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Speaking as someone who never liked the Great Wheel (as another old timer added on some other thread, "... even when it was the Great Square Filing Cabinet") and was very much less than enthused when a friend of mine introduced me to the Planescape material that he loves so much, I say the MotP...

So far as I know, there is one source that allows casting spells from spellbooks at the price of erasing it. What I can't remember is whether it was the original Unearthed Arcana (1st edition) or Tome of Magic (2nd edition).

Sorry Orsal -- had a momentary lapse forgetting to distinguish between player gender and character gender. Should have said she can play a paladin, but if Mithras is her patron, the character has to be male. Total oops from me on that one.

Well, lil witch, if you play in my campaign, you can play a Paladin. Not one of Mithras, a deity that exists imc based on the Mithraic religion of the real world, and I did include the no-female-clergy rule from the real world for flavor. But he's not the only game in town, so you're still...

Absolutely, westwind. Just pointing out the potential for DM abuse, too. My scenario is kind of whacko in that it's unlikely that our villian has been able to cast that many of the spell without some of them being activated unless she's very, very patient and laying very, very low. And it...

I think that Thornir's point about the Evil descriptor as opposed to an evil alignment is the most crucial point here. Yes, it's true that the detect evil spell does detect strength gradients, and those are important too. Faint evil is easier to convert to another viewpoint than Overwhelming...

For DMs who feel that the various overpowered spells and feats listed earlier on this thread threaten their campaign balance, let me point out the spell "Stalwart Pact". The balancing factor in this otherwise scary spell is the XP component cost ... that NPCs don't have to worry about. And...

Ah, this really is getting good. Some of you are bringing up things that our original poster may or may not have been trying to point to from the first, but are interesting regardless. Yes, absolutely, you can't apply CR/EL numbers on a cookie-cutter basis. At first glance, that's a problem...

Don't have the spelling handy, but it's something like Aesclepius for the Greek God of healing with the caduceus.

Wombat, if your post was meant to be largely a reply to mine, I'm completely with you. I love the full range of imagery associated with Arthur both by scholars and by romancers. Depending on my mood on a given day, I may prefer Goodrich arguing that Lancelot was a real person, but his name and...

Sorry ... I left out an important detail. I wasn't talking about the EL thing at all. I was specificly addressing "How can it not be exactly twice as difficult to face twice as many monsters? The answer is that it is objectively twice as difficult to face two monsters as it is to face one...

Important part of the theory: equivalent in effective strength. And we all know how rare that is. The number of units comparison is only one factor in what actually happens on the battlefield, as we all know. Obviously, if the 100 are 1st level kobold warriors and the 3 are Dire Bears, some...

Umm, about the math ... you've already been proven wrong. A mathematician named Kenneth Arrow managed to come up with this theorem that's called Arrow's Theorem (what a coincidence!), you can argue with it if ya want, but I think he got the math equivalent of a Nobel Prize for it, so don't...

Wow, I did rattle. Sorry about that, it looked smoother before I hit the "submit reply" button. Could've been worse, you should see all the stuff I left out!

Gotta confess, I haven't read any of Lawhead's stuff. So I'm not sure what the target is, but I will take a moment to rattle on about some of my fave Arthurian ammo. I like books written various scholars trying to work out the "true" Arthur's story. Interesting, because many of them talk a...

Like real people ought to, PCs are gradually learning all the time. The level system is just the way players and DMs keep track of when someone's improved enough for players to notice it. Experience equals training, not experience qualifies for training. And really, when you are surrounded by...

You know, in classical Greece, the four elements that the world was supposedly created from where differentiated in that each was made of non-divisible particles ("atoms") that resembled the four regular solids known at the time. One solid had four sides, one had six, one had eight, one had...

... and along the lines Bendris states, Traps & Treachery called the feat "Signature Skill", one of my fave feat ideas. "Cosmopolitan" from Forgotten Realms goes to far, though.

By all means, subscribe to Dungeon. And when you succeed, tell me how to do it. I tried sending in the tip-in fill out form, and nothing ever came. I tried e-mailing the company, and when the e-mail came back as undeliverable, I checked the address and it was right. Tried calling the number...

Hmmm. Interesting point about there has to be a first in every PrC. I've been playing with creating a world for 3.x, and one thought was making all my old AD&D characters (or at least their names and concepts) into the Legendary Heroes of this new world as something of a whimsical touch. I...