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Beyond that, it's not really the core books that makes Pathfinder popular, I think, but the adventure paths (and support material for said paths). WOTC seems to have improved their adventure design with the first module, but can they keep it up?

Just a rush to cash in...

Very clever of you! Here's the book you are basing it on at Archive.org (as it is from 1910, it's public domain) https://archive.org/details/fearsomecreatur00coxgoog

Although the D&D phenomenon started with wargamers and quickly spread to college goers, children also flocked to the game. Almost everyone I knew in elementary school played it. The very original D&D rules were confusing even to hardened wargamers, and the AD&D books were extremely dense and...

This is something specific to the OGL though. Part of the agreement in using the OGL is that you won't use any trademarks of others. From section 7 of it: Then WOTC had a separate d20 Trademark license which allowed the use of the d20 logo, as well as saying "Requires the use of the Dungeons &...

I find it rather disappointing that they are doing this, when they have their own game to support. Kind of hilarious - they rely on third parties to support their RPG, while they chase the 5e money...

The thing is, despite the similarity in names, the opposite of an agnostic is not an gnostic. Gnosticism is a fairly specific type of religion, and the term has been around well before agnostics. http://gnosis.org/welcome.html

It's funny how prudish we are today that the mention of prostitution is somehow seen as shocking and alarming.

Let me just point out while a price might be cheap to you, the economy still isn't great. Price matters to a lot of people. Close to 50 million people are still on food stamps, because they otherwise couldn't afford to eat (and food stamps are maybe $6-7 a day)

Chaosium actually broke that tradition with the 7th Edition of Call of Cthulhu

Crypts and Things is an OSR game from D101 Games, written by Newt Newport. It's an OSR game as opposed to a retroclone, because it's not designed to mimic an older form D&D exactly, but uses rules tweaked to fit its setting. In this case, swords and sorcery in the vein of Robert Howard (Conan)...

I may be misremembering this, but isn't that an insurance company? (A play on Lloyds of London) Somehow they had a magical artifact that made anyone touching it incapable of lying while touching it, so they never were defrauded. They just hooked people up to that artifact. edit: I dug up my...

For 3.x/d20, there was The Lost City of Barakus which was really good, but perhaps more of a dungeon than city. And the Lost City of Gaxxmoor, which I liked, but apparently was about the only one who did. And for Pathfinder, there is the Temple City of Orcus, which is part of the Slumbering...

You're the ones that put out Tomb of the Sea Kings, right? http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawson-bennett-and-jimm-johnson/tomb-of-the-sea-kings/ebook/product-21708072.html While ENWorld is fairly OSR friendly, it's still mostly 5e/4e/3e. You might check out Dragonsfoot, RPGSite or the OD&D forums...

And yet military battles are still won today thanks to the quality (and quantity) of your infantry, not what sort of artillery support they have. It's helpful, but not the most important thing.

I think one thing, is that most point buy RPGs have an immense complexity level. Hero in particular is infamous for being complex. GURPs isn't far behind With perhaps the exception of 3.x, D&D has always been relatively simple, and I'd say even 3.x isn't so bad unless you are the DM.

Thanks pretty much to Conan (along with Red Sonja), the barbarian is seen as a classic fantasy archetype. So it's not too surprising it's often the subject of a new character class, originally (as far as I know) in White Dwarf #4, then an official version by Gary Gygax in Dragon magazine and...

Blood & Treasure used advantage/disadvantage before 5e did, and I seem to remember the author being nonplussed (its original meaning) when it showed up in 5e (somewhat different, but the same concept). Backgrounds were in more than one OGL game, but OGL Ancients comes to mind as one of them...