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As I wrote them, not much. I chose my phrasing poorly. A better way of stating it is that Valve will not let you use the Halflife Engine to make Half life 3. END COMMUNICATION

Menzoberranzan would fit quite well, as a lawful evil theocracy. However, that product is primarily Underdark and Drow, which is probably not what you are looking for. A good question to consider is how much customization work are you willing to do on your own? END COMMUNICATION

Wolf Spider gets it right, and wins the prize. Here, have a semicolon. ; I suppose you do have a point about that. However, I was being a bit more draconian, and going with the notion that for fan 2 who wanted Green Ronin / Paizo to make the same choice as him would soon end up decide...

Nope. The MitD is just astonishingly stupid. As I said elsewhere, I suspect the monster is Chaotic Neutral. It just wants to be everyones friend, and it is powerful enough that it is probably not capable of having any real enemies. END COMMUNICATION

Ultimately, I think so. Open Content in any sort tends to attract some pretty dedicated zealots to the concept. There is a real concern though, about WotC preventing companies from supporting both 3.5 and 4th edition. While some of that concern is warranted, this is something that matters far...

That is the point I was leaning towards. The sort of content / rules that are most likely to be profitable would be content that is directly derived from SRD / OGL content. I think that those are the materials most likely to be adapted for use in a game by someone who is not interested in the...

I suspect that Wizards put the "Use one or the other but not both" clause in there, and made the other changes to the OGL / GSL, because the OGL did not have quite the effect they wanted it to have. Since everyone else as their opinions stated (with plenty of toy analogies), here is my opinion...

The Skill system is not the same thing as a Skill challenge. If you need to jump over a hole in mid combat, that would just be an Athletics check, and you either succeed or you do not. If the DM wants to build an entire encounter around a series of skill checks, the Skill Challenge system...

Link from Slashdot. If the information is duplicated, well, deal with it. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/17/2144248 END COMMUNICATION

How about temporarily overcoming penalties inflicted by fatigue, pain, poison, hunger, and the like? Resisting physical torture? Endurance is a pretty big bone to throw towards the simulationist gamers in that regard. The new edition does not use skill points, so having a few skills that seem...

if you do not mind the risk of being run out of the room, you could just implement a non classic internet meme in place of a fantasy trope. Specifically, underpants gnomes. There have been a rash of break ins committed by gnomes, though no one seems to be sure what, if anything was stolen...

The first part is great. The second part is kind of lame. And you should probably rework the rooms / corridors that contain exactly 1 dire rat or pointless traps. Working from Goblins vs Kobolds in a perpetually dark dungeon is a pretty good way to go though. I suggest the Orc and the Pie...

Just to list some cliche's that show up in D&D games with regular frequency: - Save the world from the demonic army from Hell / The Abyss - Save the world from the undead hordes - Save the world from the evil wizard - Complete the important task that the Lvl 20 wizard who is assigning it to...

By a general consensus definition, Epic has basically the point at which your characters become living gods, and possibly able to take true gods in combat. That kind of game is pretty hard to keep going from a narrative standpoint, since there are very few fantasy tropes that can hold up plot...

I think this is a very legitimate concern about the Skill Challenge system. At its worst, it will play out like this. And that assumes that the DM does not allow a Diplomacy check vs the bridge. I still think that the system is at its core a good one though, for one simple reason. Given...

Your list of banned spells shows a few common themes: 1) Save or Screwed 2) Heavy Recalculation 3) Complicated ongoing effect I will just cherry pick a few from your list to comment on: Entangle, Web: The Str check to break free was set way too damn high for a first level spell. The...

Polymorph quite simply needed to be gutted because not every spell should be applicable to nearly 90% of any given situation. If you consider Polymorph Self, the spell replaces Fly, Disguise / Alter Self, Bulls Strength, Bears Endurance, Cats Grace, Water Breathing, Enlarge Self, and to a...

I would say the Monster in the Box is Chaotic Neutral. Not the sort that likes to yell and wreck up the place, but the sort that tries to be friends with everyone, even if they are undead or murderous hobgoblins. END COMMUNICATION

Favored enemy is a class ability that is highly dependent upon what the DM uses in game. I am running Red Hand of Doom at the moment, modified a bit by me using Draconians instead of Dragonspawn. I have a Ftr 2 / Rngr 7 in my current game, and he opted for Favored Enemy Goblin and Favored...

Technically you would not. It really all comes down to what the DM and players find plausible in this instance. It may be splitting a hair, but knowing how something is broken does not necesarily mean you know how to fix it. Along those lines, knowing how a trap works might not render you...