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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vyvyan Basterd" data-source="post: 4841725" data-attributes="member: 4892"><p>Yes. As much as I loved AD&D, the rules were slapdash at best. The example that sticks in my mind involved a player pulling an animal fom his bag of tricks and getting a boar. I cracked open the Monster Manual to boar so we could continue. The party was in the jungle and currently fighting snakes. The boar got bit by one of the smaller snakes and I asked the player to roll the boar's saving throw against the snake's poison. He tells me that the boar doesn't have to make the save. I scan the MM entry to make sure I didn't miss something and tell the lpayer to make the save again. No, the DMG p.XXX says the boar doesn't need to make the save. Sure enough, on the page the player quoted from memory, there was a random parargraph with its own heading buried amongst other non-related topics about animals with tough hides (the paragraph uses the boar as its example) not having to make saves against poison bite attacks. Why wasn't this in the MM entry for the boar?</p></blockquote><p></p>