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Would it be useful to consider your "opponent's" position to be that "everything that occurs off-screen is 'color,' and thus its existence is of a different sort than those things which occur to and around the PC's"?

They're not quite "wound mechanics," but the D&D drowning rules are rather like that:

As long as they still take 1.5x damage from antimatter. ;)

They're not made of cold; they're made (magical) ice, presumably with other trace stuff that helps them be alive. If you get them cold enough, it's bad for the properties of the ice, and/or the magic, and/or the "other stuff". Similarly, a Fire Archon is made (mostly) of fire, but if you get...

I'm happy to have contributed something of interest. :) With respect to Theoden, I see his story as supporting the need for level-atrophy rules, not opposing such a need (and vice-versa). IMO, Theoden *was* suffering under a lot of negative levels brought on by prolonged...

Well, it's good to see that rumors of the impending death of the Law/Chaos dichotomy were greatly exaggerated. ;) Though I agree with Celebrim that most people, myself included, average out to "Neutral" on that axis. Philosophically, I agree with the premise that, when dramatically...

Actually, most Devils in 3.5 (and 3.0) *can* see in *all* darkness at any range. They almost all have: "See in Darkness (Su): X can see perfectly in darkness of any kind, even that created by deeper darkness spells." I wonder what a 3rd-edition Devil sees if it looks up into a clear night...

Quite right. However, aren't such flaps inevitable when you've successfully stirred up a lot interest, but have lagged behind on providing the "consequential" substance that would focus that interest in a productive direction? Not that there hasn't been a fair bit of substance, especially...

As a fellow Commonwealther, I say in all seriousness: adjectives are the problem, not the solution. While over-use of one particularly inane adjective may exacerbate the problem, I think people have really been hoping for more nouns and verbs. Adjectives are fluff; nouns and verbs are crunch.

But we're geeks. "Elitist and excessively wordy" is, well, cool. ;)

SJ Games has produced hardcover d20 "sourcebooks" for several of their Munchkin card games. Don't know how well the books have sold, but I'm pretty confident that the Munchkin card games have been outselling GURPS products for several years now.

I voted "something boob-like." Egg production requires concentrated stores of energy, i.e. fat. The fat could have gone on the thighs or abdomen, but natural selection favored those female Dragonborn whose "evidence of reproductive fitness" was closer to eye-level, and thus more noticeable...

Chuck Norris isn't running for President himself because it would be a letdown.

But wasn't the very *first* strip the only one that dealt with the conversion? Seems odd that that would be "among his least favorite." OotS invokes the RAW a lot, so I'd think it would have to explicitly *not* change to 4E if there's to be no lasting effect.

So, Scott: Would I be correct to assume that the huge outcry over "Elven Perception Auras" wasn't *quite* the reaction you were hoping for?

This is an excellent point. Here's an idea (which I haven't tried): Let the PCs have rreasonable magic items (through dragon hoards, ancient tombs, etc., not purchase); they're the heroes, after all. But almost nobody else does. When designing BBEG (or even medium-bad-evil-guy) NPC's...

Works for me. Keep in mind how a Black Widow spider treats *her* mates. Sex with a good-looking guy with a nice voice, followed by a quick snack; what's not for her to like? :]

Considering what Tony Stark and Reed Richards have been up to lately, that might not be too hard. :p

I believe you're exactly right, per Gygax. Anyone have a 1st-edition DMG handy? I recall a quote from (I think) there, discussing Hit Points and poison, saying that at high levels "damage" consisted of various abstract things, "and maybe a scratch. If that scratch happened to be venomous,"...

While not impossible, I find the idea of an seafaring Drow surface empire to be highly unlikely. Though I suppose they could sail at night. "The Sun never rises on the Drow Empire." ;) Hoping for lizardfolk, expecting hobgoblins.