DMs are too easy on their players

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Waldorf is a character someone bragged about one or a few letters to Dragon Magazine some years ago. Went around slaying gods and such just for the heck of it, or something like that. Don't remember. :uhoh:
 

Ah, I see...

Your information and some googling led to:

Dragon #137, p.3
Letters: Odds & ends (anonymous)
Waldorf destroys Greyhawk

And this Waldorf is a level 358 magic-user who created the nuclear bomb, wiped everyone out on Greyhawk except that one little island with Castle Waldorf and enslaved the gods to work at his salt mines underneath the castle. Impressive.

I note though that there are a group of adventurers on the same letters page who can "wipe out five planes of the Abyss in a round". Maybe we should invite them too :p
 



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!
 
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Edena_of_Neith said:
(off-topic, answer to off-topic post)

Oh, and it's not 121st level, Numion.
It's 161st level. 121st level cleric / 40th level wizard (1st/2nd edition, never translated to 3rd edition.)
(Edena achieved his levels exactly the way described above. And yes, he's legit.)

Sorry to burst your bubble, but that's, in addition to making no sense, nowhere near legit.

Turned into two people. One stayed a male human, and the other became a female elf. Both adventure in the world today.

Let me guess: they're lovers?

Edena the 161st level human male and Edena the 161st female elf .. consider the offspring. Too bad it's going to be a half-elf, but I guess a race or gender has never stopped the Edena family.
 

(grins evilly again)

Actually, my dear Numion, the *other* Edena (created by the equivalent of that epic spell that duplicates you ... what was the name? ... except permanent; and my DM did this, not me) is a nymph now.
She was an elf, but she evolved into a nymph. She has access to Elven High Magic *on top* of all of the powers she had as Edena. (She doesn't remember much, however, about her life as Edena. Just a few faded memories.)

And she refuses to fight Waldorf, by the way. She knows of his challenge to the first Edena, and that's fine with her; she's staying out of it.

However, the *first* Edena has accepted Waldorf's challenge. And so ...
 


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