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Let me rephrase it as less 'stream-of-concisouness-train-of-thought-as-I-think" it way. (Which may or may not actualy resemble what I said earlier, but is close to what I intended.) If your adventure is your setting, then, yes, you need the setting.

Depends on how you want to play the game. If your players just want hack and slash dungeon dwelving and don't seek to explore the setting, then you really don't need any setting background or anything besides the adventure at hand. If your players are there to explore a world, role play with...

I would agree with the first part, and disagree with the second. I managed to place most of the DMG PrCs into my homebrew with little trouble. Most are part of some organization that provides training (assassin, shadowdancer), some are more regional/cultural classes (dwarven defender, duelist)...

My personal problem with PrCs is that DMs allow them without implying that they are members of a larger organization. Classes are a matter of training and they should be gettign their training from somebody. I think the OP is just making an April Fool's post. Too generla and you just have a...

Once, the party and my character by default being the fighter got a really nice magic sword. Other events came up and we decided to sell it since it was worth more than the rest of the treasure we had at that point and couldn't be split. We got a bunch of money and another magic sword out of the...

We're doomed!

They've certainly produces a changed system. If it's better or not is in the eyes of the players which depends on if you agree with the changes or not. I like 3E better, but it still seems for every three steps forward they took two steps back., often changing the game into one I don't want to...

Well, the Red Wizards were always trying to become gods. One of them succeeded (with no small thanks to his mother and father). There was probably some bit of angst as the other Red Wizards did not want another god ruling over them which saw some turmoil such as Ceaser coming to power or Hitler...

Put Greyhawk someplace around Cromyr or otherwise near but south of the Dales. Make it the main opponent of Zhentil Keep (and I'm playing with the 1E boxed set of FR BTW with expansion and bits from the 3.x books, can't stand some of the things they did to the world in 2E & 3E). The supposed...

Ya, I always figured they could be a tree or rock or just about anything else in nature. They are intelligent, so they can form anything that makes sence to take the form of so long as the volume is correct. Besides, they're another one of those "are not natural creatures but were created long...

No, it's irrelevant that medieval nobles were straped for cash. Nobility and deficit spending has its advantages and that being that you can use credit to get what you need now and pay for it later, no matter if you can actually pay for it later. For that matter, I'm sure you can do reading of...

Well, as seen with the aquatic elf, the elvish race seems likely to adapt camoflage schemes when small populations are placed under stress in extreme conditions. Certainly such campflage is not strange compared to some even found in nature. The real question is why their hair is white...

All irrelevant as they can default on their payments to a wizard or cleric as easily as a fighter.

I did much of the same work on my own before I bought said books and came out with much the same answers (they are adressed in a long lost thread titled "Fantasy World Economics") and also found nobles to be rich enough to afford most magic items that could be produced by available...

I usually just role play any interactions and use what I consider common sence. If the player calls for a roll, we don't have time to roll play, or I am undecided how the NPC might act, I'll then resort to rolls. Still, friendly doesn't means slave or anything too out of the ordinary.

In medieval, I think it would look like the office of a wizard or cleric. He probably makes them too which is how he got into the business. Most major sales would go to the larger estates such as wizard colleges, rich nobles, or large temples who would be the only ones to have much 'in stock'...

Looked at bloodlines (mostly for flavor as to give the nobles a feeling of divine right), reputation, and spell points IMC, but not yet. Used defence bonus and armor as DR in one pirate game but DM didn't like it 'as is' and was fiddleing with it till the game ended.

One thing you could do is give out a set XP value per game. Gives you slowing advancement and a good idea where people will be later. Issues with this is that PCs will plan accordingly, ie "We'll go attack the fort two games from now because we'll be higher level." The possible good thing...

Well, that's all of us that want to change the XP system probably. However the upper levels I'm talking about are upper teens, and then then there are the DMs who consider 8th level too high to play any more. What defines "upper levels" varies from DM to DM. I think doubling XP really put the...

I found that this makes the upper levels way too hard to reach. I do like an exponetial XP scale and I like getting though the lower level fairly quickly and slowing in the mid levels. I opted for 1000 xp to reach 2nd and then 1.6 times the requirement each level as the best solution.