Recent content by Mannahnin

Some of these come down to just screwjob wording with excessive restrictions (as we saw with Identify). Most of these spells are great if they're allowed to be. Find Traps is fine in 1E- it reveals any hidden traps in the area viewed. Locate Object kind of sucks in 1E if you interpret that...

It's just a shame that Gary somehow overlooked war scythes in his otherwise fairly comprehensive polearm listings! What a match made in 1E flavor heaven that could have been. :LOL: https://www.scaleatherarmor.com/p-1475-medieval-war-scythe.aspx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_scythe

Yeah, we definitely have pessimistic jokes about bunching up, but pretty much everyone I game with knows better in practice. Well, mostly yes. But Clerics don't actually get any healing spells in Basic D&D until 2nd level, and then only one a day (no bonus spells like in AD&D), so you...

In the middle of Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles right now. Really enjoying it. Lyrical and moving. I read Miller's Circe about a year and a half ago, though, so I expected this one to be similarly good.

Heck. I brute-forced it in my head with the d3 (and a d1) examples and proved to myself that you're right. :LOL:

Right. So on average it will output slightly lower values, but that's over an infinite number of trials, and your group saw outlier results. Anydice puts the averages at 13.43 for your method and 12.24 for 4d6dl. https://anydice.com/ output [highest 3 of 5d6] named "5d6 drop lowest two"...

Is it? I'd think it'd be 5% if it was two d20s, but lower with a d12 and a d20. You eliminate any chance of a match on 40% of the d20 rolls. So wouldn't it be 3%?

You're right that he's using the wrong name, and the circle of power is the dispel magic circle a paladin gets when he's got a holy sword held unsheathed. But he's right about the protection downgrade. In 1E all paladins, right from first level, have a continual Protection from Evil 10' Radius...

I wonder if they had memories of schools and parents forcing lefties to write with and use their right hands. I suspect they assumed players would be smart enough to substitute the word "left" in that passage on shields for characters actually fighting lefty with a shield. I've rarely...

I think that's largely correct, but remember that there was also a very fertile and frenetically creative (a bit less visible in TSR products but clearly visible in the zine scene and the explosion of other RPGs) period before the game took off and really came into the awareness of normies and...

Yup. It would be obvious just from reading the ability score tables in the PH that AD&D clearly expects people to be using more generous rolling systems, even if it weren't for this and for Gygax explicitly stating in the PH "The premise of the game is that each player character is above average...

More or less. Although pages 41-47 of the DMG are full of expanded spell description information and notes for the referee for how to adjudicate quite a lot of the spells (including applications like using a Light spell to blind someone, using Dig to damage a Clay Golem, what kind of creatures...

Well, I'm a bit unclear at the moment exactly how soon alignment started being treated as a matter of morality and philosophy, but I would guess that it was some time in the first year. Supplement I: Greyhawk talks about Lawful and Chaotic deeds and behavior (see pages 6-8). By the time The...

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