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LOL, I actually *did* make my first set of dice!!! I started playing during the great dice shortage of 1979. So my basic set only came with chits. We played with those for months until we did some geometry in school. We had to make polyhedra out of cardboard, so we just numbered them and...

LOL, yeah that's sort of a telling detail too, I supoose. We all got your point, though, I was just having some fun. What I would do is to alter the story a bit so that the goblins were somehow responsible for spreading the disease that they are curing. That would change the dynamic...

I've met Mr. Hound and trust me, he's not nearly so well preserved in person. ;) Oh I'm 34, turning 35 on Robbie Burns Day. Playing since 1979 or 1980, I can never remember which summer it was. Cheers.

Leave it to an American to consider health care to be a luxury item. ;) Just kidding. It was just just begging to be said. Sorry if it offends anyone.

Actually, I think they are saying: We can't make any money off printing them but they are available as ESDs. That's the best we can do, sorry. C'mon, you might have a slim point if they weren't available at all. But you can have them if you want, just not in the form you want. I want them on...

And there are some restrictions on what you can include in your conversion. What it basically boils down to is the reader must already have the module for the conversion notes to make sense.

I believe this to be entirely true. In the real world, however, there would be no point in doing so. The reason why you use the d20 license is to at the very least indicate that your book uses rules that are similar to D&D so it won't take long to learn. Usually the d20 logo is used to...

As far as I know (I am not a lawyer, etc.) the d20 license requires a minimum of 5% Open Gaming Content, but does not define what that content must be -- it could be material directly from the SRD, or it could be completely new mechanics that don't even use a d20. The d20 license is more...

Nope, the second part of this statement is wrong. Maximum ranks is based on character level, not class level. Which column you read is determined by whether or not it is a class skill for any of your classes. So if you have one level in Bard you maximum ranks in Perform will always be...

Well, you could use a slightly more complex rationale and say that the check is to see if you know the answer, or can figure out the answer based on what you know. So if you roll, you are going for straight recall and might pull an obscure piece of info out of the air with a good roll, but if...

Re: Re: Bards - Why do so few people play them? I had a bard/ranger who got a lot of mileage out of Perform (Finger Juggling). He was a professional messenger. He could get a message to anyone, anywhere, whether by stealth or magic, and when he arrived he could fit right in delivering a...

I think that this is addressed in the FAQ, and the answer was "no". Beholders always float right-side up so they cannot bring all of their eyestalks to bear on a target below them. Cheers.

In my review of Little Keep in Black Gate magazine (the pertinent issue should be in bookstores soon) I alude to this. The feel of Little Keep is inconsistent. I think that it is sort of the nature of the beast, though, and probably unavoidable. There is a tension in Hackmaster between...

On the Ranger and Bard getting 6 skill points. I think that this would be well and good if they weren't concerned about backwards compatibility. It has long been a pet peeve of mine that bards and rangers essentially pay twice for basic class abilities (once for bumping another hypothetical...

If it were anywhere else but Carolina (or Phoenix, or LA) you could sell them in a few minutes at game time. I think that ugly baby contests draw bigger crowds than the 'Canes, though. Heck, in Toronto you could open your kitchen window and yell out an announcement and you would have a few...

Most group licenses are designed to address the needs of official corporations. At least in my experience as a librarian dealing with print journals and the like. The licenses very clearly define who and who is not a part of your organization for the purpose of sharing/copying the product in...

On the other hand, you could just roll 2d10 and simultaneously translate the rules that refer to a "Natural 1" to "Natural 2". Wouldn't that provide a bell curve with pretty much the same range of possibilities. Average roll will increase from 10.5 to 11 due to the loss of the number 1, but...

I'm not trying to put words in Orcus' mouth, but I think that the three categories he presents are dependent on how you identify your OGC. If you have a statement that says something like, "all spells are open game content, except for the names of the spells and the text labled 'Description'"...

How about: "Fletchings and Yew: a bowyer's own guide." ;-)

Test. Um, Test.