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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 4967267" data-attributes="member: 360">Except that said monsters are a large majority of those woth enough XP that you don't need to kill them in job lots to advance beyond low levels (without copious amounts of arbitrary role-playing XP). Using a monster that requires a +x weapon to hit when PCs expected to fight with weapons do not have +x weapons is either creating an encounter where you expect the PCs to run away, an encounter where you expect the PCs to die, or an encounter where you expect the fighters and thieves to sit back and watch the wizard kill the monster. The last type of encounter might be quite common in mid-level and higher AD&D, but I don't think it's all that fun for the non-wizard players. And the first two might be okay as a change-up (especially if you want to send the PCs on a side trek where they get a +x weapon), but not as a regular event.</blockquote>