D&D 2E Infinite Elf Generator/Xp mill

[JiffyPopTart]

Im the 2e necromancer splatbook it mentions that they would gain 1xp for digging a grave. Presumably they are allowed to use tools to do this...so that should apply to a shovel or a skeleton they control wielding a shovel.

Insert massive field of animated skeletons repeatedly digging graves over and over for a nice daily XP boost.

*Yes...nobody plays like this.

 

[Zardnaar]

I saw the title and the forum, and I assumed the "Infinite Elf Generator" was the system TSR used to produce Elf sub-types in 2e.

WotC inherited it think it's still running.

 

[Celebrim]

Doesn't work.

In 2e AD&D NPCs and PCs use different rules. It's not clear what the XP would be for a PC elf, but it certainly wouldn't be the same as an NPC elf.

And in any event, XP farms don't work in any addition because actually awarded XP are scaled to the challenge. If you do something to reduce the challenge to nothing, then the XP award is also nothing.

 

[Zardnaar]

Doesn't work.

In 2e AD&D NPCs and PCs use different rules. It's not clear what the XP would be for a PC elf, but it certainly wouldn't be the same as an NPC elf.

And in any event, XP farms don't work in any addition because actually awarded XP are scaled to the challenge. If you do something to reduce the challenge to nothing, then the XP award is also nothing.

They use the same rules for xp at least. NPC classes you defeat use same xp table as monsters.

Elf racial abilities although minor tick the right boxes for bonus xp eg spell resistance.

 

[Yora]

I think it was in 2nd edition where some of the slaads have a chance to summon a number of other slaads of the same type that puts the average per summon above 1. Which in turn also can use their summon ability.

Just one of them has the potential to cause a cascading chain reaction of summoning infinite numbers of slaads.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

not that we really know jack or squat about real druids

Nobody knows who they were…or…what they were doing.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I started playing at the tail end of the 3.5 era, so maybe I just don't "get" it. But man, some of the race/class restrictions make no sense. What is it with Elves not being allowed as Druids in AD&D? ELVES? The race whose schtick from since Tolkien has been being supernaturally in tune with nature and living in trees? THOSE guys can't be druids but humans can?!

Yep. There’s many instances in D&D’s history where the mechanics & lore don’t marry up. Sometimes, it’s because of an edition transition, but not always.

 

[Nikosandros]

I started playing at the tail end of the 3.5 era, so maybe I just don't "get" it. But man, some of the race/class restrictions make no sense. What is it with Elves not being allowed as Druids in AD&D? ELVES? The race whose schtick from since Tolkien has been being supernaturally in tune with nature and living in trees? THOSE guys can't be druids but humans can?!

If you use Unearthed Arcana, the options are expanded and elves can be druids.

 

[Jack Daniel]

I started playing at the tail end of the 3.5 era, so maybe I just don't "get" it. But man, some of the race/class restrictions make no sense. What is it with Elves not being allowed as Druids in AD&D? ELVES? The race whose schtick from since Tolkien has been being supernaturally in tune with nature and living in trees? THOSE guys can't be druids but humans can?!

Druids didn't really solidify into the "generic hippy-dippy nature-caster" niche until 3e. In 2e, the text of the DMG was explicit about only humans and half-elves being druids because druidry was a human religion. Halflings actually lost the ability to be druids between 1e and 2e to conform to that stipulation.

 

[cbwjm]

It should probably also be noted that different settings changed the rules on what classes were available to demihumans, sometimes limiting class availability based on subrace.