Morale, Equipment Costs, Vol I, p. 13

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Regarding Morale

The text on pp 12-13 is most of the information referees get for running morale in their campaign. To be frank, it is rather fuzzy and ill-defined. As it is, the system works but fails to provide any guidelines for establishing base morale for NPCs, whether individually or in units. We found this is one of the few instances when Chainmail comes in handy, though enterprising referees have enough information to establish average morale scores, adding a +1 bonus for various factors (e.g. elite, veteran, mounted, etc.) was then a simple matter.

Basic Equipment And Costs

Gygax wrote in “From the Sorceror’s Scroll: The Future of the Game, What the Second Edition Books Will be Like” (Dragon #103 Nov. 1985; p. 8, column 2, para 3): 

For instance, I have discovered that I neglected to include a fairly common medieval weapon in both the Players Handbook and Unearthed Arcana - Zounds! What slipshod research on my part!

When questioned about it in the following years? And he was … many times, he could never recall what he had in mind when he penned those words. We like to think it is the sword-breaker. This weapon fulfills all the requirements of his description and was never added to any pre-1983 rule set. Other possibilities include the main-gauche and trident daggers. Of these three possibilities, the sword breaker always seemed the most milieu appropriate to us, though who knows what Gary thought? 

Nothing on the equipment list is priced below 1 gold piece, though perhaps one should type Gold Piece to emulate the Great Gygax!