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That one attack per fighter level wouldn't apply to 1e orcs. They had 1 HD. The fighter ability only applied to creatures with less than 1 HD (e.g., kobolds).

Using WotC's monster design rules, you could increase the ogre's hp before it's CR bumped up. And "reflex" is already factored into AC since it's an overall score of how well the character avoids being hit (through armor, speed, dodging, Dex, luck, whatever).

Same here, except we didn't take a 15 year break. Same world, some of the same players, since the mid 80s. Couple of characters retired and their offspring took up the mantle of adventuring. Some just retired and I now use them as NPCs. Players (old and new) have run different characters in...

True. A 12th-level magic-user only got like four 3rd-level spells in 1e. Fireball was obviously one of them since it's mentioned in the article. And if that group is like every other group I played with or DM'd in 1e and about every edition since, lightning bolt is another spell that m-u...

Cloudkill might've worked to take out some of them,depending how how spread out or not they were. But the M-U would have to be careful with that spell. Depending on his positioning, if he caught any party members in the cloud, they'd have to make a saving throw or die (since it says the party...

Tucker's kobolds approve of this. (Link in case any one doesn't know the epicness of said kobolds.... http://www.tuckerskobolds.com/ )

Agreed. On a side note, I converted the energy elementals to 5e and went with radiant damage (for the positive) and did away with the healing aspect. Original idea (IIRC) was from the 1e Manual of the Planes talking about how the Positive Plane itself kept adding hit points to travelers until...

That would be me (along with most everything else in the Tome series of books). Yeah, looking back at it, radiant damage would probably work a lot better for it than the way it's currently set up.

Only works if the elemental hits you with a slam attack or if it is killed and explodes. No DM (my opinion) is gonna allow a character to repeatedly summon a familiar and then either kill it or have it attack the summoner. Even if it's "legal" by the rules, I'd have the higher up positive...

Aces & Eights (also by Kenzer) uses this system. Each combatant rolls initiative. Modified by speed. Lower is better because the gamemaster starts the "count up" and when your count is reached, you can start to act. Say you roll and after modifying for Speed your count is 3. When the count...

Wouldn't the dragon's blindsight cancel any benefit the party hoped to gain from a heavily obscured area? Also dragon can just fly around and drop lightning on them as it pleases.

Defensive CR would be higher than 10. Legendary Resistance adds +90 to its effective Hit Points, bumping it to 290 effective HP (CR 15).

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We throw out minis for marching order and sometimes I use them just to mess with players to show them what they see, but that's about it. Theatre of the mind for 30+ years now.

My son is 6. I introduced him to DnD via 5e and he loves it. Keeping the adventures (at first) and character stuff simple seems to work. He doesn't care about politics or intrigue or any of that. He simply wants to gear his hero and go out and fight the bad guys. I started him with the intro...

Rather than introduce a new mechanic like "1d4 rounds", why not just use the Recharge mechanic? Does, basically the same thing.

Agreed. And yep, the original AD&D fang dragon drained hit points (but only if the attack roll was a 20 and if the victim failed a save vs. death magic). Lost hit points could be restored if enough cure spells were cast on the victim, but all within a number of rounds equal to the victim's Con...

Some of these, you can probably just reskin what's in the 5e MM and use as is. Like for example: * White Ape = use Ape (MM 317) and just say its fur is white (Both the Ape and the D&D White Ape attack with fists and rocks) * Rock Python = use Giant Constrictor Snake (MM 324); same premise...

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