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I didn't have any. I just wanted to remind you that I had attempted to make some constructive suggestions because I'm hoping we can stop arguing with one another. You seemed to want to hear from people about how elves could respond to a demographic disaster so I threw out a few ideas. If they...

Just a note to say I'm running the Toronto playtest of the game today. I'll post draft rules on Monday after I've digested the playtest and gotten over my inevitable hangover.

I don't think any classes are, per se, necessary. The game could also chug along without fighters, paladins, rangers, wizards, sorcerors, druids, bards or clerics for that matter. The only relevant questions are: do people like the rogue archetype and are the rogue's abilities balanced and...

Edena, It's kind of odd -- I made some more suggestions about your campaign and you did not respond to them but you did respond to my critique of Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs and Steel. I'm not sure what to make of your long treatise on disease in your campaign except to say: it is clear...

What about me making the identical post between your two!? Where's my credit? :)

I can see that. And I'm not saying my personal experience of 6 gaming groups in 2 cities thousands of miles apart all having trouble with AoOs is any more representative. I agree. "Complexity," is just below "realism" on the list of dumb, non-descriptive, inaccurate objections to things.... And...

No. How could you possibly have got that from the words in the paragraph that mentioned chess!? What I said was that chess, despite having fewer rules, was more strategically complex and Go, despite having even fewer rules than chess, was the most strategically complex. What I was saying was...

The Cha-Wis split has been working great for me since 3.0. Con = Physical Endurance Str = Physical Strength Dex = Physical Precision/Agility Wis = Mental Endurance Cha = Mental Strength Int = Mental Precision/Agility

Well, this board is populated by an older demographic even than the aging average. I think a lot of us borderline grognards are (a) cheap (and therefore only buy a product when necessary) and (b) used to making our own stuff. The last time I regularly used a book outside the core was 2002-04...

Good to be vehemently agreeing with you again Hussar. Spot on!

Clearly market research by WOTC would be preferable because, I agree, it is difficult to discern how widespread a problem is based solely on annecdotal information. But that does not mean we should wholly throw out annecdotal information in the absence of proper quantitative data. Some of my...

What's wrong with my a magic 8-ball!?

So the fact that I play all kinds of games that include tactical challenge like Go, Chess, Axis & Allies, Shogun, Warhammer, D&D, etc. and enjoy them? That's an illusion on my part? Unless you want to start claiming that the world is full of deluded souls who think that like tactical challenge...

The market is in selling things that make your characters more powerful not more challenged.

Well, given that nobody was talking about the "realism" issue, this seems a bit out of left field. Whatever definition of "realism" people are working with, if that's their priority, D&D is a pretty suboptimal choice. One chooses D&D for other values like compatibility. Sorry to hear that. I was...

The professor I worked with on the issue was Dr. Paige Raibmon. It has been several years since I worked with her so I'm not remembering the sources on this stuff that do comparitive work. The most recent stuff I read on Northwest Coast populations is actually literature about the continent-wide...

Fair enough. I think that's a good general criticism of D&D reasoning. However, the direction the thread ultimately took was more along the lines of Ronald Wright's idea of culture-as-technology. Except that elf myths were often romantic myths about displaced or conquered peoples. So elf society...

What I was suggesting was that not everybody in Delrune would act the same way. Depending on one's social position there, one might choose different survival strategies. For instance, elvish widows might try to marry into nearby human aristocracies. Elvish warriors might creat mercenary legion...

Great work Machesato. Welcome to the boards.

This is a very solid observation. I hope 4E kills them. They are not just a "communication problem," (the universal term for demonstrably failed political policies too). There are lots of rules that were communicated a lot worse in the past that people understood right away nevertheless. I...