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1: For anybody who missed it, yes, the PDF exists. Head over to RPGNow (or DriveThruRPG) to get your copy. Or, for a limited time, get it bundled with any of several other horror games, and save some money. 2: Leisure Games in the UK just bought another pile of Dread. I believe they...

Woah! Maybe you read a different thread than i just did. But the opening post very clearly was talking about what D&D is, not what it should be. This is a descriptive, not prescriptive, discussion. And, speaking descriptively, it's the stuff that has been there through most, if not all, the...

You know, your argument would be a bit stronger, and fairly consistent, if you didn't include elements that are almost brand-new. Most of that stuff does, indeed, stem back almost to the dawning of D&D. And it is mostly distinct to D&D (as opposed to other subgenres of fantasy). But dragonborn...

I suspect the difference is that, for many, RPGs are essentially a highly-structured storytelling activity. The game-like aspects may be more important than the story-like aspects but, ultimately, the appeal is the story--the opportunity to inhabit an alternative person and live an alternative...

Have you checked out Love & War? It sorta covers this sort of thing. It's aimed specifically at the notion of love as portrayed in Arthurian romance, and the like, but it seems to me that the rules would be a good place to start from, especially if you're using a D20 System game. Check out...

OK, i'm going on memory here, because i don't have good resources handy, but i know it's not that simple. For starters, there were two lawsuits. IIRC, one was settled, one was decided in court. And, again, IIRC, the one that Mayfair lost was a contract infringement--which, admittedly, was the...

Can you? I looked through the first third, at least, of the new MM, and didn't find a *single* ability that recharged on anything but a contiguous range, including 6. Seems like, if that was the intention, at least some of the monsters should illustrate that.

Of course, given the well-established history of, say, after-market auto parts, i'd be amazed if such a lawsuit even got past the initial filings. Surely, all you'd have to do is show that you were using the D&D trademark in a non-confusing, non-ownership-claiming, factual manner, and bring a...

Well, "kill the other guys" i'll give you--if by "other guys" you mean "non-D20 System games". That is, the only claim i recall (and one i'll still make) was that part of the goal of releasing the D20SRD under the WotC OGL was to have an ever-growing portion of the RPG industry support the...

Denied? Dunno. But there shouldn't be any need to ask--that sorta defeats the whole point of open content. I can ask even under standard IP laws. The biggest problem, IMHO, is "crippled" OGC--the most annoying of which is OGC widgets with PI labels. And, given the vagueness of both the WotC OGL...

In tradition, both fictional and historical, the primary strength/power of religious folks is social influence. Even in some fiction where the devoutly religious also have mystical power, their social/political influence is often as or more significant. What Friar Tuck brought to the group was...

I was curious about these, so i went and skimmed the new MM to figure it out, and i'm lost. How is "Recharge :6: " easier to read than "Recharge 6"? More importantly, as near as i can tell it's always a contiguous range, ending at 6, so the one possible advantage of using icons (listing...

I think you're using the wrong math. It looks to me like it's basically an exponential function, with some rounding to get "nice" numbers. Simply graph the values, and you'll see that it's very close to a smooth exponential curve. In fact, when i use OpenOffice to give me the best-fit curve, i...

AFAIC, everything you list is "D&D", except for D&D3[.5]E. Personally, everything published with the D&D label has felt of a kind, except for the Player's Option stuff, and D&D3[.5]E--those two pretty much feel the same as each other to me (though one is much better executed), and neither of...

Um, unless there's something else going on here when you double a weapon's damage, 2.5x4=10.

Well, my preliminary opinion is almost the opposite. That is, D&D3E never felt like "D&D" to me--not from reading the books, and not from playing it, extensively. D&D4E feels a little odd in some ways--warlords, tieflings--but overall, from reading [not likely to play it any time soon], it feels...

Nah. If you're gonna go that route, use mid20: roll 3 d20s and toss the highest and lowest. Still gives you the full range, and the curve isn't as heavily centered, so you can probably get away with just leaving everything else alone (like encounter scaling, etc.). The only change that...

Unless, of course, she knows exactly how she gets her fun, and then you might just be punishing her for having her kind of fun, instead of your kind of fun.

I think you're dealing with someone who simply has a different goal for RPing than you do, and your options are (1) compromise or (2) don't play together. I say this because it sounds like an almost exact description of a player i knew. I don't think Paula plays RPGs in order to immerse herself...

I dunno--doesn't sound like such a dilemma to me. He wants out; it's just a game. So, write his character out. I understand the desire for verisimilitude, but given all the options don't see why you can't contrive--and, yes, it will like be a contrivance--an excuse to extract the character...