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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9589633" data-attributes="member: 7737"><a href="http://Post in thread %27[AD&D Gamebook] Sceptre of Power (Kingdom of Sorcery, book 1 of 3)%27" target="_blank">Obligatory cross-promotion link</a> for readers in 2045 who have no idea what this joke references.(Hey, don’t laugh: I still re-read story hours from the 2000s here in 2025!)The good news is we are highly unlikely to contract leprosy from him in his brief reaming lifespan after taunting four heavily-armed murder-hobos.So we can hack him down, being sure not to endure “prolonged, close contact” and contemplate how to get out of the room Quality rant! It’s particularly ridiculous that the book would “trap” us on the 1st floor (2nd floor for U.S. Americans). We’re in a tower. It can be as tall as it needs to be. And this room has astronomical stuff in it. Wouldn’t it make more sense to trap us on the top floor? And say it is 100 feet in the air? At least that would be a plausible reason why we don’t just hop out the window, which on the 1st (2nd in USA) floor is only about 8-10 feet off the ground and easily survivable by normal people, let alone hardened murder-hoboes.Agreed - that was awesome. More gamebooks need(ed) stuff like this.“You’re dead in some elaborate yet stupid way.”“Unless you have this character / item / scrap of rhyme written down…”What is it what is it whatisit WHATISIT? As a D&D player in those day I absolutely would’ve quaffed this thing immediately. As a gamebook veteran here in 2025, I… still kinda want to quaff it ASAP, but I suppose we should wait until just before the end of this book to see if it has some other use. (And if not, definitely quaff it at the end because we have to know what it does.) (Feel free to blame me when it’s instant death.)Psyche named one of her slaves after the past tense of the vulgar word for defecate? MONSTROUS.How have you not turned to (131) already? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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