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Howdy, Strutinan. Does the Malleus Mallifarcum contain a description of Defiling magic as-such? If so, I would feel safe in calling that a prior source. OTOH, it's not a copyright that you need to worry about; it's trademark. As for WotC--are you sending a message to someone in...

d'oh! I didn't mean to say "dark elf.' I meant to say "drow." Take a look at (IIRC) the "Queen of Darkness" novel from the Villians series. It's got black skinned elves who don't like the gods and have unique magic.

No. They're just controversial, because a perennial bestseller for fantasy fiction is a mid-brow dark elf. Wizards seems to be doing well enough with their dark elf fare--and they even snuck them into Dragonlance novels a couple of times.

No. You can use the OGL to make software--it's just not clear-cut. You need to "Clearly Identify" all of the OGC in your software, and that very well might mean having the program logic dictated by your software be human-readable text (like an VBS or PHP file). The other option is to mark the...

Point the first: DO NOT nerf your player's abilities. Discren Location is one of the more creative spells, and you should use it to curtail your players deeper into the game so they can get more involved in roleplaying. Point the second: read the spell description, second paragraph. Olgar...

Yep, that's how it goes. But this is an especially weak area of the game. It's hard to smash the sword someone's using against me, easy to smash the pouch they have on their belt, and impossible to damage the armor that they're wearing. IMC I have hits that touch but don't bypass armor...

It's an underground temple, right? Let some of the walls be natural adamantine. It explains why this is such a good location for a temple, and nips your PC's trick in the bud. Should you want to be especially evil, add in a cleric with a bestow curse spell that locks a polymoprhed...

Nothing. I might, might, let the party advance a bit faster to catch up if they make very non-combat choices--but if you're playing D&D, then there's no such thing as a "non-fighter." Rogues, clerics, druids, and bards can all hold their own--what they lack in raw hit points or base attack...

5d10 + 10 (assuming he had a measly 12 base CON). Ok, 46 hp isn't that bad. (Average HP, 10 + 5.5*4 + 10 = 42) 7th level rogue with more HP than that? 7d6+7 (assuming same base con) ... 6 + 6*3.5 + 7 = 31 hp. If the Genasai has a +2 con (don't recall), that'd still be an average of only...

Spoke like a zealous atheist. To quote myself: "Black and White are also shades of grey." IME, games that remove black and white are usually less "mature" and more "wrongheaded." Vampire, In Nomine, Demon:The Fallen, and a slew of other "grey" games had absolute good and evil extant. In...

IMO, if you want to differentiate parry/block defense, you should give characters a class-based defense bonus and have it act as a "shield" or "parry" bonus. If you want parry/block as actions, make them BAB+Str+magical enhancement rolls, and have them be attack actions (or move actions...)...

Before Soverign Press got the license, the "d20 support" of the Dragonlance setting was a fan group called the "Whitestone council." (The guys who did dl3e.com and dragonlance.com were at the heart of this group.) Tracy Hickman was on the council, and was one of the main reasons why these guys...

Cool... OGL? Is there any chance you can attach or upload a copy of the OGL, so I can use this class in As Above, So Below?

Set your page size to 4x6 (file>Page Setup>paper). Depending on your printer, you may have to set the page size in the printer as well--hit "properties" before you print to find out how.

If the knife didn't kill him when it went in, and it was frozen in place so it wouldn't cause any more damage, it not hurting to leave it in is entirely possible--and pulling it out would do just as much harm as shoving it back in. "It's an animal thing." It's explained enough. That...

1: No idea. I won't buy Eberron until they OGC at least the new rules it contains, and maybe not even then. 2: Care to extrapolate on what you mean?

Condemnation? Go back and read my post. I said that Gary (1) had a lack of understanding and (2) was arrogant--as in, more confident and outspoken than his accomplishments give him a right to. Being on par with the other movers and shakers in an industry in which he is no longer a...

That does make sense. People who are smarter do learn more skills, and are able to gain a much wider skill-set in the same amount of time. Or to put it another way, smarter people get more benefit from the same experiences. From a game-design perspective, the only reason this is a "bad...

Grammatical note: you shouldn't have a comma after "respect" above. The momentum of your sentance doesn't allow for a pause there. (The first comma, after "The point is", is OK as it's a seperate phrase. You could also do without the comma if you wish.) As to the content of your post: Gary...

Do you realize how sexist it is to assume that (1) sexism would be directed against women and (2) that women would be offended by it? The classic no-men Amazon society is more sexist, not less, than our civilization at its worst.