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I have a different take on this. In my games I use a Massive Damage Threshold = Con + (Hit Dice/2) [See Unearthed Arcana]. When a character takes massive damage, he/she must pass a Fort save to avoid a crippling injury. If THAT fails, he/she must pass an additional Fort save to avoid death...

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Sorry you're insulted. I believe I made three statements: (A) Most people agree that experts are experts. If that weren't true, why would anyone bother jumping through all the hoops that are required to achieve distinction? (B) Tolkien is a poor choice for a formal literature class...

I seem to recall the logic being something like this: Big monsters are killable, because some weapons do more damage against them. The same weapons don't do more damage all the time, because that would make low-level (or 0-level) npc-types too fragile. I don't think it makes much sense... but...

Enkhidu. Ah, now you're stirring the pot. The process of placing different authors on their correct tier is difficult at best. Fundamentally, however, it is a decision based on instinct and reverence for literary tradition. Taste enters into it, of course, but sadly personal taste is often the...

Well, I wouldn't normally comment on a topic this arbitrary, but the suggestion of teaching LOTR in high school seems patently absurd. In my experience, the one great shortcoming of our educational system is reductionist thought. Shakespeare and Milton are too difficult, we should read Tolkien...

1st ed. did use THACo. Check the DMG monster appendix. It has THAC0 values for every creature.

Well, it's probably more trouble than it's worth, but you could just use the multiplicative property of probabilities. For example, if a character has a 50% of success on a Spot check (Spot +5, DC 15) and he needed to make 5 spot checks, his chance of succeeding on ALL of them would be: 50% ^...

The posters above are right about the rules, but the rules are pretty silly. The average tiger (STR 23) weighs around 500 lbs. According to the rules, 1 tiger could carry another tiger on his back + an extra 100 pounds and still only be lightly encumbered.