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But 3 of them assumed no change in the situation. I was simply stating, above, that there are several ways to deal with the inconsistent ruling without changing the in-game situation, not whether those solutions would end up sticking with or overturning the inconsistent ruling. Now, it is true...

context: This started out when Psion commented with surprise that a rather heated thread had actually managed to lead to productive discussion, with people finally starting to see each others' points. I responded with a snippy, backhanded-complement sort of comment to the effect that this [the...

Only so long as i knew Bruckheimer didn't have any creative input...

WRT subjectivity--until about 2002, i had no idea who Monte Cook was, and was really surprised to see all these people talking like i was supposed to know who he was. See, he'd always worked on stuff i had no interest in: Champions, Planescape, [i thought someone said RMSS?--nothing like that in...

Actually, i'd say it's the exact antithesis of self-promotion. I took it as Cook lending the market-weight of his name to Mearls. The implication, IMHO, of a "So-and-so presents..." title is "if you like So-and-so's work, check this out", which is intended to get people to look at a book that...

Um, given that Psion just identified this thread as being one of them, which is what prompted my remark, i don't think i have much to prove. massive edit: in fact, i'm just gonna snip all that other stuff out, and vent over in the Meta forum, where it [probably] belongs. I don't want to derail...

That's "sparse", huh? I'd be surprised if i have that much info written out for 10 sessions , combined.

Unless you're using some other method of XP award--such as story awards, or any of numerous systems talked about here.

IMHO, yes. In addition to my own abilities/experiences, i bring as evidence the D20 System market: First, there seem to be a lot more books with good fluff than good crunch. Second, there's just way more crunch than fluff, period--and i think part of that is production issues, as well as market...

Interesting. I think that an unpainted pewter miniature (assuming it's well-sculpted) is much better looking than any pre-painted plastic miniature i've seen--in large part because of the greater detail metal can hold, just as Paizo has said. And, until Dragon started having color, it hadn't...

Hmm.. I wonder what's "on the beaten path". Except for the movie soundtracks (and i've got Last Temptation...), you've pretty much described my music library. And, while i consider the "unusual instruments" category to be pretty weird stuff [which i love], i'd've thought world beat and new...

No, you're right--i mis-spoke. I didn't mean to say that it was inevitable in crunchy systems, but rather that it seems to happen more often than not. In fact, the only exception i can immediately recall is HERO--and that's also the only one that hasn't "replaced" the underlying principles with...

And, as an aside, is a perfect example of why the relatively heavy hand of moderation around here often drives me batty: it seems like more than half the interesting discussions i'm involved in get shut down just as they're starting to reach productive, fertile ground. We're mostly adults around...

And that would be the understatment of the thread: "OGL" is not a system, it's a license. Any system could be released under that license, and at least half a dozen have been so far. Some of them don't even have freakin' numbers, much less saving throws or armor class. Referring to "OGL games"...

I thought of a much better way of saying this over the weekend: I trust a good intro line of books to be beholden, first and foremost, to the reader. They should answer the reader's questions, even (or perhaps especially) those the reader isn't aware she should ask. And it should strive to be...

Several of my examples did not assume any change, whatsoever, in the in-game situation. I maintain the point that it is not the changing of the rules that matters--it is the players having a problem with it that matters. If the players don't remember, or don't care, then it doesn't matter...

To me, they don't (vary greatly). That was the point. I had previously thought that you would consider them significantly different, based on our discussions. [And, yes, the dicepool should be ignored--i simply was pulling an existing system out of my head, rather than try to invent a...

Well, like D&D, it's a two-book core rules. Though my books are buried right now, so i can't remember what actually is in the Moderator's Guide--i think most of the detailed setting info. So, anyway, i'm not sure of thi Moderator's Guide is necessary, but it'd certainly be the 2nd book to get...

You actually are supporting my point. It's precisely because D&D == RPG to a lot of non-RPer that a D&D for Dummies book shouldn't assume that everyone that picks it up is necessarily interested in D&D3E. As for it being WotC-driven: i was not aware of this. Looking at the Top 10 lists, i'm...

Criteria One: must be currently published by WotC Criteria Two: there is no criteria two At least, that's what it looked like to me. It seemed like they just listed everything that's current for players, frex, having to include a not-yet-printed book just to get it up to 10.