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I used to be intent on creating a good map of the real stars around Earth. I gave up. The problem is that the galaxy is dominated (in numbers) by very small dim stars. But we have trouble finding those. So they are drastically under-represented in any catalog of stars. And the bigger your map, the bigger the stars that are missing near the edges. Now, my goal is to translate an re-purpose some scientific software that simulates the motions and evolution of a cluster of stars. Well, it's a back-burner project, so progress is slow.

But if the X depends on the boulder, isn't it SIZ in disguise?

Altho I started with the Basic Set back about 1978, and played a lot of AD&D 1st ed., most of my games have been in my own game worlds, with various house rules (I'll tell you about my d% hot-hit table replacement sometime), I feel no particular loyalty to the system. I'm sick of class/level designs. That's why I prefer BRP.

I love the movie, but I don't remember "DMK". I'm rather stuck in the 80's myself. Of course, that was the best time of my life, attending college and spending every spare moment on RPGs and computer games.

Hmm... in some games, dwarves have been described as denser than humans (in more than one sense ). Magic throws a kink in the strength = mass = size idea.

A bit over-simplified for my taste. How does constitution in any way relate to dexterity? How does spirituality relate to charisma? Or perception to reasoning?

I dunno. I've always thought charisma/appeal (beyond appearance) is more skill than stat. <shrug>

Interesting. But as you say, few patents have been obtained for games. You're definitely covered on the copyright part: Games

"Fair Use" is a defense against what otherwise would be copyright violation. As this text doesn't quote or copy RQ, it doesn't apply at all. And as you note,you can't patent or copyright game rules, only their specific artistic expression. Thus, no legal justification is needed at all. In fact, claiming one could itself put you on dangerous legal ground.

I just thought of something: if you literally release the text as public domain, then by definition, the OGL doesn't apply. PD means anybody can use it for anything, without even attributing it to you. Just something to think about.

Yep. Heh. Burp, drool... it's all good.

What's wrong with battlemats? It's been a rare game for me that we didn't use a battlemat & minis (including BRP-based games). In my early days, my "battlemat & minis" were an Othello board and scribbles on the white side of tokens!

Hmm. I've long wondered: why do we so often set up "thematic struggles". Does life (which fiction is based on) really have any theme? Every person has their own ideas on what's important. For most people throughout history, it's just been getting through from day to day. I think a lot of it comes from D&D's alignment system. It forces everybody to stake a position on 2 struggles (good/evil & law/chaos), and makes everything revolve around that. But take, for instance, the knights in Britain & France. Each side thought it was right, both "served God", yet neither was in any objective sense good or evil. They were simply national opponents. The only real theme there is Us vs. Them. Similarly, humans vs. orcs isn't really about good vs. evil. It's just Us vs. Them.

I just had to google this... nice work.

Paper books are good, but on the other hand, you can do a text search on a PDF... Where practical, it's good to have both.