I believe that Protection from Fire not being in the sphere of Protection is an error, given that spells such as Endure Cold/Endure Heat and Resist Fire/Resist Cold are still there.
That's no error, those 2nd edit fools got an autistic teenager who'd never played the game to design those spheres.
Protection from Fire was a Druid spell in 1E and the purpose of the S&M corrections was to restore that feel to the class as the Cleric got dozens of spellls he should never have had by the Druid having to share them and the Druid lost a dozen or more unique Druidic spells which defined him as a class and mythos. The Cleric never needed
Protection from Fire as he had
Flamewalk, which does virtually the same thing and could be a Protection or a Charm spell. The Cleric got Flameblade
and Spiritual Hammer, Magick Font
and Reflecting Pool, Commune
and Commune with Nature while the Druid got neither, all the Sun spells, a bunch of Weather spells, a load of unique Druid spells for a nonsense Creation sphere with no possible minor access, Call Woodland Beings when the Druid couldn't cast it at all, all the Elemental Fire spells when he should only have had Air, Water and some earth, Reincarnate
and Resurrection and the Druid lost
Cure Disease which he could cast as a 2nd level character in 1E and
Neutralise Poison was delayed until 7th level when he could cast it at 3rd level which, given that his natural terrain is basically like your version of the Cloakwood is pretty much an essential part of what Druids were all about.. What a crock! Half-baked, half-cocked and half-thought out. And that's just off the top of my head. Don't get me started!
Is
Protection from Lightning in the Protection sphere?
Anyway, I thought the idea was to create a true AD&D 2nd edit BGI
a la S&M, whether you agree with the rules or not?
There are some errors in those lists, one or two spells from PHB are not to be found at all.
But this isn't one of them (see Jon Picken's article, Dragon 205).
Foirbiddance was left off every single printing of the PHB between 1989 and the release of S&M.
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