Orcs and 10'x10' Rooms

[Melan]

Henry: and, strangely enough, I still don't know what the heck a thoul is supposed to be. Oh, sure, a cross between a troll and a ghould, but, but, but... It just doesn't make sense, and this comes from the mouth of someone who thinks gelatinous cubes are viable life forms IRL.

 

[Simplicity]

Hah! In my day, we could fit SIX adventurerers, two orcs, a dragon, 4 pit traps, 6 spear traps, 2 kobolds, 16 stirges, 4 ticked-off dire rats glued to the ceiling and carrying disease, a Leomund's secret chest, and a thoul into that same 10' by 10 ' room!

And the treasure was in a chest behind the secret door!

And we LIKED it that way!

We used to DREAM of having ticked-off, glued, disease-carrying rats!

In my day, we could fit EIGHT adventurers, six non-player characters, three cohorts, one paladin's warhorse, two orcs, a dragon, 6 chests, 6 kobolds, 16 stirges, and 19 ticked-off and hungry DIRE rats into a LEATHER BAG!

And there was none of this moving around malarky! Every round, we were held in firmly in place by rat and stirge carcasses, and we'd headbutt our opponents to death, if we were LUCKY. Then, we'd collect the 2 coppers from their body and start headbutting someone else. But we were happier those days...

 

[Pielorinho]

And there was none of this moving around malarky! Every round, we were held in firmly in place by rat and stirge carcasses, and we'd headbutt our opponents to death, if we were LUCKY. Then, we'd collect the 2 coppers from their body and start headbutting someone else. But we were happier those days...

Two copper pieces? LOOOOOOxury!

When I was an adventurer, there we were, all fifteen thousand of us locked in a single jewelry box, fighting off the forces of hell. They'd tear us into strips and make origami from our skins. Then they'd take all our money, we'd lose 100 xp + 10 per hit point, and we'd have to do the DM's laundry.

But did we complain? Noooooo!
Daniel

 

[Impeesa]

Ha! Back in my day, we could fit our whole campaign setting in a 10x10 room. Oh, for the epic dungeon crawls and intriguing politics of the old games...

--Impeesa--

 

[CleverName]

Does anyone miss the old pre-3E days, when an entire group of adventurers could get into a fight with an orc in a 10' by 10' room?

Nope. This has come up exactly never.

 

[Particle_Man]

Henry: and, strangely enough, I still don't know what the heck a thoul is supposed to be. Oh, sure, a cross between a troll and a ghould, but, but, but... It just doesn't make sense, and this comes from the mouth of someone who thinks gelatinous cubes are viable life forms IRL.

From Basic/Expert D&D (now no longer published), the thoul was indeed a cross between a ghoul, a troll, and a hobgoblin (I think). Partly Magic experiment, and partly an early unconscious argument for making all undead into templates?

 

[Mark Chance]

Ha!

In my day we didn't even 10x10 rooms! We had to do all of our fighting, adventuring, and so forth in a single 5-foot-wide corridor, fighting uphill in the snow barefoot in both directions, and we were happy about it!

 

[Sixchan]

You had it easy! We played on a parallel universe that lacked any semblance of physics! All our adventuring was done on a straight line! None of this "2D" milarky! In my day, we fought 500 orc-lines for a simple copper strip and a pipecleaner! And we bloody well enjoyed it!

 

[Sagiro]

What's all this about rooms and corridors?

Why, in my day, we didn't have sissy rooms, chambers, corridors, crawl-spaces, leather bags or locked jewelry boxes.

If we wanted to adventure, we had to do it inside our own bodies! I'll never forget the time we fought a wyvern inside the wizard's spleen. The pocket lint we found as treasure was covered with bile! And don't get me started about the state of our "travel rations."

-Sagiro

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

What's all this about rooms and corridors?

Why, in my day, we didn't have sissy rooms, chambers, corridors, crawl-spaces, leather bags or locked jewelry boxes.

If we wanted to adventure, we had to do it inside our own bodies! I'll never forget the time we fought a wyvern inside the wizard's spleen. The pocket lint we found as treasure was covered with bile! And don't get me started about the state of our "travel rations."

-Sagiro

A BODY? You were lucky to have a body.

We had to make do with immaterial dream stuff. We used to fight 30 hours a day, just to get to our weapons! And when we won, our DM would give us curses, traps, exploding gems and the Head of Vecna...IF WE WERE LUCKY!