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1. Dave Arneson - I've loved Blackmoor since the DA1-4 days. Can't get enough... and he's old school. :) 2. Chris Pramas - Because he seems to have many of the same tastes in "flavor" that I do (based on what GR publishes) and he's got great insights and stories (having met him at GAMA a...

The "Acid Door" trap has always been one of my favorites. A glass door, painted to look like wood, which contains a super-strong acid. Kick in the door and get a shower of glass and acid all over your leg. But then, I've always had a soft spot for Grimtooth's stuff. :)

The man is my very first character ever... Gardol Silverforge. He was a male fighter who had a particular love in his heart for the dwarven culture. I played him in Boxed Set D&D campaigns for years, and eventually he became an Immortal, eventually rising to the rank of Hierarch (sphere of...

Going back to the original poster's question... I should also note I just spent one minute on RPGNow.com going through their d20 Fantasy menu to get to the adventures sections. http://www.rpgnow.com/default.php?cPath=1_260_269& == 110+ low level adventures...

Fair enough. The product name is "Trouble in the River City" - you can get it for $4 from either: The ENWorld GameStore: http://shop.enworld.org/index.php?productsid=1483 or RPGNow.com: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=4365 I didn't want to "pimp my product" with a link...

One anecdote does not a trend make, but it does one data point make. 16 months ago, I released an adventure in PDF. It was world-neutral. It had tons of interesting NPCs. Re-used bits of OGC from a dozen different sources, and had no small amount of new stuff in it, too. To date, it has...

No, it's... "Hello, cheese? NO! Cheese can't answer the phone."

What Wulf doesn't tell you is that he's writing with his James Earl Jones/Darth Vader voice... meaning you aren't allowed to read his books aloud in a manner similar to the way Darth Vader might them aloud. ;) --The Sigil (Joking, joking. Just trying to throw a little levity into the...

You're falling into the trap that OGC must equal copyrighted material. It doesn't have to. OGC in any given document consists of "must be" and "can be." "Must be" includes: a.) any game mechanics that do not "embody the Product Identity" (whatever that means, not having ever found a suitable...

Saw the thread, declined to comment on it until you invited me to do so. IANAL, TINLA, but based on my understanding of copyright law, here is the gist (copied from that thread). The OGC Designation in Mythic Heroes, in reality, gives me no more re-usable material than *any* other RPG book...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. Technically, Wulf's expression of Open Game Content is valid and correct per 1.d of the OGL - Open Game Content can take one of two forms (note the joining "and" in the original) - it might be better parsed thusly: Since Wulf did not...

The meaning seems to have evolved since I first coined the term on the ogf-l mailing lists (unless I'm gravely mistaken, this post: http://www.mail-archive.com/ogf-l@opengamingfoundation.org/msg06225.html is the first time the term was introduced - by myself - on Nov 28, 2001, so the term is...

Fertility != Lust. ;) As to the point that there may not have been gods of lust due to the concept being too narrow, I think that's an interesting one to explore. Also, not saying that historically, all deific incarnations of lust were female, it just seems that every time the topic comes up...

I should also note that my experience (limited though it is) in watching industry mailing lists, emailing publishers, and so on, indicates that most publishers are willing to share (if not necessarily sit down on a collaboration). Collaboration happens mostly behind the scenes, not on an...

Um... WTF? Not to sound bitter, but the blame for this falls solely on WotC, because they have never wanted to bother themselves with enforcing the OGL. WotC is the entity that has allowed publishers to withhold portions of their contributions from the community rather than making it an...

Not to threadjack this thread, but IIRC, a paladin's God must be within one step of LG, no? In other words, LG, LN, or NG. Maybe it's just me, but I tend to see "Lust" as more of a Chaotic trait - one that is about "personal freedom" rather than "order" - thus disqualifying said goddess from...

I need to do some digging (and my google-fu fails me) but I remember reading something in "The Winner's Guide to Board Games" (published in the late 70's) that (IIRC), there was an RPG version of "Prince Valiant" sometime in the mid-50's. The author of TWGtBG was an unabashed D&D fan, but...

To repeat the gist of a post I made earlier in the thread, one key to the discussion is not found in the paladin himself; rather, it is found in the reaction of the acolyte sent to find him. By the RAW, a paladin's code states that "a paladin’s code requires that she ... act with honor." The...

The grandparent would call this "interpreting the rules" - you're interpreting what the word "implies" means. I'm looking at the list of actions they actually wrote, which is the only list of actions associated with the word "Evil" in the RAW... since paladins are forbidden from committing Evil...

I'll point you back towards one of my posts earlier in this thread. In a nutshell, the debate can be reduced to a single point: The "and so forth" phrase in the rules as written implies that the list of forbidden activities is *exemplary*, not *exhaustive* - i.e., just because a given activity...