To the best of my knowledge, these penalties were never actually implemented in the game. They were in the original BG manuals, but they were never implemented. (View Post)

3E and later editions really want Charisma to be force of personality, which sounds an awful lot like willpower to me. Under that definition, casting spells with Charisma makes an awful lot of sense.… (View Post)

Oh. See, I don't agree with that sentence (specifically, I don't agree with your definitions of "enhanced" vs "altered beyond recognition"), but it seems like a perfectly reasonab… (View Post)

If you're not splitting hairs when lives are on the line, it's my personal opinion that you're not qualified to be a paladin. The distinction between killing someone who's a threat and killing someon… (View Post)

This is everything I can think of. I'm sure I'm missing a bunch of SOD items, at the very least. Both games: Cloak of Displacement, -2 to death, breath, and wand Adoy's Belt, -5 vs. polymorph Claw of… (View Post)