Sunday, July 5, 2015

The OD&D Project - installment 15

Still plugging away. Essentially done with the "Men" part of Men & Magic. Now working on what promises to be an extensive latter section on the spells of the various 'casting classes.

This concludes the "Men" portion of Volume 1, Men & Magic. What follows is a compendium of spells for Magic-Users, Clerics, Illusionists, and Druids. These entries are gathered from multiple sources and compiled, organized, and edited hereafter. No distinction is made regarding the publication source of any spell, be it from  Volume 1, Men & Magic, GREYHAWK, ELDRITCH WIZARDRY, The Strategic Review, or (The) Dragon magazine. All spells are presented alphabetically under each spellcasting class entry.






3 comments:

  1. Hmm...I notice you included "Prismatic Spray" in the illusionist spell list. What are you using for the spell description (since Aronson never wrote one)?

    [his original submission to Dragon #1 that presented high level Illusionist spells didn't include the spell...at least not in the text I've seen:

    http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-complete-od-illusionist.html

    It appears the NAME was added to the list at the last moment, perhaps by The Dragon's editor, to round out the number of 7th level illusionist spells to six (like the 5th level). The first appearance of it, as far as I can find, is in the AD&D PHB.]

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  2. I included everything from The Strategic Review and early issues of The Dragon.

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  3. As for the spell description, I'd have to consult my notes. If it's not in Strategic Review or Dragon, there's a chance I just extrapolated from the earliest listing of the spell I could find.

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