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It also dawns on me that other acceptable answers may include “Cow-otic Moo-tral” and “Cow-otic Beef-full.”

Moo-tral Beef-full?

Game mechanics know this, sure. Does the in-game culture? I would argue, "probably not." I mean, we talk about "minotaurs are bigger" and yet racial (ancestral) attribute increases have been done away with. A minotaur is bigger, do you think it's reasonable for people to assume they have higher...

This is a difference without distinction. A minotaur's connection to Baphomet, could, quite literally, be that their great-grandfather was created by Baphomet exactly once, and the minotaur child literally never did anything wrong. Again, all Tieflings are descended (to use your term) from...

I don't believe I opined on whether or not I liked humanocentric design or whether it is "desirable" - I merely called it out as a potential cause of the "nonhumans are evil" trope in previous editions. I think we can all agree "if that's your like, fine."

They've got "a connection to a dark force" based on their creator deity being evil, but caution is the way... and yet with tieflings I think your bias (liking tieflings) is showing... Uh, Tieflings are LITERALLY descended from demons or humans transformed by Asmodeus (unless something has...

Part of the current aversion to blanket labelling of all races comes, I think, from moving away from the Gygaxian assertion that worlds "should" be humano-centric. Generally, my opinion is that in a "default pseudo-medieval world" where PCs are adventuring for fame AND FORTUNE, resources are...

I know this is a threadlich but I can't resist... No "Pac Man?"

https://www.rpgmp3.com/mystara-players-guide/ Plugging so Mr. Welch doesn't have to.

So much this. We saw a ton of this during the 3/3.5E era - the spirit of an "Open License" is opening things up, not doing everything possible to keep other people away from "your precious material" which you built entirely on something someone else decided to open up. So... um... I must...

I may choose to buy Daggerheart based on its SRD. Anyone planning on going into publishing shouldn't rely on the EN World community for legal counsel and shouldn't "wait for the dust to settle"; they should consult an intellectual property lawyer. The SRD may convince me that the Daggerheart...

Any license that can be unilaterally altered by the other party at any time is not really a license at all - and certainly not a reliable legal foundation upon which even a semi-professional publisher can rely. "DRP may modify or revise the License at any time at its sole discretion" makes this...

I think this working theory is probably on the right track.

We kind of had that in 1e. The introduction of "specialty priests" in 2e with access to spells that had formerly been exclusive to the Wizard started to blur those lines. In 3e, bards lost their own spell lists and joined the ranks of "arcane casters" and the druids lost theirs and got lumped in...

I'm probably in the minority here, but I hate the "psionicists as a spellcaster but not a spellcaster" paradigm. I've been pretty turned off by psionics because every time I see the mechanic (outside some parts of 1e) psionics feels like, "system for magic powers that bypass anti-magic because...

I usually think "Arrive AT" a location; however, I think "arrived to" feels okay if I follow it by a verb. I arrived AT the soup kitchen to serve hot meals. I arrived TO serve hot meals at the soup kitchen. (Yes, I am aware both "AT" and "TO" appear in both sentences above; I suspect the...

I'm going to speak only to US law here since that's the country I live in. What drives me crazy is that in the music industry, US lawmakers figured out years ago (thanks to player pianos) a little trick called "compulsory licensing." That is, once a song has been written, I am allowed to record...

That's a little simplistic, I think. If someone keeps views you find objectionable close to the vest, you choose to support them, and you later find out that they have objectionable views (or their views evolve over time from something you agree with to something you don't), I don't think that...

The problem is that the law doesn't move at the speed of technology. Lending libraries grew out of the "Doctrine of First Sale" which basically says once I have legally purchased a copy of a book (or other piece of art), I have the right to dispose of that copy in any way I please (except...