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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herzog" data-source="post: 1867393" data-attributes="member: 25696">According to the Hollow World DM's source book:Spells that don't work:spells of holding ( hold person, hold monster )spells of charming and commanding ( snake charm, quest, charm person, charm monster, geas, charm plant, mass charm)spells of divination and communication( know alignment, speak with dead, commune, ESP, contact outer plane)spells of summoning(insect plague, aerial servant, create normal animals, conjure elemental, invisible stalker, create normal monster, create magical monsters, create any monster)spells of immortality( raise dead, reaise dead fully, reincarnation)spells of instantaneous transportation.(word of recall, travel, dimension door, teleport, summon object, teleport any object, travel, gate)Note: these are not complete listings of the OD&D spells sets that don't work, just sample selections.On the subject of Hollow World monsters:Most of the monsers explicitly described in the Hollow Wold source books are those that can be found in 'Lost World' settings: Dinosaurs, Giant varieties of animals (buffalo, etc) and neanthertal humanoid races.Some specific ideas are:1. 'FlapSails'. This is an unintelligent variety of Red Dragon, possibly a predecessor. 2. Lizardmen and Orcs as player races. 3. 'Qubits', a magically engeneered race of people only half the size of halflings.4. Beastmen (as player race!). A genetically chaotic species where every member of the race has different physical characteristics. Description includes tables for skin color, hair, eye color, height (ranging, after applying str and con mod's  from 2'9" to 7'11"), weight (equally large range), appearence of ears, teeth(includes shrklike and rabbit-like), and possible other, like furry body, one eye, three eyes, etc.Subspecies are listed for elves and dwarves, but essentially this are more cultural differences then other.A big difference for OD&D in the Hollow World setting is that, since magic is more difficult, (and magic users must have int 16 to cast spells) it became possible to play an Elf that COULND'T cast magic spells, introducing (to my knowledge) the FIRST race/class distinction in D&D.Herzog</blockquote>

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