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<blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 5869840" data-attributes="member: 34958"><p><strong>The Orc and the Pie</strong></p><p></p><p>I'm on an early lunch break and have decided to stop teasing you and show off the game. This is the information on the Orc and the Pie according to Monte Cook:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?otherd20_orcandpie" target="_blank">The World's Shortest (Yet Technically Complete) Adventure</a></p><p>The World's Shortest (Yet Technically Complete) Adventure</p><p>"The Orc and the Pie: A Parody"</p><p>Adventure Background: An orc has a pie.</p><p>Adventure Synopsis: The PCs kill the orc and take his pie.</p><p>Adventure Hook: The PCs are hungry for pie.</p><p>Room 1: The Orc's Pie Room</p><p>You see an orc with a pie.</p><p>The room is 10 feet by 10 feet.</p><p>Creature: An orc.</p><p>Treasure: A pie.</p><p>Concluding the Adventure: Pie tastes good.</p><p>Further Adventures: Somewhere, there is a bakery making these good pies. Perhaps it's guarded by more orcs.</p><p></p><p>So since I am assuming there is only one orc to fight, I am only going to create two player characters. Let's make Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser from the Fritz Leiber books. Here we have the character creation page:</p><p></p><p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IlKa4hI3EgY/T3pzHuzGyOI/AAAAAAAAALc/wMEUyRNKWY8/w650-h434-k/OrcPie1.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Notice that we are lacking some choices, such as barbarian and assassin from 1st edition, and the monk and druid from original DnD. <grumbles about 2nd Edition></p><p></p><p>We'll make Fafhrd a level 1 chaotic good fighter. Another window comes up generating his stats. I hit reroll until we have these: Str 18 (71), Int 14, Wis 13, Dex 17, Con 13 and Cha 15 and Hit Points a lousy 6. Yes, the Gold Box rolls incredibly high for your PCs. I could also cheat and adjust the stats manually, but I like random rolls too much. Next, I pick an appropriate icon for him and save.</p><p></p><p>The next character is the Gray Mouser. I make him a chaotic good thief and roll these stats: Str 14, Int 17, Wis 13, Dex 18, Con 12, Cha 11 and 6 hit points. His Charisma should be higher for the book character, but so should Fafhrd's Constitution and hit points. But let's just press. I name him, pick an icon and save.</p><p></p><p>Now I have some new options highlighted on the game screen. I can add characters, which I do, which then allows me to click on Begin Adventuring. Notice that the game equipped my characters for this module, giving Fafhrd a shield, longsword and armor making his AC 0. The Gray Mouser was given a sword and leather armor, making his AC 4.</p><p><img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-bo_OAGB2qw4/T3p2ZrtaFfI/AAAAAAAAAMI/opGZPf3BkRE/s649/OrcPie2.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Ok, enough talk. Let's begin. The opening screen starts and shows the start of our dungeon on the top left screen, our party on the top right, a compass in the center, and the text description on the bottom: The Orc and The Pie, By Monte Cook, An Adventuring Classic. The text was normally shown in this bottom window in the Gold Box games. Because the text length was so limited, the textual side of game play was limited in comparison to the later Baldur's Gate and Planescape games.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-w658a6saSsI/T3p3EluTYPI/AAAAAAAAAMU/L3nKplZFTvo/w458-h302-k/OrcPie3.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Notice as I moved forward that the screen changed to show a picture of an orc on the top right where the 1st person perspective of the dungeon used to be. We just ran into our orc, guarding a tasty pie. It's fight time!</p><p></p><p><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IFjhNNDzvnI/T3p4KojMtII/AAAAAAAAAMc/aLiyQXHvkWc/w459-h299-k/OrcPie4.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The poor orc doesn't even get a turn. First I moved the Gray Mouser behind him to put a sword in his back. I didn't go for the backstab, so he only did 2 hit points of damage, but made the orc turn to face him. By doing so, he put his back to Fafhrd, who received a bonus from attacking from the back. Fafhrd did 9 hit points of damage, killing the orc and liberating the pie from eeevil!</p><p></p><p><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Bsm2ri5xQLE/T3p5pVLFStI/AAAAAAAAAMw/MBNQvDgmDD0/w304-h201-n-k/OrcPie5.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I get told that we received 7 XP for the kill, but the orc did not have any treasure. Poor guy wasn't armed or armored. The next screen says, "With the orc defeated, you eat the pie." Then "Pie tastes good!" Yay for the forces of good!