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You know, they could also be selling off their RPG division entirely. That is, if they were selling, which I don't see real evidence that they are, though this kind of consolidation seems like something someone would do. I think most of this talk of selling is wishful thinking. I think we all...

Mike Mearls put some optional rules on his old blog for something called Mental Hardness that may help you represent characters who have seen a lot of sanity-blasting things. Link below: http://www.mearls.com/cthulhu/coc_sanity.html

Exactly. My question is, is there a way to keep this phenomenon from gutting the RPG industry, such as it is?

Well, there is a difference between spending your free time working on the stuff outside the next adventure's map, which is a fine way to spend one's time if the person is so inclined, and spending time at the gaming table telling the PCs world info. Only the second is in any way the same thing...

To my knowledge, they're fine with d20. I've played d20 CoC, and a CoC/Spycraft hybrid, as well as a lot of CoC, and this system has been around forever, as part of regular Call of Cthulhu. It should work fine-- if it were broken, we would know it by now, I think.

AEG, right? With Rokugan? That's a more complex situation, because to my recollection WotC no longer owns Legend of the Five Rings.

(Quoted from the above-referenced old post by FnordBear for new relevance.) I hadn't seen this yet. But it is certainly what we all had in mind. Clearly, competition for the above would include Dragon and Dungeon magazines, hence the cancellation. Getting to download 1 D&D adventure a month...

Yeah. To my mind, for a replacement to succeed, it would have to be some kind of collaboration between multiple top-tier third-party publishers.

Yeah, I pretty much agree. Every time you see one of the 3E designers talk about the "sacred cows" in an interview, it seems to mean "thing we wanted to change but weren't allowed to" rather than "time-honored favorite part of the game." Saga is the first time the d20/D&D system has...

Alright, I wanted to theorize a bit and and state the obvious and see if people agree or disagree this is the likely basic sequence of facts and events: It has been stated the Open Gaming License was created because WotC believed they needed to have adventures but they themselves did not belive...

In addition to the excellent Lame Mage adventures, Church & State really impressed me.

I think what Harrison basically means by "worldbuilding" in fiction is the equivalent of boxed text in a module. Some groups want the GM to read the boxed text. But I don't know a lot of them personally. While I think adventures should be written with detailed room descriptions for the GM--...

All the time. Since we don't use miniatures or a grid map, it is hard to have AoO anyway, see we ditched them. Pretty well. Speeds up gameplay alot. We use the Combat Instincts feat from Spycraft to replace Combat Reflexes, and it takes Combat Reflexes' place for requirements and whatnot. This...

You know, while I'm not a big fan of this divide, it does occur to me that it is smart on White Wolf's part, as it keeps hardcore fans from splittiling their game dollar. If Joe Blow is gonna spend X dollars a month on RPG stuff, creating an attitude of superiority makes sure that all of those...

Yeah, Chaosium hates money. They seem to do everything they can to ensure that they will not turn a profit under any circumstances. The eager way in which they barely attempted to capitalize on the d20 CoC by dual-statting one small line of books that weren't going to sell well anyway was...

Please oblige, I played the $#!+ out of Lords of Magic back in the day-- a drastically underappreciated game.

Everything said here is spot on, but I would use some of the advanced classes and other stuff from the Game Mechanics' Modern Player's Companion. I don't have the book in front of me, but there is a sniper-type class that comes to mind immediately. If you don't have this book, you need it...

That it hit so shortly after I finished learning the first system, for one thing. Having learned both 3.0 and 3.5 so close together, I occasionally remember a 3.0 as a 3.5 rule, and vice-versa. For other complaints, I could go on a bit, but instead I will quote someone a bit more on top of this...

3.5.

And also Big Finger Games' Infinite Universe, currently rolling out as a series of expanded character books-- the best M&M character books you can get, if I may be so bold in patting myself on the back-- available here Also, there is Arbor Productions Autumn Arbor setting, which is a popular...