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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8547639" data-attributes="member: 29398">They charged, yelling, across some open ground, a couple of rounds worth if memory serves; the Hill Giant was neither deaf nor blind and thus wasn't surprised.  He didn't have anything like a boulder close to hand to throw and had to find one, thus only got one throw in before anyone got to him.But these were squishy 1st-level characters, and unlike 1e I give monsters their strength bonus to damage.I forget the specifics now, other than when it realized it was losing the Giant - aided by a blown morale check - tried to cut and run; this would have worked out for it had the party not got lucky on some missile fire, slowing it down enough that they could catch it and finish it off (and one of the deaths came during this finish-off part).As an editorial comment, though - this is something I very much like about 1e: the flatter power curve that allows something big to be beatable by a lucky low-level group yet still present a real threat to an unlucky high-level group.</blockquote>