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For my homebrew I created some very heavily altered races, in an effort to make them more alien. Elves, The Star People, are extremely tall and thin and emaciated and have completely inhuman skin tones and eye colors, etc. They approach looking like the Genosians (sp?) from Episode II or the...

But this is precisely why, no matter how strenuously you insist that you're not moralizing or taking a superior tone, people will read that in what you write, no matter how flowery you make it.

Re: playing to the masses PLONK

Ah . . . I think people are reading much more nefarity in my comments than I intended. I'm not trying to start a flame war, honest :). Certainly not. I said as much. Women tend not to be as strong as men, but I'm saying that capping out strength like that, where it's not counterbalanced by...

When I'm DMing, it's open at the table. If anyone tries to mess around, I yell at them and humiliate them and make them wet themselves and then show everyone how they shamed themselves.

I'm not sure what that is :). But I'm being sincere. I figured I'd take the post at face value and talk about what I didn't like about 1E. Beyond the obvious stuff, that sexism bit always really rubbed me the wrong way.

I was always uncomfortable with the sexism in the "max ability score" charts for strength. I mean, yes, we know that on average women are not as strong as men. However, there was no "max con score" chart for men, or a shorter lifespan, even though both things are well documented for real life...

It is, in my experience, a myth. I'm a 1st Edition player who played 2nd Edition for a while, then graduated to other games. 3rd Edition makes the game playable again. It's not my favorite game, but it's all that my friends will play :), so it's what I've got to live with. I probably...

Well, what are we talking about? Popularity? Gross income? I'd still like to see the proof, but I could at least see that being possible. If instead the arguement is that increasingly adult content invariably leads to a loss in profitability, I don't believe that would be the case, if one...

Re: The Value of Vile Just when I start despairing for the human race, I see stuff like this post. Excellent.

Re: Re: Re: What about the Bull? I hadn't been able to find it so far, though if it's already out, wonderful. I'll be picking it up ASAP. Nevertheless, I'd hazard a guess this guy didn't look at it. And the points still stand on BOVD. And, furthermore, there's no context for "it's schlocky."...

Re: How many Manshoons? Why doesn't the government use nuclear bombs to deal with street drug dealers? Why doesn't Robert DeNiro star in every single movie, and why isn't every single movie directed by Steven Soderberg on a script by Quentin Tarantino? Because there're too many movies being...

Re: Dude, check it out. But how can you know a product is schlocky if you can't have possibly read it yet? City of the Spider Queen isn't out. Book of Vile Darkness isn't out. How can you determine they're schlocky? And what does Book of Vile Darkness have to do with Forgotten Realms? You...

I would like to know exactly what this data is, and what the source is. In other words, I don't believe it. I think it's a lie. Not that you're lying, but that you were lied to.

See, the problem I have with this way of doing things (the rend example illustrates it pretty clearly though there are other examples from your post) is that it takes all the storytelling out of the game. It winds up being, "you have taken 3 points of damage," rather than a description of what...

Re: What about the Bull? City of the Spider Queen isn't out yet. How do you know it sucks? Book of Vile Darkness is both not out, and not for Forgotten Realms. So how do you know it sucks? And how does it relate to Forgotten Realms? Or this is more about you wanting to flame pointlessly?

I completely ignore the whole problem. After all, it's not Taxes and Levies, it's Dungeons and Dragons. Or as my PC in one game would put it when people argue about what route to take or how to dispense wealth or any other mundane thing, "I don't care! There's no way this is going to make it...

I didn't want to use "mature" because people misinterpret (I'm not sure if it's purposeful or not) how the word is used. How's this: "I prefer a more not-for-all-audiences game." Pretty clunky but at least it removes the bugaboo of anyone's feelings getting hurt. That's not really a valid...

I believe Monte was referring to the arch-fiend statistics more than anything else, though I can guarantee you that there is an audience for mature content. That really adds nothing to the discussion, though. I can say (truthfully) that I sent the announcement about the upcoming book to friends...

Why thank you :). Take them with my compliments. I worked on the balance quite a bit. Suffice it to say while at first blush their powers might look a little better than those of the planetouched, I think their specificity offsets it. Suffice it to say, I don't think that those mods equal...