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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2013 11:10:05 GMT -6
Great article. It seems to me that three columns in the monsters description: No. Appearing, % in Lair, and Treasure Type, only apply to outdoor encounter. I read the "used primarily only for out-door encounters" passage on M&M pg 4 to refer to the No. Appearing column itself rather than the process of adjusting the number based on party size.
Do we know who came up with the Treasure Types? Arneson doesn't use anything like it in his Adventures in Fantasy.
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Post by aldarron on Aug 26, 2013 18:20:11 GMT -6
Thanks Much.  It seems to me that three columns in the monsters description: No. Appearing, % in Lair, and Treasure Type, only apply to outdoor encounter. I read the "used primarily only for out-door encounters" passage on M&M pg 4 to refer to the No. Appearing column itself rather than the process of adjusting the number based on party size. As I mentioned in the article, the draft of D&D (BTPbD) has all those stats but says nothing about restricting them to outdoor encounters, so, at least in this earlier version, D&D was not so restricted. There's also the fact that a fair few of the monsters with those stats are not commonly found "outdoors" or otherwise inhabiting anything other than dungeons. A few other points were mentioned in the article, but I'll agree to disagree if you feel strongly of your convictions. Do we know who came up with the Treasure Types? Arneson doesn't use anything like it in his Adventures in Fantasy. Not sure myself, but my guess would be Gygax reworked something Arneson sent him. The FFC does have a Treasure Type of a sort. The magic swords are labelled A through R and several are keyed into the Blackmoor dungeon this way. That may have been the germ of the idea. I dunno. |
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Post by Falconer on Aug 27, 2013 11:22:44 GMT -6
Where is the article?
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Post by funkaoshi on Aug 27, 2013 13:14:16 GMT -6
It was a bonus for people who backed the Champions of Zed kickstarter.
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