Yama-Arashi wrote:MShipley88 wrote:You have to credit that original dungeon for introducing the game. I played in it as PC back when everything we met was terrifying. The mystery of the game was what made it a blast...that and the perceived possibility that every monster could be my last. Lord were we ever cautious!You've put your finger right on it. We were so young we didn't know what a sarcophagus was, but when the lid starts to come away and skeletons(!) came out -- heck, there was a stampede for the exit led by our brawny fighter! We'd all seen Jason and the Argonauts -- animated skeletons couldn't be killed! 8O
MShipley88 wrote:You have to credit that original dungeon for introducing the game. I played in it as PC back when everything we met was terrifying. The mystery of the game was what made it a blast...that and the perceived possibility that every monster could be my last. Lord were we ever cautious!
Badmike wrote:Yama-Arashi wrote:You've put your finger right on it. We were so young we didn't know what a sarcophagus was, but when the lid starts to come away and skeletons(!) came out -- heck, there was a stampede for the exit led by our brawny fighter! We'd all seen Jason and the Argonauts -- animated skeletons couldn't be killed! A similar thing happened in my first adventure. Seven of us entered B1 In Search of the Unknown (three players and four hirelings we had paid to accompany us) We got waylayed by a group of Kobolds in the first corridor, and they proceded to kill all of us except for my fighter and the party cleric before we offed them. I was thinking after that bloodbath that kobolds must be some bad-ass creature, imagine my dismay when the DM showed us the picture in the monster manual where the party is surrounded by the little bastards.."What, those shorties beat the crap out of us? If I had know they were three feet tall I would have punted the entire group of them!"Mike B.
Yama-Arashi wrote:You've put your finger right on it. We were so young we didn't know what a sarcophagus was, but when the lid starts to come away and skeletons(!) came out -- heck, there was a stampede for the exit led by our brawny fighter! We'd all seen Jason and the Argonauts -- animated skeletons couldn't be killed!
MShipley88 wrote: I also know of one group of PC's that ignored the Caves of Chaos and attacked innocent citizens in the keep instead.
Deadlord36 wrote:I have run Bone Hill 3 different times where I made Pelltar possess the Baron and imprison the PC's after they explored the hill, so he could get the magic items found there. Once the daughter fell in love with a PC and let them out, once they managed to dupe a guard, and once they were so freaking dumb I ended up executing them. It is always fun to change modules around.
Deadlord36 wrote:It is always fun to change modules around.
zhowar1 wrote:grodog wrote:Holmes also wrote some Boinger and Zereth stories for A&E, back in the day. I don't know the issues offhand, though.Yes, it mentions that in the back of Maze of Peril, but as there is no index available for A&E, I haven't been able to figure out which issues,short of buying them all. Very Happy And they don't appear on Ebay often.
grodog wrote:Holmes also wrote some Boinger and Zereth stories for A&E, back in the day. I don't know the issues offhand, though.
zhowar1 wrote:grodog wrote:He also had one or two rejected by The Dragon (!), which are equally good IMO.Are these the ones Holmes sent you? He didn't give you permission to distribute them, did he?
grodog wrote:He also had one or two rejected by The Dragon (!), which are equally good IMO.
zhowar1 wrote:grodog wrote:Maze of Peril should still be available from Project Pulp (formerly from Time & Space books) at Authentication required!Yes, I bought it there about two years ago. I believe the copy I ordered from them says First Printing, 1986, so it may be overstock from the original printing, or else a re-print where they didn't bother to change the printing info.
grodog wrote:Maze of Peril should still be available from Project Pulp (formerly from Time & Space books) at Authentication required!
zhowar1 wrote:grodog wrote:In addition, his excellent "Confessions of a Dungeon Master" from Psychology Today (1980) is well-worth digging up from microfilm.Yes, I've been meaning to locate that. Also interesting is the Dragon Magazine article where he reviewed the Moldvay basic set when it came out!
grodog wrote:In addition, his excellent "Confessions of a Dungeon Master" from Psychology Today (1980) is well-worth digging up from microfilm
Dreadlord wrote:Yes. In the Dungeon of Zenopus, I thought of making one of the statues that the Thaumaturgist had actually be a statue of old Zenopus himself. You see, Thaum used to be his apprentice, until he stole Zenopus' wand of petrification and stoned him. If the players find Thaum's scroll of stone to flesh they can decide if they want to turn Zenopus back to flesh. He will want to reward them greatly but will find he is much poorer since his Tower was destroyed...
Charles G. wrote:This is neat!He should have been fortunate to simply be turned to stone!
grodog wrote:zhowar1 wrote: Yes, it mentions that in the back of Maze of Peril, but as there is no index available for A&E, I haven't been able to figure out which issues, short of buying them all. And they don't appear on Ebay often. I'm heading back to KS tomorrow, and can check the details if you're interested, zhowar1?
grodog wrote:zhowar1 wrote: Also interesting is the Dragon Magazine article where he reviewed the Moldvay basic set when it came out! I don't recall that review, will have to dig it up.
zhowar1 wrote: Also interesting is the Dragon Magazine article where he reviewed the Moldvay basic set when it came out!
zhowar1 wrote:grodog wrote:zhowar1 wrote: Yes, it mentions that in the back of Maze of Peril, but as there is no index available for A&E, I haven't been able to figure out which issues, short of buying them all. And they don't appear on Ebay often. I'm heading back to KS tomorrow, and can check the details if you're interested, zhowar1? Sure, that would be great! Do you have all of the back issues of A&E?