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3.5: newb needs a little help with Hellfire Warlock build
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<blockquote data-quote="Particle_Man" data-source="post: 5492411" data-attributes="member: 892"><p>I doubt that the two of us will convince each other, and I don't even know if the OP is still reading this thread. For what it is worth, I sent off a question about it to Robin D. Laws (one of the names on the cover of the book in which the Hellfire Warlock appears) to see if one can derive authorial intent. At this point I think the rules are simply incomplete and one could interpret them multiple ways. In the absence of an FAQ or errata from WotC, there is no ultimate authority to appeal to except the most local one, which is why I recommend that the OP check with the DM.</p><p></p><p>I think I remember a 1st ed AD&D artcile in Dragon about, well, dragons (yellow? orange?) described as breathing something like chlorine gas. I think the complaint of the readers was that this got too much physics in their magical fantasy game. </p><p></p><p>I can agree that in real life things can mix so (chlorine, quantum physics, etc.), but the game seems to have in most other areas taken great pains not to mix things in that way, so I would be surprised if this was one of (perhaps the only) areas in which this happened. It is not impossible, but it would seem unusual to me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Particle_Man, post: 5492411, member: 892"] I doubt that the two of us will convince each other, and I don't even know if the OP is still reading this thread. For what it is worth, I sent off a question about it to Robin D. Laws (one of the names on the cover of the book in which the Hellfire Warlock appears) to see if one can derive authorial intent. At this point I think the rules are simply incomplete and one could interpret them multiple ways. In the absence of an FAQ or errata from WotC, there is no ultimate authority to appeal to except the most local one, which is why I recommend that the OP check with the DM. I think I remember a 1st ed AD&D artcile in Dragon about, well, dragons (yellow? orange?) described as breathing something like chlorine gas. I think the complaint of the readers was that this got too much physics in their magical fantasy game. I can agree that in real life things can mix so (chlorine, quantum physics, etc.), but the game seems to have in most other areas taken great pains not to mix things in that way, so I would be surprised if this was one of (perhaps the only) areas in which this happened. It is not impossible, but it would seem unusual to me. [/QUOTE]
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