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AD&D 2E, Nineteen Bells (14 Nov 2025) Zizis buys a silver ring.

Sorry about the delay, but I've been trying to get my head around a new approach to the phenomenon of "special attacks" and how they are listed in the XPV table in the DMG and Appendix E, which may well have consequences for what, exactly, a "special defense" is, and how it should be rewarded...

Fair enough. :) Since I was trying to make sense of the immunities and resistances last, shall we try and see if we can do something with that? I think one of the biggest problems here is the fact that “magic resistance” is worth an EAXPA. Take, say, a triton leader with 4 HD (and no "magical...

I'll tell my DM!

But… I. WANT. TO. KNOW. So lets try and build on the notion of not adding up a gazillion special defenses. Let’s assume that “impervious to fire” and its variants actually only have meaning as far as “magically generated” fire is concerned (e.g., fireball, red dragon breath, and their variants)...

Well, in my defense, I'm not really trying to make a coherent system for awarding monster xp in 1E. Well, I am, but that's another story. What I'm trying to do, is find out "what they were thinking when they made Appendix E." And, despite what I've written so far, I'm actually slowly getting...