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<blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 9065670" data-attributes="member: 3570">Hello, I know that most who play OD&amp;D simply use the &quot;Alternative Combat Method&quot; that syncs up with pretty much every version of D&amp;D/AD&amp;D up until 3E but I've been reading through both the OD&amp;D and Chainmail rules and have been trying to wrap my head around the idea of going full Chainmail for combat as referenced by Book I Men &amp; Magic.&nbsp; What I'm wondering is how the game expects players and referees to adjudicate combat with monsters that were not listed in the Chainmail &quot;Fantasy Combat Table.&quot;&nbsp; For PC's M&amp;M gives a &quot;Fighting Capability&quot; Chainmail equivalent for each class and level so we know where they stack on the Fantasy Combat Table.&nbsp; But where does say a Beholder or a Purple Worm fit in?&nbsp; I've combed through the books and Reference Sheets to see if there's a chart listing the Chainmail Fighting Capability of all the new monsters but so far haven't found anything.&nbsp; Does such a chart exist or is that one of the many things that Gygax &amp; Arneson assumed that each gaming group would simply write up their own rules for?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kai Lord, post: 9065670, member: 3570"] Hello, I know that most who play OD&D simply use the "Alternative Combat Method" that syncs up with pretty much every version of D&D/AD&D up until 3E but I've been reading through both the OD&D and Chainmail rules and have been trying to wrap my head around the idea of going full Chainmail for combat as referenced by Book I Men & Magic. What I'm wondering is how the game expects players and referees to adjudicate combat with monsters that were [I]not[/I] listed in the Chainmail "Fantasy Combat Table." For PC's M&M gives a "Fighting Capability" Chainmail equivalent for each class and level so we know where they stack on the Fantasy Combat Table. But where does say a Beholder or a Purple Worm fit in? I've combed through the books and Reference Sheets to see if there's a chart listing the Chainmail Fighting Capability of all the new monsters but so far haven't found anything. Does such a chart exist or is that one of the many things that Gygax & Arneson assumed that each gaming group would simply write up their own rules for? [/QUOTE]

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