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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9570284" data-attributes="member: 7737">You may be 100% correct.Or not.I honestly don't remember, AT ALL. So we'll get to discover it together.I could remember the insult that Thayne uses on Carr when they meet ("You're an elf!" / "And you're an oaf!") but I cannot remember the sociopolitical framework. See, I only remember the important things.For those who have no idea what we're talking about: we are referencing <a href="https://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Books" target="_blank">the Lone Wolf gamebooks</a>, wherein the protagonist finds a legendary weapon, the Sommerswerd, in book 2 of the extremely lengthy series (20 books). The Sommerswerd is so powerful that it outclasses almost every other weapon you could possibly wield for the entire run.I'd like to note for [USER=42856]@Jfdlsjfd[/USER] 's benefit that back in the day on some of the LW mailing lists, it was considered a point of pride to finish the series without using the Sommerswerd at all after you find it. Later books give you alternate OP weapons, but it can be pretty harrowing not to have that +8 (+10 with Weaponskill) attack bonus most of the time.Isn't it? I think we can go out on a limb and guess that Morris Simon experienced nerd shunning as a student and observed it with his students. "Write what you know."Yeah, that's right. Those other cool kids don't DESERVE my company. They will only DISTRACT me from learning the rules for randomly generating Artifact and Relic drawbacks.We're not given a chance to stand up for him. We ask him some questions and then get told to STFU by the older student. Bullying wasn't OK even in the 1980s, but the book doesn't let us do anything about it.Pfft. Amateur. A real gamebook reader would write down the section numbers as he went, so he could ~~cheat by rewinding to a previous point~~ remember where he was before he flipped the pages to generate 1d10.Hahahahaha! I now want there to be a spinoff of this series wherein the surviving goblins have adventures in tiny-land.Hmm. The AD&D demilich is a crumbly skull and some dust. If the skull is sufficiently crumbled it could be smaller than a rat. (Have you seen New York City sewer rats? They are freakin' enormous. There's a photo in <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-york-city-biggest-rat-matthew-combs_n_56e6c7a4e4b0b25c91826a94" target="_blank">this old HuffPost article</a> with a rat easily twice as big as someone's hand.)Therefor I'm going to rule that Exterminate can indeed kill Acererak at the end of the Tomb of Horrors.I am more surprised he is not keeping full-sized novices as slaves in his room!Now now. It's not genocide. Although..."What do you call a pile of dead goblins?"..."A good start."</blockquote>

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