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Seems overly broad. To me, that's just a plot. A metaplot is a plot that's driven by "metagame" considerations. So if two characters go on a long trip and aren't seen for a while because that's what makes sense in the story, that's just plot. If they do so because the two players behind them are...

I like metaplots under my group's control. I'm not a fan of metaplots that change major elements of a setting without our input. Homebrew metaplots are the former, commercial metaplots are the latter.

I know you're probably using hyperbole because you think it's cool or something, but the passage quoted makes the comparison between the entire western front of WWI and Gallipoli, it wasn't my decision to give those examples so I'll thank you to take your snark elsewhere. From the examples...

Not sure what there is to get irritated over - WOTC's paragraph is claiming that "the trench warfare of the Western Front in WWI" (which lasted from 1914-1918) is more famous in WWI lore than the Gallipoli campaign (which lasted about 8 months). I find it hard to dispute that factoid in any...

IIRC, AU was under development at about the same time as 3.5, so Monte didn't have it to react against. I think there's an article on his website where he mentions this.

Well, the rather obvious difference is that Star Wars had nothing scheduled for a very long time. d20 Spectaculars is an actual scheduled product, due for release relatively soon. In the past, when previously announced products have been delayed/dropped/whatever, WOTC has updated the release...

Nope. But some statement on their website other than "this product will be released in July 2006" would have a bit more weight with me. Not doubting it's cancelled or delayed or whatever, just saying it seems prudent to give the publisher the final word.

As I understand it, AE also includes the Diamond Throne book, an extra five levels in each class, extra high level spells/feats/abilities to support those extra levels, and I think some additional racial level material. I don't have AE myself, only AU, but that's what I recall from browsing the...

From all the accounts I've read, he's pretty high on the HeroQuest system. But since the animism/wizardry/theism thing is more in the area of setting terminology than mechanics, I don't really see that it'd make much difference if he wasn't - his goal is that when he publishes some bit of...

4th edition. 5th no longer gives a discount for package deals, they're now just examples of how to go about doing things for those who don't want to build 'em themselves. GURPS, True20, and probably lots of others go the latter route, too. Heck, one could argue that 2ed AD&D's kits were another...

Well, sure, the system as it stands is designed around the idea that cool abilities would be foisted off into prestige classes so the base classes other than the fighter by and large aren't designed for that kind of flexibility. I'm just saying that given the opportunity for a ground-up...

Seems to me it's more a matter of WOTC not having a real clear idea of where they want to go - they still put out a whole bunch of prestige classes, they've just also realized that base classes sell so they're publishing those, too. The inevitable overlap is because the stuff that sells best is...

HeroQuest, which is set in Glorantha, calls 'em Animism, Wizardry, and Theism respectively. I kinda figured Mongoose would use the same terminology, since Issaries (Greg Stafford's publishing imprint) has a vested interest in making sure that the fluff for the two lines is cross-compatible.

There's a map of a decent-sized "western" territory, and capsule descriptions of the towns and such. Enough to hang your hat on, at least. Like all the Horizon products I've read, Spellslinger does a really good job of quickly adapting D&D to a new genre. I think it's easily worth the $20 or...

I don't mind the Monk as written. I have no trouble dealing with the flavour, just as I have no problem dealing with the crusading religious warrior flavour of the Paladin - I either write my setting so there's a logical place for those sorts of characters, or make it clear they're pretty...

Nobody has had to buy new versions of CoC since about second or maybe third edition, AFAICT. I think somebody at Chaosium is a little confused over the difference between an edition and a printing. I was actually never much of an RQ fan way back when, played it a few times but I found the rules...

In 1E, lots of people simply made up new classes for different concepts. Check out back issues of Dragon or White Dwarf, both had tons. Of course, many of these were wildly unbalanced, but then again so was the "official" stuff. Otherwise, differences between two PCs of the same class tended to...

The RQ system is going to be open, much like d20. The settings probably won't be. The rules being open makes sense, since as I understand it they're developed from the original RQ rules, which also formed the basis for the Basic Role-Playing ruleset that Chaosium still uses to this day. As a...

Just started one with two players, each playing a multiclassed 2nd level character. One went with Dwarf Paragon 1/Monk 1, the other is a Cloistered Cleric 1/Wizard 1. Former is thinking of just sticking with those two classes, latter plans to eventually hit the Hallowed Mage prestige class from...

Well, if they were going to redo just one of them, the one I'd like to see is G2. That took place in a glacier, and IME lead to a lot of variant rules (many house-ruled on the fly) to handle the icy cold conditions. It'd be interesting to see it done under 3.X's mechanics, and WOTC could...