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Just another thought - in a game like LL that has the advancement charts go up to 20th level, I'd use the full AD&D 1e backstab multipliers, to include x5 damage at levels 13+.

Good question! I had to double-check the AEC as well, because I thought the increasing AD&D 1e backstab multipliers were there - but they are not. I'm not sure why there was never an increasing backstab multiplier in B/X or clones, but I'd just use the ones you posted, as they match 0e and 1e pretty...

Erwin moves in between the Hobgoblin and Fungo. "Open the cage, now is your chance!" he whispers to the Hobbit.

Erwin leaps over the table and charges at the Hobgoblin holding Fungo. He attempts to jab the Hobgoblin in the nose with his staff so he will let go of the Hobbit.

"They are going to execute him! We need a distraction..." Erwin whispers to Otis.

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Thu Oct 22, 2020 12:54 am

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Wed Oct 21, 2020 11:54 pm

... Sometimes it takes a while to cook up a good TPK.

You need to play more games run by Doug...

I resemble that remark!

Welcome back Steve!

Seeing Moonglimmer engaged with the noble, Otis turns to Erwin and says "I'm not liking this. And seeing that dwarf in that cage has got my gander up. I'm gettin' ready to go ask this King fella why we're here, and why he's got that guy in the cage. And if that runt Claudius is there, I might stab ...

"What a fine blade you have there, master noble, thank you for showing it to me!" Erwin says loudly enough for the King and Queen and everyone else to hear. He grips his staff with one hand and the table edge with his other, lifting the table slightly but enough that his companions notice. He'll fl...

"My friend -" Erwin nods at Otis "- has anger management issues, but that does not make him wrong," Erwin says to the noble. "We are new here, perhaps you should forgive our lack of decorum and go on your way, for we are not as helpless as we seem."