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He was responding to someone making a general mechanical point, so the context had nothing to do with only the players diaglo had played with. What you're implying is that he's completely unable to read for context - are you sure you want to take that position? Claiming you can properly...

Diaglo on November 18th, 2:58 PM: Diaglo on November 18th, 4:42 PM: During those 104 minutes, did you contact "many if not most" players and ask them their gaming preferences? Or are you simply demonstrating that despite championing a gaming system that's 30 years old, you can't keep your...

For me, it's always been the group's game - the kind of campaigns that get run and played are the kind of campaigns a given group enjoys. Some groups like to basically play out a novel/movie/etc. as you describe - they're pretty much on rails, but they enjoy the setting and plot as well tossing...

D&D follows a default implied setting corresponding to Europe from around 500 to 1500 AD, and math simply wasn't a particularly important field of knowledge in that time period (edit - in Europe, it was pretty important elsewhere). For example, the number 0 was introduced to Europe around 1200...

Amazon claims to have new and used copies: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786918438/qid=1069073187/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-5465204-1244142?v=glance&n=507846

I've started using reverse-engineering when I'm setting up an adventure - I work out how much a group should be able to face before resting, convert that to a series of CRs, and design encounters accordingly. Then I usually include some kind of reason why a given group of encounters are related...

I don't think it's possible to answer in general - each system was written by different people, aiming at a different audience, for a different setting and power level, etc. They are mechanically close enough to allow pretty much free interchange, but that doesn't mean the end product of such an...

There's a fourth - he offers it to Tom Bombadil, who is both uninterested in keeping it and unaffected by it. Elrond's council briefly discusses just giving the ring to Bombadil to keep since he's the only being who could resist the temptation of using it. They eventually decide that it's not...

Either they constantly rest, or the DM populates the building with a lot of lower CR critters so the group can churn through a lot of them and still be ready for the real bad guys. That's not so different from a 1st or 2nd edition meatgrinder adventure - I ran "The Village of Hommlet" a few...

3rd edition is based around the idea that a party of four characters overcoming an encounter appropriate for their level will consume about 20% of their resources in the process. So there's a built-in assumption of about four or five fights before a group needs to rest, less if you're fighting...

It's no longer d20 when you couldn't release it under the d20 STL. The term is pure branding, it has very little to do with the extent of the changes. Monte Cook's Arcana Unearthed is pretty darn close to D&D, but is not d20 because of the inclusion of character creation and advancement...

Still is. Glorantha is still going, there's a new rules set called "HeroQuest": http://www.glorantha.com/ It's a pretty interesting system. As for the main topic, I'm currently running a side campaign using Arcana Unearthed that I think of as my "Fantasy Earth" game - the cosmology is unknown...

Not sure what you mean about charging for accounts - you pay a monthly fee for each Asheron's Call account. AC is an older game, not as graphically rich but very stable and balanced (since Turbine has had plenty of time to get the bugs out). FFXI is the hot new game that everyone's raving about...

I don't have it (and probably won't get it for a while), but the official press release says it includes Play The World, the previous multiplayer expansion: http://us.atari.com/press/?action=readmore&id=1019 A good place to go for Civ news and resources (for any edition) is...

At WOTC's website: http://www.wizards.com/D20/article.asp?x=srd35

It depends somewhat on the characters involved (roleplaying and all that), but the basic structure is usually: - Distribute items to those best suited for them as they're found - Unwanted items and all other valuables go into a party kitty for conversion to cash when possible - Party money is...

It was nice to see the Death Star make a special guest appearance. I wonder if later we'll find out there's an ancient order of Xindi who use laser swords and have strange mental abilities? More seriously, it was a fun standalone story. Didn't really do much for me in terms of the overall...

Read one novel so far: Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear. Pretty decent book. I also have Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay on the go, but that one hasn't really gripped me. Most recent non-fiction was started in late October but finished in November: Lost Christianities by Bart D. Ehrman. Darned interesting...

Tend to disagree. There's nothing in AU that matches a high level Wizard (or Sorcerer), or a mid to high level Cleric. That's primarily due to the magic system, of course - you just don't get to toss Wishes and such around. OTOH, pretty much all the AU classes are better than something like a...

I picked up a starter and two booster sets to get an idea of the range. I'm not a collector, just looking for some cheap and easy figures to use in my game. Paint-wise, it's generally better than what I produce (I am the World's Worst Painter (tm)), but still below average. Dark paint jobs...