Kingdom of Mass

Yves · Royal Prince Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 3621

Ah yes the good ol' days. What are some overpowered/versatile spells that you used in this edition? Could be divine or arcane. Could be from PHB or any of the other kit/option books.

The reason I made this post because in a high-level 2nd edition game on another site I just took out an entire army of undead (hundreds of zombies/skeletons/wights/etc.) and a lich (well got it down to half hp) with a single Wall of Fire.

Another one would be the Transmute Rock to Mud spell (arcane version). I killed an entire contingent of high-level full-plate knights in 1 round with that spell. Full plate armor is the absolute worst when you're trying to swim in mud. Twisted Evil

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Lukefan3 · Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:54 pm Post subject:

I have a friend who in his first adventure, had to but out a fire. A village on fire. By themselves. With no buckets. The team's wizard threw a fireball above the village and burned out all the oxygen in a area, putting out the fire. Also, I've never used it, but that creeping death spell sounds gnarly (and looks gnarly if you have an edition with a icture of it).

adderworks · Site Techy Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 9438

That might work in 1e, actually. I will have to crack open the books and look at it.

Yves · Royal Prince Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 3621

Yeah creeping doom is insane. It's also a 7th level priest spell. Most 7th level priest spells are insane. But yeah I remember creeping doom was especially. Something like 1000 damage/round for 1 round/level?
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Lukefan3 · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:59 pm Post subject:

(1d6+4)x100 bugs that have one 1 damage attack.
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Yves · Royal Prince Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 3621

Levitate was nice 2nd level spell that was save-or-die to nonfliers. Too bad 3.5e made into a self or willing creature only.
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"I find your lack of faith disturbing." --Darth Cleric

"Might suck at Level One, but you're ripped at Level Nine..."

Dreganor · King Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 15609 Location: China

back to the rock to mud thing...my highest level wizard i that edition used to do rock to mud and then next round place a wall of force over top of it.

Good times.
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Lukefan3 · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 5:21 pm Post subject:

I heard the first edition description of goodberry (great in 2e) says "you conjure forth a tasty berry". Can anyone confirm this?
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SightblinderX · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 5:38 am Post subject: