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Dave, just a brief word of appreciation. Your dad's works have brought me great delight, especially as I was growing up and first discovering science fiction. I can't thank him, so I hope you don't mind being my proxy.
Ditto - my parents had a lot of Chalker on the shelves when I was a kid, and I still borrow them from time to time.
Err. This time can Sesquip the Poxy, heroic elf, get OUT of the damn cart first, please?
I want to fight Tucker's Kobolds!
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Dave, just a brief word of appreciation. Your dad's works have brought me great delight, especially as I was growing up and first discovering science fiction. I can't thank him, so I hope you don't mind being my proxy.
Ditto to this for me too. I have this very clear image in my mind about discussing the Soul Rider books with a friend of mine. Good books and memories.
Thanks for taking the time to read and post in the thread, Gary. Now that the dust has settled and the loot is tallied, this game stands out as the highlight of my GenCon. And trust me when I say that I had an AWESOME GenCon.
Err. This time can Sesquip the Poxy, heroic elf, get OUT of the damn cart first, please?
I want to fight Tucker's Kobolds!
Only 'cause you said "please", but I liked the idea of the elf being the hood ornament of the cart (glad I thought to pick one up when the adventure started ). How about this? If Sesquip dies you bequeath me his head to use as an ornament on front of the cart and we have ourselves a deal!
Only 'cause you said "please", but I liked the idea of the elf being the hood ornament of the cart (glad I thought to pick one up when the adventure started ). How about this? If Sesquip dies you bequeath me his head to use as an ornament on front of the cart and we have ourselves a deal!
Hey! This is MY dungeon cart you're decorating with elf heads here! I just let you drive it because...I can't see over the dashboard. :\
Still, having more Elf heads on it will only increase my "Dwarf-cred" back in town so I endorse your plan.
Thanks Gary for filling in the details. I looked on my shelf and found the program: it was called JanCon, which I kept hearing as GenCon. Not surprisingly, the con seems to have disappeared since...
This one goes down as the best number one thread on any message board in internet history.
I've participated in message and bulletin boards for more than two decades and nothing, not a single discussion thread or posting, comes close to this thread.
There should be some eternal flame burning somewhere in this thread, it's that classic about what message board interaction should be about.
Kudoes to the mods who played, to Gary for GMing, and to Diaglo for being a good sport, too!
I must echo Xyxox! I'm sitting here reading this on a Friday night with a big grin on my face and my heart full of joy. Thank you, Gary, for this game and to all my fellow gamers for making this such a great hobby.
Dave, just a brief word of appreciation. Your dad's works have brought me great delight, especially as I was growing up and first discovering science fiction. I can't thank him, so I hope you don't mind being my proxy.
I'm grinning so widely my face hurts. Thank you!
Jack Chalker was a fine writer and a hale fellow for sure.
As for the grin, isn't that a part of the RPG experience?
Hypersmurf has generated this WONDERFUL cleaned-up example of the map from our adventure (known to me as "The Tripartite Map." ) with comments. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did reminiscing over it today.
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Hypersmurf has generated this WONDERFUL cleaned-up example of the map from our adventure (known to me as "The Tripartite Map." ) with comments. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did reminiscing over it today.
That's great! Thanks for sharing.
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Hypersmurf has generated this WONDERFUL cleaned-up example of the map from our adventure (known to me as "The Tripartite Map." ) with comments. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did reminiscing over it today.
Hi Henry,
Thanks a ton to both you and Hypersmurf for posting that fantastic map. I love how complex and open-ended it is; it really brings home the idea of the scale of the place. A couple questions:
1) where were the paper-breaks on this map compared to your original?
2) what is that "hump" in the south wall of the room where you fought the beetle? An archway? A normal opening just that doesn't have a door? Or something else?
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Parenthetically, photostat copies of the manuscript rules were made, and when the commercial game was published, fans not willing or financially unable to expend the princely sum of $10 for the product did likewise, copying the material on school (mainly college/university) machines. We were well aware of this, and many gamers who had spent their hard-earned money to buy the game were more irate than we were. In all, though, the 'pirate' material was more helpful that not. Many new fans were made by DMs who were using such copies to run their games. - Gary Gygax
1) where were the paper-breaks on this map compared to your original?
2) what is that "hump" in the south wall of the room where you fought the beetle? An archway? A normal opening just that doesn't have a door? Or something else?
The hump was an archway, yes.
THe paper-breaks... well, if you place the entrance stair at the northwest corner of one piece of graph paper, you can see that there will be a couple of squares that extend northward onto another piece of paper, and after that, the entire dungeon is bisected east-west on two pieces.
We entered through the northwest tower, y'see, and Gary said "You may as well start in that corner of your paper"...
Yeah, and run some OD&D for us poor beleaguered types who can't make GenCon!
At the last LGGC I ran three sessions of LA adventures for around 20 different gamers. Damned if i can remember what I ran at Winterdark, but it would be no problem to do an OD&D dungeon crawl as I did at this GneCon.
At the last LGGC I ran three sessions of LA adventures for around 20 different gamers. Damned if i can remember what I ran at Winterdark, but it would be no problem to do an OD&D dungeon crawl as I did at this GneCon.
Cheerio,
Gary
The missus and I attended the Sunday afternoon LA 'crawl and that was a lot of fun - 'twas I who had the cheese quirk!
Parenthetically, photostat copies of the manuscript rules were made, and when the commercial game was published, fans not willing or financially unable to expend the princely sum of $10 for the product did likewise, copying the material on school (mainly college/university) machines. We were well aware of this, and many gamers who had spent their hard-earned money to buy the game were more irate than we were. In all, though, the 'pirate' material was more helpful that not. Many new fans were made by DMs who were using such copies to run their games. - Gary Gygax
Hypersmurf has generated this WONDERFUL cleaned-up example of the map from our adventure (known to me as "The Tripartite Map." ) with comments. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did reminiscing over it today.
Awesome. Thank you Hypersmurf and Henry
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). How about this? If Sesquip dies you bequeath me his head to use as an ornament on front of the cart and we have ourselves a deal! 
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