I'm using the Necrotic Gnome character sheets, filling them out for monsters, and I'm stuck on a 1/2-HD monster. The sheet doesn't seem to recognize the fraction, and writing a 0.5 just sets it to 0.
Not the kobold guards or the chief, but specifically the 48 kobold "civilians" (some of them children) huddled in the common chamber.
It feels like Gygax was serving them up on a silver platter for players to go proto-murder-hobo, but maybe he was making it super obvious so new players might pause and have an are-we-the-baddies moment and understand the freedom their characters have.
How did it play out at your table?
Plow forward and exterminate?
Drive them out of the Caves like squatters?
Demand tribute? Extract intel? Become their new chief?
Some kind of diplomatic solution?
Were you able to clear the Kobold caves in a single trip, or was the first party overrun by rats?
I'm reading thru JG27 Tegel Manor and trying to grok the stats given for NPCs and enemies. I think I've got it, but if someone that's actually done it has some insight, I'd welcome it.
CLASS - generally 1:1
ALIGNMENT - generally 1:1
LVL - 3-digit number given, the first two are the character's level, third is the number of occupations (classes? not sure what to do with it)
HTK - Hits to Kill; appears about 1:1 with HP.
ARM - Armor type; here's the rub. This "universal system" has granular, piecemeal armor in a variety of materials, from linen to Adamantite. The value is also described as being Damage Reduction, rather than damage avoidance. There's a scale with descriptive examples that could maybe be used to map to AC, descending or otherwise.
PSL - Personal Social Level; guessing it's N/A except as background info.
Ability Scores - Appear to be 1:1, except for the addition of Agility (I could ignore, or maybe average with Dex?). A second number is given for each, being the number of times per day it can be tested without checking for stress damage (I guess there are systems with that kind of mechanic)
Googling is a dead end for me. Trying to exclude Warhammer stuff doesn't help. This was 20-30 years ago, something I probably found at a Scholastic Book Fair.
What I can recall is that the main characters (kids) get transported to a magical land where Orks are causing trouble. At the end, they are returned to their own world. I recall a soccer ball being magically transformed into a globe of that other world at the end.
I don't know if that was a setup for a series where they return to the other world. I do recall they found out that when they are transported there, something from the other world gets transported to their own, and they became concerned that an Ork could be walking around their hometown.