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This sounds like a 400 XP encounter, assuming three zombies, so it's a medium difficulty encounter and well within the daily budget for a party of four 3rd-level characters. Depending on how fresh they are, they should be fine.

Yes, moving out is allowed. Conceptually, moving through a space is entering that space, so entering a space with difficult terrain costs two spaces of speed whereas entering a normal space only costs one.

My feeling about the class and level limitations, which go back to OD&D, is they're intended to promote a narrative in which demihumans are in a supportive role as avuncular tutors and helpers to humans who are the main heroes. Gimli and Legolas to Aragorn being an example from fiction. Beleg to...

Narrating the effects of PC failure is something I enjoy doing when I DM. However, I don't try for a farcical tone in my games. For ability checks, a failure result is going to follow from the established fiction which has put something at stake leading up to the roll. For failed attack rolls, I...

Khaled Nabhan, the Palestinian grandfather whose story was shared with millions around the world last November after Israel murdered his grandchildren, was killed early this morning by a strike on the Nuseirat camp.

Powergaming is just a technique your players are using to make their characters and themselves more effective in what's seen as a competitive arena (the game). It can lead to dysfunction if everyone isn't on board. If that's not what you're into, tell your players you want a game that's more...

I'm not sure what you mean by "metaphysically valid", so I'm not sure if my response would count as refusing the premise, but I think it would be valid or reasonable, even justified, for the muscular neutrals to not believe/trust/have faith that "good" will result from the triumph of good and...

The DMG, p 30, under "Mercenary Soldier:", states, "regular soldiers are 0 level men-at-arms with 4-7 hit points each." This subsumes any Constitution bonus to hit points (the range for normal men being 1-6 hp), so you don't need Constitution scores for these characters and can simply assign an...

Palestinian orthopedic surgeon Dr. Saeed Jouda has died after he was shot by an Israeli sniper in northern Gaza.

When I read Chainmail, from which many of the magic-user and some of the fighter level titles derive, I realized their significance is they denote a type of figure that encompasses certain fighting and or spellcasting capabilities on the battlefield. For instance, your 11th-level magic-user is...

I like how they left it open for a sequel at the end.

Another thought, in this version, Gandalf lives in a tower and is looking for the One Ring. It seems like they had decided to conflate him with Saruman.

This might have been the prequel to the Beatles LotR.

Nikki Giovanni, one of the most celebrated poets in the United States, has died of cancer at the age of 81.

The OP seems to have skipped over the apparent use of five-point alignment (with the very few exceptions which use parentheticals) in the Monster Manual (1977). This would seem to complicate the idea of the SR article as a straight forward presentation of nine-point alignment.

I played Holmes Basic and AD&D 1E in the early 80's. I continued playing a few non-D&D RPGs from the mid 80's to the late 90's (Villains and Vigilantes and MERP are the ones I remember by name), but by the end of the 20th century, I'd completely stopped RPGing for a while. I wasn't drawn back...

"Missed me, you overgrown tin can," Bible taunts before striking again at the armored giant. Waythe: 1D20+11 = [10]+11 = 21 Slashing damage: 4D6+1D4+7 = [2, 1, 1, 3]+[4]+7 = 18 Waythe: 1D20+11 = [18]+11 = 29 Slashing damage: 4D6+1D4+7 = [5, 3, 1, 2]+[1]+7 = 19 One hit point to go! The...

I think "Tea Bag Duck" has a nice ring to it. As for a title for the whole thing, maybe something like "The Mystery of the Cult of the Golden Eye"?

My personal version of the "Grand Campaign" would be to play the following, which works out to about one module per level: T1 B1-2 A1-2-3-4 G1-2-3 D1-2-3 Q1 (I'm not going to suggest an acronym :).) After level 14, I suppose we could actually go after the Elder Elemental God.