Also "Iron Skin" was a 5th level mage spell in the AD&D goldbox games, e.g. in Death Knights of Krynn, where it improves AC by 4. Does not sound like much, but I think unless the other … (View Post)

Greywolf can be hard, but Blindness has a good chance of affecting him and taking him out of the fight. (View Post)

The D&D lvl 1 = close to a peasant is false, at least for 2nd edition. Level 1 is fully trained. Back then, higher level characters were really rare. I.e. the standard army consists of Level 0 (!… (View Post)

I think the question of whether Baldur's Gate pioneered anything does not relate to what I was trying to say. Let my try again: Dumbing down = over-simplifying systems or removing features that are s… (View Post)

With the latest interviews/news they have now floated the following systems as possibly unsuitable/not optimal for video games: * Missing (at least missing often) * Spell slots * Frequency of level u… (View Post)