Character Ability Scores:

Strength: Rolled 18/00 —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Total: 18/00

Intelligence: Rolled 18 —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Total: 18

Wisdom: Rolled 18 —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Total: 18

Dexterity: Rolled 18 —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Elf or Halfling: +1 to Dexterity —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Total: 19

Constitution: Rolled 18 —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Dwarf: +1 to Constitution —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Total: 19

Charisma: Rolled 18 —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Total: 18

Hit Dice:

Current Level Hit Dice Type: d10 (fighter/paladin) —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Previous Levels Hit Dice Type: 1st level: d10 (fighter/paladin) + d8 (ranger); levels 2-7: d10 (fighter/paladin) —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Constitution Hit Point Adjustment: +4 per hit dice for Constitution of 18 (fighter) Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook two starting hit dice plus one hit dice per each additional level for +36

Total: 124

Armor and Weapons Permitted:

Armor: any (from cleric, fighter, paladin, and ranger) No armor worn while fighting as a monk. May cast spells while armor clad from elf. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Shield: any (from cleric, fighter, paladin, and ranger) —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Weapons: any (from fighter, paladin, and ranger) —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Oil: yes (from cleric, druid, fighter, paladin, ranger, magic-user, illusionist, and thief) —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Poison: DM’s choice —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Effective Armor Class:

When fighting unarmored, the eighth level monk has an effective armor class of 4. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Open Hand Attacks:

Open hand combat damage is shown in MONKS TABLE II below. In addition, the monk has a chance to stun, or even kill, an opponent. An opponent is stunned by a monk for 1-6 (d6) melee rounds if the score of the monk’s “to hit” die score exceeds the minimum number required for a hit by 5 or more, i.e. if a 15 is required, a score of 20 would indicate a stun. The open hand “to hit” scores rolled by the monk are never modified by any strength ability bonuses. The chance to kill is a percentage which equals the armor class (AC) of the opponent, modified by the number of experience levels above seven which the monk has attained. AC -1 is a negative chance for killing, as an example, but a monk of 9th level (two above 7th) would allow a 1% chance of killing. Not that 1) the monk must score a hit, and 2) the hit must stun the opponent, and 3) the percentile dice score must be equal to or less than the armor class of the stunned opponent, modified by the monk’s level over 7th, in order to score a kill. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Open hand fighting also allows the monk multiple attacks at such time as the monk has attained the 4th or higher experience level. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Open Hand Attacks per Melee Round: 3/2 means 3 attacks per 2 rounds, with the additional attack coming at the end of the round sequence. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Open Hand Damage: 2-12 —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Magic Item Use:

The character may use all potions; all magic, clerical, “protection”, druid, and illusionist scrolls; all rings; all wands, staves, and rods; all miscelleous items; all books and similar written works; all artifacts; and all forms of armor, shields, and weapons. The character may employ magic items and spells while wearing armor.

Cleric Spells:

The cleric has three 1st level cleric spell slots at eighth level. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

The cleric has three 2nd level cleric spell slots at eighth level. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

The cleric has three 3rd level cleric spell slots at eighth level. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

The cleric has two 4th level cleric spell slots at eighth level. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Druid Spells:

The druid has two 1st level druid spell slots at first level. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Magic-User Spells:

The magic-user has one 1st level magic-user spell slot at first level. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Illusionist Spells:

The illusionist has one 1st level illusionist spell slot at first level. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Henchmen:

5. At 6th level of experience, monks may acquire up to two henchment. Henchmen may be fighters (but not paladins nor rangers), thieves, or assassins. With each level of experience above the 6th which the monk attains, he or she may add one additional henchman, until the maximum number established by the monk’s charisma score is reached. Monks will gain followers upon attaining 8th level; this is discussed hereafter. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Limited Number of Monks:

6. There can only be a limited number of monks above 7th level (Superior Master). There are three 8th level (Master of Dragons) and but one of each higher level. When a player character monk gains sufficient experience points to qualify him or her of 8th level, the commensurate abilities are attained only temporarily. The monk must find and defeat in single combat, hand-to-hand, without weapons or magic items, on the 8th level monks — the White, the Green, or the Red. The same must be done at the ninth and higer levels. The loser of these combats loses enough experience points to place him or her at the lowest number possible to attain the level just beneath the new level. The monk character will know where to locate the higher level monks, and he or she must proceed immediately to do combat or else lose experience points equal to the number which will place him or her at the lowest number possible to have attained thelevel just beneath tha tof the monk he or she should have sought out but did not. That is the player character drops to 7th level in the above case and must then work upwards again. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Followers and Monastery:

Followers: When a monk player character attains the 8th level of experience, he or she will gain a number of monks as followers upon defeating the monk which held the 8th level position that the player character has now gotten. He or she will attract from 2-5 1st level monks if the player character has a monastery of monastery-like building to use as a headquarters. These followers may be worked upwards in levels of experience. The player character will attract 1 or 2 additional monks of 1st level for each level of experience theplayer gains. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

While followers of a monk are as loyal as his or her other henchmen, they automatically leave service when they attain the level of Suprior Master (7th). —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

All followers will be of the exact same alignment as the monk player character. If he or she changes alignment, the current followers will desert, but new ones can still be gained by advancement in level. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

The monastery or monastery-like headquarters of the monk can that of the character he or she defeated to attain 8th, or higher level, or it can be a building specially constructed by the monk player character after attaining 8th or higher level. In the latter case, the monk may retain up to 250,000 gold pieces value in treaure in order to finance construction of the place. He or she may also retain sufficient funds thereafter to maintain such a place. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Note that monk followers require no support, upkeep, or pay of any sort. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook

Religious Stronghold:

When a cleric achieves 8th level (Patriarch or Matriarch), he or she automatically attracts followers if the cleric establishes a place of worship — a building of not less than 1,000 square feet in floor area with an altar, shrine, chapel, etc. These followers are fanatically loyal and serve without pay so long as the cleric does not change deities and/or alignment. These followers number between 20 and 200 (2d10, totaled, and multiplied by 10). In addition, there will be followers who are men-at-arms and your referee will relay the types and numbers at the appropriate time. —Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Edition 1 Player’s Handbook