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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the black knight" data-source="post: 2537055" data-attributes="member: 33084">Well, 63% of the respondants have given the Tomb of Horrors a 7-10 rating, so that puts to rest any question of it being anything less than an all-time classic. Not that I needed a poll to tell me that.As for the module, yeah, I lost more than a few PCs trying to finish the thing. Did I feel frustrated? Hell, yes. Did I whine and call foul when it seemed harder than I had expected it to be? No, because I knew it was going to be tough from the beginning. I didn't use a lot of hirelings to get though it (although I wish I had); rather, I chose to sacrifice my characters time and again.As for the traps and design of the module being arbitrary, that's a bunch of hogwash. Is it any more arbitrary than what someone else puts in his own dungeon? No, of course not. What's more, I fail to recognize the names of the loudest critics of this module on any published work I have read, so I suspect it's merely a case of sour grapes and/or someone having lost their favorite PC to the infamous Gygax shredding machine.I love that story about Gary telling one cocky player to give him the name and address of his DM so he could write to the guy to tell him of the PC's demise. Heh. Gygax had a way with gamers that thought they were all that. Still does.</blockquote>