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<blockquote data-quote="Cthulhu's Librarian" data-source="post: 1270297" data-attributes="member: 11064"><p>The things I have in notebooks and folders... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p> </p><p> Just off the top of my head:</p><p> 1. "The New Olympus Quest"-My first attempt at a campaign. I took all the modules I had at the time (Keep on the Boarderlands, Isle of Dread, Against the Giants, Village of Homlet, and Tomb of Horrors), drew up a world map, and dropped them where they fit. I added a few teleportation portals conveniently located next to the start of each adventure, and gave the whole thing a name that sounded really cool to my 12 year old mind but had nothing to do with the adventures or the world. Then I covered the whole folder with really cheezy stickers of dragons and other monsters. I ran one session for my brother, a friend of mine, and my uncle (who I now realize was high the whole day, but then we just thought he was acting silly). </p><p> 2. My basic D&D character (whose name I forget) that I played for a few years. An elf who had almost every magic item in the basic & expert books, and had lost his arm in combat with a dragon. He made himself a new arm from some bones found in the dragons lair, animated it (I don't remember how), and went back in and killed the dragon. He maxed out the levels of elf, then I borrowed someones AD&D Players Handbook and "converted" him to AD&D, convieniently making him several levels higher. </p><p> 3. A series of halfling characters named Billbo, Cillbo, Dillbo, Eillbo, Fillbo, etc. All brothers, all fighters, all died at first level in a friends campaign. </p><p> 4. A series of Thieves named Slither, Slither 2, Slither 3, etc.</p><p> 5. A Marvel Super Heros character named "Graffitti" whose power was to change the color of things that he touched with his fingertips. Not a very effective power in combat, his favorite attack was to try to poke someone in the eyes (three stooges style) and turn their eyes black so they were blinded. He was the laughing stock of our long running lunchtime game in highschool, but I played him for 2 years. He never did amount to much, but I thought he had so much potential.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cthulhu's Librarian, post: 1270297, member: 11064"] The things I have in notebooks and folders... [img]http://www.enworld.org/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif[/img] Just off the top of my head: 1. "The New Olympus Quest"-My first attempt at a campaign. I took all the modules I had at the time (Keep on the Boarderlands, Isle of Dread, Against the Giants, Village of Homlet, and Tomb of Horrors), drew up a world map, and dropped them where they fit. I added a few teleportation portals conveniently located next to the start of each adventure, and gave the whole thing a name that sounded really cool to my 12 year old mind but had nothing to do with the adventures or the world. Then I covered the whole folder with really cheezy stickers of dragons and other monsters. I ran one session for my brother, a friend of mine, and my uncle (who I now realize was high the whole day, but then we just thought he was acting silly). 2. My basic D&D character (whose name I forget) that I played for a few years. An elf who had almost every magic item in the basic & expert books, and had lost his arm in combat with a dragon. He made himself a new arm from some bones found in the dragons lair, animated it (I don't remember how), and went back in and killed the dragon. He maxed out the levels of elf, then I borrowed someones AD&D Players Handbook and "converted" him to AD&D, convieniently making him several levels higher. 3. A series of halfling characters named Billbo, Cillbo, Dillbo, Eillbo, Fillbo, etc. All brothers, all fighters, all died at first level in a friends campaign. 4. A series of Thieves named Slither, Slither 2, Slither 3, etc. 5. A Marvel Super Heros character named "Graffitti" whose power was to change the color of things that he touched with his fingertips. Not a very effective power in combat, his favorite attack was to try to poke someone in the eyes (three stooges style) and turn their eyes black so they were blinded. He was the laughing stock of our long running lunchtime game in highschool, but I played him for 2 years. He never did amount to much, but I thought he had so much potential. [/QUOTE]
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