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There were magic pools detailed in the DMG (Table VIII C. Magic Pools, page 172) that could raise or lower stats. TABLE VIII. C.: MAGIC POOLS* (d20) Die Result 1-8 Turns gold to platinum (1-11) or lead (12-20), one time only. 9-15 Will, on a one-time only basis, add (1-3) or subtract (4-6) from...

Lords of the Peaks: the Essential Guide to Giants 3.0 Cloud Giant Ghost: This ghost haunts an abandoned castle on a cloud island that drifts aimlessly through the sky. The inhabitants — cruel cloud giant raiders — were slain by brave heroes, but one of the cloud giants swore vengeance and...

I did for a while in my long term 1e campaign I ran starting in the 80s but eventually decided to drop it. Contorting things to make opportunities for necessary expensive mentors for assassins and clerics of a specific god was possible (I did so in Nulb when the party was doing the Temple of...

Yeah, that starts off with surprise and then pre-initiative things, you don't even get to actual initiative until page 5.

It was very complicated and the rules were poorly written and spread out over many places in the PH and DMG so many people ran it in slightly or not so slightly different ways. Basics was each round declare actions, each side roll a d6 for side initiative, sides go in initiative order with some...

There are a couple 1e mechanics I prefer over the 2e ones. While I really love 2e specialty priests I prefer 1e clerics and druids mechanically to 2e ones. Turning spell access to 2e spheres instead of 1e curated lists meant that there were some spells designed for the flavor of one class that...

Lords of Prime 3.0 Undead: Good societies ban the creation or use of Undead. Not only is trapping a soul in a rotting corpse an act of torture, it is also a use of magic that only strengthens the Dark.

Islands of Gold: The Midnight Archipelago (Swashbuckling Adventures) 3.0 Husk: Husks are the animated skin of Baron Sange's victims: devoid of form and animated by his malice. Zombie: Zombies are the reanimated corpses of the islanders and missionaries. The baron can summon zombies from any...

I had never thought of the shift from 1e Deities & Demigods with the Erol Otus cover to renaming it Legends & Lore with the Odin cover as a Satanic Panic reaction maneuver. It still had all the topless goddesses inside.

An immortality ritual? I’m interested.

Heroes of Prime 3.0 Undead: ? Lich: ? Shadow: Most monsters are created by tael: for instance, a CR 3 Shadow requires 4,096 tael (equal to 256 ordinary people) to spawn another Shadow.

Star Wars is interesting in giving a spectrum of issues on free will. In addition to the droids there is the issue of the clones and what was done to them with genetic modification, fast growth, indoctrination/training, and the brain chips that allowed order 66. Then you have actual slaves and...

Hammer & Helm 3.0 Defender of Mar-Namor: The defenders of Mar-Namor are undead bound to the Forge God’s will and granted heightened powers. Long ago, the great city of Mar-Namor faced attack by a powerful illithid army keen to plunder its wealth and enslave its tireless dwarven workers. The...

Generals of Prime 3.0 Undead: ? Skeleton: ? Skeletal Bowman: Raised from peasant corpses. Skeletal Mob: Raised from peasant corpses. Skeletal Archer: Raised from soldier’s corpses, carefully selected for their dexterity, and made at a Desecrated altar. Skeletal Archer Augmented: Soldier corpses...

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I was hoping for more Hawkeye solo during the blip.

General Guidelines for D20 Zothique 3.0 Ghorii, Jaghoul: A ghorii shaman invokes hellish powers to create more ghorii from jackal skeletons wrapped in human skin. This cannot be done in battle, and requires several hours of spell casting. Ghorii must be created in multiples of five, and each one...

? just an FYI that 5e's elemental chaos is a reference to the much more developed 4e elemental chaos that ties hugely into ChaosKampf real world mytholgies. 5e's is an attempt to syncretize 4e Elemental Chaos with the pre-4e great wheel elemental planes including elements of both. I don't think...