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After 40 votes, here's the results. (Those within 50% of the top are in boldface.) Thanks for the input, everyone! Detect Magic 32 Prestidigitation 28 Read Magic 23 Mage Hand 22 Light 20 Message 15 Ray of Frost 7 Mending 6 Ghost Sound 6 Arcane Mark 6 Dancing Lights 6 Resistance 4 Open/Close 4...

Hey, it did say "You can pick as many selections as you'd like," so it's all good. Thanks for the feedback so far, everyone.

A while back I made some polls to generate a "baseline" core Wizard's spell list. I just realized I never did one for cantrips. You can pick as many selections as you like. Say you have a Wizard of about 3rd level -- adventuring, PC or NPC, non-specialized, non-multiclassed, core rules only. He...

For what it's worth, I did a passingly similar analysis in Hit Dice for 3.0 here (Excel sheet at bottom of first page): http://www.superdan.net/dndmisc/monster_hit_dice.html http://www.superdan.net/dndmisc/dragons_are_too_small.html

I do hope you test your software against a brute-force method (please).

I don't really see that in 3.0. DMG is set up with dungeon wandering monsters at same EL as dungeon level.

You are confusing two different people. I never participated in any Uncanny Dodge debate, and I don't have the opinion you ascribe to me. Regarding custom new magic items, that used to be the policy of ENWorld, and I did always feel that it was a better policy.

SRD: Note the difference between "enhancement bonus" and "modified bonus".

Ok, thank you for fnally posting the analysis :) I agree with most of what you wrote. However, I think a key issue is "how much of the maximum 1E treasure did parties actually find?" As others pointed out, it was frequently devilishly hidden, and not actually expected to be found much of the...

From SRD:

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand): In other words, "supply and demand" may be a legitimate analysis for modern markets with lots of information about pricing, but possibly not for pre-modern markets with less well informed buyers and sellers.

In my campaign I allow extra spells for high-level wizards for the cost of a scroll plus scribing fees.

Could you just post your conclusions?

3.5 FAQ says entirely switching weapons from one hand to another is a move action, p. 31:

Per Amazon.com: - 3.0 Splatbooks 2001 (Jan, May, Jul, Dec) - Oriental Adventures Oct-2001 - Deities & Demigods Apr-2002