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Except for the last one, my games tend to be both your listed styles. The last one they lean heavily towards A, and sometimes achieving that requires a healthy dose of B. Granted, I haven't had to "enforce" alignment for those classes involving it since junior high school.

The American bison is nowhere near extinct. They are significantly reduced from their pre-nineteenth century numbers, but they're currently not even listed as threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Which is still a world building descision. You have decided to set up elements of the game world to support certain sorts of player characters. It's no different the saying, "I want gunslingers, so black powder and guns exist," and working back from there. And that goal or desire determines...

Why? If you don't want the GM to get to make moral or ethical judgements about your character's behavior, don't play a character that requires him to. These are world building issues at their core. If the table does world building of this sort collaboratively, cool. If they leave it entirely up...

At it's core though, this is a world building issue. The relevant questions are: Are alignments and religions expressions of irrefutable truth or driven entirely by faith? Does a divine PC derive his power from the blessings of a more powerful entity, or solely from his own belief? If...

Yes they could. The price may be cheap by collector's standard, but it's ludicrous by the standards for someone who just wants to read and maybe play or adapt them. I wouldn't pay $50 for a set of OD&D booklets regardless. I'd pay $20 for a complete set. FFE is selling reprints of the eight...

As a point of order, FASA borrowed nothing. They licensed the right to use the mechanical designs for the Macross variable fighters and destroids, along with a few other mecha designs. They got scared by the complex and downright weird status of the Macross IP and the long running legal fight...

Well, Uplink works sort of similarly. If you're killed or arrested you can't reload that game file. You can still start a new game though.

I'm not sure I follow. Maybe I didn't explain it well enough. If I ever had need to stat up a honest to goddess actual avatar of Iomedae (rather then a servant or proxy, which is what that Avatar entry there represents) I'd give her the NPC Quality Interest: Alignment (Iomedae). I might even...

I use them with Fantasy Craft. Had to adjust some things (namely skills and for the differences in the Disposition system) for the pure mechanical effect. The narrative theme functions like a 4 dice narrative control boon, or a 4 dice threat error activation if the player gives a good yarn. If I...

Personally, I like Fantasy Craft's system. Alignments are specific to a belief system or organization. So in my Rise of the Runelords game the Priest of Iomedae has Alignment (Iomedae) rather then Lawful Good. The effect of this is that it determines, some of his class skills, his ritual...

Sears Holdings Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sears, Kmart to Merge in $11B Deal (washingtonpost.com) It was called a merger, but it was initiated by Kmart. Kmart investers got a 1:1 share swap to the new company, Sears investors got a 2:1 (ie they got one share of Sears...

Used to be. Kmart bought Waldenbook in 1984 (if I remember right). Then they bought Borders in 1992. Then they spun them together in 1994 and off in 1995. Kmart bought Sears in 2005 or so. Also, B&N isn't anywhere near the same condition. They're hurting, with the recession and general lack of...

Borders has been circling the drain for a while. Basically their competent management left after Kmart bought them in 1992. Kmart merged the successful Borders with not quite as successful Waldenbooks, then spun them off. Really, it's been obvious for the past decade or so. One of the primary...

The only reason the snake is present at the campfire scene in Temple is because he's afraid of snakes, and the same with the snake exhibit in Last Crusade. To get back on target, to a large degree the character sheet is a 'wishlist'. Horrible term but it'll have to do. You take character...

Typically Kinkos or Staples just wants something written down they can file away saying you have permission. Try emailing the publisher, politely asking for a short written permission to print the file. Now this is somewhat dependent on the publisher and the drone at the office store, but it...

A column on ICv2 today talks about this: ICv2 - Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk--Up, Up and Away! Basically, the X-Men dress like that because they're superheroes. The cape and spandex are part of the genre. That's why Edna in The Incredibles is funny.

As a generic term I use GM, but a number of the games I play use other terms.

My Viking helmet and +1 Mace. :D Er, wait... I think I misunderstood. ;) Seriously, things I've used recently. Paizo's Harrow Deck. A decent divination system, well suited to the needs of a RPG. Lays are quicks and interpretations are loose and very easy for the GM to present in a manner...

Practical, rational people do use torture. It's still an evil act. Considering that lots of people over the history of man have used torture and the number of actual evil people is thankfully small. Practical, rational people do evil or ineffective things all the time. Torture's special because...