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My point on this comes from extremely high-end items, and a comment in the Forgotten Realms that components consumed in making magic items and spells are actually taken by the gods and inserted back into the ecology to be recycled and used again. What exactly IS 100,000 gp of expensive magical...

Hey there, Master of Economics degree. Some implications and things for you. SOme are covered elsewhere, some are covered here, but they are points to think about. 1E) The primary makers of permanent magic items would be clerics using divine power. The simple reason is the Permanency spell. It...

Space Opera, and no mention of The LEnsman series, which basically invented true Space Opera? Say it isn't so!...

This. The barbarian class is a berserker. Conan is NOT a berserker. There's just times he goes on a Power-Attacking, Cleaving streak of bloody destruction. The ranger class sums up his abilities with stealth, since it doesn't get the true theif stuff Conan never learns (locks, traps, etc), the...

You mean Nymph 'I'm so beautiful I take my shirt off and you die. If you DON'T die, maybe you are only blinded?' is strong mechanically? Nymph's Beauty was a 9th level spell. Have your lovely elven archmage cast it, take off her top, and fly in front of the invading army. Goodbye, army.

Re: Gunpowder, yeah, limits on chemistry do limit martials vs magical, and keeps the flavor of a magical world. I write a fantasy series, and there are several rules which inherently limit technology and so favor magic. 1) That which is most combustible is the most likely to spontaneously...

The chess book should have gratuitously attached links to all the old and awesome Dragon Magazine chess covers! :)

COnan was not a berserker, he was definitely a fighter-type and specialist with the broadsword. In 3E, Conan is perfectly summed up by making him a Ranger with FE: Humans, Beasts, and Magical Beasts, with Weapons Focus: Broadsword. It gives him a plethora of skills, it explains his phenomenal...

This is very true. There were numerous xp tables in 1E. Monsters were worth so much. But the only class-related XP gains were for fighters, who got like 10 xp/hd of foes overcome in combat. The other classes? Theives got double xp for gold, mages got xp for magic items and esp. spellbooks, and...

There is a huge article in the first Volo's Guide to All Things Magical about FOrgotten Realms gemstones that I still reference to this day.

In a bout of supreme irony for this thread, the primary and most well-known monk organization in AD&D for the World of Greyhawk was the Scarlet Brotherhood, who were a bunch of fair-skinned, golden-haired, blue-eyed racial supremacists.

Three tiers of skills: You are UNSKILLED with Skills outside your class list or not chosen, and take a -2 to them, and cannot take 10 or 20 on them. You are Familiar with all Skills on your Class list, and may use them with no bonus or penalty. A Jack of All Trades would explicitly be able to...

I'd posit that you're ignoring Alignments. As long as the setting has Alignments, what you're basically saying is that you can't see a Good system here, but only a LN or LE one. What is being noted is that the people in charge are Good, and so the system works as it is designed to do. As soon as...

Double post, apologies.

People might like this. Just some stuff I've compiled over time. Quick Reference for Smithing Nuts like me. Item Make Crafting DC Effect Normal Item 10 Masterwork Item 20 As per PHB Dire/Elfcraft/Devanian +5 +2 Weapon Damage/Weight Reduction Perfect 35 Custom +1/+1 for Wielder (innate)...

For the level it gets the ability at, it's OP when compared against other similar abilities. That's all we are saying. At higher levels, sure, it's not a stand out. But compared to everything else out there in a vacuum, it's not balanced. Having to deliberately take steps to neutralize a basic...

It may not sound like much, but each dice roll now comes, by your own words, with framing a scene. Now multiply by three to six or more. Then include henchman. Now include the bad guys. Then add in the normal conversation and tactical planning that goes on at the table. I'm just pointing out...

LEt me point out something. You are making combat involved, with a lot of dice rolling, with all these defense and parry and whatnot actions. That's not OSR. OSR was pretty plain, with only how to do initiative, and the optional weapon speed and vs. AC table slowing it down... and they were...

Another way of saying this is that the spell is either giving Fast Healing 10+ for a minute, OR is Casting Mass Cure Light Wounds on everyone for a minute. Sure, it's wasted if nobody attacks. The point is, it is damage ablation, and is just as useful as actual healing during a fight. Even if...

Are there no hit point bonuses for Constitution? Because that will instantly change the ratios. A no-magic rogue should be as tough as a Casting Melee. Seriously, having no magic means you're tougher. That's why I made the difference between a casting rogue and a non-caster. A rogue with no...