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for the armchair patent litigators out there you can find what WotC said to get this patent allowed and what was said against it here by searching the patent number: http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair and you might want to consider this recent US Supreme Court decision as well in...

Try going to the Avery label website. They have dozens of templates for their labels that you can use in MSWord, for example. You can search around or if you see a product in the store that works just jot down the product number and seach for that. Heck, you can even use the labels which is a...

Machetaso, spot on stuff. Count me as one who loves the historical detail. Different peoples were inventive in different ways. The Romans were masters of innovation in construction and organization. The steepe dwellers of Asia innovators in the horse and bow. They had organization, and were...

yeah! Psst... you do know that S4 was the mothership? The connection is clear, Erol Otus =dungeonfunk.

Dude, that's dungeon funkadelic. :) Erol Otis being sorta the low art budget alterantive to Rodney Matthews. I'm pretty sure that's George Clinton in the middle there.

Other: Hyperborian which has elements of late 1600's technology but more from a continuation of ancient technology and traditions.

I thought the gygax inspiration for D&D was Vance's "Dying Earth" series. That makes it more post-apocalytic / fantasy sci-fi than medieval. Even Arneson's Blackmoor is heavy sci-fi fantasy, just look at The Temple of the Frog. The medieval varnish is more from the sand-table minature roots...

Congratulations by the way. 30 sessions running this means it's got to be pretty good and you have some playtest information. I did a similar thing with my house rules a while back and turned them into a home system. Here's what worked for me. Focus on one chapter/section, first. The best...

I don't have my first character's sheet anymore, but have my second, which is about 29 years old, give or take. Heck, I've never lived in one spot more than 6 years until recently, good show Silver Moon.

Yes, but patent Examiners get basically 8 hours TOTAL per application to read, search and write their multiple Office Actions. Further, just because an application is translated and filed doesn't mean it gets issued as a patent. You can file anything, what they will allow is another story...

Steel Wind, Your link is actually to the published US Patent Application, not the actual patent. Go here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm and search the patent number: 7201374. You'll find the claims are fairly different between the published application and the issued...

I do my own in MSWord and save as editable pdfs if needed. Print it out with a laser printer on light card stock (20 or 24 lb paper) to withstand erasures.

A sphere of annihilation, and a special bag we could keep it in.

Although I agree that spike armor is not far-fetched for a fantasy setting where things might grab or try to swallow you. I often have issue with spike placement. I like the stuff that looks like you could still fight without unduly being encumbered or slowed down, and still hurt that giant...

I agree, the secret is if it is "cool;" but what is "cool" to one is simply "goofy" and "juvenile" to another. To me if it get's too unrealistic it gets "goofy" and destroys my suspension of disbelief and then fun. I have a hard time viewing someone as an inspiring bad-ass adventurer that, to...

Me too, I think. I have a reputation point system. At some point the player's may have such a high rep that kings and such ask them how things should be. Nations and peoples have a starting configuration, but the PCs can (and I hope they do) change and influence it. To me, that is the...

I do some world building. :) That is, there is no area on the map I don't have some vague idea of the "politics" and adventurous locations in that area. The "politics" add a framework to any random encounter so if PCs slay members of faction X, it has an impact on the plans of faction X and...

boerngrim, just wanted to say it is very cool of you to have the kids over while gaming. One observation from your post date of May 12, the next day was Mother's day. Maybe mom was a little tired and had a big day/weekend planned for Mother's day. A one year old may be "sleeping through the...

Of course. But teaching that child to have some inpulse control takes time. IIRC, one of the children was a 1 year old. The teaching is unlikely to have stuck yet. By 5 they should be doing pretty good, but if up to late, etc. they can still lose it. As a parent of 3, you certainly don't...