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Here's something: how restrictive is the "one or the other" clause? I'm specifically thinking of Paizo. They're planning to work with Necro on 4E, but keep publishing their own 3E stuff. However, their main business is actually being a storefront for games and gaming accessories including...

I've been asking for a function to merge adjacent posts I've made for a couple of years now.

That pretty much sums up my opinion. This is, of course, a very good thing. I love me some BECMI.

Where do you get the idea that you won't have any of this info? We haven't seen the fluff text for vampires. We have seen the template statblock. If a vampire could create spawn in combat, it would be in the statblock. The fact that this information is not in the statblock doesn't say...

I'm with you there. The vampire lord can churn out enough vampire spawn to populate a dungeon with exactly as many spawn as I need him to have. If he were able to make any number other than what I need him to have, the rule would be useless. There is no reason to specify the number, because...

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Assume it's equal to his magic threshold?

Yeah, why wouldn't they just make the table say "-1, -2, -3, ..." instead of "+1, +2, +3, ..."? Then they could just say "the magic threshold is a special penalty that applies to enhancement bonuses of weapons and armour wielded by monsters, based on the level of the monster." Easy. As a...

It's the difference between being having naturally fast reflexes (Dex) and studying and practising techniques that increase your defence (Int). Being quick to react makes you good at dodging blows, but being bright means that you'll learn quickly how to avoid opening yourself up to attacks...

I think that with those special cases you'd stat it up using the PHB rules, rather than the MM rules (or, you know, whatever book has the barbarian in it). I don't see a problem here. If a 3rd edition party of mine ever encountered a 15th level orc, he'd be a special orc hero. Most orcs are...

I've been planning for a long time to use a second monitor attached to my laptop to display powerpoint slides of the various pictures I want to show them. Of course, that would require downloading and sorting all the pictures, and I haven't had time to do that yet.

Or, try to get them to change the nature of the transaction to something more suitable. Like what they had initially proposed. So, while you can't throw your Lost party, you can throw your Carnivale party, because it's available for purchase and you can keep it forever. Funny how products are...

Only that analogy misses the mark by a distance that can be seen from space. It's not a question of what people can afford. It's value for your money. WotC, by backing out on their offer of cheap-as-free PDF versions of the books you buy, are leaving those of us who would love to have PDFs...

Yeah, I think the point here is that the D&D rules are a product, not a service. Virtual Tabletop? Service. Fine. But once I've paid for an electronic version I should get to keep the electronic version.

If WotC had stuck with their "you must buy the book to unlock the PDF" system, this wouldn't be an issue. Again, nobody's saying it's their fault. The point is that if there were a way of getting a PDF legitimately, fewer people would download pirate PDFs, and instead give money to WotC...

Perhaps not "responsible," but if they have the choice between: a) someone scanning a book and uploading it to a bunch of people, WotC makes $0, or b) releasing a book as a PDF at a sensible price point, someone removes the copy protection and uploads it to a bunch of people, a bunch of other...

Yeah, I play in my basement and sometimes the cordless phones interfere with the signal from the wireless router upstairs. When that happens, I say to myself, "oh, can't use d20srd.org. Better open the Sovelier & Sage SRD, which is cached on my computer." Under their current proposed system...

Only if you configure your software to do so, and use a protocol that has simultaneous upload/download. It's easy enough to just leech, although usually much slower.

This is the big issue for me. PDFs are inconvenient. They're almost never formatted for screen reading, and to be portable and useful I'd need to have a full-colour virtual paper ebook reader that was big enough to read the sized-down text on, had effortless browsing controls, and a...

What‽ If we play games other than D&D, the terrorists have already won! D&D must be all things to all people at all times or else it's dead to me! You're killing the game by approving of it! RAAAAAAAGE! :p Edit: seriously, it's nice to see a reasonable perspective for once.