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Yup. This has been pointed out many times about D&D in the past, along with the fact that "plate mail" is kind of like saying "cotton wool" or something else nonsensical. I wasn't merely trying to be a pedant, though, I was trying to figure out what style of armor was meant in that post by...

Your two polls (2a/2b), don't quite match, 2b is missing "Hygiene: superior". Not really sure what that option would mean, anyway; hygiene seems like a binary state to me, you either have it or you don't :)

What do you mean by "mail"? Mail is just another word for chain. It's not a style or shape of armor. You can have a mail hauberk, shirt, leggings, collar, or coif, and so on.

Look! It has the pallisade! That's so cool. My charcter in Travis's game helped build that pallisade. Wow, I just totally geeked out, didn't I?

Orb of Force is in Complete Arcane, and is a ranged touch attack. Is that what you mean? Spiritual weapon is a force spell which attacks a target at range.

Is it in Maztica? I liked the old Maztica stuff for 2nd edition. It had character.

It's extraordinarily rude to post private emails without the permission of the people you've been talking to. It's also a rediculous way of throwing a tantrum because you didn't get your way. You've been given an answer, you didn't like it, so you start trying to drag people through the mud...

Lately, I've read Armor (Steakley), Kleopatra (Karen Essex), and just finished re-reading Starship Troopers. I'm re-reading Flatlander (Niven), the collected short stories about Gil the Arm. It's been just long enough that I don't quite remember all the details of the mysteries, so rereading...

There isn't an "actual" formula, just an approximation, that's why you need 6 degrees of factors to get it to work. Ie Ax^5 + Bx^4 + Cx^3 + Dx^2 + Ex^1 + F = starting gold for level x. :)

They just made them up. I'm impressed that you got that to work, though. I tried to do that a year or so ago and couldn't get it to work right. Care to post the formula?

It's not in the SRD because they didn't want to include information about creating and advancing characters in the SRD. It is a rule, and whether something is open content or not has no bearing on asking and answering rule questions. If you have a specific question, just ask, somebody probably...

I was looking through the d20 future SRD, since I haven't seen a copy of the book on any shelves locally, and was surprised to see that the PL descriptions were copied word for word from the original Alternity text. It works as well for d20 future as it did for Alternity, since it was never...

That's what they looked like, too.

Most of the time, unless you are significantly more mobile than your opposition, it's not possible to get away, in game, unless they choose to let you go. By "significantly", I mean, you can fly and they can't, everyone in your group has a higher speed than everyone in theirs, or you can...

A good example of this is the 3.0 Evard's Black Tentacles spell. It was a huge pain in the butt- first you randomly determine the number of tentacles you got, then figure out where they appeared (typically drawing their origin on the battle mat), then figure out which characters each tentacle...

No, you're just wrong. It's not comparing Gallipoli to Gettysburg, or even the western front to Gettysburg. It's comparing Gettysburg to Pea Ridge, and WWI trench warfare to Gallipoli. It's entirely about proportion and history. In the sphere of the American Civil War, Gettysburg is vastly...

Make it disappear slowly. Like, everybody starts off with a +10 bonus to AC, saves, and DR 10. It diminishes by 1 each round/(whenever you say so). They standoff, because the first attack will have to overcome the penalty, but there's an escalating temptation to think, "ok, it's down to +6, I...

The experience penalty rule exists to discourage exactly the min-maxing class dipping you're trying. This rule is working as designed, no problem here. Suck it up.

According to gateworld, that's an episode in season 3. I've seen all the episodes of stargate, I think, and I don't remember them ever revisiting that topic, though. Can't come up with anything besides that one episode in google, either. About the pyramids, in the original movie, the goa'uld...

Only fought one in a game lately, but it wasn't particularly tough. It suffers the same problem as most any big, ground-bound monster, really. It has a reasonable amount of hit points but a miserable AC, and can't do much to highly mobile PCs. And yeah, it gets lots of attacks for having lots...