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I wanted to read the original but couldn't find a copy. Once I read the foreword, I was won over by the idea that maybe the author had learned a thing or two about writing novels in the twenty or so years that had elapsed.

Yes, the way I'd run this, the players could infer from the fact I didn't roll a save for the slaad, but merely stated it was unaffected by the spell, that the slaad is something other than what it seems.

If its type is humanoid in its humanoid form and something else in its true form, then its statistics are not the same in each form.

Creature type is a statistic, and the slaad’s statistics, except size, remain the same while polymorphed. Therefore, the spell cannot target the slaad. I would use the rule for invalid spell targets from XGtE. I.e. the spell slot is expended, but the slaad is unaffected.

It’s certainly gripping. I’m reading the revised version, and I love Anderson’s foreword where he refers to his younger self as a different person and says he himself would not “write anything so headlong, so prolix, and so unrelievedly savage.”

I'm a little over halfway through The Broken Sword now, and I'd say you're correct! It's pretty amazing!

All caught up.. again. 11. This 40’ x 40’ room is empty. 12. Berserker Lair: This 40’ x 40’ room is inhabited by 19 berserkers: Tirvun, Llastmannoth, Veargoth, Junaenn, Pilf, Thunrioy, Thelgres, Mug, Rhu, Thrun, Feilsurn, Smalpemm, Wilholgo, Sevaerthi, Bhis, Krelr, Teittem, Svio, and Mann...

Bible raises her axe at the orc's charge but holds back from striking, seeing that Eoghan's words have had the desired effect. She runs forward past the orcs and hurls her axe at the dwarf-tormenting orog. Drawing the other axe from her belt, she throws again, seeking to bury its blade in the...

Kenzaburo Oe, the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese novelist and peace activist, has died at the age of 88.

Getting caught up. 4. Giant Scorpion Lair: This 20’ x 30’ room is inhabited by a giant scorpion. 9. This 20’ x 30’ room is empty. T4. The difficulty of finding this secret door is very hard. On a failure, a 10’ pit opens. The difficulty for each character to save themselves from falling in...

I voted for your fourth option because I prefer the decisions I make for my character (my roleplaying) to be an input to the fiction which comes before any mechanical resolution. If I'm being strategic about it and the situation allows for it, I might avoid stating actions that would rely on my...

~Le's you and me be quick about it, Jack,~ Bible thinks to the rogue. ~That dwarf don't sound like he's enjoyin' himself much, but first, some refreshkmenks.~ She retrieves two small vials from a pouch on her belt, uncorks them, and downs each of them one after the other in several large...

You could play a thief with Dex 10 or, as @ilgatto suggested, advance the character to old age by which time they will have accumulated enough Wisdom to function as a magic-user. If you go with thief, you could play an elf or a halfling for racial adjustments and to raise your Dex to 11 for...