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As a point to the 'loose redundant text and explanations', look at Fantasy Craft. It's 392 pages with contents and index, covers PHB, DMG, and MM material, and was written to reduce repetition and redundancy so as to fit as much game in as possible (and some stuff still got left out). I love...

I'm in agreement with PirateCat. Let the skill challenge weaken her, give the PC several turns of combat advantage, favorable terrain, surprise rounds, the works. With proper preparation, they should get an challenging but very winnable fight. Heck, proper planning and skill challenge successes...

There are a number of feats that can be converted, the Mark of X ones come strongly to mind. Dramatic Conflicts in general. Fluid initiative, with some tweaks can be. The chase dramatic conflict is relatively portable, but you'll need to fold some of the feats back in, and the Lancer won't be...

Not Morrow persay, most of the PA stuff percolating on the Crafty boards is Fallout or Bioshock based. That said, SC2.0 is a great fit, especially using the cash system in Big Score, and the Shooter's Guide books from 93 Studios (dual statted for Twilight 2013 and SC2.0). Psionics might be...

Only because the economic concept of a market as something other then the place you went to buy or sell things is new. Similarly, people have always paid to participate in cultural life. The concept of someone being 'cultured' as a reference to social class comes from this.

So, really the answer comes down to: The phonograph and radio revolotionized distribution of audio, and the train and car revolutionized distribution of the printed word, combined with the general increase in leisure time and disposable income from industrialization made everyone a 'town...

So no one paid for books? For sheet music? For instruments? No one purchased tickets to the carnival or the circus or fair or the traveling theater troupe? No one supported the local preacher via tithe or charity? No one went to baseball games (or cricket, rounder, etc) or bought equipment for...

That's what threw me. You need to go a long long way back in history to find a point when entertainment wasn't commercialized. Probably so far back you're in the murky pre-history business. What has changed though is the size of the companies involved, and the technology for reproducing it...

My gaming club rents a room at a local VFW hall on Tuesday nights.

Most copyright law traces it's roots back to fear of the printing press by the church and governments in Europe, often combined with scribes and illumination trying to hold onto their old, obsolete business model. It's evolved quite a bit since then though. In the US, it was originally an...

The other thing re the Knights. Butcher made God's morality on this pretty clear via Uriel's conversation with Harry in "Warrior". Also, if she was evil, the knights swords would have been buzzing and glowing.

You're making a a larger one. That I run anything resembling the sort of railroad that Hussar implied, that my games consist of pixel bashing and mother may I shenanigans, and that if my players deviate from my desires I abuse them until they do what I want. If that was the case I'd have no...

Considering that the only time I've seen his characters not take a back seat to the tech or science was him aping Clarke, yes. No you don't. Laumer's Retief series are all small plots. Drake's RCN series are all small plots. Hammer's Slammers are small plots. Morgan's Takashi Kovacs novels are...

Yeah. That's exactly what I said. :hmm: Never having played at my table your implications that I'm a bad or control freak GM is nothing more then a petty ad homin. The players were presented with a moral choice. They chose the letter of the law over justice and then tried to rationalize it...

When did I say space opera could not have scientific rigor? I said the defining characteristic of Space Opera is a focus on characters over technology and a romantic or melodramatic plot. Baxter is a hard sci-fi author. Characters are secondary to tech in all of his stories that I've read. Reed...

From Merriam Webster: Main Entry: fic·tion Pronunciation: \ˈfik-shən\ Function: noun Date: 14th century 1 a : something invented by the imagination or feigned; specifically : an invented story b : fictitious literature (as novels or short stories) c : a work of fiction; especially : novel 2...

It refers to the amount of fantasy. Wonderland, Middle Earth, Narnia, Neverland, Harry Potter etc are all high fantasy. As for fantasy set purportedly in the real world there's the Dresden Files, Dracula (Stoker's novel), The Brotherhood of the Wolf, Sherlock Holmes, the Quartermain stories, etc.

math != to english. That said, would you care to explain how something that meets the definition of fiction is not fiction?

The Wikipedia articles properly describe the genres of high and low fantasy as used by literary criticism, with proper citations. The article's descriptions match up with my Lit classes in college. The responses here are uninformed.

Then you need better sources. The world thing is the main criteria, they stuff you list is typical of the genre, but not necessary or sufficient. There have been several definitions of space opera over time. Until the 1970s it was a pejorative for bad science fiction. In the early 1970s it...