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No worries. Pros could be a WotC or a 1-person writer/artist/editor. If you sell it and get paid, you're a pro, in my book.

So, let's say you have a Dex of 10 and 3 skills ranks in "bows." You roll a d20 and try to get under 10. Someone with a higher Dex is naturally more "talented." But unless they increased in the skill they can only roll the one die. Let's say someone with a Dex of 10 puts 8 ranks into the...

Who said anything about looking down on them? I pointed out that if they aren't always self-consistent, at least having a definitive "current edition of this thing" is more consistent than expecting every DM to do their own.

So, the Caves of Chaos map is not actually flat, it just happens to be drawn as a plan view with no elevation view. That's one of the challenges of such a big map being squeezed into the inside of a BD&D module cover. 2e and later editions have done a bit better job of doing an elevation view...

Not arguing that, except it's not a d20-based system. Only issue I potentially see is the less granularity of a d20 vs d100, but it's still possible to do this with a d20 system. Actually if i got to decide 6e D&D mechanics, I'm partial to a d20 dice pool, attribute+skill as the target...

Sometimes, arbitrary decisions need to be made on a conversion, and differences in stats and abilities in different editions illustrates that. Something coming from WotC may have more "authority" than whatever your DM decides in doing a conversion.

Too fiddly if all you are doing is cataloging academic type skills (do we need rhetoric and oratory as separate skills)? Now do it with combat skills... I'd broadly group weapons, use feats as the entrance to becoming skilled in that group, and allow advancement of them as skills. This would...

Take a look at something that WotC has provided stats for across editions - a random monster, one of the famous NPCs, etc. Tell me they're self-consistent in all cases... Or look at the 3e time of horrors 3pp conversion of older edition monster stats and compare to a later WotC product that...

This. Ask 10 people to convert some type of mechanical info from prior editions to 5e and you'll get 10 different results. Even worse ask them to progressively convert from 1e -> 2e -> 3e -> 4e -> 5e and watch the analysis paralysis set in.

I'd just as soon do away with leveling altogether. It never made any sense that you suddenly are going up in power as a step function. Once 3e established a standardized skill system for D&D, it is easy enough to establish that everything is a skill (Spycraft Shadowforce Archer used this...

I've DM'ed: Greyhawk (1e folio/boxed set with 3e mechanics updates, but not the Wars/FTA stuff) for a humano-centric gritty campaign where the PCs no not much of the world outside of their village to start with. FR with Kara-Tur, Al-Qadim and Maztica as one big setting - for the depth of...

Yes, but the chain from designer to boss is much shorter - a lot easier to convince your boss when he is doing the same work you do than at a large company where the chain can be 7 or 8 layers deep, across multiple departments or divisions.

Uh, yeah. I work for the largest company in my industry (and one of the largest in all of industry). We have mandatory training on a variety of subject matter every year - workplace violence, export regulations, counterfeit detection, just to name a few. The list of topics grows as your...

Quality how? Quality content? Quality workmanship in the physical production? Quality workmanship is easy to define. Quality content is subjective. Well-written words for rotten content doesn't make the content any better. Well written words for rotten content doesn't sell more product...

Public companies, yes. Privately-held companies do what they want.

How many of the small publishers have a possibly-non-engaged board and shareholders driving things? Small publishers don't have the distractions of huge publishers. Small publishers are in control of their own schedules and can decide how much work that they can take on instead of having it...

Core mechanics are easy to convert. It's the mechanics providing setting-specific flavor that are the problem. Recall the 3e regional feats? Great idea to provide specific flavor. Now do that for Dark Sun or Greyhawk... I seem to recall a Dragon article that tried to 3e-ize all the old...

It depends. There is no one size fits all licensing agreement. It's easy enough to create T's&C's dictating what the limits are for any licensee or sub- licensee. That could license to a 3PP to create a 5e treatment of x, y, z products while licensing the same IP to a different 3PP to create...

I'm aware. It's just one of those things where having fancy voice acting is at the very bottom of my list of must-haves. Ability to create characters you want to create? If it limits traditional classes and race or add ones not part of Forgotten Realms, that's a problem. I should be able to...

If they can deliver a game using 5e rules, with the depth of BG2 and the environmental interaction of DOS2, I'll be happy. If I had to choose between immersive interaction with the environment or voice talent, I'll be happy with text-only, especially since I read faster than the dialogue voiced...