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You know what would rock? Instead of having a couple big "campaign world guides" for all the settings like Al-Quadim, go back to releasing a series of modules that reveal big chunks of the setting. Much easier to get generic use out of them, and a better introduction to the feel of a given...

Dude. Go to indie press revolution, and look at how many entire RPGs you can have for 200 USD. I personally recommend the hell out of Burning Wheel if you like relatively low-powered fantasy. I'm probably going to end up with the 4E core books, but I never buy sourcebooks to "stay current."...

Everybody gets to be "trained" in one or two skills that are largely irrelevant to adventuring. That is, not substantially impinging on the territory of the canonical skills. These can often be used to make a living if your character takes time off from adventuring for whatever reason. Just...

I think that "Me and my players want this information" is a sufficient justification to argue for including it, since we're laying out money for product.

This is incorrect. Narrativists care just as much about rules as anyone, they just prefer rulesets along the lines of The Mountain Witch, Capes, My Life With Master, or With Great Power. It's not "minimum standards," it's "rules that actually support what they are attempting to do."

It makes perfect sense. People hitting epic levels is why empires rise - and the lack of people to replace them are why they fall. The story of the rise and fall of a hundred empires is the saga of the great warriors, magicians, and scoundrels of the world writ large. Those who fight against...

A game being "simulationist" has nothing to do with realism. The two concepts are largely unrelated. Simulationist arguments essentially mean that the rules are the game-world's laws of physics, and vice versa. So, essentially, what they are saying is that the rules should reflect the way...

The old Slayer's Guides were pretty badass. Three or four of those would probably polish up one's home campaign considerably. So, here's hoping.

It's silly on the face of it. If there's some great reason for it (A real reason, not a rationalization), then I might be convinced. Incidentally, the argument that the one-ring-to-a-hand rule is just as arbitrary doesn't hold water. If your position is that that rule is silly, then why do...

Posit the existence of the following: There is some kind of Lawful Neutral god of absolute justice. One of his Angels, after millenia of handing out harsh punishments without reference to any mitigating factor, it develops a sense of empathy. It pleads its case in the high courts of the...

Stuff from the Elder Evils book. Sleeping.

Hmm. All kinds of really horrible stuff, I'd imagine. Good question, though.

I've been in plenty of campaigns where the majority of PCs are illiterate (WFRP does this) and it's not as bad as all that. It's actually kind of cool. I also think it tends to help drive home that this is not just a modern society with swords and monsters around, something I'm a big fan of.

If they don't, an enterprising PC might. In a high-level interplanar game I was playing once, we gained the ability to move between the various settings. The Greyhawk/Dark Sun/Forgotten Realms/Dragonlance trading run was the stuff of legend.

Oh, yeah, I get what you're saying now. I we need a sourcebook for how often real-world merchants weighed their stuff, how they did so, etc.

I suspect that adventures will be easier to translate than PCs, although they too will require rewriting. I mean, a dragon threatening a city is the same plot no matter what edition you're in, his minions and tactics will just be different. Or at least that's my take. I figure that if you...

Stolen back. I guess rituals are going to be a bigger part of the game now, something I completely support. I dig the idea of a curse of inviolability being put on certain things. There's a price if you want to break it.

To be fair, they punished all KINDS of stuff with death back in the day. The best reason to use "real" gold is that it's reliable. Problems of time and distance arise if you want to sail across the sea or last centuries. Empires fall, and your name might be worth nothing on the other side of...

Because almost every civilization with the wherewithal to put mines and mints together uses the standard used by the ancient empire of Bael Turath, whose currency was spread far and wide and became nearly universal. The incredibly precisely cast weights, crafted of precious adamantine so that...

I cannot for the life of me understand the top of page 38. What's the difference in circumstance between the sellsword and the dwarf?