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Huh. New trick to this old dog. I guess I/we have always just assumed - perhaps incorrectly - that by-the-book spell studying happens...

Perhaps fortunate, then, that I don't give xp for treasure. :)

There's spells that are always useful to some degree, and then there's spells that are extremely useful but only in specific...

To me, that's the whole beauty of Illusionists: in some situations they're truly badass while in others they're a fifth wheel. On...

A couple of the images you posted just above go considerably beyond simple drawing. :)

Once the PCs reach any sort of decent level they'll be fairly easily able to both track down and outrun their foes, and it'll show. The...

Agreed. Jack is a whimsical dude who loves freedom and hates the rigid hierarchical structures of most social order, which is why he...

Agreed. Restoration in 1e wouldn't help you here. There was a different high-level spell - Regeneration - specifically for this...

Yeah, a DM would have to rule on the fly for this stuff. It's pretty rare, too - in 40+ years of running 1e-like D&D I can think of...

1e had (relatively) more design philosophy behind it than did 0e, where they really were inventing it as they went along. Some of that...

Right but you aren't willing to discuss what it actually means to be chaotic - it's just automatically insane no matter who it applies...

And yet even Jack (who I agree is CN) has some long-term planning underlying his whims - he knows where he wants to end up but his...

Keep in mind also that those definitions are trying to portray evil in the most negative light possible, in order to make evil...

Whims versus long-term planning is a big one IMO. You can be cunningly unpredictable and not stupidly unpredictable.

Plenty of earlier edition modules consist of an adventure location with no explanation about why you are there, or assume you are...