Questions tagged [content-identification]
For questions about identifying game content (abilities, features, classes or other specific game content) based on remembered or presumed details of the content. (For identifying a product instead, use the [product-identification] tag.)
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Halloween issue of InQuest that talked of pre-Hollywood origins of classic monsters
In the mid-late ’90s a magazine called InQuest/InQuest Gamer printed suggested material for role-playing games (often D&D but also L5R, GURPS, WoD and others). It was published between April 1995 ...
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Does OG DND actually have content where players kill Vishnu?
I am a DND fan and a Hindu, but Jason Tondro (a Senior Designer for Dungeons & Dragons) was quoted as saying: Were players expected to fight Vishnu, one of the principal deities of Hinduism, kill ...
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Looking for an item: a crystal that stores memories, up to an entire personality?
I am looking for an item and its reference page: a crystal shard that stores memories, up to an entire personality. I believe this particular item comes from one of the forgotten realms books, or ...
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Other than in The Book of Vile Darkness, are there any other books/modules that refer to drug use?
In 3.5 there was a section in The Book of Vile Darkness (TBoVD) where if refers to fantasy use of drugs, such as "Devilweed" among others (pp. 41-44). It includes quite a lot information ...
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What spell gives immunity to damage for all creatures in an area?
In a previous game, I encountered a high level spell courtesy of my DM that rendered everyone within that radius, allies and enemies, invulnerable to all damage. I was wondering if anyone recognized ...
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What was the big pillar-shaped Beholder in 3.5?
There was a specific type of Beholder that I used as a shapechange target in 3.5, but I can't remember exactly what it was called, or its specific abilities. What I remember is that it wasn't a ...
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Tiny Creatures Can't Kill Players, Right?
I remember reading somewhere that tiny creatures can't kill players/bring them down to 0 hp in normal conditions, which makes sense to me. A rat biting someone's toe and dealing that 1 damage would be ...
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Which source gave the option for a spellcaster to use wishes as verbal component?
I vaguely remember that I have seen a Dungeons and Dragons subclass, variant or feat that allowed a spellcaster who studied Genies or was related to them to cast spells by using spoken wishes as ...
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