(20th-Level Human Black Robe Wizard)
 
 

STR	INT	WIS	DEX	CON	CHR
10	17	14	16	10	15

THACO: 9
AL: CE
HP: 44
AC: -2
 

Q: How do you pronounce Raistlin?
A: Raistlin is pronounced RAIST-lin. The
first syllable rhymes with ?waist? and the
second with ?bin.?
(143.10)

Q: How could Raistlin, a wizard of
the Black Robes, cast lightning bolt,
an evocation spell?
A: Raistlin was a wizard who broke all
sorts of rules and retained his position in
the Black Robes only through sheer power.
He was intentionally created to not conform
to all of the AD&D rules on magicusers
? only most of them.
(143.12)

Q: How do DMs play the effects of
Raistlin?s vision? Are there specific
game effects? Is he, for example,
unable to determine if a log or stool
is safe to sit on because he sees
everything in a state of decay?
A: Raistlin?s vision has no specific game
effects. Raistlin sees the effects of time on
living things; this accounts for his cynicism.
Logs and stools are not alive, so
Raistlin?s perceptions of them are unaffected.
Raistlin?s perceptions of anything longlived,
such as elves or trees, are hardly
affected.
(143.12)
 

Q: In issue 143, you said that Raistlin
Majere?s vision shows the effects of
time only on living things. But in
?Raistlin?s Daughter,? (in Love and
War, page 286), Raistlin sees rocks
crumbling to dust.
A: First, there are subtle differences between
Krynn as described in the novels
and Krynn as described in the game
products. This is inevitable, since game
materials have to be both self-consistent
and playable. So, when you?re playing a
game set in Krynn, Abeir-Toril, or Oerth,
follow the details given in the game
products?if they differ from the books,
it?s probably for a good reason.
Second, if you reread that page carefully,
you?ll find that Raistlin isn?t actually
seeing rocks crumble; he just says he sees
rocks crumble. Raistlin wouldn?t be above
bending the truth now and again if it
suited his purposes.
(160.32)