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My first thoughts exactly. Let some gamer who cares about D&D buy and run the D&D properties, not some corporate suit. Then again, maybe it's just my general distaste for anything "marketing"-esque. http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/03/26/wizards_part2/index1.html Some of the stuff...

I've kind of followed the "back and forth" on the officiating in this thread. I'll pick my spots to add commentary. BACKGROUND: I played high school basketball (I dropped off our varsity team my senior year to take college math & physics courses, and that was the year our varsity team lost the...

Place 4 stones on either side of the scale. If the weight is equal, the "odd one out" is the heavier stone. If the weight is different, remove all stones from the scale. Take the 4 stones from the heavy side and place 2 on either side of the scale. When you do this, one side will be heavier...

ROTFLMAO! That does it... the next Evil Mastermind in my campaign is going to be a druidically awakened ... wait for it... spoiler: But guessing wrong will be THEIR problem. :) --The Sigil

Yes, but I was (and as far as I know, still am) the only one of that group that had read the books - I don't think the others had even so much as cracked them open. I actually did some pretty "weird stuff" with that group - when they asked about why anyone would ever even bother with a pike, I...

Hi all, I was just thinking about this after the "immersed in lava" thread - what is the most memorable but unconventional (or "not quite by the rules") use of a spell to great dramatic effect you've ever seen. For me, it actually came near the climax of my last campaign (forgive a bit of...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! (Sorry, had to be done). --The Sigil

The BoEF is to ENWorld what the "trump card" in Godwin's law is to USENET. --The Sigil

These are hilarious! Keep 'em coming!

Let's see... I tried making a dwarven alchemist "hurler" once... on the theory that acids and alchemist's fire, et al are kind of something a dwarf, who is in touch with minerals, could get into based on the fact that it's "chemistry." Rather than fight with axes or fire bows, he had a...

I have to agree here. Have you looked at a 17- or 18-year-old lately (and I don't mean the "teenage amateur internet models" variety)? I teach a class of high school students - ages 14 to 18 - every morning, and Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint would fit right in with them...

Don't have any spare cash for donations right this second, but I'll throw some prize packages into the pot... five donators (selected at random by the staff of d20 Magazine Rack and PMed to me) will receive a set of "every work I've published to date through S.T. Cooley Publishing." That would...

Seconded. Any chance some nice FFG rep can poke his head in here and make this happen? ;)

50%, tops. Let's do a little math here... it has been stated here on ENWorld several times that, in general, a publisher can expect to see about 25% of the MSRP of a book. For a $30 book, then, the publisher expects to see about $7.50... the rest is eaten up by retailers and distributors...

Depends on who you believe. The official Star Wars site says that it does in fact disappear. http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/darthvader/ "He then died, his body disappearing into the light side of the Force. Luke burned the dark armor that had encased Anakin's crippled body in a...

Heh... I got my degree in Physics at UC Irvine... so naturally, I work in the business insurance industry. ;) (Hey, it pays the bills and feeds my kids). --The Sigil

This is likely to be as good a fit as any. The system I used in Buy the Numbers was done in increments of 5 XP and so will not track perfectly with a curve, but was meant to be an exponentially increasing system of cost - which means a natural log function (as provided above) should work nicely...

Holy freakin' crap, Mark, that is the funniest thing I have seen all month. "Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky" (sp?) redone as the Open Gaming License song. Brilliant! I was reading that in Tom Lehrer's affected Russian accent and it was hi-frickin-larious. :) --The Sigil

Hey, Ari, you want Basic, just check my .sig! ;) Seriously, the person I would love to see write an "Alternate Players Handbook" would be... Kevin Siembieda. The guy's a great idea guy, but the mechanics of his system (Palladium) are a bit kludgy... just get Kevin to crank out the ideas and...

An orc and a pie, on the other hand... ;)