Today's preview fragment, we visit the alternative (d20) monster attack matrix and dicing for damage (and kills).
As with the first of the Alternative (d20) Attack Matrices, only one of the following two tables will appear in the main rules. The first is more concise, the second more explicit. Either way, the other rendering will land in the appendices.
The original attack matrix 2 tries to provide attack capabilities in 2 HD bands, but alas, has several ambiguous break points. DD makes it unambiguous and also relates HD Equivilents back to CM-style fighting capabilities. Although Dragon is the ultimate FC, most of the lower HDE dragons will fight at dragon-1, dragon-2, etc. A baby white dragon with 5 hp would be 2 HDE and fight as a dragon-10!
My valued supporters also have access to the annotated (determining kills) fragment, for all the hows and whys.
Next time we're up to magic weapons and armor...