deimos3428 wrote:This has nothing to do with collecting except I was looking through my 1st Ed. PHBs and had one of those "wow, never noticed that before" moments...Pg. 33, paragraph above "ALIGNMENT":"Note that this does not allow spell use while armor clad, such as an elven fighter/magic user is able to do." (underline added)My next character is definitely going to be an elven F/MU in full plate
bclarkie wrote:DOH!! the highest levels he can attain is fighter level 7 / magic user level 11 and then only if he has strenghth of 18 & intelligence of 18. Damn racial class limitations!!! Oh well, guess you can't have everything
I guess that would be the "game balance" then...but I had always assumed they couldn't wear armor at all.
ifearyeti wrote:I recently found something interesting on page 30 of deities and demigods in the Celtic mythos under item name of tathlum. It's not necessarily a rule but I thought it was pretty weird. It is one of those "truth is stranger than fiction instances". I figure it has to be based on some old historical celtic practice.
Epicrates_cenchria wrote:Going back to the tathlum. I have a long held interest in mythology, expecially European and Celtic. I have exhausted my library on the matter and can tell you this it's not much, but it's a start.In the legends of the Danai and the Da Danaans there is a hero/demigod called Lugh (Lug), often considered to be an Anglicised Perseus. At the end of his adventures he returns to Erin (Ireland) carrying with him his magical sword (the sword of light) and a tathlum. This is not well described, but obviously because it is mentioned an important item. A dictionary/encyclopeadia I have of mythology from 1911 says a tathlum is a magical sling shot, but does not reference this description.Anyone else have any idea of it's aetiology?
Deadlord36 wrote:bclarkie, you can indeed have everything. Just play 3E. Make a half dragon/half mind flayer fighter/wizard/monk/bard/paladin. Should be easy to pick up a +27 holy vorpal flaming bastard sword of allslaying. Quite realistic, IMHO.
That just makes me even more glad I never wasted any money on that crap
Epicrates_cenchria wrote:Well I am glad it's not just me that think 3E is a total bag of SH*TE.Having been out of the game for a while I snapped up a 52 book collection of 3E (still a good deal @ £110 ($200) I suppose). Looked through about three or four and had to get my old 1Es out to remind me what a good game was. The books remain in the box they came in.I thought I had just got old and set in my ways!
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