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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ephemeron" data-source="post: 1676432" data-attributes="member: 21477">A few years ago, I got some friends together with the promise of a one-shot nostalgic dungeon crawl and sprang S3 on them.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  There were five or six players, I think.  I had them use pre-gen characters from the back of the module; there was a lot of speculation as to how the pre-gens could have reached their levels with such mediocre stats and so few magic items.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Unfortunately, they didn't get very far at all.  After several hours of hacking at vegepygmies (oh, and discovering that 33,000 cu. ft. is a whole lot of fireball), getting annoyed at the color-coded doors, mapping, mapping, and mapping -- it felt like I spent more time describing and redescribing twisty corridors than anything else -- people started getting tired and bored and asked to end with a big fight.  So we "skipped ahead" to the froghemoth and had a fairly satisfying battle.They never saw the crazy high-tech gadgets, which is a shame.  I thought the artists did a great job of illustrating them in such a way that players would be just as clueless as their characters about what they were, how to use them, or even where the business end was!</blockquote>

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