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Only the SRD is core. The Red Wizard is not core, nor are certain monsters. The optional rules from Unearthed Arcana are obviously case-by-case.

Game writing talent and prose-writing talent ARE NOT THE SAME THING. I shout because a lot of folks seem unclear on this fact. Especially game writers. Monte is a decent fiction writer, but I have yet to be grabbed by his narrative boice.

Yes, and this way feats remain available to everyone, while talents remain class-based, allowing the archetypal focus that is the selling point of a class-system. If all class abilities in D&D were replaced with talent trees-- such as what already happens to the Rogue at a certain level-- I'd...

Actually, the queen-mother of all Star Wars chronology is Star Wars Time Tales. http://www.theforce.net/timetales Uber-detailed, fan-maintained timeline of EVERYTHING in SW, color-coded by how canonical it is. The source. Expanded Universe authors often use it. Only bad point-- and this...

I think someone at WotC has worked at Barnes & Noble or Borders. I was in charge of the section that included SF and RPGS during my two-year sentence at B&N, and I can tell you that lots of lazy booksellers just stuck Star Wars RPG books in with the big Star Wars hardcovers instead of in RPGs. A...

There are a lot of less than stellar talent trees out there in the existing body of Open Game Content. I'm not going to say which, but a good number of the trees in our Talent Tree Compendium are "repaired" trees from other products that were not quite balanced the first time. Admittedly, we...

Well, thanks for the mention, Psion, even though it went completely ignored. :D Anyhow, here is our take on the Rogue-- the Cunning Hero-- as an example of how this could be done. Keep in mind, this is adapted for Modern, so it does not match up exactly (for example, trapfinding would not...

I think my final word on the subject will be this: Medieval is to D&D what Mexican food is to Taco Bell.

How about if White Wolf did it?

Since you stop tracking what was rolled for initiative after the first round, the hope is that continued updating based on actions would feel faster-paced. I know the similar system for White Wolf's Exalted and Scion felt faster. Maybe it is because tracking who goes next becomes part of a turn...

Well, it's all relative isn't it? I think success for 3rd party OGL publishers post-4E (if 4E is not OGL) would just be retaining the customers they already have. So if they can fill a void for those people, that would be good.

Third post of the thread, Slife has a link.

Turns your colon into a chaotic evil realm of pain and torment!

See, this is something like what I worry about too. A lot of the posts above mention things about many of the smaller publishers dying out, like it is good thing (maybe in a Darwinian sense?), and while the number of really low-tier, low-quality publishers does kind of muddy the waters a bit, I...

Well, I think I have worked up a version of something similar that doesn't invalidate anything. I posted it in House Rules under this thread: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=198058 I am anxious to hear if I got it right.

Unfettered seems to be a big winner, too. Since no one ventured an answer, I'm guessing there is no 3rd-party equivalent to a Warlock. For those of us who don't know what book it is from, can anyone explain why the Warlock is so cool, and so popular among the WotC base classes?

IIRC, yes. This is modeled on how Initiative is run in a few non-d20 games-- Scion being the latest.

Your 3x5 card technique sounds like a good fix for normal d20 initiative. I do find tracking initiative for a large number of people to be a drag sometimes, but it seems like you have a work around. Part of the the idea is for characters who do something less fun than fighting-- like just...

A few people might feel the same way, and that makes me sad. Because brisk sales on this product are probably the only way to ensure more.

Ah, yes, Phoenix Command. One of those ultra-simple, narrativist systems, right?