Dad's memories, "What is that adventure?"

[Sekhmet]

[MENTION=1210]the Jester[/MENTION] I started gaming in AD&D, so I'm fairly well familiar with the difference in general lethality. I used to come to sessions prepared with four or five different level 1 characters, because I knew I'd likely at least lose one or two.

 

[the Jester]

[MENTION=1210]the Jester[/MENTION] I started gaming in AD&D, so I'm fairly well familiar with the difference in general lethality. I used to come to sessions prepared with four or five different level 1 characters, because I knew I'd likely at least lose one or two.

Yeah, that's the ol' 1e spirit!

I understand Dungeon Crawl Classics rpg starts everyone off with a half-dozen zero level pcs and weeds 'em down. Sounds like fun to me!

 

[Storminator]

Yeah, that's the ol' 1e spirit!

I understand Dungeon Crawl Classics rpg starts everyone off with a half-dozen zero level pcs and weeds 'em down. Sounds like fun to me!

We would run a 1st level adventure. Then we would run another 1st level adventure with different PCs. Then we would pool the survivors and run a 2nd level adventure. . .

"I stand atop the pyramid of death!" - said every one of our high level characters.

PS

 

[Sekhmet]

Yeah, that's the ol' 1e spirit!

I understand Dungeon Crawl Classics rpg starts everyone off with a half-dozen zero level pcs and weeds 'em down. Sounds like fun to me!

My dad taught me, early on, to keep a pool of your characters that are "between adventures" of various levels, so if one of your 4th level characters dies in this adventure, you can bring in another 4th level character that you're familiar with.
He didn't like the idea of making characters higher than 1st level.

 

[dd.stevenson]

So, my father is an old school BECMI > AD&D > 2e nerd.

Cherish that.