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It's not really to my taste in terms of genre. The modules are very well-crafted but I don't like the way they chip away at how I personally handle my own suspension of disbelief.

I find that the system's assumptions about the ways and order in which settings are developed and described don't really fit with my own. So I guess it's a less "natural" choice for me.

I'm with Treebore. Your question would make more sense if you could explain why this was an especially good way to work on a setting.

A lot of this is conditioned upon how this landmass is "discovered" and what is already there. Unless you want to create incredibly lethal plagues, it isn't really possible to create situations like those which were faced by Europeans in the New World. So I would recommend that your new...

Mine tend to advance as the party advances but slower. The last time I had a conventional BBEG, he started off 8 levels ahead of the PCs but, by the time they finally confronted him, he only had a 2-level edge. (The party had gone up 8 levels while he he had gone up 3). Of course, the first...

Awesome! Maybe I can get some kind of scotch-based bidding war going! Of course I'll be at your event.

I think I know which room I'll be favouring, no offense to Queenie.

Terms like "narrative" and "narrativism" are often bandied-about by gamers with little shared idea as to what they mean. Before I respond, I would like to get a sense of what you mean. Sometimes "narrative" means that players can act of plot unmediated by the actions of their characters...

Couldn't say. I haven't read the book.

Great point Tonguez. Also, let's recognize that in most worlds, these different monetary paradigms are all concurrently in effect amongst different groups (and sometimes multiple systems within the same group!).

Let's just say that the model of spreading out the package receiving grief amongst the whole team rather than concentrating it on one poor schmuck had its pros and cons.

Forgive me. My statements were solely about the Latin West and not about the Near East. Justinian's code is one of the crucial moments of divergence between West and East. Those subject to Roman Law in the Latin West continued to be subject to the Theodosian Code after 533. Also, ideas of...

If I can express a preference here, I'd like the job Maldur had last year: working to door.

Great little gaming group you guys have. Looking forward to our next meeting.

Equipment prices can change by GM fiat without the system, as a whole falling apart. Sure it's inconvenient to rewrite an equipment price table for a modern setting but rewriting the table doesn't alter the relative power of spell casters every time you do it, unless you have something like the...

Before the 1300s, people believed that commodities had fixed "real" objective values that were always at the same ratio to one another regardless of supply or demand. X number of ounces of pepper always equaled Y number of ounces of gold, regardless of the amount of gold or pepper in the world...

Actually, that's not really the case. Ceremony prep is not required just ceremony attendance and booth shifts.

D&D starts collapsing like a house of cards if you bring in the laws of supply and demand because the item creation mechanics are pegged to XP values. Unless a GM wants to constantly adjust the XP:GP ratio for item creation, you have to assume that pre-modern theories of economics are true. When...

I'm happy to help out with this.

I forgot: this attribute's name adjusts based on gender. Let's see if the obscenity filter will block ":):):):)." This character looks fun, by the way. I'll something actually intelligent once I've recovered from the ENnies nomination marathon. EDIT: I see that it did. Oh well, I'm sure you...