Actually, I have used AD&D modules with other systems (Rolemaster for instance) with great effect. The story is the same, even if the universe has different glitches.
And as far as content creation, one need to only look as far as http://www.planeshift.it/ to know it exists in copious quantity!
How about the geeks mob a bulletin board somewhere and build a new Free and Open Source Fantasy Roll Playing Game?
Who cares if SIWDCoCh is rolled on 1d20 (1 & 2 being handicaps, 19 Being extra stats with an achilles heel, and 20 being godlike stats.), or a 3d6 (oh, wait, probably copyrighted). And please, let's let the monk class be their original badass selves?
Zap.
P.S. You only get +2 initiative for a chain mail bikini, m'kay?
Do you think you could teach your mother how to use a CLI FTP application to log into moz's servers to download a better browser than MSIE? My mom loves FF (even if I don't like it), but I would be damned if I could teach her that trick. Heck, even Lynx would confuse her.
(soapbox on)
BTW, I have been using the net since '84. I used to dial up my local community college, use their link to the univerity 150 miles way, and use corral.uwyo.edu's LYNX browser to go chat at cleveland.freenet.edu. Trust me, I probably know the guts of this kludge we call the internet better than you.
But my elder parents, wouldn't have a clue. Neither would yours unless they are freakishly brilliant, or you're still a teeny-bopper.
Either people are getting short memories, or this is the same suit we were hearing about in the 90s.
Yes, even back then Microsoft's competitors wanted M$ to have to un-bundle windows and IE. Suits were filed, some settled, some lost, but the fact of the matter is, M$ still distros IE with Windows.
Then the competitor browsers wanted a free ride in on the operating system too. Such a load of crap. That also didn't amount to a hill of beans. If they had put firefox on the CD, then chances are the addition of a GPL browser, would have caused a lawsuit trying to make MS open source all of windows. Ain't gonna happen.
Fact of the matter is, if you don't get a browser with your OS, you won't be able to download anyone elses browser to get away from IE.
Do you think I support MS? Hell no, I am using Opera!
Do you think I like FireFox because I use Opera? Hell no, FF is a shambling pile of bloatware compared to Opera.
Do I think it's right for any one group to demand what another group does with it's product? Hell no, I'm a libertarian!
So let's move on from this stupid, insipid, smegmatic attack on how M$ chooses to sell their stuff.
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Re: Emilio's take on a FOS FRPG...
And as far as content creation, one need to only look as far as http://www.planeshift.it/ to know it exists in copious quantity!
On the post: Wizards Of The Coast Learning That Pissing Off Geeks Isn't Such A Good Idea...
Maybe what's needed is an FOS FRPG?
Who cares if SIWDCoCh is rolled on 1d20 (1 & 2 being handicaps, 19 Being extra stats with an achilles heel, and 20 being godlike stats.), or a 3d6 (oh, wait, probably copyrighted). And please, let's let the monk class be their original badass selves?
Zap.
P.S. You only get +2 initiative for a chain mail bikini, m'kay?
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We know why...
:P lol!
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Pardon me but...
(soapbox on)
BTW, I have been using the net since '84. I used to dial up my local community college, use their link to the univerity 150 miles way, and use corral.uwyo.edu's LYNX browser to go chat at cleveland.freenet.edu. Trust me, I probably know the guts of this kludge we call the internet better than you.
But my elder parents, wouldn't have a clue. Neither would yours unless they are freakishly brilliant, or you're still a teeny-bopper.
(soapbox off)
L8R !-)
On the post: Google, Too, Chooses Lobbying Over Competing
This is so last millenia...
Yes, even back then Microsoft's competitors wanted M$ to have to un-bundle windows and IE. Suits were filed, some settled, some lost, but the fact of the matter is, M$ still distros IE with Windows.
Then the competitor browsers wanted a free ride in on the operating system too. Such a load of crap. That also didn't amount to a hill of beans. If they had put firefox on the CD, then chances are the addition of a GPL browser, would have caused a lawsuit trying to make MS open source all of windows. Ain't gonna happen.
Fact of the matter is, if you don't get a browser with your OS, you won't be able to download anyone elses browser to get away from IE.
Do you think I support MS? Hell no, I am using Opera!
Do you think I like FireFox because I use Opera? Hell no, FF is a shambling pile of bloatware compared to Opera.
Do I think it's right for any one group to demand what another group does with it's product? Hell no, I'm a libertarian!
So let's move on from this stupid, insipid, smegmatic attack on how M$ chooses to sell their stuff.
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