Remember that we're talking about the 2E Drow, which are much closer to Gygax's original dark faeries than the "humans with pointy ears, weird skin color, and a funny society" in 3E and lat… (View Post)

* Give the Cloak of Mirroring to a warrior with good saves and a few immunities. * Face a high-level mage with party AI turned off. * Watch as the mage starts with Time Stops and other high-level spe… (View Post)

The classes are still designed for traditional AD&D gameplay. Warriors remain effective from encounter to encounter, while wizards carry a few tactical nukes but become weak once they have used t… (View Post)

Based on what I've seen, the campaign would last decades of game time, but the characters would see action on maybe a hundred days. The Baldur's Gate series basically takes the traditional D&D ca… (View Post)

Day 500 is about 4x more than what my (almost) completionist playthroughs take. Traditional (A)D&D game mechanics are based on abilitites with limited uses per day. This leads to dungeon design, … (View Post)