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Thanks, guys! You made me reconsider revivify, and if I choose to implement this house-rule in my next campaign, I'll make it so that it works on elves. Yeah, I'm aware of the inconsistencies. I remember The Complete Book of Elves muddying the waters even further (I should check the relevant...

Several of the threads I've been following lately made me look back to AD&D days with nostalgia. Now, I know I wouldn't really go back playing AD&D, especially since the people I play with started with 3e or later editions, and they give me odd looks when I talk about the Glory That Was AD&D :p...

Yes, but bidents and tridents are usually considered oligodents. Polydents proper start from quadrident onwards.

Thanks! I'll look it up.

Thanks, guys. The Dim Forest seems like a good choice. I was considering Vesve and Gamboge forests, but also Welkwood and Suss. Didn't really look at Dim forest, as it's listed among the minor timberlands. Anyways, a very rough campaign outline (just an idea, really) is that there's one of...

I'm toying with the idea of a (partially, at least) fey-themed campaign. I'd like to have it set in Greyhawk, but I'd like to use some of the material from the Tales of the Old Margreve (originally for Kobold Press' Midgard campaign setting). Also, I'm thinking of cold-themed fey as the...

I don't get what reincarnate costs twice as much as raise dead. True, raise dead brings you back at 1 hp, doesn't restore any missing limbs, and doesn't remove magical diseases, curses, or similar effects, whereas reincarnate gives you a new body, so any such effects are effectively ended, and...

That's it. My next character will be using a monodent. It'll be a spear, but he'll insist it's actually a monodent. Then again, a trident in 5E is actually just a spear under a different name... o_O they planned it from the beginning!

Just off the top of my head. I consider AD&D 2e my favourite edition, so here are the other versions of the game I've actually played in: AD&D 1e: Monk. World of Greyhawk. The feel of the books and lore. I started playing in 2e era, but since one of the players and sometime DM had a few of 1e...

Two months shy of 42, found out about D&D in '91 or '92, but only started playing in 1994 with a 1e/2e mix, and that's the rule set I've got the fondest memories of.

There was an old 2e web novel, The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters by Roger M Wilcox (link), a muchkin rules-exploiting extravaganza, with a paladin as the protagonist. When once asked why he became a paladin, he replied something along the lines of how he rolled a 17 for...

I would actually love if 5E psionics brought back psionic combat, but I won't hold my breath. I think it would be considered too complex for the game :P Magic duels (or combat) is also something I've been hoping for since 3e was announced, but no such luck. The 3e counterspelling and 5E...

I'd guess it's all due to tradition and 'holy cows'. In AD&D 1e & 2e, clerics were considered the militant branch of the church. I believe the 2e PHB back then explicitly said they were, in part, based on the Knights Templar. All religions had clerics, partly because it was a dangerous world...

I remember that one possible distinction offered back in the day ran along the lies that (virtually) anybody could become a cleric. You did not need any special talent, apart from having a half-decent Wisdom score. The paladin, on the other hand, was selected by the deity; you could not decide...

I'm actually with you. I wouldn't go back to the CPsiHB version, but would love to see a separate system for psionics. Unfortunately, I think WotC will not go in that direction after the public rejected mystic, they'd rather stick to the established magic system.

You have to be careful with the spell selection, though. I'm playing a storm-themed storm sorcerer (well,duh!), and I've been trying to select thematic spells. We do use several house-rules to make sorcerer slightly more versatile (spellpoint variant from the DMG, does wonders for the class)...

Just the other day I was thinking about how to re-do the sorcerer along the similar lines. The idea was to make thematic groups of spells (e.g. Lightning, Wind, Fire, Force, Charm, etc.) that would contain a number of spells of different levels, in theory one spell per level (obviously, some...

Check Psionics, last section in the Special Traits, from which you quoted Innate Spellcasting (MM, p. 10). It provides general rules for psionics, and says: "A monster that has this tag typically doesn't require any components to cast its spells". Also look under Mind flayer's Innate...

Not sure about the others, but the mind flayer from the MM clearly says: "It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components". Also, mind flayer arcanist gets his Spellcasting in addition to his Innate Spellcasting (Psionics) ability. The former behaves like all other spells...

FWIW, AD&D 2e psionicist actually handled this -- psionicists couldn't manifest if wearing a helmet (they could use special psionically orepared helmets or magical helmets that had mental powers). But if you wanted to prevent a captured psionicist from manifesting, put a plain old helmet on his...