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While this sort of thing is very high on reality, it is very low on playability. It requires lots of tedious paperwork that you just know some of the players will accidentally overlook (some will overlook it deliberately). Unless the GM is a stickler, the GM will overlook it some of the time...

The Arc of Heaven.

Mark, shhh! You're revealing some secrets.

I feel that you are exaggerating the situation. Balance is a contributor to better game play, not a silver bullet, not a panacea, nor have I personally run across serious claims that it was. I know.

I'll review it.

Take the first post of this topic: http://www.enworld.org/forum/media-lounge-miscellaneous-geek-stuff/312424-light-darkness-star-wars-fan-film.html When I view it, it has one short paragraph and a huge field of blank space below it. There is nothing that can be selected. If I quote the post...

You're in a party with a rogue. Your suspect list is limited. Buy some small caltrops, cover them with deep black soot, and fill your pouches with them. The next time he steals from you, he'll hurt his hands (he better not have magic gloves protecting his hands at level 2), bleed all over...

D&D 3.0 > 3.5 was my favorite TSR/WotC game overall, extending to Pathfinder from Paizo now. I liked 3.x over AD&D, BECMI, and the original because of vastly superior systems for character creation (excluding all splat books), character balance, character advancement, spell design, magic...

1. Make ISPs treat all their customers equally by deploying and maintaining equal quality infrastructure everywhere. 2. Force ISPs to actually begin deploying modern equipment upgrades (by dipping into Senior Executive bonuses and golden parachutes, not by increasing already beyond-ridiculous...

I'm one of those posters using what appears to me as the default EnWorld "skin" that has the entire background color as black. I have to select your text to make it readable.

Pursuit of game balance is not a cult undertaking. Assigning the word cult to game balance places it in a derogatory category. Game balance is a critical aspect of game design for many, many reasons. One aspect of game balance is between character classes, or within whatever character...

I'm jealous. The longest two campaigns I've played each lasted 1.5 years. The longest game I ran was eight months. The longest multi-campaign (nine) spanning game I've heard of up until now has been a Traveller game documented over at Foreven.com, running since 1982.

Extra options are always nice, however it seems that so much splat turns out to be ill-considered and barely playtested that it is useless from a DM's perspective, while players sit and clamor to use it. Splat needs as much, or more, playtesting and pruning than the main rules. Worse, splat...

I haven't done a penny of business with Ama-whatever-com in almost ten years. They repeatedly gave me the short end of the stick on various issues, and I just decided I wasn't going to spend my money there. I'm the sort of person who spends $3,000 to $5,000 per year on books, too; basically...

I've been thinking about how much it would cost to mount fore and after cameras on my vehicle to record each day's round trip to work. I could then run a Daily Death Race segment for a video log on YouTube with voice-over commentary. [Yeah, this is a total pipe dream, but nice.]

If that were a condition, then it would be a different story. It would be worth it to stop those who sacrificed other lives to a spell to extend their own lives.

That was a crock as far as I am concerned. "Hi, I am going to kill you because you used beneficial forces* to raise yourself a bunch of times." How is that different than being healed a bunch of times? It isn't. I call this Inevitable activity murder as plain as any demon laying waste to a...

Such magical principles as what? This description leaves me with no idea what this feat does. The mechanics further below do tell me what is going on, but I recommend rephrasing as: "The character has a special insight that allows him to predict ahead of time what magical principles will...

No superpowers here, but I have long wanted a minor superpower: The ability to cast my voice into one or more selected vehicles to give people a critique of their driving ability, or rather, the lack thereof.

I can confirm this. The author basically stepped into the world of fantasy with an absolutely brilliant first novel, and the follow-on is excellent, as well. He blends various branches of magic as-nearly-science, a magic school to enter the company of the best of Fantasy, fey, legends...