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That would depend on who you ask.;) Seriously, I include my material on my website; this includes redistribution of OGC that I use from various sources. After a certain amount of time, I ended up with a bunch of magazines with content that I couldn't use in that capacity, and as they started...

'Tis an honor.:D

My primary reason for letting my subscriptions drop (shortly before the BoVD issues, although I picked up the BoVD issues at the game shop) is due to the lack of participation in Open Gaming. I still look through them (heavily looked over the Dark Sun issues, for instance), but over all, the...

I've not compared UA to Modern (cause I don't play Modern), but isn't Reputation already in the Modern SRD?

See, this is an over-exageration of the arguement, though. In regards to role-play, it would indeed be a mistake to reward for ability. Ability comes with practice and application. What is missing from a lot of people, however, is the attempt to role-play. For instance, I played with a guy...

I think your missing my point. The encouragement was to see the world as a thriving, living environment in which a multitude of cultures (each different in their views, perceptions, morals, and outlooks) were in relation to each other. All the 3E DMG provides is a set of statistics based on a...

Yes, I've seen that. A lot of stereotypes, most of it being re-worded stereotypes from 1E and 2E. 2E was written with the presumption that people were role-playing and that the role-playing hindrances and boons presented were being used as presented. While I agree that this was partially an...

Advice? Yes, I'll agree that the rules for the previous editions were indeed light on advice. However, they did include things to encourage it. The rules encouraged game environment considerations. The rules encouraged considering characterisation before mechanical gains. The rules...

When a GM runs a game where he is able to instantly respond to everything you do, without a moment of hesitation or befuddlement, as if he had forseen every choice you would make, then he's an artist.

Yeah, but it's Doonesbury, which has always been a bit closer to reality than most other media (ever since Viet Nam, in fact) despite its clearly satirical leanings.

Nah, you didn't. Sometimes my bluntness comes across that way, which, of course, is not my intent either. (And I will admit that, sometimes, my bluntness causes people to reply in ways that do piss me off, but that's another topic entirely... :uhoh: ) Might I suggest Power Components. My own...

Actually, Ralts, your player was misinformed in the matter. From Monte Cooks Prestige Class Seminar: Now, the way I've read this (the last paragraph) is that, in a published product, non-mechanical prerequisites aren't suitable because those requirements assume that such things are important or...

Nice... Very nice.

Is it? Book and page number, please? So the experience I gain as a Fighter swinging a sword automatically produces a Level of Wizard? And this is different from what I do how? I don't... As your next post indicates, your view of the d20 system is skewed, and you contridict yourself several...

Aside from the "want to see before I buy" stance, I agree with this. One question I do have for the "preview" file-sharers: Do any of you find yourselves "backed-up" in your planned purchases? How many have found yourselves in possession of so much material that you want to buy that you can't...

We don't forget that. Hell, it's my primary argument in support of House Rules (being that D&D started as House Rules for Chainmail). However, when you look through the older editions, especially Dragon, you constantly read references, hints, suggestions, and encouragement to make role-play a...

Thank you. I can now sign off for the night having had a good laugh.

Well, there's also Favored Terrain, Favored Beast, and Favored Region, but you wouldn't have known that. However, you seemed to have overlooked the fact that I don't use the 20% Experience penalty. (See my first post in this thread.) As for taking Ranger instead of something else, most of...

My own take was to give them only to specific (and usually non-combative) Prestige Classes.

Hey, Merric, any word on when Dice Rolling for Dummies is going to be added to the release schedule for 2005?;)