Saturday, March 1, 2014

Orcs, Altars and Halflings with Lightning Spells - 3/1/2014

So, gaming today. AD&D 1st edition with lots of house rules (no class/race/level restrictions, monsters with levels, all the basics). Awesome time.

For those of you that missed it, it was Sascha, Alex (the Expendable), The Friar, Purple Tiger, Durrun and the new Halfling Magic-User, Mitt (to be the Mighty). Also, Guido's body was there, in desperate need of, well, being alive.

In the room where last time we took out the Golem-maker, we found a book that just felt really evil (and this is the thief who thought this, so you know it had to be true). We also found a secret panel in the altar that seems to lead to an extra-dimensional space of some kind. We elected not to explore, what with two members of the party off to the afterlife.

So, on our way back to Durroken to get Guido resurrected, we ran into a very tough bunch of orcs, which resulted in a spirited exchange of views with the points being made carried on the points of arrows, daggers and a magic missile spell. Turns out that little Mitt the Magic-User is hell on wheels with the stabby stuff. Which is good, because the fighter-types were failing miserably at their jobs (Glenn had three fumbles, two of them in a row, it was not pretty. The rest of us fared little better).

Once we got to Durroken, I had the marvelously novel experience that my character was respected in the realm, well treated, and we had no real difficulties in getting people to listen to us. Found out that the Golem-maker is apparently apprenticed to the supposedly dead mage Zegondo (disappearing mages in AD&D are known as liches, and they are very much of the badassedness).

So, after some interesting experiences in town (including watching Durrun get blasted across the room by a halfling named Jimmy) we are ready to head off to see what we can find inside an altar that's trying to do an imitation of the TARDIS.

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