Here's Orcus...

Yeah, I colored some pencil art. Gotta find the links...

I never liked the art for Demogorgon or Orcus in 1E. When Grenadier did the miniature for Demogorgon and gave him reptilian heads, that to me made more sense (and looked better) than the mandrill heads, since Demogorgon is served by reptiles and dinosaurs. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hoHXXuJGtKs/S8O3i...

Tawnos wrote:

This itself could be a discussion on its own.

Good idea! Want to get it started?

I agree, but I'm careful though, not to purposely screw the players. I despise DMs who, for example, always feel the need to "warp" wishes. My stance if, if the only choices you see are "a wish will unbalance my campaign or I have to wreck their wish and twist it", that person is...

Typo. I meant half a dozen. But do you understand what I'm saying? A lowly potion protects from up to 6 attacks from a wight before being drained, while one hit destroys a permanent magic item? That's not making any sense to me.

Is anyone else noticing the site is very slow to load tonight? or other quirky issues? I know Hostmonster was upgrading php this week, but tonight it seems like it's taking a minute or so for pages to load. Only our forum seems to be having this issue, no other site online that I've tried, so it mus...

Ummm...no.

Garhkal wrote: Anyone can have ioun stones, but only fighters, can benefit (or those who are multi-classed fighters) from potions of heroism/super heroism.. AND IF THEY ARE THAT prevalent, maybe something's off.. True, but do you see the point I'm making? A lowly one-use potion can prevent a dozen a...

That's where I think the issue becomes unbalanced. A weak potion (a temporary magic item) can withstand a half dozen or more attacks from a wight before being depleted, whereas a powerful permanent item takes one hit and is destroyed. To me that's not balanced.

I'd differentiate the horn of blasting because it has an actual magic effect, i.e. you can't simply block your ears with wax to overcome it. The magic is the force that is the effect. The way I try to break it down is this... Is the effect being blocked actually magic (i.e. formed of magic) or is it...

Garhkal wrote: Johann the Baptize, a human ranger (4th), now druid (7th), has a stone up.. His DM rolled on that chart of yours and got a 2, thus increasing his ranger side. He goes to bed (or does something else, requiring him to remove the stone from circling him). Next morning he tosses it back u...

Garhkal wrote: It seems that the designers should have really labeled it "ANTI ANYTHING Supernatural or outside of mortal ken), since it blocks psionics, breaths, gaze attacks, sonic attacks AND MAGIC.. And like you, i have often been in arguments about why Should it block breath attacks and su...

Garhkal wrote: Would it STAY the same though each time it's put up? Not sure how you mean that. If they do 'gain a spell', how? is it some how magically imparted? What then happens when the stone i taken down? Does that knowledge suddenly disappear?? Does it appear in their spell book?? I'd argue th...

Garhkal wrote: Hence my question.. is that highest "XP needed", so a mage-thief, would have it add to his mage side? I'd say by the class with the highest level, i.e. a fighter/mage who is a 5th level fighter and a 4th level mage would add to his fighter side, so 6th level. I never compare...

To keep balance, and since it says "adds 1 level", I would only add a level to the higher of the two classes. Adding it to both would be adding two levels.

Wow, I've never heard of that, anywhere. Not in 1E or 2E anywhere I've ever read.

I'm not saying it's necessarily a mistake per se, only that I consider it a mistake in that it was an ill-thought-out description. If it also works on neutral beings, then why is it called protection from evil ? It should have been named something else ( protection from enemies ?) because the name o...

Intelligent holy avenger swords? I never thought of that! Sheer genius, Garhkal! It opens so many interesting possibilities!

Garhkal wrote: I agree.. IT should have been 10ft sphere, period.. So 5ft radius... Yeah, the 10' radius/20' diameter always seemed like a massive area to be covered! MAYBE the writer thought that 5' radius, was on TOP OF the normal 10ft radius of their PFE??? That actually adds up. It's probably th...

Garhkal wrote: I agree.. IT should have been 10ft sphere, period.. So 5ft radius... Yeah, the 10' radius/20' diameter always seemed like a massive area to be covered! MAYBE the writer thought that 5' radius, was on TOP OF the normal 10ft radius of their PFE??? That actually adds up. It's probably th...

Garhkal wrote: True, the 2e SPELL (First level one) is only YOU getting protected, but when you include the paladin from 1e, having it on as a 10ft bubble, it gets a lot more potent. Well yes, I agree, the paladin issue is far worse than the spell effect. There are those (mostly over on DF, but some...

I have never been happy with aspects of the anti-magic shell spell. Specifically, the ability to block breath weapons and possibly gaze and voice attacks. The spell says it blocks "magic and magical spell effects". I have never considered the dragon's breath weapon, for example, to be a ma...

Extrapolating from the other thread, let's discuss the paladin and his protection from evil ability. Paladins create a protection vs. evil within in a 10' radius. Personally, I have always thought this should have been a 10' diameter , not a 10' radius , as a 10' radius equates to a 20' diameter , w...

Good lord! I can't believe I overlooked this thread for days now! :? Lots of points to address. Let's see. First, as far as psionics goes, I hate psionics in AD&D. To me it belongs in Gamma World, not AD&D. It's more a sci-fi feel than a fantasy one. I never have used psionics in my AD&D...