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Interesting. I'm curious to see how much functionality you get with just the basic rules engine and subscription. I mean, if you can write in your own attacks and effects and have them still be drag-and-drop ready then it's not a bad deal at all if you already have dead-tree versions of the...

I agree completely. That playability conflict makes it so that things that are cool in fantasy lit are often awful in fantasy gaming. Marty Lund

To be fair, though, demi-human races are rubber forehead aliens anyway. I actually kind of like the fact that the stereotypes are "baked in" - genetically and spiritually. It makes them less human without the pitfalls of either making them incomprehensibly alien or just "cultured" incorrectly...

To be fair, that's an accurate characterization. Maybe even a little charitable. Between Dragonlance and Tolkien I came away from childhood with a very sour opinion of fantasy elves in general. In retrospect, it isn't called the "Age of Despair" for nothing. I probably wouldn't have enjoyed a...

Seriously, though, if I had to wrangle kender for some God-forsaken reason, I'd do it in +13A. Kender would get taunt as a once-per-battle Racial Ability. "Handling" would be a racial feat. It would be a Faustian Bargain ability. You gimmick up an explanation of where and when you got whatever...

I'm generally not a fan of player characters of monster races. A kobold or goblinoid is about as far as I'd go. Gray Oozes, Rust Monsters, and Kender are for me to torment the players with, not for PC use. Marty Lund

The only winning move is not to play. ;) Seriously, though, handling NPCs/Monsters by PC mechanics is a path that leads to nothing but madness. Unless the NPC must be used as a companion character (a DMPC or whatever), try to avoid having them making a bunch of rolls and tactical decisions that...

Why would you need a page number? That's how resolving attack effects works and has always worked. If you have an effect that says, "the next time you take damage, reduce it by 10" and an attack does 7 piercing damage with 5 cold damage on a failed save you take 2 damage, not 5. You only...

If it is in the attack profile and it doesn't have a delayed trigger, then its all one attack and one lump of damage. Same thing goes for a magic sword that does 1d8 slashing damage + 2d6 fire damage on a critical hit. You don't go to 0 HP from the slashing damage and then eat a failed Death...

See, this philosophy is what people should be very skeptical about. That's not describing a free society at all. That's Totalitarianism through and through. That's the exact rationale that justifies saying I can take away Free Speech from the neo-Nazis because I find what they have to say to be...

It's really easy once you buy into the idea that the government can do anything "for the greater good" rather than the idea that the government must be restricted from exercising power unless it meets an increasing burden of proving necessity when it restricts the citizenry. That philosophy...

And that's where the issue is confused. When someone can not refuse to participate in someone else's gay or straight marriage ceremony because it violates their religious beliefs - be they anyone from an Orthodox Jew refusing to materially participate in a same-sex wedding or an Atheist refusing...

I disagree with the assertion that the tenor of the law has changed. The law functions as it was intended to function: Mandates courts use the following when considering religious liberty cases: Strict scrutiny Religious liberty can only be limited for a compelling government interest...

I think the shocking part is that the "religion" is the class at question in the actual body of the law but everyone completely ignores it. Ironically, one's religious affiliation and exercise is not only protected under the Bill of Rights but is a protected class under the Civil Rights Act of...

It's just a matter of Perception vs. Cognition, and that's why they are broken apart they way they are. While the two are often used in concert, someone who is very perceptive (in the sensory sense of the word) may be very bad at actually realizing the meaning of what they are perceiving while...

True enough. That's only Outer Circle Scorpion scheming, though. The pawns do all the overt dirty-work and crude ops as distractions. Your slanderers, thieves, blackmailers, crime-bosses, loud-mouth courtiers, bravos, and black-pajama patrol operate at that level because that's all they are good...

Actually, the law specifically states that the government (ie - the monopoly of violence) may not compel a business to deliver service to individuals in a nature contrary to their religious beliefs unless it proves it to be "is the least restrictive means of furthering the compelling...

Yeah, that's a canon L5R (Legend of the Five Rings) thing. I think the official Scorpion Clan approach to this situation (the "I can swim approach") would be to relentlessly and hypocritically bag on everything anyone in WotC does, just to try and drive down the brand and get your version of...

Eh, nobody should be surprised. This is how you adapt when throwing temporary help at a problem isn't a viable resolution (you can't afford it or the ramp-up takes too long, for two examples). If you lose a lynch-pin you redistribute the work however possible and reprioritize it. The simplest...

I like the feel of "Masterwork" -> "Peerless" -> "Legendary" or appropriate substitutions thereof. A sword with a fire property could be something like "Burning" -> "Incinerating" -> "Inferno" in a similar manner. Similarly with monsters you could have something like "Vicious" -> "Dire" ->...