The Legend of Waldorf (as accurately as I can remember it, folks)
Once upon a time, an eager gamer got his character up to 358th level or so, and said character invented the nuclear bomb.
This character, Waldorf, then wiped out the planet of Oerth with nuclear weapons, enslaved the Gods of the Greyhawk Pantheon (to work in his salt mines) and established himself as absolute ruler of Greyhawk (Oerth.)
The player then sent a letter to TSR, requesting that *all* people worldwide with characters in the Greyhawk Setting send in their character sheets to him, so he could tally up the experience points Waldorf had earned by killing them.
I believe - I could be wrong on this - that he informed TSR that there was no point in them continuing to produce modules or adventures for the setting, since it was destroyed.
For at least the next year, in Dragon Magazine, letters were published by assorted groups as to how they counterstruck against Waldorf. Group after group made claims as to how they could defeat the guy.
So the player of Waldorf struck back, explaining how Waldorf could kill all of THESE groups, in great detail.
And the battle went on, in both letters (e-mail hadn't been invented yet) and in the pages of Dragon Magazine.
Finally, someone rammed a spaceship at high speed, filled with nilbogs, into Waldorf's Castle, and at Dragon Magazine they declared him dead.
Or so I read, long ago. 20 long years ago.
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Now, it would seem that ... Waldorf is ... back.
Time to strike him down again. I've wanted to kill Waldorf for all those 20 years. And now I have my chance.
VirgilCaine, get a thread going in the appropriate forum! Let's have that fight. You've thrown down the gauntlet, and I'm picking it up.
Edena accepts the challenge. Time to smite Waldorf down once more!
