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Confounded Rules! Continues: Exploring Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Rules

Writer: Dungeoneers Guild Games
Dungeoneers Guild Games
Sep 26
1 min read

Updated: 1 day ago

Once again, I delve into a trove of challenging rules in First Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.


By R. Nelson Bailey



Book cover for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Unearthed Arcana, with a stern wizard amid glowing lab glassware and dungeon stone.



Contents

Character Death & Recovery

Poison Use

Characters Starting With Multiple Hit Dice

Raise Dead

Container Carrying Capacity

Repeating 20s

Dice Rolls

Scroll Creation

Energy Drain

Scrolls & Treasure Maps

Gaze Attacks

Stun Effects

Level Titles

Thieves’ Tools

Magic Resistance

Thrown Weapons

Multi-Class Combinations

Treasure Distribution

Party Caller

Weakness


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Four fantasy gamers smile over a dungeon map with miniatures, dice, and a dragon, lit by torchlight.

Magic Resistance Table showing percentages by caster level 1-20 and resistance 5%-100% in a black-and-white grid.
Black-and-white table titled CHARACTER RACE TABLE III: MULTI-CLASSED CHARACTER OPTIONS with X marks for races and class combos.
Attack matrix table for fighters and paladins, with pink highlighted hit values and armor class rows 10 to -10.


Wizard with blue staff faces a towering red horned mezzodaemon in a stone dungeon, lit by orange torches and eerie blue glow


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