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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GameDaddy" data-source="post: 7693220" data-attributes="member: 80711">No, with the original as written, you literally had to cheat to win. This was my total experience with it... We had about fourteen peeps show up for this game, one GM. High School. Friday Night Party. We would drink, and party on, and play. He started with a party of 8, I didn't play in the first round, just rolled up a 10th level character instead. I wasn't even finished before the entire first party was dead.I played in the second round and died before reaching the Chapel. The GM claimed no one could survive, so I sat out the third round and just watched another group of fellow players try again. While this was going on, The other players tried real hard to get the GM completely drunk. They also tried many different tricks to get him away from the table so they could get a look at the module to foresee what was coming, because no one could even guess. We just knew it would be lethal.Back then there was no websites to go through that contained detailed walk-throughs, nor were there I-phones and androids to look up cheat codes or player tip sites.The second time, I brought my favorite 18th level Wizard. I had spent about three years of weekends playing this Wizard, and had actually worked him up from 1st level...Lasted longer in the second round. Made it to the Portal, and then got hosed by the Sphere of Annihilation. No save allowed. That was simply a Dead Wizard Walking. 18th level. Three years of gaming done. ...in 30 minutes.I quit playing for the night after that, just went back to the party-in-progress instead. later on, the GM loaned me the module so I could get a look at the whole adventure. No one else ever ran it.The players that did finally make it through that night played almost until dawn. They just kept dying, and rolling up new characters, and going to the next deathtrap, until they died. Wash, rinse, and repeat until they met the Lich. And they all died a couple times there too...</blockquote>

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