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Hold that thought; I want to explore it further in a separate thread, which I'll start as soon as I have two seconds to rub together. Also when time permits I've been meaning to write an essay about professional GMing; not just ethical implications but also practicalities, like different ways...

For me, it's a long list and a long-standing one, dating back to the moment I read the 1E Rogue's Gallery, realized that Bigby, Tenser, et al. were originally PCs, and wished with all my might that I could be a player in that campaign. Who are the people whose imagination is so unique, or their...

We'd thought about offering a tour where, for $100,000,000,000, Peter Jackson would re-create the Lord of the Rings trilogy with you as the star. (For the same price, another outfit is offering a trip to the far side of the moon in a Russian rocket; a great setting for a Traveller game...) I...

At Behemoth3's hard-to-find booth at Gen Con, we were giving away candy to folks who filled out a survey to help us offer the kinds of roleplaying travel experiences that gamers want most. This poll is based on that survey; I can't promise you candy for answering it, but it will help guide us in...

Stirges are available as a familiar with the Improved Familiar feat if are a 5th-level or higher arcane spellcaster and have neutral as part of your alignment. According to the SRD entry on Improved Familiar, "Improved familiars otherwise use the rules for regular familiars, with two...

Given the quality of the nominees in the monster category, I'm delighted that Behemoth3 made it in with a honorable mention. The folks involved in the creation of A Swarm of Stirges were: Tavis Allison (aka me), writing, design, and editing Brian Stith, additional design (NPCs & charts) Nat...

I finished the Aubrey-Maturin books, after which my life was hollow and empty without a new one waiting for me to read. Then a visit to Portland, and of course Powell's Bookstore, gave new fuel for my project to read everything listed in Appendix N: Inspirational and Recommended Reading of...

When intelligent, important enemies aren't captured alive for interrogation, their corpses are always taken back to the theurge affiliated with the party for speak with dead and other forensic examination. This "medieval CSI" routine has become standard operating procedure and sometimes a...

Yep, I do - it's even posted earlier in this thread ;)

Phil, I thought it was very cool that you voluntarily released 101 Divine Spellbooks as a free SRD a while back. There are very few actual data points in the d20 market* to look at when we're talking about the effect of free SRD release, and this is one of 'em. Did you see any noticeable effect...

As a creator and publisher of open content, having it be clear to the reader where the material comes from is important to me. I'd rather that it be done as Yair suggested, by having my source product identified by name & with a link to the website where it can be purchased -- for the same...

The part I've put in bold might make the difference between publishers perceiving the megaSRD as undercutting their sales vs. helping to sell their product. One could track traffic to the publisher's site through a link like that and demonstrate that having OGC in the megaSRD could be a way to...

I'd love to see Behemoth3's Open Game Content included in a SRD -- our own SwoRD project, which would do just that, has for better or worse taken a back seat for the moment to making new content. But how I feel about it is immaterial if you follow the OGL, which isn't that hard to do. (Thanks to...

Yeah, I noticed the quotes from Vance's "Guyal of Sfere" and Mieville's Perdido Street Station in Dungeon 121 with great pleasure. For my part, I'd have to give the nod for "favorite living author who's not Jack Vance" to Gene Wolfe, but I'm sure that Mr. Wolfe shares our hopes that the master...

Can you name some of the authors whose style you aspire toward? If your fiction has a strong D&D influence, Realms of Fantasy is indeed not a perfect fit. Black Gate is devoted to adventure fantasy & has earned high praise for some of its stories, although its publication schedule may be...

Yes, EL and 20% is correct; edited my post, and fixed the link (it's Andargor, not Andragor). A link specifically to the CR calculator at his site is http://www.andargor.com/files/EL-XP-Calculator-35-v1.6.zip. One of the things the chi/rho system is designed to do as well is to handle more...

I've been playing around with Andargor's latest version of the Encounter Level and XP Calculator v1.6, which has a Chi/Rho system credited to Jim Stenberg aka “Cheiromancer”; Craig Cochrane, CR Greathouse, and Benjamin Durbin. One of the things I noticed is that, at higher levels, an encounter...

Mmm, that looks tasty! I've been looking to get my AU on for a while now; will have to try to make it up on Friday.

I wish y'all the best of luck, and choosing a good name is certainly vital, but I need more info about the kind of game company you're going to become. "Superluminal" definitely says science fiction to me - and even then you might be better off with "Faster than Light Games" or "Hyperspeed, Inc."

If any other EN Worlders are going to I-Con, I'd love to meet up with y'all! Here's the details: http://www.iconsf.org/ April 8-10 It's primarily a SF con, with some cool guests and panels if that's your thing, but it also has some cool stuff going on for RPGs - in addition to gaming goodness...