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This kind of thing makes us all as a fanbase look really ungrateful.

I would agree Jeff. For myself, I see my time as a firfighter as an extension of my early crusader nature. Medicine was a logical multiclass. I am looking at a sweet Emergency Physician PrC. The biggest hurdle at this point is that I need the Time Management Feat.

So time to chime in. I am an old school gamer. I started with BECMI->AD&D->AD&D 2nd->3.x I was always trying to fix 3.x. It never worked quite right for me. There were things that I liked in 3.x mostly because they were a way to play besides the standard D&Disms (psionics were just a way to...

Oh, and by the way, I found the pdfs. I just didn't get them. I just wanted to do a little fact finding on this whole issue.

This whole thing has been exciting and unfortunate all at once. I wish I had the books. I will not get the illegal pdfs though. That being said, I would actually rather have legal pdfs than physical books. Is there any way that WotC will release legal pdfs? It has been shown that pdfs will be...

You are right, I was just whining. At the same time, right now the a** holes win, no? It's not like I actually bugged the guy at the store. I can wait. I did look online for the torrent files. They are there. I didn't get them. But they are there. It is interesting how this is working out. The...

My salary is negative considering that I am a medical student. Prior to that I was a firefighter and made $65k. Salary is expected to go up a little in residency for me, then way up after. ;) Getting multiple degrees seems to hurt your earning power for quite a while, then not necessarily help...

In order to ease my mind on this whole illegal pdf thing, I went down to the local bookstore. It is a chain, so the guy didn't know the whole hubub going on. I told him that some people have gotten their books already and I was wondering if they had them in. I said I understand that they aren't...

That is very good to see, even with the bird. I guess that the torrent people just waited until the books were shipped to someone. Some posts are still being heavily modded.

There are many reports of torrents all over the various boards. I really hope that wasn't the source of our leaks. The word is that the torrents have the printers proofs on them. Some insider job. It would be a huge coincidence if the torrents happened to come out the same day as someone...

The way you have stated this, I would actually think it would give a better platform for presenting the theme of what is worth killing and what is worth dying for, because like in real life, there are no redos or get out of jail frees. These types of mechanics would just get in the way of making...

Thanks Lizard. I value your opinion on this, even if we are likely on different sides of teh 4e/3.x divide.

LostSoul this sounds reasonable. To make it not "illusionist" for nar, all you have to do is make sure that there is actual player protagonism. Since player protagonism is the province of nar, taking it away without revealing or aknowledging that you have will create "illusionist narrativism"...

I think that I will use all the crunch as is, at least at first. I will change all the fluff though. All races will be humans. The races in the PHB just reflect different natural abilities of each of the characters. Dragonborn might have a mystical heritage or fate, but they look human. Same...

If there is any problem with this it is in the fact that your proposed blowgun does even 1 HP damage. Does it make any sense that 35 tiny darts should take out a 1st level fighter. No, it doesn't. What makes sense is that if we assume that a weapon can do enough damage to any character in game...

So in essence, a simulationist game can only be achievable if the participants agree to confine their simulationist tendencies to areas that the game handles well in a sim fashion, and agree to play by less sim, say nar or gam, when the game decides to venture into the areas usually referred to...

I would probably pay as much, maybe even more, for pdfs. I am practically fused to my laptop. I also am a bike commuter. Physical books suck for that kina lifestyle. I get an online copy of all my med school books for free with the purchase of the hardbacks, but this isn't as good as a pdf. I...

I would actually say that since minion status is in relation to PCs anyway, there are no 21st level minions until the PCs are much higher level than 1st. I am not sure of the cutoff, but I do know that 21st level minions do not exist for 1st level PCs. No inherent problem of accidental leveling...

Thunderfoot, if this was my thread, I would concede that the historical aspects of D&D have lessened quite a bit. I think that this is not what most people object to when they say that 4e is less realistic than 3.x. The usual gripe is more centered on the physics aspects. More specifically that...

The problem with this premise is that you will get either no posts, or somewhat ranchorous posts either for the premise or stating examples that won't hold up. Because simulating reality is not possible in a fantasy game.