Replicating the earlier AD&D illusionist

[Driddle]

It's been too long since I've had access to the ol' AD&D players handbook and I've actually forgotten a lot of the original details. Like the spell list specific to the illusionist class, for example.

Anyone got the old spells list, or the updated equivalent?

 

[Aus_Snow]

Number	1st level		2nd level			3rd level
1	Audible Glamer		Blindness			Continual Darkness
2	Change Self		Blur				Continual Light
3	Color Spray		Deafness			Dispel Illusion
4	Dancing Lights		Detect Magic			Fear
5	Darkness		Fog Cloud			Hallucinatory Terrain
6	Detect Illusion		Hypnotic Pattern		lllusionary Script
7	Detect Invisibility	Improved Phantasmal Force	Invisibility 10’ Radius
8	Gaze Reflection		Invisibillty			Non-detection
9	Hypnotism		Magic Mouth			Paralyzation
10	Light			Mirror Image			Rope Trick
11	Phantasmal Force	Misdirection			Spectral Force
12	Wall Of Fog		Ventriloquism			Suggestion


Number	4th level		5th level		6th level		7th level
1	Confusion		Chaos			Conjure Animals		Alter Reality
2	Dispel Exhaustion	Demi-Shadow Monsters	Demi-Shadow Magic	Astral Spell
3	Emotion 		Major Creation		Mass Suggestion		Prismatic Spray
4	Improved Invisibility	Maze			Permanent Illusion	Prismatic Wall
5	Massmorph		Projected Image		Programmed Illusion	Vision
6	Minor Creation		Shadow Door		Shades			(1st level magic- 
										user spells)
7	Phantasmal Killer	Shadow Magic		True Sight
8	Shadow Monsters		Summon Shadow		Veil

(for 1e)

hth.


edit --- to make #6 of level 7 make more sense to some people, here's the relevant info for that too:

Explanation/Description: The illusionist gains four of the following first
level magic-user spells at the 14th level of experience and an additional
one as each additional level of experience is gained. The spells are:

Affect Normal Fires
Burning Hands
Charm Person
Comprehend languages
Enlarge
Erase
Feather Fall
Friends
Hold Portal
Magic Missile
Mending
Message
Nystul's Magic Aura
Protection from Evil
Read Magic
Shield
Shocking Grasp
Sleep
Tenser's Floating Disc
Unseen Servent

The illusionist may learn any spell or spells from the preceding list. He or
she must seek the spells in the some manner as a magic-user. If the
illusionist chooses to take this "spell", he or she actually takes four or more
first level mogic-user spells as a seventh level spell.

 

[BOZ]

now that's service with a smile!

 

[Aus_Snow]

So. . . I did good then?

Did I? Did I?

 

[Particle_Man]

Though if you really want to replicate the illusionist, you have to ban certain "Illusionist only" spells from *all other* spell lists.

And that might lead to cranky players of non-illusionist arcane spellcasters.

 

[Nightfall]

Driddle,

Why don't you just play AD&D?!

 

[frankthedm]

So, has wotc made a Dread Necromancer / Warmage type for illusion yet? Those classes get a lot for sacrificing other spell schools.

 

[nerfherder]

It's been too long since I've had access to the ol' AD&D players handbook and I've actually forgotten a lot of the original details. Like the spell list specific to the illusionist class, for example.

Anyone got the old spells list, or the updated equivalent?

If you do a search for OSRIC, then that contains an OGL version of the rules that are 100% compatible with AD&D (or some other such legalese).

Cheers,
Liam

 

[Philotomy Jurament]

Here's a link to the OSRIC page where you can download a copy. You can also download it from RPG Now.

 

[Paragon Kobold]

So, has wotc made a Dread Necromancer / Warmage type for illusion yet? Those classes get a lot for sacrificing other spell schools.

The Beguiler, from Players Handbook II, is basically a Warmage type for illusion and enchantment, with som rogue-like traits.