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Damn. This team is shaping up nicely.

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Derivative works could easily be the subject of an entire Protection from Chaos article themselves. It's a loaded question, so I'm going to focus on your specific questions. Keep in mind that the...

Trevor Kidd of WotC has responded to me on Twitter. Whether his responses are the final word remains to be seen, but they're certainly official and should be taken as such for now. Here is what...

Yes, that's absolutely true. In fact, sometimes trade secret law is a better way to go even where copyright or patent protection are available. Patents expire in less than 20 years (17 years when I...

Matt, that's right, but I don't get to duck T's question so easily. :) I've spoken with a friend (also an attorney) about this privately, and I'm really torn over this. (Why do I care? Because I'm a...

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My guess is that online play would lead to gaming with people you don't know, which in turn makes it impossible, even in theory, to know if your tablemates have followed the...

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You people are fools. My trolls eat your orcs, goblins, gnolls, bullywugs, etc., and trolls use a green dragon's chlorine breath as their version of "taking a shower."

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I made an interesting observation with that game. In, for example, D&D, your power is constrained by your character's level, and your character's resources are constrained by your...

I ran a self-written adventure of FASA Star Trek RPG this weekend at TerpCon. Overall, the system is exactly as I remember it: a brilliant gaming system with layers of crap piled on top. That is, its...

Thanks for your thoughts, Erik. This idea has the potential to get unwieldy. Of course, you'll also have the general campaign setting, but specific areas could/should have separate sourcebooks. As...

Osiris, the god of regeneration, rebirth, vegetation, and the dead, could have been played by Christopher Lee in a James Bond film, except it wasn’t his literal gun that was golden. As I mentioned...

Geb, the god of the Earth, gives new meaning to lying down on the job. Almost every depiction of the guy has him lying on his back, pointing his . . . ahem . . . let’s just say “unit” towards his...

Ptah, the god of creation and craftsman, could give Gond a run for his money. He’s a 4’ tall, half-naked man, so he doesn’t look like much until you look into his eyes. There you see a reflection of...

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This power was plagiarized from another creature, and that's how it was worded. Technically, it has to stay the way it is (i.e., an item isn't...

Isis, the goddess of nature, fertility, motherhood, and magic, was the most beloved of gods. If I were a shrink – and I’m not – I’d assume a Freudian motivation, because this seems to have been a...

Thoth, “thrice great in wisdom,” was the Ibis-headed god of knowledge and writing. He added five days to the calendar, so I’ve given him some temporal powers. Thoth has the power to raise the dead,...

Sobek was the god of the Nile river, generally appearing as a man with the head of a crocodile. Use him in aquatic settings. Despite his treatment in the 3rd Edition Deities & Demigods, he was not...

Set, the god of Chaos and Evil, was a jerk, plain and simple. Contrary to popular understanding, his head was that of the “Set animal.” That is, the animal wasn’t a donkey, jackal, or any other...

Horus had the head of a falcon (missing an eye, yet highly perceptive), and was the god of protection, the sky, and war. His stories were amusingly smutty, so while I won’t share them here, I suggest...

Ra had the head of a falcon or hawk. He was the god of the sun, and is the chief of the Egyptian gods. His importance probably reached its peak during the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt (~2494 to ~2345 BC)....

Huitzilopochtli, the "Left-Handed Hummingbird," was a primary god of the Aztecs. He was their god of war, death, and the sun. His mother, Coatlicue, became pregnant with him when a ball of feathers...

Camazotz (also Cama-Zotz, Sotz, Zotz) is an anthropomorphic, Mayan god of night, death, and sacrifice. Worshiped by a sect located in what is now Guatemala, Camazotz resembled a cross between a man...