</p><p></p><p>We still need to pick our adventure path and then create six characters. Any suggestions?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deuce Traveler, post: 5869840, member: 34958"] [b]The Orc and the Pie[/b] I'm on an early lunch break and have decided to stop teasing you and show off the game. This is the information on the Orc and the Pie according to Monte Cook: [url=http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?otherd20_orcandpie]The World's Shortest (Yet Technically Complete) Adventure[/url] The World's Shortest (Yet Technically Complete) Adventure "The Orc and the Pie: A Parody" Adventure Background: An orc has a pie. Adventure Synopsis: The PCs kill the orc and take his pie. Adventure Hook: The PCs are hungry for pie. Room 1: The Orc's Pie Room You see an orc with a pie. The room is 10 feet by 10 feet. Creature: An orc. Treasure: A pie. Concluding the Adventure: Pie tastes good. Further Adventures: Somewhere, there is a bakery making these good pies. Perhaps it's guarded by more orcs. So since I am assuming there is only one orc to fight, I am only going to create two player characters. Let's make Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser from the Fritz Leiber books. Here we have the character creation page: [img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IlKa4hI3EgY/T3pzHuzGyOI/AAAAAAAAALc/wMEUyRNKWY8/w650-h434-k/OrcPie1.png[/img] Notice that we are lacking some choices, such as barbarian and assassin from 1st edition, and the monk and druid from original DnD. <grumbles about 2nd Edition> We'll make Fafhrd a level 1 chaotic good fighter. Another window comes up generating his stats. I hit reroll until we have these: Str 18 (71), Int 14, Wis 13, Dex 17, Con 13 and Cha 15 and Hit Points a lousy 6. Yes, the Gold Box rolls incredibly high for your PCs. I could also cheat and adjust the stats manually, but I like random rolls too much. Next, I pick an appropriate icon for him and save. The next character is the Gray Mouser. I make him a chaotic good thief and roll these stats: Str 14, Int 17, Wis 13, Dex 18, Con 12, Cha 11 and 6 hit points. His Charisma should be higher for the book character, but so should Fafhrd's Constitution and hit points. But let's just press. I name him, pick an icon and save. Now I have some new options highlighted on the game screen. I can add characters, which I do, which then allows me to click on Begin Adventuring. Notice that the game equipped my characters for this module, giving Fafhrd a shield, longsword and armor making his AC 0. The Gray Mouser was given a sword and leather armor, making his AC 4. [img]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-bo_OAGB2qw4/T3p2ZrtaFfI/AAAAAAAAAMI/opGZPf3BkRE/s649/OrcPie2.png[/img] Ok, enough talk. Let's begin. The opening screen starts and shows the start of our dungeon on the top left screen, our party on the top right, a compass in the center, and the text description on the bottom: The Orc and The Pie, By Monte Cook, An Adventuring Classic. The text was normally shown in this bottom window in the Gold Box games. Because the text length was so limited, the textual side of game play was limited in comparison to the later Baldur's Gate and Planescape games. [img]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-w658a6saSsI/T3p3EluTYPI/AAAAAAAAAMU/L3nKplZFTvo/w458-h302-k/OrcPie3.png[/img] Notice as I moved forward that the screen changed to show a picture of an orc on the top right where the 1st person perspective of the dungeon used to be. We just ran into our orc, guarding a tasty pie. It's fight time! [img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IFjhNNDzvnI/T3p4KojMtII/AAAAAAAAAMc/aLiyQXHvkWc/w459-h299-k/OrcPie4.png[/img] The poor orc doesn't even get a turn. First I moved the Gray Mouser behind him to put a sword in his back. I didn't go for the backstab, so he only did 2 hit points of damage, but made the orc turn to face him. By doing so, he put his back to Fafhrd, who received a bonus from attacking from the back. Fafhrd did 9 hit points of damage, killing the orc and liberating the pie from eeevil! [img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Bsm2ri5xQLE/T3p5pVLFStI/AAAAAAAAAMw/MBNQvDgmDD0/w304-h201-n-k/OrcPie5.png[/img] I get told that we received 7 XP for the kill, but the orc did not have any treasure. Poor guy wasn't armed or armored. The next screen says, "With the orc defeated, you eat the pie." Then "Pie tastes good!" Yay for the forces of good! We still need to pick our adventure path and then create six characters. Any suggestions? [/QUOTE]
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