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A role-playing game called Chill, originally by a company called Pacesetter (which I believe went belly up several years before White Wolf were formed), had different types of vampires with different abilities and social structures dependent on type. I don't know if any Chill products called...

Sorry about that, I was using the generic "reader out there" you, didn't mean to attribute that behaviour to, well, you in particular.

So far as I can tell (only been through the book once), they don't. There's an edge/flaw system that can encapsulate some personality elements, but the majority aren't reflected in the mechanics. Instead, there's a couple of pages on the characteristics of heroes in Tolkien's writing and a note...

EBoN's a neat little app. Another decent one is JH NameGen, available in trial and pay versions. For maps, a good starting point is your local library - atlases and history books are chalk full o' maps, and the photocopier is cheap. What I do is make up the broad outline of my world, then when...

Well, if you're tossing third level spells at the sort of targets a 16th level or higher party fights (given that your fighter buddy has four attacks), you probably shouldn't expect them to all fall down and die. If you want to both cause more damage and make it harder for them to save, there...

I don't see how your proposed system is any less two-dimensional than the PH system; if anything, by only having a single axis your system is even more restrictive. Your descriptions also encourage hairsplitting to get similar behaviour with a positive and negative score - for example, Carousing...

The best alternative alignment system given that you find alignments constraining is no alignment at all (at least, for PCs). Any system developed to mimic the effect alignments have will almost certainly have the same constraint problem as alignments. Biggest problem with going the no alignment...

Almost certainly the latter - filing now gives the best chance of a quick settlement before it gets anywhere near a court. That's an honoured legal tradition. Unless it basically copies out of the clanbooks and such, this is a suit that should go nowhere - the basic setup of the WoD isn't...

My classic list are the modules that taught me to DM when I was 11 or so and trying to figure out this AD&D thing: B1 In Search of the Unknown - a dungeon, and practice in stocking it. T1 The Village of Hommlet - the sleepy little village with adventure nearby. X1 Isle of Dread - Wilderness...

What I do is establish that there are people who are normal, functioning members of society who also happen to be evil. There are completely legal pursuits in which someone unencumbered with moral qualms can do quite well for themselves. So if the PCs are looking for the polymorphed assassin...

Jumping into the Wayback machine: Issue #100 of Dragon Magazine had an adventure called "The City Beyond the Gate", in which a party of adventurers set out on a desparate quest for an artifact, the Mace of St. Cuthbert. Said mace was hidden where nobody would ever look for it and where its very...

I'm pretty hard on rulebooks, so I'm used to having some fall apart on me. My 3.0 PH is starting to show some real wear and tear on the binding. My AD&D PH from 25 years ago, OTOH, has a beat up cover but the binding's great. Kinda hoping my 3.5 PH behaves more like the latter than the former...

Why would they care? You pay big bucks to go and learn, if you decide you don't want to after all, they're likely fine with that as long as your cheque doesn't bounce and you're not disruptive. Professors aren't babysitters.

Whoever you pick should probably make a trial run as Governor of California first. After all, with all the balance changes in 3.5, we don't yet know if an iconic can handle the sort of ELs a president runs into, what with those 25 point buy stats and all.

You can easily make a case for either, because neither quite captures the relationship. The answer Monte was shooting for (and I think he hit) is that the AU classes have a smoother power curve than D&D classes, they're a bit stronger through the middle levels but don't gain as much power at...

Siege weapons are for the little people, they don't do terribly impressive damage on a player character scale. They're around so all those 1st level Warriors and Commoners in your army have something to do during a siege. As for walls, the weakest 1' thick wall in the DMG has hardness 8 and 90...

I think the reason for that position is largely a matter of marketing strategy. Most successful RPG companies before 3rd edition (TSR/WOTC included) made their money by selling customers a constantly changing setting to justify new purchases. With 3rd edition, WOTC is largely out of that market...

There's a couple of licensing issues that are normally lumped together, but are actually separate. At the most basic level, a d20 product gets to use the d20 logo; a product that's OGL but not d20 doesn't. Be interesting to see what they come up with, but looking into D&D's past for a...

Sure, but the same holds true for D&D. Conan isn't a straight D&D Barbarian, at various points in his career he's very likely picking up Rogue and Fighter levels, too. Your uber-thief in D&D is necessarily also an uber-assassin with a sneak attack that will utterly destroy low to mid level...

Well, kinda the point of a class system is to have classes that people want to play. If your reaction to a class is to yawn and say "yeah, whatever", it's probably an indication the class is poorly designed. As for doing mundane things with them, it's the same in 3.0 or 3.5 D&D - why the heck...