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It can be made to work if NPC combatants are batched a little. Say there's a group of five pirates fighting seven defenders on the...

Seems to me that if you’re doing a pirate campaign, at some point it’s mandatory to have an exceptionally strong storm blow the ship off...

Heres a Level 0 Funnel for a Caribbean Adventure ESCAPE THE BOILING HOUSE Barbados, 1655. Each of you was transported in chains — a...

I'm a bit harsher - if someone's humming and hawing for too long I'll jump to the next player, knock the indecisive player's character a...

I had a character once do something almost just like this: she rigged up a harness that in effect tied her to the broom and also built...

I see it as similar to riding a bike - yes it's a good idea to keep your hands on the handlebars but some people are good enough (or...

Which is fine until the PCs try to assign values within their own treasury while dividing it. We used to use a system like this - we...

:ROFLMAO: You win! Me? I'm just working on the "List all monsters ever published for D&D up to and including AD&D (in TSR products and...

So in a nutshell, "Yes". Multiclassing in AD&D is not additive with HD. Your HD is the same as your highest class level. You don't...

Quite a few of the later 1e modules also give xp values right in the monster stats, and I also use those when they're given. I'll math...

For that, for the 100 regulars I'd just take a rough average of their hit points (let's say it's 8 each and they're 2 HD) and calculate...

I mean, how old is the Elf NPC? Their "youth" might have been AGES ago so ya, this tracks. As DM I'll allow it.

Harry Potter and various other Quidditch players would beg to disagree.

IME the immediate and obvious risk of having variable pricing on magic items is that the players, in character as their PCs, will see...

I still don't think encounter balancing through math is necessary.