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Every entertainment industry has their "home skilled" niche. Direct-to-DVDs are an example, and yet they still do enough money that your local shelves now have Starship Troopers 3. A large number of people might just say "what the hell" and keep going, but there is a steady enough clientele...

Is the Labyrinth actually a labyrinth or just a big dungeon with lots of doors?

RPG PDFs have also done better than other genres because RPGs have a computer element to them. GMs can use a PDF at the table where they have their personal notes, audio selections, and other tools for the game. Change the window and read that new feat again. It's not something that works for...

E-books or PDFs really didn't allow people to create their own independent material - it just offered a means for consumers to want to buy them. People have been produced fan material for years and posting them on messageboards, homepages, and anything else that was mostly text based. Nothing...

Not really. Strikers affect a single opponent at once, but he's talking about causing fear on multiple opponents simultaneously, like a controller.

Minotaurs have the oversized power which lets them wield weapons one size larger than them. That would be SWEET on a barbarian.

The other thing to consider (which is now one of the first things) is the role of the druid. Striker seems a bit easy and suggests that druid strikers would just turn into werebears and kick butt. Controllers would require the druid to have a massive number of offensive spells and that makes...

I think if you look at all of those clauses as 100% certified events, then yes, the GSL is crazy unfair. Contracts and legal agreements are always worded like this and phrased strongly so that in the event disputes go to court, both parties were fairly warned. As it stands, I can't see WotC...

There's been quite a few adventures where monsters in an encounter were simply listed by name, quantity, and hit point total with a page number reference in the appendix for the full stat block. No difference here because you should be bringing the MM with you anyway. Fighters can be renamed...

"In my hand, I hold a lucky cricket..." (snatch) "Who the hell said take the cricket from my hand?!!"

Dunno, making a striker class seems kinda easy. If they already have a few strikers in mind (and I'm thinking the barbarian might be one of them, because a defender barbarian seems kind of... odd), making them a defender somehow makes just as much sense. Everything else about the monk will be...

Without skill ranks, initiative as a skill doesn't have as much potential to it. Everyone could take it and get the same modifier, which is no different than buying the Improved Initiative feat. I use initiative as a skill in 3.5 and it was great because the player put their own ranks into it...

With the upcoming releases for our Treasure Hunter line of d20 Modern adventures, we've been working on sprucing up the old layout as part of our preparations for 2008/2009. The Treasure Hunter core PDF will be re-released on May 22nd (which is the opening day of the new Indiana Jones movie and...

That'll probably be more common now in any "core" setting or expansion material using OGL. Since there won't be official core books to pick up, why not just produce the material yourself within your own original ideas? But for that very reason, you'll never see a unified OGL system for 3pp...

I wasn't worried about the copyright aspect of it so much as whether or not WotC will actually include their revised planes in the GSL. It seems that they have a more concrete world they may wish to protect and reserve for themselves for the same reason that nothing Forgotten Realms was OGL...

Reading through Worlds and Monsters, I'm liking what I see for the D&D default setting - nothing too specific with room enough for everyone to add their own elements and locations without figuring out where the hell to put it on the map. Particularly for 3rd-party boys and girls. However, it...

(sigh) OK, sales suck. So we're having a sale. 50% off all Emerald Press products (not including any Dog Soul imprints) until February 23rd. This includes the Book of Alignment, Campaign Options: Mazes, the entire Combat Options series, and Treasure Hunter. See our page on the EN World store...

Awwww... playtesting is done for the day. You could easily photoshop some dice in that little hand. Congrats to both of you.

When your sales are down 80%, ANY way will work. "Finish 3.5 with a bang!", "The War has consequences," or anything else to suggest that GMs can use WotBS as a device to end the 3.5 rules and introduce a 4E game. Not that they have to, but that it's an option for anyone looking to wrap up...

Morrus, would it be possible to promote Burning Sky as a campaign for wrapping up 3.5? WotC came out with an adventure designed to destroy a campaign world just before they released 3.0 for that very reason. Not to say that Burning Sky would end with the obliteration of the world, but that it...