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I'll tell my DM!

But… I. WANT. TO. KNOW. So lets try and build on the notion of not adding up a gazillion special defenses. Let’s assume that “impervious to fire” and its variants actually only have meaning as far as “magically generated” fire is concerned (e.g., fireball, red dragon breath, and their variants)...

Well, in my defense, I'm not really trying to make a coherent system for awarding monster xp in 1E. Well, I am, but that's another story. What I'm trying to do, is find out "what they were thinking when they made Appendix E." And, despite what I've written so far, I'm actually slowly getting...

The hydra is, indeed, a bit of an interesting thing. I haven't really looked into it, yet, but the way I see it, it has 1 HD per head, for a grand total of 5 HD for a five-headed hydra. Since each head has 8 hp, the hydra has 40 hp in this case. And since it is only killed once all heads are...

Doing EAXPAs is not so easy any more, or: Let’s try something else for a bit Apart from the fact that trying to making sense of Appendix E has led to a list of “unknowns” that is getting way too long, there’s also the “still to do list”, which is… way too long. And since I’ve sort of run out of...

That is a curious thing indeed. I've been trying to think of the SAXPB versions of all EAXPAs--and failed. Certainly--though it's complicated, as will become clear later. Yeah, I also sort of recall the "extra level for triple classes", but I can't find it anymore for the life me. Oh, well.

Duergar & Daemons Part XIX: The Red Cave In which the DM informs our noble heroes that the tunnel that took them to the priest’s sanctuary did not go down but up and Sir Suvali announces that he has brought his character sheet up to date, that he can now also cast Continual Light and Enlarge...

Ah, yes, NPC parties, or, to quote DMG, p. 21: “Men are the worst monsters”. Challenge-wise, the xp values of NPC parties can definitely seem to be on the low side. But I’d say that is more a matter of “feel” and how each DM wants to award his PCs, for the xp values of each won't differ that...

Yup, DMG, p. 85 says so, with: "*Treat peasants/levies as up to 1-1, men-at-arms as 1-1 to 1, and all levels as the n+1 hit dice category." But I've always taken that to mean that, say, a 4th-level fighter NPC should be treated as the "4+1 hit dice" category for xp purposes. If that is true, it...