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<blockquote data-quote="PapersAndPaychecks" data-source="post: 5157253" data-attributes="member: 28854">Yes, this.1e adventures are organised into dungeon maps, encounter keys, and wandering monster rosters.&nbsp; They have fiendish puzzles designed to test the player's intelligence (and not the character's intelligence score).&nbsp; Monsters are thrown in according to the challenge they present to incoming player characters, regardless of the likelihood that so many large carnivores so close to each other would turn into one carnivore and a pile of bones within a week or so.&nbsp; In 1e, it's perfectly normal to go through entire series of modules without ever meeting anything you're supposed to talk to.2e adventures are organised into chapters, and they included subheadings like &quot;If the party loses the fight...&quot; followed by various agonised suggestions about how to force the adventure back onto its predetermined track if the three orcs somehow manage to defeat the party of 6th level characters.&nbsp; (1e does not have such sections.&nbsp; If the party loses the fight, then the DM grins evilly as he collects the character sheets and then crushes them beneath his sandalled feet, and hears the lamentation of their henchmen.)&nbsp; In 2e, monsters are placed according to their newly-added ecology sections in the Monstrous Manual, they live in smaller dungeons with fresh water and adequate toilet facilities, and they aren't allowed to use traps unless the player character gets a saving throw at +4.&nbsp; (Otherwise someone might fail and kill someone's precious character, which means the module author has to write a subheading called &quot;If the trap kills anyone....&quot;)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PapersAndPaychecks, post: 5157253, member: 28854"] Yes, this. 1e adventures are organised into dungeon maps, encounter keys, and wandering monster rosters. They have fiendish puzzles designed to test the player's intelligence (and not the character's intelligence score). Monsters are thrown in according to the challenge they present to incoming player characters, regardless of the likelihood that so many large carnivores so close to each other would turn into one carnivore and a pile of bones within a week or so. In 1e, it's perfectly normal to go through entire series of modules without ever meeting anything you're supposed to talk to. 2e adventures are organised into chapters, and they included subheadings like "If the party loses the fight..." followed by various agonised suggestions about how to force the adventure back onto its predetermined track if the three orcs somehow manage to defeat the party of 6th level characters. (1e does not have such sections. If the party loses the fight, then the DM grins evilly as he collects the character sheets and then crushes them beneath his sandalled feet, and hears the lamentation of their henchmen.) In 2e, monsters are placed according to their newly-added ecology sections in the Monstrous Manual, they live in smaller dungeons with fresh water and adequate toilet facilities, and they aren't allowed to use traps unless the player character gets a saving throw at +4. (Otherwise someone might fail and kill someone's precious character, which means the module author has to write a subheading called "If the trap kills anyone....") [/QUOTE]

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