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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4968370" data-attributes="member: 80487">Hussar: Your characters can venture, or be transported by trick or trap, from the first dungeon level to the second -- regardless of whether they possess magical weapons. The tables allow the possibility of encountering a gargoyle (maybe after meeting a rust monster) on that level. It is not the DM's job to hold your hand and keep you safe! It is the DM's job to provide a challenging and interesting environment to negotiate.The table in the original set for incidental, random treasures yields magic 5% of the time at dungeon levels 1-3, going to 10% for 4-5, and so on up to 30% for the 13th level and deeper. "Naturally, the more important [not randomly distributed] treasures will consist of various magical items and large amounts of wealth in the form of gems and jewelry." There is no radical departure from these assumptions in AD&D.It's typical Hussar rhetoric to make a leap of illogic from the observation that players, with luck and skill, quite often can equip themselves with magical swords -- to the conclusion that there is "an assumption that you would have a number of magic weapons", it being incumbent upon the DM to ensure such an outcome.If you use the method in DMG Appendix P for generating a high-level party on the spur of the moment, then any character of 10th level or higher other than a cleric or monk will certainly have a magic dagger. Some other items may be assured as well, if the player chooses to "try for" them, and even have a chance of being better than +1.That's an arbitrary convenience for "one-off" play at conventions, or otherwise when players lack characters of appropriate level (or don't want to use their own to tackle, say, the Tomb of Horrors).There is nothing at all in Gygaxian D&D to keep a Dungeon Master from putting nasty monsters in the game-world! The players, not the DM, choose their characters' courses apart from occasional impositions of events beyond their control*. They are no more guaranteed perfect preparedness to overcome whatever problem  the environment poses than the DM is guaranteed perfect foreknowledge about their paths through it.*(most of which of course could have been avoided by different choices on the players' part -- but as a practical matter choices are not, and cannot, always be fully informed)</blockquote>

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