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In TSR D&D that actually depends on the specifics of the edition and DM campaign set up choices. Moldvay Basic: "Each magic-user and elf has a spell book for the spells that he or she has learned. A first level character will only have one spell (a first level spell) in the spell book. A...

The Book of Immortals 3.5 Immortal Lich, Immortal: Path of Darkest Night Some men, driven by a need for personal power, swear their souls into the service of dark gods and even darker causes. However, when they do so they must swear their loyalty and service to beings whose motivations do not...

Moldvay Basic. I find the art really evocative.

I think that is a big attraction of them. :) They are either like druids, an alt healer with funky different powers than the standard magical knight Templar cleric or they are like weird specialist wizards with fairly different themed magic and abilities. They can be designed for either role or...

I have played my eponymous character in multiple campaigns. My first transition was taking him from the original hometown AD&D game he was in into the college one I joined which had an Elric type of multiverse and the DM had no problem having my character sail in on his spelljammer though Dream...

I generally allow in lots but some specific exclusions for specific games. Nobody in my 5e games have asked for 3rd party stuff, I would evaluate that on a case by case basis. The closest was somebody wanting to use the UA playtest artificer which had a librarian build that I allowed with a...

Not them but for me I am only about 240 pages into my read through of the 400 page 2024 PH, and I don't have the new DMG or MM. I just finished the A spells last night, it is a long book and I have about a hundred more pages of spells to go through. :) I feel I have a decent handle on the 24...

That was in late 1e with stuff like Oriental Adventure, the Dungeoneer's Survival Guide and the Wilderness Survival Guide. Besides kits the big unique mechanics for me was the specialty priests.

That seems to mostly have been taken up by adding AD&D options for B/X systems, originally in the advanced Labyrinth Lord supplement and later in Advanced OSE. So you can have B/X style dwarven clerics or a B/X paladin or adding in AD&D style demons and devils. Keeps the simplicity of B/X rules...

The Book of Adventuring 3.5 Undead, Undead Creature, Undead Monster: ? Evil Undead: ? Powerful Undead, Major Threat: ? Fearsome Foe: ? Frightening Creature: ? Horrific Creature: ? Disgusting Creature: ? Ghost, Powerful Undead, Major Threat: ? Ghoul: ? Truly Terrible Lich, Powerful Undead, Major...

I put in one. I know a lot of the rules in core 14 and Tasha’s and such and I am comfortable adding in stuff like 4e skill challenges or turning a 5e monster into a 4e style elite or solo and making stuff up that works in 5e, but I look core rules up all the time for specifics. All the time...

Me too. Powers cost points depending on their power levels and can be upcast for more points. Sits comfortably alongside the vancian casting system. Also has lots of non-point options with things like the psionic focus mechanic so it is not necessarily limited to just points.

My guess, purely a guess, is that it was a fairly gamist design choice to make a really majorly (but not completely) spell immune monster to drive it more to the Kolchak blessed crossbow bolt solution. You can kill them with +3 or better weapons or the top tier metero swarm or wish spells, but...

Tradition! 2e's Monstrous Compendium 1: 1e MM: