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Yeah, I would love to see an OGL for 5e, but I hold out zero hope that it will happen. Here's how I see Hasbro suits as describing the effect of the OGL: 1) Cannibalized sales. Before, if people had X dollars to spend on an RPG, we had to hope they would want to buy D&D. Now, even if they...

I don't think that any of the three- sex, love, or romance- has really been a part of the games that I have been a part of. In the last ten years I've mostly done PbP, which tended to be more tactically/kick-in-the-doors-style focused than some IRL games are. Back in the day when I played more...

I don't think the mechanical imbalance is enough to be worth mentioning. That being said, I'm skeptical of how useful the pouch of a quasi-marsupial race would be for storage- things could get a bit sticky or mucousy in there (which is true in kangaroos). The pouch would be a bit tender to be...

That seems reasonable, as long as the spell doesn't benefit the user of the cursed item. A free Mage armor or Mount spell under the users control could be a nice perk, even if it is unpredictable. I would add that beneficial spells always affect opponents and harmful spells always target...

You're completely misunderstanding the intent and how this works in practice. It isn't about trying to frustrate the DM on the fly, it is about the DM and the players being in agreement before hand that they are going to take a more flexible approach to the narrative structure of the game...

That's what I would expect. D&D is just not very relationship-oriented in general, and neither are most of the other major RPGs. I would consider playing a gay character in something like Vampire (if I played) as it might make for an interesting plot hook, but assigning a sexual orientation...

Not sure how to get real numbers, but I can think of some relative population considerations. I think there are a couple things to consider: 1) how good is the race at question at growing, hunting, or gathering food? 2) how fertile is the land they occupy? 3) What is their breeding/replacement...

Not at all. I don't play fighters, or really care what they do. I am simply saying that spells in editions 0-3 worked in largely the same way that powers work in 4e. There are written descriptions of when the spell can be cast, under what circumstances, what rolls are required, and what...

Which speaks to my point earlier about different DM's having different strengths and different play styles. You would like to have the story more fixed and improvise more on the rules. Others would like to have the rules more fixed and improvise more of the story.

But there have always been players that had that kind of freedom- spell casters. A wizard casts fireball. He rolls his hit and succeeds. The spell does the stated damage in the rules to the stated number of opponents. If the DM thinks it is reasonable, it might set some things in the...

This is a little odd to me. Someone makes a camp character- a style I primarily associate with double-entendre comedies from the 70's- and then is surprised when the most memorable thing about the character is that a lot of sexual innuendos were made? Would the response have been the same if...

Why look it up if you feel it slows things down too much? The fact that somewhere out there in the world a published rule exists doesn't compel you to use it. It's perfectly fine to use published rules for those situations you most frequently expect to encounter, and then improvise for the...

I thought the idea was that dice spending was an add-on to your ordinary attack- so you make your normal attack, then spend a die if you want to make a trip. Alternatively, you just make a trip attack and do no damage.

I'd like to see guidance, rather than absolute restrictions (though, obviously, restrictions in the RAW could always be ignored). In general, I think that it's too hard for new players or people who aren't mathematical min/maxers to separate feats and feat chains that are useful for their...

That was my thought too- all of the terrains that have been mentioned are either 1) no easier to walk on while you're on them, or 2) actually harder (slick, moving, downhill, etc.) For a moving sidewalk-type terrain, while you are on it it is just like a regular floor. You move faster relative...

A sword that grants x-ray vision rather than a +3 bonus isn't really cursed; it's just a Sword of X-Ray Vision with a deceptive aura- inconvenient for a moment, but hardly something I would call a curse. Even if a Ring of X-Ray Vision appears to be a Cape of Feather Fall until it is actually...

Blerg. I have to say, my enjoyment of the latest book was rather spoiled by the fact that it had been so long since the prior one came out that I no longer remembered who a lot of the minor characters were who have now moved closer to the forefront. And since I had borrowed the first books in...

I've previously used MediaWiki (the software that runs Wikipedia) as my storage medium for campaign info. If you have webhosting you are already paying for, it is usually pretty easy to throw on a server and make selectively visible if you want to share things with your players. You can also...

None of them are "deal breakers" for me (whatever that might mean) as long as they fit with the context of the game world they were set in. Having swordsages turn up without notice in a setting where they never existed before would be irksome, but its happened before and it will happen again...

That's an interesting idea- one thing that is lacking in the combat system for any edition of D&D (or form most games I've ever seen) is the notion of how tiring being in hand-to-hand combat is, particularly if you've not trained for it. There is no way, for instance, to run a fight using...