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Yeah, pretty much. Too many people confuse "illegal" and "immoral". There are acts that we prohibit by law because it would be morally wrong for people to perform them. Then there are acts that we prohibit by law because to allow them would result in undesirable outcomes. Breaking the law is...

I don't know if anyone's corrected you yet, but the latest word is that it'll be an online repository that you cannot download for offline use. Unless that's changed and I didn't notice. They seem to have decided to give up on the idea of making the online products useful for people who DM...

I think that none of this really matters because the whole point of the exercise is to keep people buying the Pathfinder adventures and campaign setting books (when they come out). I think that the promise of continued support for a line of 3.5E products is what Pathfinder is about now. The...

Also, having bought the books, you can make copies for your own personal use under the rubric of "fair use". While nobody is currently able to pay for the books, and so the fair use argument wouldn't apply as a legal defence at this point, I think you'd have to do a lot of doubletalk in order...

Star Wars was never science fiction. It's always been swords & sorcery in spaceship drag. I thought that was pretty much obvious to everyone.

You fail at Google. Try "Sunless Citadel".

One thing that got lost from my post above was the question, exactly how much do you plan to increase the CR of the encounter when you add all these deathtraps to the lair specially built by the beholder to squeeze maximum advantage from each of its abilities? Because if I had that information...

I like sorcerers for new players. Especially for women. The archetype of a sorceress is well-known to most people and has a slightly edgy feel that can make the character exciting. Also, the limited spell repertoire means that they'll be doing a small number of things at first, with...

Yes. I actually do the complete opposite. I require my players to explain why their characters trust each other and want to go on adventures together. It saves me dictating a background to them, and also enforces group cohesion. Group cohesion is essential to your players not derailing the...

It's not like PDFs compress worth a damn anyway.

Yeah, it sounds like it's being recorded on a webcam mic or something, using whomever they managed to pull in out of the lunch room.

Because it's a second level spell, so you can prepare a couple since they're so useful. Also, Scribe Scroll is a wizard class feature.

Yeah, I had a huge post that dealt with all this, but my new Microsoft webcam froze my system (yay Microsoft!) and I lost it. So here's the short version: 1. Step outside the cone to cast your dispel. Rocket science! 2. Parties carry light sources. Sunrods illuminate to 60 feet, 120 feet if...

The wizard and cleric should have a few Dispel Magics (or Greater DM) for just such an eventuality. They did realize they were up against a beholder before they kicked in the door, right? I generally assume that players will be at least minimally prepared for tough encounters, and spellcasters...

Which is why you use Extend until you can use Persist.

If you're in the antimagic cone, you can't be zapped. When you leave the antimagic cone, your defensive spells reappear.

I had a wizard in my group who was also one of the "unkillable wizard" types. He always had mirror image going. He made sure he did because it rendered him a very difficult target for all spells and effects that needed a target. Extend spell, persistent spell, quicken spell... If that wizard...

What, no mirror images? No displacement or blur? Or did you just get lucky?

So long as you keep the scare quotes around "required," your statements are correct. Also, when you talk about this subject, you should make finger quotes when you say the word "required."

This is known as "backpedaling," and I think most players will eventually pick up on it and point out the inconsistency. If you have to fix a ruling because it turned out to be overpowered, it was a poor ruling. I think the thing that 4E promises that's worth noticing is that you can make...