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I will say that the PrCs and races in the book do not appear, at first glance, to be balanced against core D&D races and PrCs. So I would recommend making all the PCs and NPCs using the setting materials rather than mixing in core PrCs and races.

Not to nitpick but Tenochtitlan, as the largest city in the hemisphere (with a population of about 200,000) had amongst the highest death rates from smallpox. Densely-populated areas of the Mexico Valley and Andes had the worst epidemic disease at contact of almost anywhere. Fortunately, the...

So all the published settings and materials in which there are secret elven spells and items are wrong? All those secret elven armour making techniques detailed in the WOTC Arms & Equipment Guide, what are those? Elves, just like all creatures with skill points, get to decide where to put those...

Good. Then you can concede that forests can be highly productive, the fur trade can be highly lucrative, low birth rate societies often dominate and conquer high birth rate societies, nations can gain the vast majority of their raw materials through trade, low birth rates tend to correlate high...

So, what happens when we mention the indigenous peoples of California, the Yucatan, Washington State and British Columbia AGAIN? Do you have a minor seizure that temporarily blinds you and causes short-term amnesia? Uh-huh? And? Are you now going to present evidence that having a -2 CON penalty...

That's just not true. You and Edena have both failed to demonstrate this. We, on the other hand, have offered a number of examples of cultures that lived in forests and harvested more food per capita per hour than any pre-industrial agrarian society. Since you have failed to demonstrate that...

I think that until you are able to answer this question, we probably aren't going to be able to come to a common understanding. People like the Celtic Twilight theme. There is no doubt that there is a big market for fiction that taps into the theme of the elves as being in decline. But that has...

Not all published material is good. But that's a problem with the published material not with the core rules. Because you are buying published material that is not a good fit with your tastes and should select other published material? It's not in my games. PCs are attacked at home, on the road...

The DMG has clear demographics rules that say that this is not the case. There are specific rules in the book that contradict your assertion. Here's the problem. If you argue that one set of physical laws applies when the characters are present and a completely different set of physical laws...

Edena, I feel that we are all beginning to repeat ourselves. And I think that's bad when it happens in a thread on EN World. I sometimes get into this situation, myself when I find myself making a point that nobody else seems to be understanding. At some point, I have to ask myself why it is...

I think it's more about how you and I understand systems of cause and effect and how physics models them with imperfect knowledge. It may be a communications issue at its root but I think it hinges more on how we understand predictive systems and how their are modeled. Yes it does. I'm sorry but...

Really? Because I'm looking at page 55 of the DMG right now and it says you're dead wrong. Why would anybody use coal for anything. It's not the industrial revolution. Medieval and ancient industry was powered by charcoal, not coal, a resource it is going to be very tough for you to argue the...

I'm not sure what to do with this question. You have all the information I use to deduce that the most logical interpretation of the RAW is that D&D worlds don't have plate tectonics. The reason our earth's core is molten is because a nuclear reaction is continuously taking place in there. If...

Quite so. I mean the rules in effect, not the RAW, if there is a discrepancy between the two.

No. I'm telling you that I haven't been having that conversation with you. Elves in 1E and 2E have their powers front-loaded, making them better than humans at low and medium levels and inferior to them at high levels, just as the 2E material you have quoted states. But we can have that...

No. You come up with it as you go, as necessary Same reason ancient martial arts masters catch flies with chopsticks in Chinese movies: because they have lived a disciplined life that has kept their senses and mental acuity in perfect form. Because they're tougher than the housecats we're used...

Can you explain how these are operationally different? Are there ever moments in your game when the rules say that one thing will happen but what happens is different than what the rules say? Because if not, like it or not, the rules of the game are the rules of your game world. I think that the...

Okay. Two problems with this one: 1. This rule pertains to all gnomes, halflings, dwarves, half-orcs, etc. as well. It in no way singles elves out. 2. It hasn't been in effect for 20 years. 3. The statement is that humans are the most successful species; it does not conclude that all other...

Two points: 1. Where in the rules does it say that elves' birth rates are low? Page numbers please. 2. When high birth rate societies come into conflict with low birth rate societies in the real world, what tends to happen? Today, the most powerful nations on earth have amongst the lowest birth...

Agreed. Therefore all successful games have rules that describe a system of cause and effect that is defined in a playable way. Again, I think that you are using a funny definition of physics in order to come up with these objections. I don't know what you mean by "realism" here. They are...