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    Why are Magic Items listed in the PHB?

    Hardly, in episodes 1-3 a heck of a lot of people have lightsabers and they weren't as cool any more.
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    Copyright protection fails to protect game mechanics

    Only a specific expression of a game is copyrightable, if it can be expressed in a different manner and not duplicate creative content it can be made.
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    Why are Magic Items listed in the PHB?

    which boxed set? All three books? Never happened in my experience.
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    How many monsters/encounter do you use in 3e?

    How about an entry for: Whatever fits the adventure/campaign. I lean towards status-quo DMing, the villains don't recruit CR1 door guards just because the PCs might be 1st level. Yes is still tend to follow rough level based guidlines a lot of the time, but not all of the time.
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    Why are Magic Items listed in the PHB?

    Yup Brilliant marketing at work. Kill multiple play styles and encourage half or more of the people who used to buy a DMG to NOT buy a DMG.
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    The Evolution of the Fighter

    always nice to see the numbers but OD&D->Moldvay Basic -> AD&D isn't evolutionary. OD&D-> OD&D w/supps ->AD&D -> AD&D w/UA -> 2nd ed -> 2ndw/PO -> 3E -> 4 OD&D-> OD&D w/supps ->Holmes Basic -> Moldvay basic -> Mentzer Basic (yeah holmes basic was basic to AD&D but not really it got developed...
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    A Campaign Without a Metaplot?

    I genrally run just such campaigns. I broke the trend the past year but am tryign to break out of the plot and back to open sandbox style play. Build some adventures that are site oriented for low level, mid and high level play. They don't have to be huge but they are there and fixed pieces of...
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    My Experience of 4e Marketing Failing

    The 3e basic game is pretty much crap. You did fine with BD&D because it wasn't crap (unless it was one of the later 90's versions). That being said it sure isn't an "epic fail"
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    Page XX?

    It's not "code" it's a document. My 2nd edition PHB had a page XX typo in it. Must have been a Wotc time travel publishing experiment.
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    Mike Mearls On the OGL

    He did outstanding work on OGL products. Including some evolutionary work. I'm sure that previous work done on OGL products , his creativity, ability to work with others and talent surely all had something to do with it.
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    FantasyGrounds Takes Legal Action Against WotC

    The WOTC copy is the FG version blurred. I just used "blur more" in photoshop on the FG image and sure enough they end up looking just like the WOTC image. I honestly think it was simply a mistake. The image was never supposed to go public. No need to make excuses or assume WOTC were acting...
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    New Microlite20 thread

    suggestions for d6 roll micorlite calculate stat bonus as (stat-10)/4 divide all DCs by 3 (drop fractions). do the same for ACs. (AC 10 becomes AC 3. AC 20 becomes AC 6.) a roll of 1 usually fails. unless someone is really good (bonus > DC) in which case they get to try again. (a second...
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    Mike Mearls On the OGL

    Conan may have come out but a super hero game built off of D20 is a super hero game built off of D20. The M&M attraction was it took D20 and made work in a crowded field in one corner of rpg land. Other super hero games came out using D20 and failed horribly and other superhero games have...
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    Was WoTC Always this Lazy?

    It isn't them being lazy sometiems corporations are slower then the DMV. To get a document online could involve- Someone gets an idea someone else approves the idea one person writes it hopefully one person edits it possibly one person fact chekcs (or number checks it) soemone assigns or...
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    Page XX?

    "page XX" is a pretty minor publishing error. Annoying but minor.
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    FantasyGrounds Takes Legal Action Against WotC

    Not a chance really.
  17. J

    FantasyGrounds Takes Legal Action Against WotC

    You will most likely get two different cubes. The camera type, the camera angle and position of th ecube will all help the result be two different cubes.
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    FantasyGrounds Takes Legal Action Against WotC

    Marketing material isn't simply a "mock up". It may indeed show an incomplete version of the product ( a mock up) but including the image in marketing materials is most certainly a violation of copyright. I go thru stuff like this all the time with customers- "no you can not use that image...
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    Mike Mearls On the OGL

    mongoose runequest SRD- http://www.mongoosepublishing.com/rpg/series.php?qsSeries=39 There is or will be a Traveller SRD. So lookie there Mongoose supports open gaming.
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    Mike Mearls On the OGL

    Nothing at all other then time and money stopped anyone from building a OGC wiki. No publisher of OGC material had any ability to do anything but whine once their originated OGC material made it into such a a wiki if properly cited. The real problem with such a wiki would be the citations...
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