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Um... Based on your description, your players are misrepresenting Buffy, Angel, and Harry Callahan. The simple solution to make them realize they were cruel, heartless pricks, is to have the world treat them as such. They walk into the bar for dinner, no one serves them. Officious scum...

As an aside, SC2.0 will handle that without the other two. Look for the Origin of the Species, Spellbound and Fragile Minds PDFs.

It's not entirely pointless. It's conceivable that at some point in time it might, possibly, if the GM wants it to com into use. Not likely though. Magic aging effects are few and far between, especially since they were stripped from haste. I honestly can't think of one off the top of my head...

The thing is, for almost all campaigns, it's just fluff. Most campaigns don't last long enough for aging to matter. This is part of why the Timeless Body ability is a tease. It looks like it's a cool, nifty ability, but it's really pointless since it has no effect unless you're going to use it...

I have a few blank and patterned flip maps. They work great, and you solve the crease issue by folding them opposite ways several times when you first get them and then alternating folds each time you use them.

No it doesn't. It's not a function of a plot-oriented or litterbox campaign styles. It's not even a function of either party accommodating each other. It's a question of who has to give when one person at the table is out of sync with the desires of the rest of the table. If the game is going...

Incapacitation doesn't last that long in my games, but if pressed playing the NPCs works. I'll also use this for those times the party has massively split itself up (like different parts fo Europe split up). It can be used for PC death too, but typically I encourage players to spend their time...

Obviously they need real IP lawyers. They trademark a common descriptive phrase (they named their software what it does) and then they cry foul when people use that term for any software that does similar things. This would be like naming your word processor, I don't know, Word Processor and...

Ok. This would make me play 4e too.

I tried 4e. It just didn't click. Maybe this was the DM, maybe it was the system changes. I don't know and I don't care. It just was never fun and most people (twenty, twenty-two or so out of twenty-four) in my gaming group weren't interested in or impressed by it. Besides, I found the game I...

How is this not a badwrongfun statement again?

4. That when I go for lunch, a cigarette break, am waiting for a scan to finish or an image to load, or for bathroom break no one thinks it's odd I have my smartphone with me or that I'm looking intently at it. A paper book would attract attention.

EoM has the Mage (pure caster), the Mage Knight (fighter caster), the Task Mage (skill ehnacing caster), and Lyceian Arcana has the Arcanist (a more book oriented pure caster, a wizard to the Mage's sorcerer), the Exalten (think bard), the Godhand (cleric or paladin), and the Longwalker (sort of...

That's not how the Baen free library (based on Jim Baen and Eric Flint's comments) or the Baen CD (especially on the site referenced). Baen gives out CDs as promo tools and in the back of hardbacks. These CDs explicitly allow, even encourage you to make copies and share. The fifthimperium site...

I blame the schools.

Only if you're also going to hit them with conservation of energy. Incidentally, this is a good way to limit the range of teleportation if you're so inclined. At least until someone comes up with a giant box moored in a pool with bungie cords. Otherwise, it's magic. Mention it in passing if it...

Who gets to play the shark?

This is what I do for a game I'm in with a player on the other side of the state.

Ah, the much lauded Gygaxian Prose. How I haven't missed it. I think we can all agree on the following interpertation: There is a primitive illumination device of some sort in the room. Inside it, instead of whatever it's supposed to have held is a stick made of silver. The silver thing is...

The issue with that (and what threw me off) is that cressets don't have torches or candles. You're reading is probaly most right out of the three, because it seems that Gygax used cresset when he probably should have used torch holder or sconce. A cresset is an object to let you carry a burning...