jkason wrote:Badmike wrote: The best times you ever had gaming were when you didn't know it all, and around every corner lurked a new surprise.Mike B.Amen to that, brother.Best recent player moment (Today - 1/1/2006) - I got swallowed by a Behir.
Badmike wrote: The best times you ever had gaming were when you didn't know it all, and around every corner lurked a new surprise.Mike B.
muaddib5 wrote:jkason wrote:Badmike wrote: The best times you ever had gaming were when you didn't know it all, and around every corner lurked a new surprise.Mike B.Amen to that, brother.Best recent player moment (Today - 1/1/2006) - I got swallowed by a Behir.Not one of the best moments, but one of the most memorable. It's 1986 and I'm at my first Gen Con (GC19), I'm fourteen years old and I've been playing AD&D a total of about six to eight months. My friend and I played in the AD&D Open, the group and the DM we were with had such a great time that we all decided to get together outside of the tournament and do some gaming. Our first session was held at one of the open gaming tables somewhere in the old MECCA convention center and it began as most do with character creation. Dice were rolled and stats were recorded while stories of great past adventures were being told. I was so caught up in the moment that I must not have heard the DM say that characters of an evil alignment would be a bad idea. My first level neutral evil thief did not have a long life ahead of him. I finished with the thief and we began the adventure. Only minutes into it, somehow it was discovered that I was playing a thief (I must have tried to pick someone's pocket or hide in shadows or something). Unknown to me at the time, one of the other players was using a higher level character that had a sentient sword that was of higher intelligence then the character, and killed all evil creatures. The DM lit his pipe (shows you how long ago this was), tells me that my first level thief was cleaved in two , took my character sheet from me and ripped it up (very traumatic) , and told me to start another character from the beginning . Alls well that ends well though, that poor thief gave his life so that one of my best characters of all time was created next, Semtar the monk (who ended up getting an artifact later in this same adventure) .
bbarsh wrote:I am continually astounded by reading posts from others who played and never seemed to lose characters. I think we played for a two or three years and never had a party make it past 6th level. We had an awesome party that was completely wiped out in that Dragon Magazine module with the big tree full of drow...there was a monster that had some attack requiring save vs. death and our best fighter missed his save. Things went down hill soon after...
bclarkie wrote:I dont know man, and of course it is a game, but sending a pack of 10 Wights after a group of very low level characters with virtually no magic weapons to me just seems......mean.
Deadlord36 wrote:Badmike echoes my DMing sentiment. Character death is part of D&D, but it does make players drift away when the DM becomes some leering killer god figure. Makes the game pointless, and is actually somewhat unrealistic.
Badmike wrote:Drowning in quicksand at the end of the adventure in the swamp when instead of helping the party kill a group of lizardman guardians and their lizard king leader, he instead looted the treasure room himself and ran out the back way into the swamp, by himself, at night, loaded down with bags of gold and silver...
The Collector's Trove wrote:The DM explained what happened to the rest of the party and tried to impress upon them the tremendous victory it really was. However, no one truly appreciated the event and were disgruntled that they got NO experience points for the battle! In fact the DM gave Arraland the entire award 4,280 for Ctenimir and doubling it using the "weighting experience points rule", 1st edition DMG, for 8,560 for Ctenimir + 250 for the arrow of slaying, for a grand total of 8,810. Plus my PC's new 2nd level XP total of 3,376 = 11,936 just enough for 4th level! Later, of course, he was drained to 3rd level by a wight. "Damn this Mountain! Where is that exit?"Futures Bright,Paul
The Collector's Trove wrote:"Damn this Mountain! Where is that exit?"