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another thought - an evil wizard could cast it as a negotiating ploy. "So, if my concentration gets broken it goes off - but I'm happy just concentrating here while we have a little chat to iron out our difficulties. Do you think we could do that in a minute?"

Presumably you didn't read the first few pages of the thread? At least then you'd see a healthy discussion, and not 'serious griping' as you put it.

A-ha! yet another flaw in my plan! obviously I'm cut out to be a supervillain!

Since I just mentioned them in another thread, I'll mention them again here: The AD&D TSR UK modules had some great examples of this. The two-parter The Sentinel and The Gauntlet. The magical When a Star Falls (neat mechanic at the start gives everyone fragmented memories of a monk from the...

Neither actually. I'm interested in discussion about "why the sorcerer spell list has been shortened". My interest is sparked by the difficulty in converting across either of my 3.5e sorcerers, but that isn't the be-all and end-all of the conversation. Nor has it been at any point whether the...

So I've been able to track down my SR copy, and at 13th level he had 3x1st, 2x2nd, 1x3rd cleric spells 3x1st, 2x2nd, 1x3rd wizard spells IIRC we continued the pattern on from there (which in retrospect was a mistake but hey, we were young and experimental, and it seemed obvious at the time)...

Since nobody has mentioned them, I would like to share some love for some of the TSR UK range of AD&D modules, which had some of the best story adventures around at that time IMO. The two-parter The Sentinel and The Gauntlet. The magical When a Star Falls (neat mechanic at the start gives...

Sounds like you used to get White Dwarf magazine back when it was a good RPG magazine! I remember all of those!

In terms of making a character within the rules that fits that vision, one possibility is Character class: Monk Chosen weapon: Quarterstaff (1d6, 1d8 with 2H) reflavoured as a katana doing slashing instead of bludgeoning damage Then he can have fun being all light armoured and wise, quick and...

That sounds like a car-crash waiting to happen! Unless they manage to do a really fantastic job, but there were a whole lot of awful spells produced for 3.x

Why point blank? Why should the wizard have to be getting it ready at point blank range?

But Imprisonment is a 9th level spell, and trap the soul is listed in the wizard spell list under 8th level spells so... where is it? editing blunder?

OK, I've had a check and while some of the spells missing from the sorcerer list have a casting time of more than one action (e.g. magic circle, planar binding, control weather), there are others with long casting time which are included (e.g. teleportation circle, 1 minute) so it isn't the...

If this has been discussed earlier, please post a link to that discussion! If it hasn't - what has happened to Trap the Soul? I can see it listed as an 8th level wizard spell, but can't find it in the spell descriptions which run from Transport Via Plants to Tree Stride. Surely I can't be the...

Thanks for the input. I think I'm inclined to agree with the 'Sorcerers didn't get any playtesting so they ended up as the blasters', which is a shame. While I could do the characters as wizards, two essential parts of the character were there Charisma and the use of metamagic - neither of...

Uh, can I give you some additional knowledge of the history of the actual game or class? Rangers were added to to OD&D in an issue of 'The Strategic Review'. They started getting Cleric spells at about 8th and Magic User spells at the following level, but they got in a wacky progression, with a...

Thanks, much appreciated.

I've been looking to see whether my 3.5e sorcerer characters could be moved across to 5e, and it turns out to be quite difficult because a number of spells which were important to them are no longer on the sorcerer spell list! I can see that they have given the sorcerer some of the damaging...

Cheesiest option to maximise damage that I can think of? 15th level Druid. Cast insect plague to get a swarm of biting locusts under my control, 20ft radius. Must be thousands of them. Cast Animal Shapes to change any number of willing creatures that you can see within range into a large...

Two quick moderatorial things 1. Kaychsea, people have kept it civil, please don't start mud-slinging ("you have been sniffy") 2. KarinsDad, I think that the idea of 'RAW' is dead and buried as far as 5e is concerned. Don't go bringing it up again thanks! Now, back to discussing stuff fun stuff!