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(Underline added) Because most of us have talked with someone online who was up in arms that his dual butterknife wielding ninja midget hamster wasn't as combat effective as the guy with a rifle. "C'mon guys. Why should I be limited in effectiveness because I'm playing true to my character...

I can confirm this. A few years back I was on a bus at CES in Las Vegas and I started chatting with the gentleman next to me. Turns our he was a C level executive at Hasbro, so naturally I asked about D&D. He said that WOTC's line is so different than the rest of Hasbro that they're pretty...

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The only thing I can think of from an official source is that lead blocks certain scrying. One of my standard house rules though, is the inclusion of "starsteel," a black steel made from meteoric iron that totally blocks magic. As examples, starsteel weapons ignore magical armor bonuses...

"How realistic should an RPG be" is a topic that deserves its own thread. I want my games to be as realistic as possible while still being a good game. If realistic isn't possible then I at least want it congruent to game fiction. You can get a lot of mileage from "it's magic." If I'm...

That's a fair point. Hit points are the egregious example but there are plenty of others as well. And to be honest, I really, really don't like hit points, but the game doesn't feel like D&D without them, so I put up with them. 4E introduced things that bother me as much as hit points, but I...

The Cliff's notes of my personal experience with 4E: Bought the core books. Read them and saw that I liked it less than any previous edition. Put them on my shelf and went back to my other games. Oh, and stocked up on popcorn, the better to enjoy the edition wars from the sidelines. I can't...

From Tagalog: "daw," pronounced "Dow" as in "Dow Jones." It just indicates that you're repeating something someone else said. "Darating siya sandali, daw" = "He said he'll be here in just a minute. I was a missionary in the Philippines from 1990 to 1992, and this one is so useful that I...

Where's the "no tieflings at all" option. I like games based on my favorite fantasy books, and I don't remember anything resembling tieflings on any of them.

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Economics is the study of allocation of scarce resources, "scarce" meaning that not enough is available to satisfy everyone's wants. So you have to ask yourself, what is scarce in my world/universe/story/campaign? Anything that isn't scarce can be safely ignored as part of an economy. Sure...

They look to be moderator items like http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?356414-Reported-Post-by-nerfherder and private forum items like http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?356380-Not-your-Daddy-s-Edition-Wars

I just saw the All Discussion "forum" and I love it. I can find the threads I'm interested in much faster this way. One thing I don't love is that I keep getting a "you can't look here" message when I click on certain threads. Would it be possible to limit display in All Discussion to just...

I largely agree with the blog's sentiment. The big thing for me is that I want to interact with the game-fiction. I don't want to interact with the rules mechanics at all, they take me away from the game I enjoy. I tolerate them because they're a necessary evil, but that's about it. I'll be...

10'~=3m, 1 kg~=2 lb. Dunno what else you would need. Or just leave it as is, it'll be educational!

Answered "no." The Realms is fun, but I've just never been able to take it seriously.

Yes, I think they're too similar. I'd like a distinction to really set them apart. The one I favor is that demons are mindless destructive beasts alone, but get enough of them together and they form a kind of groupmind. The devils on the other hand are individually intelligent, often very...

That made me laugh. Now I'm imagining PARANOIA characters sitting around a table playing an RPG. Unfortunately "must spread experience around yadda yadda ..."

I expect it to be better than 3rd and 4th, but not as good as 1st or 2nd. I abstained from the poll since this is not an available answer.

The economics that you and I learned in MBA school rest on a lot of assumptions. Someone famous once said that the free-est free market it is just clobber the guy who has stuff and take what you want. Just to exist, a store requires a cultural and legal framework to support it. In a genuinely...