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I recently downloaded the Castles & Crusades Quick Start guide and read it. I actually like it a lot more than I thought I would! I feel like I could run a pretty slick campaign right out of the Quick Start guide -- it's pretty much everything I want right there, hewing very closely to original...

The Toughness Feat is infamous for being particularly weak. What are some ideas for fixing Toughness in a way that it's balanced with other feats? Here's two suggestions: (1) Toughness grants an added 2 hit points per level. (2) Toughness grants an added 3 hit points, +1 per level. (I figure...

Do hit points represent the same thing in 4E as prior editions? Based on your answer, do you think that's good or bad?

For those who played 1E AD&D with Unearthed Arcana, I'm wondering what the overall opinion is. Yea or Nay?

A quiz: Initially D&D used 3d6-in-order to roll ability scores. Later it switched to 4d6-drop-lowest-any-order. To your recollection, when did that rule first appear in the D&D core rulebooks?

Hey, I just posted my take on a minimal revision of the d20 System, check it out here: http://www.superdan.net/dimd20/ (Also attached below for convenience.) Comments welcome. Major features include: Generic Classes: 3 core classes (Fighter, Rogue, and Wizard), with easy-to-remember saves and...

OGL Section 1(b) "Derivative Works" mentions "potation" as one example. I've looked at a number of dictionaries and the only definition I find for that is "the act of drinking (esp., liquor)". Does anyone know what "potation" means in this legal/publishing context? Any reference to a place...

Now it's a poll. Do nonmagical once-per-day abilities damage suspension of disbelief?

Goodman Games is releasing new Dungeon Crawl Classics for 4E, to be on sale in stores September 1st. The exact licensing scheme seems to be secret at the moment. What's your prediction for the licensing scheme behind these releases? http://www.goodman-games.com/upcomingreleases.html

Obviously the GSL is a hot issue -- as evidenced by an opinion piece posted on the front page of ENWorld at the moment (I assume by Morrus). As stated there, some of the items mentioned are obvious, but I don't think they all are. If it had been posted in the context of a thread there would be a...

I'm interested in how folks would bet on WOTC licensing for the 4E rules. Currently we're at the start of April with no released license that we know of. Pick what you think is most likely at this point.

I think it would be interesting to go back to a prominent analyst's predictions for 2007 and see how accurate they were. Over a year ago, Ryan Dancey posted 4 gaming-industry predictions for 2007 (starting off with specific predictions for the 6 biggest companbies). See the link here...

Where do discussions of the GSL (recently-named Gaming System License for 4E) go? There's currently a thread in the OGF-L forum, but that really doesn't really seem to be the right place -- the GSL license is not part of the "Open Gaming Movement, [or] the Open Gaming License" which that forum...

Did anyone ever use the DMG "Variant: Spell Roll" in 3E? (Roll for each spell DC instead of a static number.) If so, what was the result -- did you like it, not like it?

I'm a bit OCD-ish, and a long-time player, but I've realized that sometimes now I have difficulty picturing dungeon entrances that aren't on the south side (i.e., bottom of the map). Part of why this occured to me is that I started designing an adventure in flowchart format, and realized that...

Preview books in coming months -- discussions of races, classes, etc., with no mechanics. Will you buy them?

I thought there was a previous poll on this, but I guess there isn't. How do you interpret that for hydra AOO's?

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Here's an open letter to the 4E designers: You've got an opportunity to finally fix the D&D encumbrance rules. I've discovered what I think is an extremely simple fix, to simply recalibrate all weights to a coarser granularity -- namely in English "stone" (14 pound units). Here are the...

I just completed a tool that I was aching for over a long time. What it does is automatically simulate several thousand combats in 3E D&D with any monster you enter, and evaluate what level of NPC fighter would be evenly matched against it. I'm using this as a super-fast starting point for CR...