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Especially since screwing up can burn out your ability to wish. eAND90 hit ponts of damage from the screw up would kill a lot of non physical non athletic academics. I predict the billionaires and politicians of the world would kill o rburn out most of your 9th level capable academics. and...

1 minute worth of people for a veeeery expensive spell. might be good for diplomats and special force and the oddbillionaire , thas about it.

wishes are iffy at best so wishing things to existance isn't going to work reliably. Assuming a bell curve for whatever it is that required to be able to cast 9th level spells, int, raw talent etc. Your going to get way less than 1 percent of the population able to even cast 7th level spells...

it is true DND is almost anime in style for combat and magic. I do think a lot of people who want it fixed could be happier playing something like gurps.

yeah w'eve done a dozen ways to make combat more complicated since 1e. Not one of them was ever popular.

honestly it's one of those things that is exacerbated by the fact that there are no real restrictions on the magic system as a whole. If you had to invoke the gods of darkness and open yourself up to them to use a darkness based spell, this argument would mostly go away. The entire magic...

com'on a dragon hitting you once solidly is going to break many bones, cause internal bleeding and all but gaurantee your death in minutes.

Though I think it's fair to just say that flight in combat turns it from a simple thing to a pain in the ass with or without dark vision. I just dont' think people think well in 3 dimensions and the DM is trying to keep up with 6 other people and adding an x and y axis to everything can really...

well if the stuff they need is below the monster then the flyers and rope swingers are going in the wrong direction. NOt all monsters work in all scenarios. I could give you the same argument about dragons and parties in small cavern systems.

Only a different in level of sensitivity and granularity of understanding by the reciever. cats hunt by hearing and sight. Bats hunt only by hearing. Take bloodhound or desert fly smell and crank it up to bat level with the appropriate brain circuits to process and just by smell the animal...

neither does tremorsense smell or any other type of perception. any creature on earth will fight with the senses it has. Do we think there are no fights in the deep ocean where most fish are blind? That's a little silly to claim a dog wouldn't fight by it's sense of smell if it was all it...

awesome stuff though I'm dissapointed in Animal lords that look humanoid. I prefer my animal lord style creatures to have animal forms.

thus the need for a DM. when the rules offer everything in a perfect mathmatical way we'll get boring AI games.

I started using Class levels for monsters in 1st edition because it just made it easier to design encounters that were challenging for my high level party. First time I did it I made a PC half/ogre after reading a dragon magazine article and the PC's had to deal with a 10th level fighter half...

I loved the whole ecology of the monster's things that dragon magazine used to do. I do think for those who are new to DM'ing, overworked and without lots of prep time or in some cases just not super creative it helps a lot to have an idea of the ecologcial niche the monster might occupy...

And as for Smell look up how some snakes use it. Some creatures have such a strong sense of smell they can follow you know where you are and fight you just fine without vision. And if we can have Magical creatures with dark vision why can't smell be a little be over the top and when...

Then you use Tremorsense all wrong. Dirt or sandy floors and they monsters know where every step is coming from and where every step is made. Just like a spider in a web watching, waiting and then Boom. I find other DM's tend to want to use tremorsense on a big baddie in a town or an...

The depicting living beings was a pretty strong thing in some tribal cultures when the world was being civilized. Some tribal cultures would kill people for such things because they thought pictures and paintings that looked too real took a piece of your soul to make. Shouldn't surprise...

or Tremorsense, or Smell.

well What I find is if you stick to the rules of darkvision, through enough monsters at them that can see at 120' or have magic that let them see at 120 feet then eventually the PC's don't want to rely on darkvision anymore. Once they realize most monsters can see further than they can then...