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"Physics" means the rules of cause and effect governing a world; many people on this thread are defining "physics" as the rules of cause and effect governing our world.

Political dissent. He backed attempts to reimpose tyranny on Athens and abolish the democracy. So, they executed him for sedition. Sedition <> heresy. EDIT: The fact that he was an "atheist" was also part of the charges against him certainly. And I covered the question of "atheism" as it was...

The variations are obvious. Everybody assumes that human beings have a wide diversity of cultures, settlement patterns, economies, etc. Edena, I'm implying no such things. What I am telling you is that because we know that you don't need to change humans' stats one iota in order to produce...

No, Edena. Re-read what I said. What I said was that there are many variations within the elves described in the RAW, just as there are many variations within the humans described in the RAW. Do all RAW humans in all possible cultures in all possible D&D worlds have exactly the same culture...

One of the things that I'm realizing as I've been reading the last several posts of yours like this is just how much more D&D is like the 16th century than it is like the Middle Ages or the ancient world. Generally, most of my campaign worlds are polytheistic and so there are no heresies because...

I don't think the policy would be violated. That's my point, Edena. The human race comprises many many cultures and within those cultures, there is also substantial diversity. There is no stock human response to a situation, no stock human settlement pattern, no stock human economy, etc. Why...

This is true. But it's a drop in the bucket compared to all the books, supplements and magazines about humans. Again, compare that to all the kinds of humans there are in literature and gaming supplies. But nobody looks for some kind of generalized "this is how humans are," or "this is what...

My alterations to movement are to make chases more exciting. The current mechanics produce chase victors but people don't get to roll many dice and I find that adding uncertainty to chases is just a good move for game flow. I'm certainly not trying to simplify anything nor am I expressing a...

Glad it's not just me. This player was a tad eccentric and had an amazing ability to intensify and change play dynamics. The food was just one thing on a list of many. There was the episode she decided to feed all the comatose half-dragons cup of boiling fat, for instance.

I think it is a mistake to generalize about all non-D&D fantasy games' magic systems on the basis of such a small sample. There are many models for doing magic out there. I would urge you to explore more over the next few months. RPG books aren't like porn; most stores don't mind a little...

I found that when I gamed with someone with a lot of blood sugar issues, food logistics would come up a lot in play. My player (who once stopped at the 7-11 on the way to lunch because she couldn't go a whole hour without eating) was constantly worried that the characters were as hungry as she...

I vote for closing this thread and starting a happy one somewhere else. Perhaps some sort of generic discussion about world building and demi-humans.

I just developed a system for an OGL game I'm putting together. I've added two skills: Run Far and Run Fast. It is set up so that if you take 10 on Run Fast, you move 30' in an action and if you take 10 on Run Far, you move 30 miles in a day. You basically make a skill roll and add 20 to it to...

This is contingent on your environment and culture; it is not absolute. 15th century California and the Northwest Coast sustained higher population densities without agriculture than did New England and the Great Lakes regions with agriculture.

What do they do when they're not paying attention? It may be that, like my Thursday night group, people come together and socialize with the game as a sort of perfunctory excuse for getting together and drinking a bunch of rum, the way poker works with some groups of guys. If the socializing...

Doug, could you do me a favour: could you explain what you mean by "physics" when you use it in a sentence. I think we could probably clear up a lot of our disagreements if we meant the same, or at least similar things, by the word.

Um... so because this thread is a poll, people can't have a discussion about how different GMs handle the same issue? Okay. So, can people's beliefs affect things on the Prime Material Plane in your system or just things on other planes? Do illusions become real in your world if nobody saves...

Dire animals are tough and gamey. If you want good barbecuing meat, you want animals with the celestial template.

Derren, I asked Edena something like this and it, and a few related questions seemed to set our dialogue on a more productive path. So, I'll do the same with you but structure it a little differently: 1. According to you, WOTC has structured D&D mechanically so that it is impossible to design...

Glad to see I wasn't totally off-base, even if I got the specifics wrong. You would like to redo the elf race in your game because what you perceive to be the default flavour isn't working for you. That's great. Maybe you might want to consider whether your belief that these modifications are...