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<blockquote data-quote="CandyLaser" data-source="post: 9336671" data-attributes="member: 7029413">Really not sure if you should be tooting your own horn quite so loudly w/r/t your grasp of the language and the lack of mistakes, given the quality on display here. I invite you to consider that there is a reason why most professional writers have editors and proofreaders, even if they are themselves skilled at those trades.According to <a href="http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2014/01/ad-wizards-spell-compendium.html" target="_blank">this blog post</a> there are 2,174 wizard spells in the four-volume 2e Wizard's Spell Compendium; it doesn't include every wizard spell in AD&amp;D, but it's close. I found a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/158kay5/what_game_has_the_largest_published_list_of/" target="_blank">Reddit post</a> that says there are 1,795 in the three-volume Priest's Spell Compendium. Assuming those figures are accurate, that's 3,969 spells across 2,016 pages. It's not impossible that one person, working alone, has produced more spells than were printed across 20+ years of books, magazines, and boxed sets. It is, however, entirely unbelievable that they would be issue-free.EDIT: I'm making the assumption here that the bulk of those spells are more than mere palette swaps of existing spells. Bulking up a spell list by including hundreds of entries that are just variations on &quot;Burning hands but it deals acid damage&quot; is trivial, and I wouldn't boast about having added thousands of spells to my game if that's what I'd done.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CandyLaser, post: 9336671, member: 7029413"] Really not sure if you should be tooting your own horn quite so loudly w/r/t your grasp of the language and the lack of mistakes, given the quality on display here. I invite you to consider that there is a reason why most professional writers have editors and proofreaders, even if they are themselves skilled at those trades. According to [URL='http://deltasdnd.blogspot.com/2014/01/ad-wizards-spell-compendium.html']this blog post[/URL] there are 2,174 wizard spells in the four-volume 2e Wizard's Spell Compendium; it doesn't include every wizard spell in AD&D, but it's close. I found a [URL='https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/158kay5/what_game_has_the_largest_published_list_of/']Reddit post[/URL] that says there are 1,795 in the three-volume Priest's Spell Compendium. Assuming those figures are accurate, that's 3,969 spells across 2,016 pages. It's not impossible that one person, working alone, has produced more spells than were printed across 20+ years of books, magazines, and boxed sets. It is, however, entirely unbelievable that they would be issue-free. EDIT: I'm making the assumption here that the bulk of those spells are more than mere palette swaps of existing spells. Bulking up a spell list by including hundreds of entries that are just variations on "[I]Burning hands[/I] but it deals acid damage" is trivial, and I wouldn't boast about having added thousands of spells to my game if that's what I'd done. [/QUOTE]

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