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It is not about interests, its is about barriers to entry. Not all role-players want to do academics or reading. Roleplaying doesn't need heavy academics or reading to "work". D&D should accomendate casual players as much as possible to grow and survive. There are plenty of creative people who...

You can streamline without losing depth of play, and you can have consolidated benefits where features are designed to scratch multiple itches/ meet interests at once. Rules lite and story driven so far have failed because they did do these things well. D&D players want options, not rules lite...

Actually, you can compare areas where one market is losing its customers to the other and which is more fun (by surveying those customers) and with fewer barriers to entry (by listing and measuring adaption obstacles). The rest is subjective.

Here ya go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Sun#The_Champions_of_Rajaat

Once you get that Dark Sun bug, it really digs in :)

WOW doesn't do D&D better than D&D. It does all of the boring stuff D&D can skip (non-eventful travel, heroes not feeling like heroes or that they can't change the world, grinding reputation, crafting to raise skills etc) all of those features in MMOs are tedious speed bumps to keep people...

This is the right direction. Essentially, Preservers and Defilers are both wizards, the darkside of defiling can be done by any of them, when they defile it corrupts them. All kinds of bad that follow that corruption then follows suite. Defilers ARE more powerful (gaining metamagic type...

Well, there are a number of major changes that occur in the novels. I don't want to ruin them so highlight the black text to reveal the spoilers if you want: * Over half of the Sorceror Kings/ Queens are killed * The dragon is killed (in a silly manner too, with black goo leaking out of a sword...

Ok, that is right. That third adventure is where the avangion shows up.

Fair enough. Though their class powers weren't elemental based. If done now I would take them more into nature/ spirit of the land connected. Give them different spells. Arcane Shadows had an avangion in it too. Road to Urik doesn't really have a dragon in the sense of dealing with...

I wish I had the time to do something like that. I really liked running Dark Sun. Right now I am too busy building our Retail and Internet business and working on the IP for our product we have in the works. Borys as a Dragon was stated twice I know of. Once in the original boxed set and later...

Ok, someone let us in on the joke please ;)

Most of us did state "we are not lawyers". Between slaughterj, helium and myself all of the primary advice on patents is there. We all just tweaked each others mistakes, but essentially are confirming each other's correct points as well. Legal advice costs 250-500$ per hour. Be prepared to...

As far as being an invention their worlds apart. CCGs and RPGs have nothing in common with each other except that they are hobby games. Some share IP (the setting and themes), but game play and product lines are entirely different.

I did some research today and found the same information you did, but when were we're preparing our NDAs and legal materials for the game system we are working on, we touched on the patent of Magic and how it affected the hobby game industry. Since our project was originally intended for the 3.5...

That is correct. Copyright protects Intellectual Property (IP). My statement was things like Product Identity was intended to keep it simplfied for the context of the example.

Ok, I just got to say this: First off, the power behind Darksun is taking familiar fantasy (elves, dwarves, dragons) and twisting it. The designers originally made it without those things before launching and said it felt to alien and sci fi like. You can read about it in the 30 years of D&D...

Druids were tied to the spirits of the land, not elements at all. More of manifestations of the land's soul. The very thing the defilers destroy, and why the two classes are against each other.

Only two or three of the 14 different adventures dealt with dragons or avangions.

Ok, I am not a lawyer, but i have done research on this subject. Patents apply to inventions and copyright to artistic expression the artwork and the product identity material (such as the named Greyhawk spells, gods, monsters etc in 3.5). Trademarks are logos, brand names and other owned names...