From what I understand, the reason of the whole cleric no-blade thing was plain and simply that the original D&D creators thought it would be a cool idea, just a neat little feature to make the c… (View Post)

You can avoid most of these plot problems by simply making your vampire a party member, and not CHARNAME. It avoids most story complications. (View Post)

Before the EE, you also could use death on dragons (as well as fear). They were missing some key immunities in the original vanilla game. (View Post)

This used to be a standard tactic (they probably changed that in EE, haven't tried in years). Dragons were not immune to fear and fearing them broke their AI script so they turned into dumb target du… (View Post)

As a general rule of thumb, different effects stack with each other, but the same effect will usually not stack with itself. As always, there are of course exceptions. This game is complicated. (View Post)