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In fact they have brought back the zone defense -- somewhat. The shot clock was introduced in response to a particular style of play, exemplified in the Fort Wayne Pistons 19-18 victory over the Minneapolis Lakers in 1950, of deliberately holding on to the ball for long stretches of time to...

There are many more than that, such as the distance from the mound to the plate, the way in which the pitcher delivers the ball, ground-rule doubles replacing what were originally home runs, the definition of a stolen base, etc. But these changes are minor -- and, what's more, have occurred over...

The 3-point line has always been 23'9" away from the basket in the NBA (EDIT: since it was introduced in 1979), except close to the sidelines where it can be as little as 22' away from the basket. I fully agree that football has changed. However, I don't think it has changed very much since the...

Arbalest comes from the Latin "ballista" which comes from Greek. "Blast" comes from Old English.

What if instead of ERA, RBI, etc., "new baseball" used slightly different terms that were calculated differently, so that (for example) a high "new ERA" was now good (the max. ERA in "old baseball" was infinity; the "new ERA" in "Blurnsball" starts at infinity and goes up from there)? And what...

No, I said I didn't use the term "exponential progression." Since a geometric progression with a common ration greater than one has exponential growth, it follows that the XP tables, if they are geometric progressions, have exponentially-increasing values. That's not too hard to grasp. You are...

Yellow Musk Creeper & Yellow Musk Zombie (FF)

Crossbowman.

I think one would be hard-pressed to identify an "intense hatred" exhibited in this thread. And I'm not sure that "intense hatred" of a game (as opposed to "hatred" of people who play the game) is necessarily a barrier to civil discussion. I haven't seen any evidence that posters are trolling...

Now you're just picking at nits. A geometric progression exhibits exponential growth when its common ratio is greater than one. And while I did not use the term "exponential progression" (it was your term), it is sometimes used by laymen to describe a geometric progression. I apologize if what...

So I guess maybe the rules do matter after all? :p ;)

No need, I've seen them many times. Doubling (or approximately doubling) the XP needed for each level is exponential. Two raised to the power of x is the exponential function with base 2 -- 2^x = e^(x * ln 2) where e is the base of the natural logarithm. Now the base isn't 2 for all of the...

I don't even recall it being 12 pages long. Maybe I'm thinking of something else. Anyway, the point of my post was just to note that I was caught off-guard by the extent of the differences between 2e and 3e. This could be in part because I never got the 2.5e books (Skills & Powers, etc.), so I...

I think I have (or had) the "Conversion Guide." If memory serves, the "Guide" itself was rather coy on the differences between 2e and 3e (I won't claim the same for Dragon even though I wasn't reading it any more -- I have seen some issues from that time period and everything seems more or less...

From the success of the game it is evident that WOTC delivered a lot to a lot of people.

How can a business be successful if it does not consider the "needs" of its customers?

Come on. D&D has always been a business venture by a very astute businessman (EGG). If it was all about love of the game then the game never would have gone beyond wargaming circles and started a whole new hobby.

ENWorld is your front lawn?

Sure they do -- up to about name level or thereabouts. The thief class was introduced in the Greyhawk supplement. And in OD&D dwarves and halflings were basically fighters, while elves could act as fighters or magic-users. There's class limits right there. There are level limits as well (for...

I guess it depends on the circles in which one travels. . . . What if one says (with good evidence, mind you) that the features of D&D are: exponential experience-point tables, undeveloped or under-developed skill system, demi-human class- and level-limits, descending AC, no critical hits...