To me, that falls into the same area as Magic Resistance, and as you pointed out, effects created by magic are sometimes different than the magic itself. In our game, Ice Storm was used a lot, simply because it created balls of ice that came down and hit for damage. Magic Resistance was never a fact...

I think the illusionist's main advantage in the old Vancian magic system is that one spell can be used to do SO many different things. Demi-Shadow Magic could mimic any damage spell a mage had. Shadow Monsters could be any type of creature. It's less of a guessing game as to which spells will be nee...

As a general rule, I'm not a fan of level drain or a ghost's aging. But I did like the 1 year aging on haste and the aging from some other spells. When I used level drain, the group always had the means to restore them and I didn't make a high level spell only restore one, I had it restore them all....

Absolutely! I did my own calcs, figuring out the relative ages based on the distance between the different age categories. I didn't know there was a table already setup for that! It really shocked the player of an elf that said, "I'm an elf, who cares if it's a ghost?" He was old-age by th...

I never used anything higher than +5, and those were artifacts. No way would I even consider the existence of +6 weapons. Only the Sword of Kyuus (not sure of the name) was +6, and I never put that into anything. Magic still had a tendency to go overboard though, I remember a game where our characte...

Pretty cool! I didn't know about it either. Interesting that Errtu found his way into the R.A. Salvatore novels, where he is A balor.

Mira (It's the job of science to make things idiot-proof, it's the job of nature to make a better idiot.)

My guess is that it's just a property of the lamassu, they can cast healing spells for double the normal effect. (so no, your cleric can't do that :D ) In Pathfinder, if your cleric has the Healing Domain as one of it's domains, they can get +50% more healing from their spells. Could be something si...

I never really had a problem with that, since Wands and Staves are only suppressed for a while. Potions are destroyed. (at least that's how we did it) As you said, Wands and Staves are more of a permanent thing, so Dispel Magic doesn't destroy those. Mira (It is hard to understand how a cemetery rai...

The Monster Manual was first, Fiend Folio didn't come out until MUCH later. (and I never liked it so never bought it). Now I'm going to have to look to see where the first mention of the strength is, my DMG and MM are both first printings and I'm positive we knew the range WAY before the FF existed....

The strengths for above 18/00 are either in the DMG or the Monster Manual, they aren't meant for players :D Anyways, I know I've seen them in the 1E material. If nothing else, they are with the Giant Strength Belts. But yes, the chart never went to 30, I imagine that's a hold over from the original ...

Pretty much the only time it was ever used by us was in conjunction with a Limited Wish (to make the form the same as it was). It was a way to get someone rezzed who no longer could be normally rezzed (ie, failed that survival check at some point). Mira (Life's a bitch and then you die, rez, die, re...

I would say it's related to the interpretation of Wish, but that's because in my game there was a difference between the Wish spell and a Wish granted by a deity. The Wish spell, used by mages and creatures like efreet is a weaker version of a deity granted Wish. IMO, an item that can defeat a Wish ...

Just an FYI. I discovered BitDefender has a free app for OSX, so I decided to do some research. While there were some good reviews, there were a lot of bad ones as well. In particular, there were a few that complained that the program corrupted the boot sector of all things. Which makes the system u...

Can't... resist... pun!

Would you call his daughter a varlette?

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The Pathfinder SRD agrees with the latter interpretation, for what it's worth. 'A stone to flesh spell does not actually change the golem’s structure but negates its damage reduction and immunity to magic for 1 full round.' Mira (Plagiarism is copying from one source; research is copying from two or...

A search turned this up, I guess the email issue must happen enough that the rebuild folder option is there to help. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Disappearing_mail Also, if you believe Bitdefender caused the problem, you might want to check the quarantine area for missing mail which you should be able ...

Beowulf is right, you normally would just connect to the mail server to get your mail. Unless you have it set to pull messages and delete from the server. And Jon got a message saying it was redeemed on the 3rd, so he can't send it again. (I'm assuming you found it and used it, since that was a few ...

I really don't think there's an easy way to do it, you can use OCR to get much of the text and it should be fairly accurate, but you're not going to get the formatting. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-5-free-ocr-software-tools-to-convert-your-images-into-text-nb/ Mira (Latest survey shows that 3 ou...

Yeah, Jon was one of the TSROs back in the day

I forwarded it to him, hopefully he's done something about it

Mira (I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.)

Ok, in order for to get that one time Jumpshot thing sent, he needs an email address. Preferably one that doesn't have Halaster in the name, since he might not give it out if he knows it for you. You can send me the address at ms_t_rie at hotmail.com and I'll pass it on to him.

Jon has a license for Jumpshot and can give a one time use to anyone he wants to. Doesn't cost a thing. I can kick him and see if he wants to send one to you :D He's not home right now or I'd ask. He used it on his system and it worked like a champ, he didn't really have anything wrong per se, but i...

I stopped working on Windows systems a while ago, but my husband fixes them all the time. I could have him send a one time use jumpshot run (www.jumpshot.com). My own guess is that the drive might be going, have you run any diagnostics on it? How old is the drive? jumpshot looks kind of silly with i...

Quantum mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of.

Plus those manual spreadsheets can be a pain without any computers...

Though it's probably more reliable than Excel

Mira (Anyone not dying is already dead)

I personally have never used one or even acknowledge the existence of one. That said, I am more inclined towards the latter interpretation, the tarrasque is a singular beast, there's really nothing you can do about it (unless you're Halaster of course) and it does go away eventually. Kind of like a ...