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When a character reaches zero or lower hit points, instead of being out for a week regardless, the customer is out for 1d8-1 days. If the result is zero, then the adventurer could resume adventuring upon healing, and no spells would be lost.

Green slime causes damage equal to a flask of acid per round of contact.

Dragons are highly customized.

For multi-class or characters with two classes, the character uses the larger HD for the level gained. For example: a 1/1 level fighter/magic-user would use a d10 for hit points. A 4th level fighter/5th level magic-user would have the following HD: 1d10, 1d10, 1d10, 1d10, 1d4. If the character reaches a level in a class with a higher HD than a class he has already reached that level with, the HD is re-rolled with the new HD. The result will always be rounded up to the previous HD result if the new result is lower.

Spells with less than a round casting time will never carry over to the next round, regardless of the initiative result + casting time result. It is just at the end of the round.

For initiative, I use low result wins. Initiative result is the segment your action begins/occurs on. Except for movement, which will begin on the first segment of the round.

Monks get the listed AC for the level, or 10 modified by the Dex score. One or the other; they dont stack.

Cavaliers can start with any alignment.

Only clerics, druids, and paladins start out knowing an alignment language. Other characters can learn alignment languages, but teachers are hard to find, and you dont forget the old alignment language if you change alignment.

Lolth doesnt drive a big goofy mechanical spider.

The "Web" is a "dungeon level" of sorts. A demi-plane that can be reached from her plane in the Abyss, but not her plane.

Scott

BTW, I'm still waiting for you to start running my full practioner, white school, dweomercraefter and co.

Scott

I gave Obmi a dwarven thrower. That's about the only one I can think of.
That's when first encountered. Some of them end up regular fixtures in the campaign, and they evolve as time goes by. Burne played a big part in a campaign I ran some years ago. He adventured with a PCs a few years after they left Hommlet. The results are actually the basis for an adventure I may try to publish some day.

Scott

I haven't 'officially' incorporated it yet, but I have an idea I've been kicking around related to the Greyhawk Castle/Dungeons.
This was in response to some conflicting information on how recently Zagig disappeared, and the age of the ruins.
My idea is that Zagig didn't build them; he moved into them. He may have rebuilt the upper works, and expanded the dungeons, but they have been there for years.
When the Flan first moved into the area, a leader among them built a stronghold upon the mysterious ruins he discovered there. 1,000 years ago, a Suel wizard decied to move into the ruined and abandoned Flan stronghold (I was thinking of Merging Maur castle and the Greyhawk dungeons, and this may be the angle I use). Later, the first Landgraf of Selintan built his castle there. Most Recently, Zagyg moved into the place.
Throughout history, there have been individuals who have built their stronghold on the ruins, drawn by the reputation of the place. Some of them were killed or imprisoned while seeking adventuring in the dungeons. Others succeeded in acquiring so much power in the dungeons that they ascended to the ranks of the divine. Zagig was the most recent, and possibly the greatest to occupy the ruins since their original, and still unknown, builders.
Scott

I think it was Ernie that first mentioned to me that when Gary first started the campaign, Zagig had just disappeared a few years ago. The published campaign has the ruins being empty for some time. With the new CZ series, it seems to have shifted back to the earlier version where Zagyg may have just recently disappeared from the public eye.
The idea also helps explain encounters I can place in the deepest levels of the dungeon that predate any Zagig timeline.

Scott

While we're on 1E, I'd like some opinions.
"We loot the bodies."
I've heard it many times over the years. How thorough of a search does this assume?
I'm sure coins in pouches will be found. What about a phlactery worn on the arm under plate, or a magic belt, or a ring under a gauntlet? How specific do you make your plaers get?

Scott

You would allow a phladctery to be worn over plate, and have the magic function properly?

Scott

Is it necessary to assume that all D&D phylacteries look like those associated with Judaism?
It doesnt have to be a big honkin box.
Theyre designed for clerics, so armor should be assumed. Lareth from the Moathouse wears plate and a phlactery. Would having it worn outside the armor be the logical choice?

Scott