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The -2 matches up to the two weapon fighting penalty for the offhand weapon of someone with Lareth's 17 dex. 1e DMG page 70: "Attacks...

Sounds like you are agreeing with Johnstone Metzger and the game that requiring merely one half makes sense to you (the "you must fight"...

Because being an adventurer is super dangerous and part of the setting is the assumption that people wouldn't do it if they didn't have...

A few sentences usually do it for me, though I have done three paragraphs when the feeling strikes me.

I think backstories for level 1 characters can be fine, so long as the players realize they're writing backstories for level 1...

I've done the backstory thing, and I like them but want them to be at best a paragraph. My problem is not any one backstory - it's...

For me, the issue of backstories depends. In a typical game of D&D/Pathfinder or similar games where you start out at 1st or 3rd level...

I have loved doing that to my players. Their characters get one public win, and then suddenly everyone is asking them to do stuff wildly...

Here's an excerpt from the room description in my version (the T1-4 compilation, product no. 9147):

This is one of the things I learned to appreciate about the racial classes from B/X. Elves, Dwarves, and Halflings have a few minimum...

My theoretical preference is for the PC and NPC rules to work similarly ar at least very closely so. I however understand that this is...

For the record, even in the TSR editions PCs were always special. The difference we're talking about is in degree more than in kind. A...

IIRC a lot of sample NPCs in AD&D had monstrous stats. I don't remember the module specifying for sure that he dual-wields, though some...