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Not knowing the comic, I thought you'd taken that illustration from some 1e-era Judges Guild module or other as there's several very...

Larger question: why are we always questioning what "Game X does"? You're exactly correct about when people talk about how older...

Indeed, but such armour should carry a heavy financial cost, thus forcing tradeoffs - do I buy the arcane-aid armour or do I load up on...

I don't. Absolutes keep things nice and simple on both sides of the screen. As soon as you put it on any sort of sliding scale of...

The first and most important thing a city (or any settlement, for that matter) needs is a reliable source of fresh water, usually a river.

Casting spells while nude seems dangerous.

Except aren't the game mechanics there to abstract and reflect that universe as best they can? Isn't that their job? If so, then if...

Correct. I also don't support kickstarters or the like.

I always read it that a 16th-level Illusionist casts these as if a 1st-level MU, with the caster level increasing as the Illusionist's...

Illusionists rock! Unless you're in a dungeon where the foes are all undead, in which case you brought the wrong character. :) What...

We converted Druids to Nature Clerics in about 1983 to save having to design a whole other class that would be the same as Druid but...

I was the only person in my 1E group who ever played an illusionist. My gnome illusionist / thief became one of my favorite characters...

By RAW they could. I've never seen it played that way, though; IME usually the most restrictive armour option takes precedence (in...

Great song, but I don't buy things until I've seen them in person. I also prefer to support local businesses when there's a choice.

Exactly. My whole outlook is predicated on this very point. And this contradicts your sentence above. If there's no such thing as PC...