campaign that character is certainly uniquely defined by being a half-elf paladin. I've played the...

In all truth most RPGers don't game European ethnic and cultural differences very well at all either. Most fantasy gaming takes in peoples and ideas scattered across thousands of years in time and thousands of miles and crams it all together in haphazard fashion.

How long (in rounds) should a fight between 4 kobold skirmishers and a balanced 1st level party take?

the pathfinder RPG doesn't exist solely because of any freedom to exploit IP one gains from using the OGL. It exsists because WOTC created an entirely new game that wasn't a paced evolution of the D20 rules but instead an entirely new and revolutionary system. If 4e had been 4e to 3.5 as 2nd...

wow it's hard to imagine the player that puts the most effort into the game wold feel any degree of entitlement to authority. You'd think the term DungeonMaster implied some degree of control and authority was implicit in the role. (notice the subtle sarcasm above?) The DM most certainly...

It most certainly was the best crafted, innovative, creative and etc rpg on the market... it was the ONLY game on the market. It created and defined the market. The original monster manual was the first hardcover gamer book ever. It was the concept and market leader from day 1. No surprise it...

Because it did indeed take years of training to become good at using a longbow. One had to be able to aim and draw a bow again and again. Their lives and that of their fellow combatants would depend upon it. Training to be competent with a firearm takes about a month. A long bow takes years...

You certainly want to sell to Gen Y if you are merchant, no doubt there. Catering to that crowd is certainly the way to go and a shop should cater to them in any way it sanely can. Eventually credit card debt will catch up with them. You can't keep consuming out of proportion to actual...

Stores and extras- Years back I was a co-owner of a comic shop, our best selling items were these rather good lollipops we sold for 35 cents each or 3 for a dollar. Maybe we'd have done better business as a candy shop/comic rack. Special orders ,even with our generous discount, were also...

going for sarcasm here? I still miss a bookstiore that closed about 15 years ago. The owners retired, they were doing well they simply wanted to move to the country watch the grass grow and die. They had a great used book section (almost 1/2 the store) that they kept moving by having sales...

Gen Y doesn't control more wealth...they spend more money. Big difference there. In the U.S. 35 - 54 earned over 2400 Billion Dollars in 2005, under 35 earned under 1400 Billion Dollars. In that same year 70%+ of 34-54 were home owners, under 35 had about 45% home owners.

Based on newstand support, there should be more wargamers then RPGers. Current Wargame magazines: http://www.miniwargames.com/ http://www.battlegames.co.uk/ http://www.wargamesillustrated.net/ https://strategyandtacticspress.com/index.php...

Hi, pleased to meet you. I'll be 40 this year. There were plenty of gamers back in the olden times before the 80's boom, who do you think was buying Dragon magazine from issue #1 to Issue 32? I was a wargamer before I played D&D. For years I still considered myself a wargamer who simply...

There are a heck of a lot of them, they just dont' hang out on enworld. The grognards were the "old" guys in the game shop complaining about their hobby being overrun by RPGers.

No. Combatants being unable to exploit a foe repeatedly using the same tactics would suspend my Suspension of Disbelief.

Once the ancient golden ages are over everyone doesn't know how the "magic items" work and you certainly can't get any old smith (or syndicate bounty hunter) to build you one. People should know less in an age of decay and despair, certainly in a PoL setting where discovery and rediscovery...