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Message: <blockquote data-quote="riprock" data-source="post: 2970306" data-attributes="member: 42506">Back when my notions of "reasonable challenge" were set by a Monty Haul DM who would run his brothers and myself through ultra-high-level dungeons, disintegrating everything merrily, I had the notion that AD&D was supposed to be *won*, and that with enough preparation, it *could* be won.  (In my defense, I was younger and more foolish than I am now.)Which meant that A1, A2, and A3 were slaughters.  We not only killed all the monsters that were listed, we killed all the *other* monsters who wandered in.  And we killed monsters on the way to the dungeon, and on the way back.  Our DM was convinced that the bulk of experience should come from battle, and I adopted that attitude for many years.By the time we reached the ending of A3, it made no sense to be use the tournament ending, so it was just another slaughter.  I distinctly recall using A4, but I think the DM was just using it as a sourcebook and pulling out monsters and treasures.</blockquote>