Personally, I can never bring myself to play a PC with below average Intelligence or Charisma. I can't imagine why the NPCs would follow anyone who was not clearly a leader. But YMMV, of course. (View Post)

Presumably adventurers are above average, though, and thus will tend to have higher ability scores than prosaic peasants and ploughmen. The dice rolling systems for ability scores in AD&D tend to… (View Post)

1e AD&D (before UA) is the greatest version of AD&D. 2e is fine, since it's largely compatible with 1e. 3e is tolerable (except if you're the DM and running anything above level 6). 4e is not… (View Post)

I'm repeating myself here, but sword spiders *do* have web immunity in BG1 (at least as of the February patch). Web immunity was essential for my avenger's tactics during my March-April BG1 game! (View Post)

Sword spiders *do* have web immunity. It's one of their main powers! (Cast web, transform, attack...) (View Post)