Fighting your way through the monster and god books

[Quasqueton]

I've read and heard about this concept many times over the years. I never did it myself, but I'll admit that it does sound like it would have been fun. Did you go on a killing spree through the Monster Manual and/or Dieties & Demigods? With or without a legitimate DM? Aside from the core absurdity of the concept, did you do this without fudging? What level was your character(s) when you took on the gods?

Quasqueton

 

[Tav_Behemoth]

Not even if you count the kind of conversation you have when you're 12 - "yeah, Hastur's pretty tough, but my character could take him" - as diceless roleplaying; we didn't have the discipline to go front-to-back, so I'm sure some deities got skipped.

Isn't the World's Largest Dungeon a killing spree through the Monster Manual, or at least the open game content parts thereof?

 

[Darkness]

I never did this.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Ah, the good old days of being young and foolish. I did this more than 20 years ago, I was probably in 6th grade at the time. Two of my friends and I took on the Gods from the Deities and Demigods. One of my firends was the DM. Was he a legitimate DM? I don't know, how do you define "legitimate?" He did not make it easy for us, but he also did not make them very intelligent in terms of tactics either. Of course we did not understand the concept of an avatar and that the god would likely be back and be a little angry (along with others of his or her pantheon). I have no recollection of what level we were, but I would guess somewhere on the order of 30th level or so (it is amazing how fast you used to go up in levels when dungeons were stocked with huge hoards of magical items). Of course once you had killed a few gods and taken their cool weapons, killing others got easier.

While I do not miss the silliness of doing something like that, I do miss having high level characters. In the past 10 years of gaming between moving and groups breaking up, I have yet to play a character higher than 7th level. I miss the power (that's why now I DM )

 

[Psychic Warrior]

I never did this but I vaguely remember some other guys at school (around grade 9) who did. They had pages of magic items (the paladin had the most, too) and a 'hit list' of dieties they had killed.

I would imagine that 2E with the introduction of avatars (back in the 1E days gods listed int he D&DG could be killed outright) that their was much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

 

[KB9JMQ]

When I was 14 or so and we had some noshows to a game the one player and I went thru like 25 monsters from the MM. Ahh, the good ole days.

 

[Li Shenron]

Not sure what you mean with "killing spree"... A few years ago, we set up a couple of times a sort of arena-based game, to get familiar with combat rules and have some fun (we were only 3 those evenings). One of those times we had 3rd level PCs IIRC, and each of them (separately) had to face a series of creatures of ascending CR, regaining resources after each battle, until defeat. It was kind of funny, and useful to learn better the combat part of 3ed.

 

[Quasqueton]

how do you define "legitimate?"

Not sure what you mean with "killing spree"...

People, people. This isn't the Rules forum. Don't get sidetracked about exact definitions and such.

Quasqueton

 

[Pinotage]

Nope, never did this. But I have created parties of characters and then used random NPC/Dungeon/Treasure generators. Though it's like playing chess with yourself (which doesn''t work, in case there were any doubters out there!).

Pinotage

 

[Tonguez]

Um I once played a legitimate scenario that involved the PCs fighting their way out of a dinosaur infested island - which took us through the whole dinosaur list (plus a few other reptilian beasties)