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I'm surprised to see people talking about arcane spell failure as something they actually experienced regularly. My experience was mostly that a spell failure chance was read as "don't wear this type of armour". It's not like arcane casters didn't have other ways to raise their AC, or otherwise...

Sorry, what is "HoML"?

Yeah, I bounced right off the way it's organized, or rather isn't.

3.5phb was published july 2, 2000, 3.5 dmg was published july 1, 2003 You're comparing the 3.0 PH to the 3.5 DMG there. In 3.0 I can't actually find release dates for the other two core books but they were definitely all out by the end of 2000. In 3.5 all three core books were released on the...

Hasbro's whole business strategy is holding onto any IP with a shred of potential. They're quite willing to let stuff go dormant for decades at a time and then bring it back out for a new generation. If they'd been around in 800 BC they'd still own the Iliad. For that reason alone, I wouldn't...

In addition to Tormyr's points, there's some changes to how magic works. In particular, there's no sustained magical flight, and partly because of this, no airships as of the start of the campaign. There certainly are similarities, but there's enough differences that you'd have to change a lot...

I'd love it if it was, but I'd bet heavily against it. After what was said on the previous page about Pathfinder, I have to imagine the market for 4E is even smaller. And of course, this gets announced the week after my group finishes adventure 1... is there a timeline on getting the other...

I killed her off 15 minutes into the first session, as the first known victim of the Ragesian bombing. Enough of my PCs had personal connections to the Resistance that her story role wasn't missed at all, and in any case that ends about halfway through the third adventure.

As I went on to say in the rest of the same post...

Most, though not all, games that use percentile dice solve this problem with the convention that 00 is read as 100, rather than 0. This includes old-school D&D among many other examples.

Anyone know what this is referring to? I can't think why they wouldn't. (I've met people who think they don't because they've had it drilled into their heads that multiple dice = bell curve, but don't really understand the underlying math - they know this is generally true but don't understand...

No, and people weren't shy about pointing this out even at the time. (Not a lawyer, just someone who listens to actual lawyers when they talk about IP law, and pointedly ignores randos who don't even understand the difference between copyright and trademark.)

So deal harshly with that, if you feel it's necessary. It doesn't follow that you have to deal equally harshly with the other 95% of the fan works that are/were out there. The stuff you're describing certainly existed (indeed, there's more of it, and more easily accessible, now than there was...

"Companies that fail to defend their trademarks can lose them. Just ask the original makers of cellophane, escalators, and trampolines. However, D&D fans and TSR would debate how much copyright law justified the company’s cease-and-desist notices." AAAARGH! Don't mind me, one of my biggest pet...

In fairness to you, True20, whose best-known implementation is Mutants & Masterminds, attempted this. How well it worked is a matter of some controversy, both online and among people I personally know who've tried it. There definitely do exist people who like it, not sure in what proportion. I...

Never going to be a fan of suggestions for "improving" D&D that are basically "make it not recognizable as D&D anymore", especially in a context like this. There are lots of other games out there that give very different experiences, it's likely you're better off trying one of them than trying...

Well, I like the magic-tech combo, and shorn of some of the cheesier elements it could make a fun game setting.

Just voted after reading the OP but not the rest of the thread. I see the first "leave them alone" option has an absolute majority in a poll where you're allowed to vote twice. That's pretty telling. I'd call this a solution in search of a problem except that no "solution" was actually offered...

No, that's wrong. Half the time you're getting a result from 1-20, and half the time you're getting a result from 21-30. That makes any given result from 21-30 twice as likely to occur (50% divided by 10=5%) as any given result from 1-20 (50% divided by 20 = 2.5%).

I find this mind-boggling, but it explains a lot. At least in this case they have a good excuse, but my experiences with "normal" APs haven't been much better albeit in the opposite direction.