Knights & Knaves Alehouse

A wand for combat.

Save the spells for exploration abilities. A well used clairvoyance or wizard eye is better than the measly fireball or two one can memorize--especially when a wand can store 99 fireballs.

Take away rolling for damage. For every point on the d20 you hit over your enemy's AC you do 1 point of damage. An orc which hits AC 2 on a 17, 18, 19 can do 1, 2, or 3 points of damage to one so armored. A 4th level fighter with a 15 str and +2 sword attacking AC 2 dragon does between 1-8 points of...

I Enjoy reading both of your write ups lord Cialis. Allow me still to play devils advocate. (this should have been said in the HARD encounter as well, as many people seemed unsure on the rules of starting encounters) The hill giant will become aware of the PCs Indoors when they get between 2-8" unle...

Only the winner of initiative can attempt to parlay, if the giant wins initiative the party may face combat unprepared and short a PC. Given that the PCs are aware of the giant in advance but the giant is not necessarily aware of the PCs' approach, and the stated position of the giant when encounte...

Only the winner of initiative can attempt to parlay, if the giant wins initiative the party may face combat unprepared and short a PC.

Heroes are considered 'certain well-known knights, leaders of army contingents, and similar men' (30 Chnml). Heroes receive the same modifier (+1) on attack dice as a leader (equivalent of a 1st lvl. fighter, veteran fighting man in AD&D). They dice as four figures with a +1 modifier. I'm not sure ...

Fact is axemetal, when gygax created the magic user and the fighter they were roughly of equal power, the official move to the d20 attack matrix--which only took place with the publication of 1e left the fighter weakened in comparison to the magic user. His first attempt at rectifying this was excep...

Well, I don't want to belabor the point but Wargaming is still a part of ad&d (battle system Helooo. Anyone read the OSRIC/DMG section of wilderness and barony sections? ) I would certainly think it appropriate to question wether a wizard unit is vastly over powered to a fighter. Not everyone relega...

Well, technically the first real proto-d&d campaign was actually pitted player vs. Player fighting over blackmoor castle so...

The fighter could probably stand to start with THAC0 19 or something (sucks that the average orc has a better THAC0 than a first level fighter) Since the 1st level fighter was classed as the veteren/leader from chainmail (+1 to dice)--someone else pointed this out recently, the +1 most assuredly wa...

I like the mule abides variant of Austin Jim's rule where the defender makes an attack against each attacker and those he scores hits against are thrown back and do not count on the xd6 opposed roll. Especially in light of the idea of people trying to put their bare hands on someone swinging a sword...

I would like to talk about what I consider to be the "double dipping" of Thac0 and multiple attacks vs. 0-level foes. http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6720/attackl.png This is a great explanation of the attack matrices. To understand how "ferocity, speed, and weaponry" were represented before this...

Hmm. So technically not a rule found in the LLB, although clearly derived.

Resting 1 turn for every 6 of exploration
Resting 2 turns after flight/chase

Ok, the above two I find.

Where does the rule for resting 1 turn after combat appear? Or am I imagining its exsistance?

What's his name over at LoTFP I think talked about this once. His idea to include monsters was that each monster was unique. There is only one troll, the goblin of shadow Forrest is a singular creature the elven lady of the lake is the only elf, etc. Very brothers Grimm/fairytale. X-files in a fanta...