Neverwinter Nights 1 supported on the fly DM tools, never tried them myself but I do know some people in the forums did use it that way.
NWN2 mod tools were full blown 3d modelling toolset and not for casual use.
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NWN2 mod tools were full blown 3d modelling toolset and not for casual use.
cavalier973
Hero
It's funny, but I never wanted to play as a mage/wizard all through AD&D 2e and 3e; perhaps it's because I only played computer versions of D&D, and didn't know the fun that could be had with mages. Anyway, I always viewed mages as blaster/bomber types--a sort of fantasy demolition expert. I preferred the paladin class (my handle comes from Baldur's Gate 2), because they seemed like the classic picture of the hero.
But 4e changed that with one addition to the wizard class: the cantrip Prestidigitation. This was a small addition of flavor that captured my attention, and for the first time I saw the D&D wizard as something akin to what a wizard is in popular folklore, and something I wanted to try out.
I'm A Banana
Potassium-Rich
....which has been around since 2e, at least.
thatdarnedbob
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....which has been around since 2e, at least.
But not as something that could be done whenever the wizard wanted.
I'm A Banana
Potassium-Rich
In 2e, it sucked because you gave up Magic missile to do this. Still, 1st-level slots weren't exactly a hoarded resource after about 3rd level.
In 3e, my arcane casters weren't using their 0-level slots for anything effective anyway, so they might as well use Prestidigitation.
So, if you were a super-conservative player who never wanted to spend even your most expendable resources in any way that wasn't directly contributing to party success in challenges, yeah, Prestidigitation was probably too much cost for too little benefit.
But in every 3e game I played at least (2e never made it to high enough level to matter), it might as well have been free.
Still, for those conservative players, putting it in its own silo is a gooooood idea.
I'm just making the point that the effect has always existed, and always been very cheap (though, yes, not free like the 4e version), so if you that was the one thing keeping from being a folklore-flavored wizard, you may have been limiting yourself, rather than having the system limit you.
Remathilis
Legend
Cantrip (2e's Prestidigitation) also lasted 1 hour per level, meaning by the time 1st level spells weren't an all-valuable resource, (5th-6th level), 1 cantrip spell lasted 5-6 hours! That is an awful lot of cheap parlor tricks a 2e mage could do!
Vorpal Puppy
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Yes, they will assume control. Even the priests at the Temple of Syrinx will be unable to stop them.
Dungeoneer
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2187 - A fad for old-school tabletop gaming causes a resurgence of the D&D brand. Of course all the people who play the game now are robots. The subsequent edition wars are quite lethal, and render what remains of earth a radioactive husk.
2306 - A small group of roving mutants discovers a copy of Gamma World and decides it must be a lost scripture of ancient prophecy.
JeffB
Legend
Similar in spirit to the original series Star Trek episode "A Piece of the Action".
A Piece of the Action (episode) - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Piece_of_the_Action_(Star_Trek)
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