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Going from no guidance at all (or at best guidance that has to be inferred by going through a labor intensive process of cataloguing supplemental material and comparing the results to the levels the characters are expected to achieve in those supplements) to some guidance is definitely an...

Not really. The skills checks are fairly limited in their results if you actually use them as intended by the rules. They give far less benefit than many people seem to think, and the benefits are usually fairly broadly defined. There is plenty of room to determine exactly what the specific...

I take it you've never played HERO or GURPS. I take it you have never seen the articles recounted the early days of D&D when PvP was a large chunk of how the game was played, and the challeneges included things like the uncatchable "gold and jewels man". Competing with the other players was...

The problem is that every edition (except possibly 4e) was written with a "correct" amount of magic in mind. It is just that until 3e, they didn't bother to tell you what that amount was in anything but the vaguest of terms. In the 1e era, large amounts of the letters column and forum in Dragon...

Some of your criticisms make sense to me, even if I don't agree with them, but a couple just made me go "huh?", how did he get to THAT idea? This. I've seen more humans played under the 3/3.5 rule set than all the other editions combined. Humans were made more attractive than any other race...

Well, if you'd just designed a better version of D&D, then everyone would be happy. ;)

Mara managed to transform Shane from an idiot with a plan into an idiot with a much worse plan. I think Shane and Mara are completely screwed at this point.

CNN is reporting that Michael Crichton has died.

It is simply this: compared to the first two movies, it was sloppily made.

I enjoy Return of the Jedi as well. The list isn't "50 Reasons Why Return of the Jedi Is Bad". It is "50 Reasons Why Return of the Jedi Isn't as Good as Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back". The fact remains that compared to the first two movies, Jedi is the result of some very lazy...

50 reasons Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back are better than Return of the Jedi, courtesy of Film Threat: Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 1. Ewoks, Ewoks, Ewoks One of the miracles of the Star Wars Trilogy is that Lucas' bizarre and ever-present fascination with little...

I'm in the middle of Bruce Catton's three volume History of the Civil War. I recently finished The Coming Fury, and I'm in the middle of Terrible Swift Sword. Once that is done, I'm on to Never Call Retreat. Thus far, they are really good.

In point of fact, providing this sort of public information is entirely antithetical to insider trading. Insider trading means trading on knowledge that is not available to the public - because I am an executive at a company I know that the earning report that will be issued next month is going...

It depends on context. If I am traveling and looking for "local color" then a local restaurant is where I'd end up. If I'm traveling and don't care about the local color (or the local color is simply not interetsing to me), then a chain offers reliability and dependability that I can't get by...

They are hiding out from the criminal element Haley ran afoul of the last time she was in town.

Here's a difference: I enjoy playing and running 3e.

I came up with a collection of synergy bonuses that various craft, knowledge, and profession skills would apply to other skills - on the theory that a sailor was probably going to be really good at knots and so on. So having ranks in Knowledge: Law gave you a bonus to Profession: Barrister and...

Using that logic, why do you need any rules at all?

Could it be that in #600 V will say the right four words to the wrong person at the wrong time?

It also prevented them from being able to actually check on those gates and forced Shojo to go behind their backs in order to check on them - which resulted in Miko jumping to the conclusion he was a traitor and killing him just before their city was attacked, weakening the defenses right when...