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Interesting. I guess i can see how that would be. Personally, i have exactyl the same complaint againts hit points: you can hit and do "damage" without having any real impact on the target or their future actions. Until you take away that last hit point, of course. Huh. Hasn't been my...

Um, you mean "WotC should never have caused this confusion". They're the ones who said they weren't gonna use the title (or at least not any time soon), and then did so anyway.

Actually, yes, yes it is. It seems to me that the whole point of a new edition of an RPG is to change things--otherwise, just reprint the old edition. Now, what exactly changes varies, but it is most often the mechanics and the layout/art, i would say. And pretty rarely the latter without the...

No, what it technically isn't is a D20 System logoed game. The fact that it can't bear the D20 System logo in no way disqualifies it from being a D20 System game, much less hte much vaguer target of being a "d20 game"--which, arguably, would include Fading Suns, Traveller: the New Era, and...

Um, because a contained-in-one-book game is better than one strung out across multiple books? Because Spycraft 2.0 gives you everything you would ever need for the genres it covers, so there is no need for support? Because one thinks the notion of guaging the future viabilite of an RPG on # of...

What about the "Crime Scene" line from Hogshead? [sorry, stupid php/java/whatever website makes it impossible to give you a direct link. Which is almost annoying enough to forgo plugging their products in this post, but i guess i'll do it anyway.]

No, we know one other thing about it: it will be produced by WotC, and is therefore likely to conform to their standards, because they probably wouldn't publish it if it didn't. That, IMHO, is sufficient basis for presuming it will be noticably inferior to M&MM. D&D3E/D&D3.5E is inferior to...

[plug type=shameless]You might want to take a look at Four Colors al Fresco. It intentionally captures a lot of the feel of MSH, in that it's very flexible and genre-driven, rather than trying to model in detail (like, say, Champions/HERO). We've had at least two people who were of the "supers...

Two elements i've quoted. First, it's an extraneous resource if you don't have player-GM arguments to prevent. Second, as for it being distracting. Let me try an analogy. I find LARPs to be harder to get into character than RPGs, because of the presence of the player as the character. That is...

I'm not talking about determining whether someone is within short/medium/long range. I'm talking about having 4 people roughly in a visual line from you, all more than 100 feet away, and moving around, and trying to gauge whether two of them are 10 or 15 feet from one another. Sometimes, that'll...

[discussion of ambiguity in spell placement] As one or two other people have said, i'm in the "yep, a grid eliminates those questions; that's the problem with it," camp. I find the precision of D&D3E combat jarring, and something that gets in the way of my enjoyment of the game. I want some...

You should check out the athas.org ranger--still the best ranger for D&D that i've seen, since the AD&D1 ranger. Let's you choose a variety of cool bits, including animal companions and virtual weapon feats, but also other stuff, like terrain-related bits. If rangers must be bunnyhuggers, that's...

Ah, for the days when the RPGA was an organization for roleplaying. :( But i suppose that's a bit like pining for the days when the RPGA and Dragon admitted the existence of other games than D&D/D20 System.

WEG failed; Star Wars just went with it. And my understanding is that MERP was doing just fine and it was, again, ICE that failed. Now, arguably, the latest LotR and Star Wars games actually did fail, since in both cases the company is still going strong. And while we're cataloguing failed...

Yep. I've been running a D20 System D&D game for a year or more now, and we almost never use a battle mat. Basically only when i (1) remember to bring it and (2) have something that's easier to draw than to describe--like a particularly complex room shape. And not specifically because of an...

"Extreme"? I dunno. More than i've given to my 11th-level party in the current campaign, and that's handing out every bit of magic i can possibly justify within the setting/campaign. And i don't think of it as a low-magic setting by any standard. And, Back In The Day (TM), i'd say most...

I understand your skepticism, but not how that would apply to something like the Galactic Guide. I don't have that one yet, but based on other B5 D20 supplements, i don't even see how a new edition could introduce incompatibilities. We know that the new edition of B5 D20 is still going to be D20...

Aaaarrrgh!!! Errata means errors, or, more specifically, a listing of known errors in a work--with or without their corrections. "Errata" does not refer to the corrections, except, possibly, in the context of them being included along with the errata itself. One does not "insert errata" or...

Right. So Spycraft (v.1) is easier for you to grab stuff from for your game than Arcana Unearthed or Book of Erotic Fantasy is? Point is, whether or not it has a D20 System logo on it is not a good indicator of the content--and, tangentially, that what you are referring to as "OGL stuff" is...

Partly a matter of taste. I consider the stat blocks and class tables the *least* important part of the book (or most D20 System books, for that matter). Grammar problems, including missing/superfluous words, bug me the most. But i can read through them. And, like i said, i probably won't even...