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When TSR was assembling the book with every spell ever written for D&D, they found one in a footnote in a book that had no other spells in it. In which GURPS book did Cartography appear in? GURPS Terradyne. I don't know if it was first, but I suspect whatever it was, it was every bit as obscure...

The CC is not all-or-nothing; it can cover any copyrightable work, including part of a book. One can publish a CC-BY-SA work in an anthology that is otherwise copyrighted. The phrase "public domain" is a bad one here; the CC licenses never declare anything to be public domain. They declare...

As I said, I was being pedantic in response to someone telling us what we really wanted. There exists a system reference document of some sort, and it does us no good without a license. For small games, maybe. Maybe I'm underestimating most gaming companies, but I'd assume that Steve Jackson...

You think there has ever been a RPG company that wasn't completely half-assed that didn't have an SRD, a system reference document? I didn't say that it was OGLed or publically released, but I'm sure there is a document at Hasbro that has a list of what material is official and may not be...

Since now seems to be the time to be pedantic, there is a new SRD. There is a document, along with the associated books, web pages, Word files, whatever, that specifies what sources are reference material for D&D 5, and which books, web pages, etc., can be contradicted or ignored in new...

So? The first are not people that WotC cares about; if WotC could take an action that would get rid of half the players without books and make the other half buy books, they would do it. Even the second group... the people who bought crates of books are the ones that made the money for WotC...

The FLGS is always dying. It's a marginal business at best. Moreover, I've never seen a FLGS that sold only RPGs; most of them seem to make most of their money off board games, Magic, Warhammer, etc. If everyone suddenly stopped playing RPGs over the next few years, my FLGSs would simply phase...

0.01% is one part in ten thousand. There's at least a couple dozen people who have posted on this thread; are there really a quarter million people on EN World? If it's a few hundred people online, then there are few tens of millions of D&D players out there, which seems a bit high for current...

Why equal? People want to play in the D&D 5 sandbox. Savage Worlds Deluxe: Explorer's Edition is the 30,000th best selling book at Amazon; the 5E PHB is #169. (Still?!?) Savage Worlds is presumably an awesome system to use, but D&D 5 is a system whose name moves product. Even ignoring that...

What I want to say is that they murdered him. Because when you're using threats of violence, and people stop obeying you and you use actual violence, and they end up dead, that's what it is. Yes, people engage in self-rationalization, but that doesn't change the facts. If you said, yes, when...

That would be where discussion breaks down. You've made a claim that a certain death is accidental. What's the model? I propose that "a death caused by an assault in the course of committing a crime that wasn't specifically meant to cause death is accidental" would fit your claims. I don't see...

It matters to some people. Not everyone is going to rush out to publish for a system just because you have a legal argument about the matter. It didn't work for WotC back in the day; hopefully Hasbro is less litigious than Palladium. Besides that, there's some gentleman's ideals about not...

So it's outrageous if the Canadians don't follow the rule of law as you see it on LFN terrorists, and it's outrageous if the US doesn't go after innocent citizens not connected to Timothy McVeigh? Maybe the fact you didn't see a huge war on rightwing terrorism after the Oklahoma City bombing...

What should be done? I'm not aware of any of the recent terrorists having any sort of group affiliation, which makes them very hard to stop. Follow up on every loudmouth on public TV and Stormfront (and other hate sites)? It's rather intrusive, involves following up thousands of people for...

It is not true that radical right-wing groups have killed 48 people since 9/11. You seem to be referring to the The New America Foundation report; on NPR, the director says That's different; the problem is Timothy McVeigh and the others are not part of an extended terrorism group. I know many...

I see. The argument that the Twin Towers bombing got insufficient response because the organization behind it subsequently murdered 3,000 people is a strawman? That's non-responsive. If the actions committed by these terrorists in furtherance of the kidnapping of Laporte that in and of...

A lot of people talking about the plane crashing into the Pentagon. It's certainly true that what we see is real to us, and the WTC buildings were quite visual. But: Six died in the bombings of the Twin Towers. 168 died in the Oklahoma City Bombings, and all remotely connected were promptly...

So you argue that the Twin Towers bombing in the 1990s, the lack of response to ultimately leading to 9/11, is a justification for not responding to terrorism? If a mugger shoots you and takes your wallet, is it an accident if you die? Laporte was trying to exercise his legal right to leave...

One goal of many ethnic/religious terrorists is to provoke an response by the government, and thus push all the moderate people in that ethnic/religious group towards supporting the extremists. The whole point of terrorism in any case is to provoke a response, and it's entirely possible that if...

Is there any reason to think that Hasbro noticed this? Hasbro as Hasbro has been dealing with people making cheap knockoffs of Barbie and GI Joe and everything else for years, and ultimately anything selling 0.1% of Hasbro's product that's not crossing the lines is ignorable. In some ways, in...