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Sounds like Moonglimmer and Susanna have reasons to stay for maybe one more night. We can always try reading the runes/spell tomorrow. We would be safe if we stayed in town at least. But we would have to write all this down so as not to forget what we have to do under the influence of the fey magic...

[posted at https://smolderingwizard.com/2020/09/11/labyrinth-lord-oec-house-rules/] I mentioned starting a Labyrinth Lord Original Edition Characters (OEC) campaign recently, and having created some house rules. I tried to keep them as minimal as possible, my main goal was to slightly increase the p...

"Torus, what can you tell us about these runes or how this stone works?" Erwin asks.

Erwin examines the stone alongside Fungo and also takes a look at the area around it for any tracks or clues to how the stone might work.

"Yes, to the stone!" Erwin says

That's one of those monsters that it makes sense to give multiple attacks to (like the hydra). A 15HD crab is really big, for comparison the original cloud giant was described as 20' tall and had 12+2 HD, and did 3d6 damage with thrown boulders. On the other hand, Greyhawk lists the giant crab as do...

Yes, but I do not allow Elves to cast spells in non-magical armor (actually I make an exception for Elvish chain). So at level 1/1 the only real choice they have is whether or not to wear armor. They can still use a longsword or bow, for example.

Well FMAG was never meant to be an exact OD&D clone. Also the OD&D attack tables do suffer from being discontinuous, by that I mean the jumps in attack ability don't happen at each level, but every 3, 4 or 5 levels. Not everyone likes this, and most clones try to fix this by offering a smoother prog...

Elves may use either the Fighter or Magic-User class advancement charts, to be announced at the start of an adventure. They are typically allowed to progress to 4th level as Fighters and 8th level as Magic-Users. So is this at the start of a whole adventure or campaign or simply at the start of a s...

I don't have a link to the OD&D books, but you can buy the OD&D PDFs from DTRPG (or search for PDFs online, they are not hard to find). Here is an image from my copies: