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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Farquhar" data-source="post: 8366182" data-attributes="member: 6906155">However you think modules should be written now, this certainly wasn't part of module design back when D1 was written. Back then is was considered perfectly reasonable for the PCs to blunder into an overwhelming challenge and all die.Gygax wrote it from &quot;this I how many troglodytes I think would inhabit the area&quot;. His modules where never written guessing what the PCs would do in any particular circumstance.&nbsp; Love it or hate it, you see it in every module he wrote. The only exception being Tomb of Horrors, where he tried to guess what the players would do and then punish them for it.Because of the pace of 5e, I would say it would be pretty much impossible* to run D1 with 5e rules without making significant changes. You might try treating squads of troglodytes as an enormous swarm.*or at least vey unfun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Paul Farquhar, post: 8366182, member: 6906155"] However you think modules should be written [I]now[/I], this certainly wasn't part of module design back when D1 was written. Back then is was considered perfectly reasonable for the PCs to blunder into an overwhelming challenge and all die. Gygax wrote it from "this I how many troglodytes I think would inhabit the area". [I]His[/I] modules where never written guessing what the PCs would do in any particular circumstance. Love it or hate it, you see it in every module he wrote. The only exception being [I]Tomb of Horrors[/I], where he tried to guess what the players would do and then punish them for it. Because of the pace of 5e, I would say it would be pretty much impossible* to run D1 with 5e rules without making significant changes. You might try treating squads of troglodytes as an enormous swarm. *or at least vey unfun. [/QUOTE]

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