True, with low level spells it's the priest's faith that powers it, but the way I'd see it is that it's still divine magic, not arcane magic. So it shouldn't have such a deleterious effect on the priest. I can't imagine a priest being so drained merely from praying to his deity for such a low level ...

Garhkal wrote: I was making it Weaker at a base, since the god i was developing this for, "SAVE'K'NOR" in my home game, that realm's "God of knowledge", has a very good granted power that his priests benefit from. ANY divination spell they cast, is at 5 levels HIGHER, for how eff...

I like it a lot, overall! Only two quibbles I have with it: 1. I don't see the need to make it less effective than the wizard spell identify . If anything, I would say a priest would have a better chance than a wizard, since the info is coming from a god/divine source, not a mortal one. For sake of ...

According to the spell description, a dead spirit of different alignment can refuse to answer. But it's oh so much more fun for the dead to give false information or confusing information rather than simply refusing to answer. :twisted: As for the second part of the question, remember that according...

I usually have them use use spells such as divination , commune or augury , something from the priest spell list. Not a strictly by-the-book use of the spell, but something has to serve that purpose. I've also allowed the priest to simply fast and pray and make offerings in order to receive a vision...

Cool, thanks!

Yeah, that'd be awesome, thanks! I need to group them somehow and I never got around to it.

Garhkal wrote: That's why as DM i retain veto power over someone's choice on species enemy.. SUCH AS one player who wanted HUMAN as his enemy... As a half elf ranger, in a party OF HUMANS... I don't blame you. That's insane. Virtually every person I've ever known to play a ranger has played a human ...

Garhkal wrote: One of the two rangers i've had, actually became a ranger, BECAUSE HIS village, got wransacked BY a gnoll raiding party, so that's how he picked on them. ANother did similar with merrow (as he was a coastal ranger), i've had others do the same in their 'backround' write up.. BUT some ...

McDeath wrote: Never had the ranger handbook (well pdf but never read it). Yeah, the damage of 1e is pretty awesome but I do like how the handbook settled related species. It is funny 2e nerfed the damage when some mobs are considerably stronger (mainly dragons). I never liked the various class hand...

Garhkal wrote: Ive always interpreted that to mean, at 1st, they can still be 'choosing', BUT ONCE THEY HIT 2nd, they must have chosen. I think your interpretation is more correct and what they intended on in the rules. I could see the rationale being that since the PC is starting at 1st level, he h...

Awesome question and topic! I've never really given it much thought. In 1E, rangers automatically got "giant class" humanoids as species enemies. In 2E, they got to pick a specific species such as orcs or goblins. The rule is written strangely, saying the ranger must pick a species enemy b...

I just thought of something. Could this have been a magic item posted on DF or something like that, a home-brewed magic item?

Hmmm. Not ringing a bell off hand. I'm still wondering if it was a Dark Sun specific magic item. Maybe in a module? I think the Dark Sun stuff came out after the Magical Encyclopedias, didn't it? I can't remember. If so, that could be why it's not in the encyclopedia.

The hard part is finding mint condition maps. Most box set maps have been opened an used, so it's hard to get a really crisp copy. Myself, I've been wanting to get a nice set of Undermountain maps scanned into a crease-less file so I can print them up on high quality paper and frame them.

Assuming rings of returning are not actually r ings of spell turning , could this have been a magical item detailed somewhere in the Dark Sun materials (modules, etc)? I've never heard of it myself, but I don't have much Dark Sun material because I never got into it. But I'm guessing the ring might ...

Wouldn't that be a ring of spell turning?

I just think the entire specialist wizard system is fucked up. That's why I went back to two magic user classes - wizards and illusionists. [ Note : the class name "magic user" never made sense. Wizard works better.] I also made druids their own class, not a sub-class of priest. They have ...

Personally, I hate specialist mages now. I don't at all like how they did specialist mages. I never even saw the use for them. I liked it better when there were magic users and a separate class called illusionist. I always saw illusions as a distinctly different class than normal magic users. Want t...

Any DM who turns a player character into a Smurf deserves an ass kicking. A DM who turns a PC into a Carebear needs to be castrated with a dull butter knife!

Garhkal wrote: That's why to ME, there shouldn't Be exceptions other than maybe a god's call.. Yeah, I agree. Exceptions should be exceedingly rare. And going back to the clone spell, I never really liked it. It seems to sci-fi for AD&D. I don't know if it's the only spell that was never used in...

Garhkal wrote: Which has been my point. HOW CAN YOU have 'totally dead forever", IF YOU LET ANYTHING AND everything get around it, such as clone, wish, Alternate reality, reincarnation etc... THAT IS NOT totally dead. Well a clone I can see because it's a clone. But if you allow wishes and othe...

McDeath wrote: Was it mentzer D&D or somewhere else (perhaps polymorph) that mentioned the target could over time end up with the mind of the animal/monster? I must admit, I haven't read up on these in s long while. Yeah, with polymorph , there's a risk over time that you adopt the mind of the a...

McDeath wrote: I kept laughing at the sphere of annihilation examples and other artifacts. DM has final say no matter what the rules depict. As a player I'll shrug it off no matter what decision is made. I've been at easy tables and hard iron fisted balls tables. Some tables will tell you to shut it...

Garhkal wrote: On DF some are discussing 'can reincarnate, let you come back to life, AFTER FAILING YOUR resurrection roll". IE, can it be used as an end run around 'Final death" as gary put it? A tricky question with lots of room for interpretation. I always defer to 1E for these question...