Quick update

Just resting

Sorry for the delay; for money projects A and B have kept me very busy.  I’ve started working on a pool of posts so I can draw from those in the down periods (like now).  Daily updates aren’t possible currently (not that anyone seems to be keeping a close eye of this blog, as most visitors tend to be looking for info on gar, Village of the Damned (I should have used a different picture), or scimitars), but I’ll try to do a few per week.  We’re getting close to Magic Items, something I fear I may have to break into sub pages as if I can blather about aerial combat, I sure can rant about magic items.

Another weird search: ICMB blueprints (who is looking to build those?)

Page 79: Saving! Throws!

Now this is a page I used often.

Not for the Psionic Combat Notes though.  Since Psionic Blast attacks require you to know the WIS of the target, we get some examples of what the average WIS of monsters are.  This might explain why humanoids attack adventurers in wave after small wave until they’ve all died.   Goblins have a WIS score between 2-8.  Xorn (I know you were curious) have a WIS of 3-12.  A succubus has 2d6+6, making them possibly wiser than most Clerics… now if they could just figure out how to get dressed.

Now the good stuff: V. I. SAVING THROW MATRIX FOR CHARACTERS AND HUMAN TYPES

There are five categories of possible ’saves’-

1. Paralyzation, Poison, or Death Magic (All involve some sort of attempt to change a biological condiction?)

2. Petrification or Polymorph (Transformation)

3. Rod, Staff, or Wand (A ray attack, presumably you avoid it with a dodge?  Also, if anyone ever wants to open a gay bar catering to gamers, I call dibs on this as a name.)

4. Breath Weapon (Dragons only?  Perhaps this represents you ability to dive and stay down, though this makes no sense for Green Dragons.)

5. Spells (Now that is a catch-all.)

There isn’t much rhyme or reason and there are lots of things that make sense in multiple categories- does a gorgon’s attack count as Breath Weapon or Petrification?  No idea where this system came from, my guess would be ad hoc.

Another advantage of the multi-classes shows up here- you use the lowest save from any of your classes.  Fighter/Magic-Users are in real luck, again.

Here’s another tidbit I missed back in the proverbial ‘day’; “A roll of 1 is always failure, regardless or magical protections, spells, or any other reasons which indicate to the contrary.”  I guess that’s why monsters have Magic Resistance.

The page concludes with a bit on monster saves (i.e. V.II. SAVING THROWS FOR MONSTERS).  In this sytem hit dice count as experience levels.  Most monsters save as fighters other than those the abilities of other classes (how many monsters can’t climb walls?), which get the lowest value depending on what abilities they have.  Monsters without offensive capability save as the class closest to their powers (no guidelines here).  The only exception are unintelligent monsters who save at 1/2 their HD, save for poison and death magic, which are normal.

Marks and writing: Pencil  underlining of the saving throws for 11-15 level Magic-Users; a few stray marks on the page.

Fun with search terms

Someone found this blog searching for “reincarnation as a badger”

AD&D druid?  Hindu University Wisconsin student?

(yes, I’ll get back to posting soon.   Sorry for the long pause, again.)