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Maybe, maybe not. But the nearest lion to London was at least 1,500 miles away. I'm pretty sure the militiaman of England could recognize the seal or the bison or the wild boar, the dangerous animals of their country. I'm sure the Maasai, who lived in a country with lions, could recognize them...

TSR vs. Mayfair (1984) ended up with Mayfair having a perpetual, royalty-free license to use the AD&D trademark with the Role-aids line. It's pretty clear that TSR knew they didn't have a leg to stand on when they made that agreement, but I'm pretty sure the details weren't all public at the...

As a player, I haven't seen much reward in making a lot of connection; it's likely to get ignored in game. A church character can usually keep up with his church, but anything else seemed likely to just get ignored in game.

But that's not really the point. I'm watching what Frog God Games and friends are doing, and if it comes time that I release something for Pathfinder, it might behoove me to try and cover "Fifth Edition" too. (That is mostly hypothetical but possible.) If WotC comes down on Frog God Games...

How about 9. It's not good enough that it's old, or that someone told you it was public domain. In the US, the general rules is 95 years from publication; in the UK and EU and many other places, 70 years from death of the author; in India 60 years from death; in the largest chunk of the world...

Yes. However, having an illegitimate heir hidden in the church might actually reduce the problem; at least now we're arguing over church orphans, rather then whatever puppets anyone trying to seize power can grab and turn into an "illegitimate heir".

The child would not exactly be a legitimate heir, and would most likely be at best one of several claimants to the throne, including likely several other children abandoned around the same time.

Not as far as I know. The Epic rules and the Psionic rules were both added to the SRD and show up in downloads of the original RTF files. Unearthed Arcana wasn't; it was released under the OGL. If you open a copy of the Epic Level Handbook, you'll see that it says there is no Open Gaming...

Traditionally they often get a bunch of orphans and abandoned children, too, so it's not improbable that he may never know, unless the story demands it.

They weren't; if you look through http://www.enworld.org/forum/showwiki.php?title=d20:Revised-d20-System-Reference-Document , you won't find them. They're at http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/adventuring/actionPoints.htm , but that's text from Unearthed Arcana, not the SRD.

It certainly shows that, but the result is that their stuff is not called "Epic", leaving the label "epic" to WotC's above 20th level material.

For something like a roleplaying game, "a better game" is one that impacts many tables positively. Far from not needing to worry about the issue of how it works in play, "a better game" means that you need to worry about a broader spectrum of how it works in play.

Except that the fact that Paizo named their book "Mythic Adventures" cements the idea that Epic means above 20.

Because I quoted you saying that we don't know this. Those are two contradictory statements. For the same reason we can't just look at an airplane engine and figure out how it's going to work, as the designers of the 737-400 found when one of there planes crashed on the M1 due to engine...

Err... If we don't know how the mainstream player plays the most common game on the market, how on Earth are we going to build a theoretical model of how a game acts in play?

That's not an objective question. It doesn't matter how much data you could have, you could redirect the budget of the NSA, FBI and CIA to surveilling gamers, wiretapping their houses, installing cameras over their gaming tables, and analyzing the data, and you still couldn't answer that...

I didn't say it would or wouldn't, but it's an example of where technology in the fiction is completely here, which goes to the question I was responding to. It could in theory be verified, and we certainly do know for some major games in what ways many people play them in off-brand ways. In...

Interesting. When I ran Curse of the Crimson Throne (my Golarion campaign mentioned previously) I made Korvosa a much less homogenous city then it was canonically, with many more elves and dwarves and two additional major races, ratfolk and kobolds. The other setting I talked about is almost...

What do we call Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea today?

No, it's not. The US Copyright Office FAQ says "Copyright does not protect names, titles, slogans, or short phrases. In some cases, these things may be protected as trademarks." You can use advantage / disadvantage with WotC rules in your own games.