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And I'm not seeing a single moral issue. All work is built on prior work in one fashion or another, creative, technological or (as RPGs are) combinations of the two. The question isn't whether you're using prior art; the question is whether you're bringing something new to the table while...

That's a good idea. It may well be that Malwarebytes is taking one look and noping me out of it. Hmmm. Apparently that isn't easy to do with the non-Enterprise version of Chrome without installing an extension.

Rules design is not functional IP for any purpose that matters in the hobby. Rules expression can be copyrighted, but rules themselves can't be. There's evidence they could be theoretically patented, but no one goes through the trouble of doing so as you'd need to do it with individual rules...

The players collectively having a veto power. That's why I said it requires thinking not only individual players aren't capable, but even that the majority is incapable. For that not to be true, you have to, at best, think the majority of the group won't bother to engage with the houserule...

I'm not hostile in principal to random encounters, but can't say I've used them for anything for many years. Of course a fair number of games I run they'd just make no sense in.

I haven't been to a con in many years now, and its been a very long time since I went to them regularly.

Been getting a lot of of abrupt error pages indicating "This site can't provide a secure connection" followed by "starprize.za.com sent an invalid response". Anyone know what this is all about? Is it just me?

Hey, has anyone been getting some odd error messages from this thread (and only this one)? I'd gotten the impression it was indicating a broken ad, but its strange its only coming up here. Edit: And then right after I post this I get it in another thread. Carry on. I'll mention it in Meta.

And here's the problem; even if individuals sometimes don't think things through as well as they could, this assumes the group as a group, will do a worse job than the GM does. This requires, at best, a really bad atittude toward players as a group to assume. It only works if you assume the...

Well, gestures (which that is) are one of those things that are in their way, as varied as language.

I'm not sure I believe that's true with regular archers, and I think it requires a particular look at things to even believe it with mages with area effects. What its largely done is make it hard for a spellcaster to have a dramatic effect on a higher level opponent with any one spell. And I...

Well, as I might have implied, I consider the Hero System in many ways simpler than a number of editions of D&D because everything is genuinely built to a common metric, whereas in D&D there are special cases galore, even if most of them are character definitional rather than core rules elements.

Well, me too far as that goes, but I'll note there are a fair number of people out there who still seem to dislike PDFs, so...

I think the point is, you can't expect high quality art, paper and covers and then expect game books to not be relatively pricey. And game publishers don't have the option of having it both ways; if they're publishing for the people who expect high quality books, they're unlikely to do separate...

I'd argue, as I mostly did above, that's because PF2e being heavily evolved from 3e era and 4e era D&D, is very strongly exception based.

It was late so I probably didn't express it well. Let's say you're thinking about running across a set of broken turf, jumping over an obstacle, climbing up a short wall and disabling a automated weapon system. (Assuming here that you're using a system that actually distinguishes failure on...

I vaguely remember that too.

The problem is you have to do this every time, and project it down a series of events in many cases. Its not only one event that you have to have a sense of. The difference is you don't have to do it constantly. Because a lot of things are predefined.

Doesn't work. I've played with people I knew at least for two decades for that period (including all of my current group three of whom I've known for approaching a half century now) and you'll note I've not exactly been a fan of top-down game adminstration without limits.

As we've noted before, Lanefan, not all of us play with people who are incapable of understanding that sometimes things good for the game as a whole can impact them negatively. Admittedly, the majority of people I play with have at least GMed some of the time.