Re: session re****t

In article <MPG.201ec46a78ebdcf698a2f7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Jeff Heikkinen  <no.way@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>There is also extensive errata to Polymorph available somewhere on 
>WotC's Web site, though I haven't examined it closely enough to know 
>whether it would address your issues with it.

We haven't hit this in v3.5 yet, so I don't know if the book rules
are improved enough; if they aren't, I'll look for the errata.  This
spell has had more errata than anything else in the system!

The problem (a familiar one to computer programmers, I think) is
that Polymorph is an "im****t" spell.  It im****ts into the core rules any
mistake made by the authors of whatever monster manual or other monster
source you are using:  for example, if they rule that something is an
ability of a type emulatable by Polymorph when it should have been
something of a type not emulatable, you're suddenly confronted with
an ability that you thought was ruled out.

Someone told a story of a high level druid who found a way to Wild
Shape into a choker, and finally overcame the v3.5 restriction that
you can't cast two spells a round:  the author of the choker should
have given it Haste, but instead gave it an extra standard action, and
voila.

The reason that Summon Monster does not allow you to summon
monsters of your choice within some constraint, but instead gives an
explicit list, is to keep it from being "im****t"--there's a high
cost in flavor but perhaps it's worth it.

Things are certainly better if one avoids all of the splatbooks.
The warlock's magical damaging attack is given no type!  We had a long,
long discussion of this when we discovered it.  The damage has to be
some type or other so that we know what can defend against it, but
there is no hint in the class writeup.  And there are plenty of MM2,
MM3, Fiend Folio monsters which are a very bad idea to im****t.

>(BTW, they dropped the "A" in "D&D" when 3E came out, since there is no 
>longer a basic version for it to be an advanced counterpart *of*...) 

Okay, I'll save a character henceforth.  Got yelled at too many times
for calling the game D&D back in the day, and managed to teach myself
not to do it....

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]