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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ryryguy" data-source="post: 4356819" data-attributes="member: 64945">tangentThis just reminds me of the first time we tried to play D&D, using the blue dragon cover edition.  Nowhere was it stated exactly what "Hit Dice" meant, or at least no place that we could find.  So we decided that "Hit Dice" was the same as "Hit Points", and our first level party defeated a purple worm in its first fight. The purple worm did not go down easy though, IIRC the fighter missed the save against its poison tail and died. My friend asked his friends who had played before and they explained you had to roll a d8 per hit die for monsters' hit points.  I think we weren't the only ones who were confused too... IIRC a later printing of the book said something like "Monster hit dice are d8s!" in bold face at the top of the monster section.</blockquote>