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What was wrong with either of them that the title wouldn't warn you about? The only problem I've heard about Nyambe is that the audience for African adventures wasn't huge, and that's a problem that could have been seen up front.

The problem is if they don't want to use the OGL, it would be exactly the basic set they most want to protect. If they OGL the Basic Set, they've lost control over 5E; people can extend any part of it freely and even clone it. With the 3E OGL, what's left might be a nuisance, but not more then...

What's bad about it? I've never played in a group that used third-party stuff for PCs, with the limited cases of the 3e Dragonlance books in a Dragonlance campaign, and a group that's now using a set of 3rd party PF psionics rules. It's easy to include only official stuff and exclude the...

But in terms of the industry, this is a platform issue, important for developers, not just fans. It's like developers waiting on Google or Microsoft or Apple to declare how something will work, so they know whether to jump platforms or not.

The point of trademark is let a company build a brand, so if you buy a Ford, you know that it's backed by the Ford company (for better or worse). But they wanted third parties to be able to make parts compatible with a Ford F150 or Windows XP or D&D, so you can use the name on your product, but...

Eh. From what I've heard, during the high part of the D&D craze, middle school students were playing D&D; I bet many of them hadn't read more than a handful of adult books at all. And it's easy to pick on elements of Appendix N that nobody was ever reading; Worldcat says that The Shadow People...

It seems like asking the question of how integral Faerûn is a Forgotten Realms sourcebook/adventure. It varies; some you can drop into Greyhawk or Eberron without hesitation, some are incredibly hard to do so. Gothic horror could be run in any setting, though full-on D&D can make it hard*. But...

Like HPs. It is no more and no less then a separate source of HPs that take effect in different ways.

Why stress about it? It's like in GURPS 3, there was a skill point of max of twice the character's age in years, but not in GURPS 4. Sean Punch said that that was because people didn't actually follow the rule, and that it was realism where realism wasn't fun. If they want to play a 12 year old...

What's your point, besides needing the last word?

What, pray-tell, do you think a lower form of entertainment means? That they're stored lower on the shelf? combat/tactical, not tactical combat. No PC is perfect. But they can all strive to be the best they can be. Which is not a concept in Pathfinder. As far as I can tell, you're not...

You think you can say something is a "lower form of entertainment" without saying something about the people who play it? Do you think that doesn't reek with contempt for people who play those games? Again, when you brag about empathy, it really hurts your case when you show none. I've played...

If you want others to have fun, you need to listen to them. It is not at all fun to be spending hours in combats where I'm not doing anything effective. If you don't care about that, then it's not true that you want me to have fun in the game.

If I'm at the table, it's to have fun. If you want to discourage your table from optimizing, you need to understand That's amazing empathy there, by dismissing other games as "lower forms of entertainment". So let's ignore the games that everyone else is playing and act like your game is the...

My characters in Pathfinder are not generally from Earth. This character, unsurprisingly, is from Golarion. No, it's a bit like being a fey-blooded human or fey-blooded dwarf.

I gave you a name: Simo Häyhä. Explain to me how that's not true about Simo Häyhä. And they're called henchmen. I play a game to have fun. Lecturing me that I shouldn't, that I should tolerate that I should spend hours of my life twiddling my thumbs watching other people get to play, doesn't...

Oh, sure. But I don't think a DM asking why won't the PC join the thieves guild is putting it that way, because then why the PC does or doesn't join should be pretty obvious at that point. As for Kamikaze Midget's list of bennies, a lot of that stuff is irrelevant in many games; I only care...

My Pathfinder character did not choose to be a kitsune or to be fey-blooded, or probably to some extent a sorcerer at all. But once he discovered that he had the power to bend people's minds to his will, why would he take any other route then doing those things that would maximize that power? If...

If you offer a hook, then I know that you're going to take that hook. If a DM took a backstory and then specifically asked me for connections, talking personally to me, then I'd be a lot more interested in actually offering connections. Other people may have different problems, but I would...

I optimize because I have never had so little fun in a game as when I was playing those couple characters where I felt that my character should not engage the enemy because the damage he was going to do the enemy was less then it would cost to heal the damage he was going to take. I will not...