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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nato9" data-source="post: 2540290" data-attributes="member: 23557">Ok Warlord Ralts you're making me die laughing over here (I'm sure there was a trap like that in the Tomb SOMEWHERE)!  Some really funny stuff.Your description kind of reminds me of a video game where you have like 30 lives.  Everytime you die a new guy drops out of the sky and can try again, with all the previous lives' knowledge.  Any idea of the final body count?  How many parties?  If you have infinite PCs to use, and death is meaningless, are you really beating it?  We just may have different ideas of success.But now I'm gonna tap in the Konami code before every game session.I really find it hard to believe trial and error led to you saying those specific words.  I think the DM would have to fudge this.No I like to play D&D rather than fiddle with semantics like the module demands.  Games would slow to an absolute crawl as described.I guess spells like that could give a lot of the answers needed.  So you mean you left all your non-weapons/armor items behind, and this let you know to insert a ring?Ouchie.  I've seen I6, X1, B2, B1, and the Palace, but no I just didn't remember the secret door in the pit trap in them.  I guess I'm just not a fan of secret doors that must be found to continue.Well I guess thats just it.  You can afford to lose multiple PCs just searching one room.  My parties come in smaller than battalion size.  Fair point on the key though!Seriously, you're killing me!Actually that sounds more like 3E "golf bag fighter" to me than 1E.  I always felt swords were really encouraged in 1E.  I also don't ignore encumberance.If you followed all the weapon speed and weapon vs armor rules back then, I surrender.  No questions asked.  You the 1E AD&D master!Out loud, no.  Out loud kind of gives it away.Well, even a mean guy like Acererak is screwed if hes up against infinite PCs that learn from the mistakes of those who fell before them.Far from it.  Played more earlier stuff than 3E actually.  Like most here prolly, I started out in the old days.  I read the TOH sitting in front of me quite a while ago.  You're right though, I don't like traps.  They seem like an artifact of the early days to me.  A TOH type setting is one of the few places they make sense!This is like the worst criticism ever leveled against me.  It will haunt me for the rest of my days!  Maybe that does seem more unlikely to honestly happen to me than it really is.Ok, I give, whats a game shark.  Was that in the pool with the siren in room 12?  (btw, she was the trickiest thing in the whole Tomb!)I never said too hard; I said too arbitrary.  At least I don't think I'm whining; I think I have reasonable points.You hit a gap in my old collection.   I'm in the don't-mix-fantasy-and-SF camp.  What can I say?  I'm just plain no good.How about White Plume Mountain?  I LOVE that one!</blockquote>

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