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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D.If that was actually the modality going on, it would be easy. Instead, Gygax has a much more complicated pattern going on than that... -
Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D.I don't believe it is the case in 3e that wands can only replicate spells. Rather, only wands that replicate spells have standard...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.I think that's our point exactly. I wouldn't say that it made it easy or fast except in the cases of the most trivial sorts of items...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D.This is all intentional. It may look weird, but it's significantly less weird than the original table. Remember, this is just doing...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D.The Necromancer Necromancers are the specialist M-U of the school of necromancy. They require a minimum of 14 Intelligence and 14...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D.I discussed earlier the fact that the weirdest thing about the M-U was that they leveled up very slowly when they were the weakest, and...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D.Personally I don't see the need to give any caster unlimited attack magic outside of a video game where how you are attacking is just...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D.Since people have been asking about what I would do with Illusionists, I tacked on to the end of the original essay what I would do with...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D.Cantrips as presented in 1e AD&D are mostly color. Sure, every 100 hours of play you might find some real use for them if you kept some...
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Celebrim reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D with
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There was a spell to recharge magic items in an issue of Dragon, my DM ported it into his 2e game. Sadly, I can't recall which issue it... -
Celebrim reacted to Mannahnin's post in the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D with Like.
I like the revision. True to the original with some cleanup, and a power bump with spells known and spell slots for higher Int, plus...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.None of that makes the slightest bit of sense in the context of the rules. 1) You can't even make martial magical items until you are a...
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Celebrim reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D with Like.
Ah, Feats. A wonderful bit of design. "Let's create special features that aren't tied to a character class, that you can use to...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Revised and Rebalanced Magic-User for 1e AD&D.Feats were deceptive. Because they were short, people assumed they were easy to design. In fact, the opposite is true. Designing a...
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Celebrim replied to the thread AD&D 1E Three Things that can't be Fixed in 1e AD&D.Maybe, but in that case I would expect the mechanic to be "Invent a new signature spell of the appropriate level" and not "Discover the...