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Look dude, I used to be a member of the Swedish Pirate Party back when we had MEPs, but even we never argued for the complete abolition of copyright, only lowering its duration to something reasonable, a wider definition of fair use, and not prioritizing copyright enforcement over all other...

I might have to look into that. Right now I'm focusing more on Savage Worlds, but it's good that there are options. I'm mostly coming at this from how things work in 1e, and while the rules are a bit fuzzy on the topic they certainly do imply that you need the trappings of a career to actually...

So they didn't have all that much information? That's all?

1e (and I suppose 2e) had several careers that formed natural paths, like Seaman to Mate/Navigator to Captain. In many cases you'd start with one basic career and then move into another basic career that offered this kind of progression (Pedlar to Trader to Merchant). My impression of 4e is that...

I played some WFRP 1e with some old and new friends yesterday, and after the game we were discussing the game's virtues and flaws, as well as various classic campaigns, and I realized a thing: WFRP is singularly unsuited for mega-campaigns like The Enemy Within. The reason is the advancement...

Thing is, the Technocracy doesn't want cool stuff. They want safe, useful, and boring stuff. The Technocracy doesn't want flying cars, they want cars that get half an MPG more. They don't want a world with free exchange of ideas, they want a world where propaganda makes everyone believe the same...

OG Dragon Magic was fairly similar to mentalism, yes (and the 80s Magic box had Mentalism as one of the schools descended from dragon magic – I believe the others were Illusionism and Symbolism, but I'm not 100%). You needed to speak Draconic fluently to be able to learn it, and unlike other...

Oh, and there's of course this gem:

I mean, in 616 Blackbeard is canonically The Thing who got lost in time and got a bit confused.

Earthdawn has Obsidimen weighing in at an average of 900 lbs and Windlings at 13, which is a factor of 69 (nice!). I'm not at home so I don't have Arcana Evolved/Unearthed available to check what the difference between leveled-up giants and faen are.

I wasn't implying that, I was prefacing my own post with a warning to take it as a starting point and not as the sum of knowledge on the topic.

Huh. I wonder if that time thing is going to be like "Avengers Assemble" that was teased for several movies before it was actually spoken.

Yes and no. We'd almost certainly have a lot fewer of them, and not because they self-Darwinate. One should generally be careful when extrapolating from animal experiments to humans, but there are still things one can observe. There's a classic experiment when rats were given access to buttons...

I don't know what they'll do in the new incarnation, but the old Lorwyn was focused on creature types – what was then called "tribal" and now called "typal" I believe? So you had goblins in black and red, elves in green and black, faeries in blue and black, merfolk in blue and white, giants in...

That is an odd ruling. To me it seems like if you could train an AI on legally acquired material, you should also be able to do a lot of other things with legally acquired material. AFAIK, copyright law would not allow you to make a movie featuring art on a poster you bought, or text from a book...

It is likely mainly because eating other carnivores is inefficient. When e.g. a cow eats grass, most of those nutrients and calories go toward maintenance, and only a relatively small amount toward actual growth. That's one of the reasons a vegetarian diet is better from an ecological...

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I'd argue that Firefly is, but Leverage isn't. Leverage is all about this particular band of characters and them pulling off heists against rich a-holes who abuse their wealth and power. There's very little worldbuilding involved. There's definitely room for a heist RPG, but I don't know that...

"What if" scenarios are always difficult, because there's a large portion of guesswork involved. But Paizo had two related advantages no other third-party creator had: a solid reputation for making good adventures (which they had gotten via Dungeon and particularly the adventure paths they had...