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Dragon Magazine: The Wandering Damage Table.DF: XP Awards house rules II: Unexplored Ideas or.

#Dragon magazine monster index manual#

Review: Dungeon Fantasy Adventure 1: Mirror of the. Of the more than 350 monsters in the Monster Manual I and among the other 22 OCTOBER 1988 creatures described in later books, there appear a number of classical undead, archetypes that form the basis of the entire category of undead monsters.

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Out-takes and Random Notes from last game.

It's the "This one goes to 11" of gaming for us. A few of the younger guys picked it up without ever having seen Dragon #96. We must have busted these out once a session for years, and the elder gamers in my area still use these. The other was the sheer quotability of "Consult the limb loss table" or "And consider yourself very lucky" in play. Still lollygagging? Here's more!" We still refer to things as a "Wandering Damage Table." I roll for wandering monsters and say "Let's see if any wandering damage, er monsters, show up."

"You're taking too long, so here's some damage without treasure. Alaghi (Dragon Magazine 185) Alguduir (Dragon Magazine 185) Animal, Domestic 1 (Original Dark Sun Box Set) Animal, Domestic 2 (Dark Sun MC2: Terrors Beyond. Part of the humor for me was that I always saw wandering monsters as, pretty much, wandering damage. "74-75 Take 3 hit points damage and consider yourself very lucky - for the time being." "56-60 Take 24 hit points damage and then take 31 more.Ħ1-65 Take 1,000 hit points damage and roll again.Ħ6-70 Roll every die within 30 feet for damage." Or the Limb Loss Subtable, which included "Head gone" and "Torso cut in half." Yeah, from shaving perhaps - I had a razor like that once. "13-20 Consult the Random Damage Subtable for no reason "11 Something invisible chews on your character, doing 6-36 "4 Your character cuts himself while shaving consult Limb Loss You rolled on up to three tables - one to see what happened, one on the damage table (maybe), and one on the limb loss subtable. Out damage to the characters directly? It makes for a smoother,įaster-paced game, and if you want to kill off characters quickly, itĬan only be beaten by divine intervention by Cthulhoid godlings." They serve well whenĪpplied in hordes, but why not cut out the middleman and just deal The Killer Dungeon Master got to use the "Wandering Damage Table," a joke that really had legs for my gaming group and those of my local fellow players in other groups.įirst there was the wandering monster. Kraus introduced us to two nasty monsters for the April Fools section of Dragon - the Killer Dungeon Master (who kills you dead, unfairly) and the Sleep-Inducing Dungeon Master (who bores you to sleep and then steals your dice). James Maliszewski doesn't seem to have gotten to this excellent article, so it's up to me to cover it.įrom Dragon #96: The Meanest Of Monsters by Craig Kraus.