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  1. ilgatto

    AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?

    -has been reading the Dragonsfoot files- Oh dear. Seem to have dug myself into a very, very deep hole there. Still, having a good--and much needed--ROFLMAO (2 SAXPBs for the dolphin!; and the mule takes the cake, so far) with "dismembering the monster manual" (by Algolei). Does lift the...
  2. ilgatto

    AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?

    In my defense, I was quoting Gygax! B-)
  3. ilgatto

    AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?

    Thanks million for all of this! Heh, here I was cooking up my spreadsheet and just knowing that I wasn't the first to make one -- and yet unable to find any others. Never really got to get to grips with searching Dragonsfoot and all that. And now there's suddenly at least three of them that look...
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    AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?

    Agreed. The giant centipede example is excellent, for it seems that EGG (or whoever made the xp table) seems to have forgotten the rule that "If an otherwise weak creature has on extraordinary power, multiply the award by 2, 4, 8, or even 10 or more.", even though this was printed right above...
  5. ilgatto

    AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?

    I'm afraid I'm rather looking for the "official rulings", if any. But thanks anyway! :cool:
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    AD&D 1E XP Value for Monsters?

    Esteemed friends, I've been trying to make sense of the XP values for monsters, recording their SAXPBs and EAXPAs and then using the table "Experience Level or Monster's Hit Dice" on p. 85 of the DMG to come up with a number. Unsurprisingly, these numbers deviate from those given in Appendix E...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9 Nov 2025]

    Duergar & Daemons Part XV: Savants & Dragons – Continued The door opens and our noble heroes and Sir Eber’s slaves enter a large hall, all of eighty feet wide and thirty deep, with several doors in it – the double doors to their right, a smaller one to their left, and two sets of double doors...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9 Nov 2025]

    Duergar & Daemons Part XV: Savants & Dragons Night 138, continued: And so it is left to the chevalier to do the scouting himself. He advances to the intersection as stealthily as he can and has a peek around the corner to his right, to find himself staring into yet another dark passage, hewn...
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    Tomb of the Lizard King - your experiences?

    Wow, talk about blast from the past. TSR dungeons were hard to come by back then, and I2 must have been the second relatively high-level "official" dungeon we did. And so our "high-level characters" had all been made experimenting with the random dungeon tables in the DMG1--where the dice...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9 Nov 2025]

    Duergar & Daemons Part XIV: Den of Thieves Night 137, continued: But now it is the chevalier’s turn to be the voice of reason. “Certainly, mon cher,” he says. “But we must know what awaits us up there. Rodlu? Enlighten us, if you please!” “Poison bolts,” Rodlu says, pointing to Navarre’s pack...
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    Describe your last rpg session in 5 words

    Favorite thief killed by Groorg.
  12. ilgatto

    David Lynch: RIP and Ranked (A Celebration)

    P.S.: Mille excuses for the auto-play follow-up.
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9 Nov 2025]

    Duergar & Daemons Part XIII: Revenge of the Raiders In which the DM informs our noble heroes that it takes them two days to get from Low-Ball to the city of the copper dwarves; and that Sir Eber’s slaves continue to recover from the drugs – their hair is growing, they mutter to each other from...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9 Nov 2025]

    Duergar & Daemons Part XII: (To the) City of Copper In which the DM informs our noble heroes that it is Day 122; that it is some twenty-two days from Ball to the Red Cave; and that the chevalier’s preparations for the ‘winter campaign’ will be completed on Day 226, about a hundred days from...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9 Nov 2025]

    Duergar & Daemons Part XI: Back and Forth Night 103, continued: An hour later, around seven o’clock in the morning on the surface and thus at the end of the day in the Underdark, our noble heroes reach “The Single Man” again. They knock on the door, which opens forthwith, and they are ushered...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9 Nov 2025]

    Duergar & Daemons Part X: The Single Man In which our noble heroes start the session engaged in conversation on what to do next, but not before the chevalier has been pestering Navarre for at least half of the profits of the trade deal he didn’t negotiate. “I am considering my uncle Alphonse to...
  17. ilgatto

    TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e?

    Bah! I saw the name of the original thread a couple of months ago and I've been mulling about that question ever since until the answer suddenly hit me today. And now you tell me this? Not really a question? Sarcasm!? But you shall have my answer anyway! Probably fits better in here anyway.
  18. ilgatto

    White Dwarf Reflections #27

    Spitting images they are. The WD spikehead has no poisonous bite, though. And I don't have access to UO#3 (gnash, gnash), so I don't know whether that version has the poisonous bite--which may then have been edited out by WD for reasons. Still, green man, white ape, wirrn, they're all based on...
  19. ilgatto

    White Dwarf Reflections #27

    There was a spikehead in Underworld Oracle #3--big ape, horn on head. While that doesn't necessarily make its author "Underworld Oracle" (as per the Fiend Folio index), it seems likely. Cool! Didn't know about the Dr. Who link.
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9 Nov 2025]

    Duergar & Daemons Part IX: The Kingslayer In which the chevalier announces that he has changed his mind and wants our noble heroes to buy chain mail from the duergar queen instead of plate armor; the DM informs our noble heroes that their elders do take them more seriously now than they did...
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