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Someone who is willing to cheat over something as trivial as a game is not someone who I would want to be friends with. And if I have to come with ways to be a hall monitor and watch over them to keep them from cheating, I don't see why I would want to spend my leisure time with them either...

No, since they are abiding by the rules of the game the group agreed to play, they are in the right. Seriously, I'm not sure why this is so hard for you to figure out. Playing a diceless game is cool, if you are playing a diceless game. Agreeing to play a game with dice and treating it as if it...

And if she chooses to play D&D, then the accepted way to play is to, you know, use the rules that everyone else at the table is using. Using your own logic, she is not only disdainful of the way the group she is in chooses to play, she is actively contemptuous of it, because she refuses to...

Currently finishing up the Rama series with Rama Revealed. The Gentry Lee collaborations aren't really that good. After that, I'm back to Barsoom with Swords of Mars.

Not entirely. His version includes the added argument that in the example given, the DM is being unreasonable and, in his words, an "asshat". In this conclusion, he is simply wrong. If you want to set the parameters of the game, then you sit behind the DM screen and run the game. For someone who...

Sure, you have every right not to play in the game. And as DM, I'd say "don't let the door hit you on the butt on the way out". If you want a game with dragonborn (or whatever other element you want that the DM doesn't like and wants to exclude), then you take up the role of DM and run the...

Yes. The players can elect to play in the game or not, as their preference dictates. You are wrong.

It is useful to me, no matter what comes out with Pathfinder - since I can shave almost any class down to a feat progression without too much trouble. It is also (at least for me) evidence that the basic multiclassing system isn't broken - it is the proliferation of a myriad of base classes that...

This is completely wrong. The save DC of his grease scroll would be 11, no matter what the creator's Intelligence modifier is. Also, unless the creator specifically specifies otherwise (and pays more) the caster level of a scroll is the minimum required to cast the spell. The spell will have...

Have you tried looking at the resources here? http://www.sfwa.org/

I fixed this in my house rules by having saves be a function of character, not of class. Using fractional BAB fixes this for the most part. I reduced the options to three base classes (fighter, rogue, and wizard) and emulating most class features with feat progressions. This problem seems to...

I didn't major in NPC Generation 101 either, and I never had any trouble coming up with NPCs using the 3e rules. They aren't hard to do, usually quite easy most of the time.

This brings up what I think is the most salient point. You see, originally, drow were a secret. Their unveiling at the end of the giants trilogy (Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, Glacial Rift of the Forst Giant Jarl, and Hall of the Fire Giant King) was, at the time, wholly unexpected. Drow...

No, it isn't. Because their hands are not tied. They choose to continue the licenses, probably becasue they like getting the money the licensees pay them. Now, I'm not saying that they are not perfectly within their rights to do so, but for them to claim that this situation is somehow beyond...

The thing that makes it make even less sense in the book is that the population of the world (with the exception of the clever main characters who know what is happening because they have, by author fiat, chosen to believe the correct mish-mash of end times prophecy) doesn't know what caused the...

Its a cop out explanation. Unless it is an extraordinarily unusual license, then it has a revocation clause, or at the least, an expiration date. If WotC wanted to, they could pull back rights sufficient to put out this sort of function, but they don't. They prefer the money they get from their...

More to the point, Jenkins clearly wants us to believe that "Buck" is brave and incorruptible. It isn't just that "Buck" is deluding himself about being a great crusading pure-as-the-driven-snow hard hitting reporter - Jenkins expects us to believe that he is, because he tells us this is so...

In my three class version of 3e, I have just one spell casting class. It seems to function fine that way.

Maximum damage with a sword or gun in GURPS would require a critical hit - which is much more common in GURPS than in, for example, D&D. With a critical hit, or a shot that hits a vital area (head, chest, etc.) a single hit kill is quite likely.

Are you thinking of this? http://www.sfwa.org/writing/thud.htm I don't think Anderson failed, but its the only thing I can think of that comes even close to your description.