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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 510334" data-attributes="member: 8158">All these years I've heard ToH referred to as the all-time king of all killer dungeons. I've never read the module, just played through it once. Just my fighter/thief and another playing a straight thief (this was about a decade ago using 2e rules). Seemed that it was basically a thief's dungeon, with only 2 monster encounters that I can recall: a gargoyle and a giant scimitar-wielding skeleton. That was certainly fortunate, since we had no cleric, just a bunch of cure potions. Considering ToH's rep, I've always wondered if our GM was pulling punches by extracting monster encounters. Most every potentially deadly situation basically killed the PC's if they were too aggressive or if they let emotions such as curiosity or greed get the better of them. We were meticulous about looking before we leapt (we had to be, since we had no muscle whatsoever). I recall a hallway full of pit traps, a room full of annihlation, a couple of decoy corridors that the GM later told me would have surely killed us hadn't we stopped to find the secret doors. Looking for secret doors and and pitfalls seems to have been key.Anyway, set me straight here guys. Does it sound like my DM padded the tomb? He's not the type, but maybe he felt pity on a couple of outmatched tomb raiders?</blockquote>