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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Son_of_Thunder" data-source="post: 2482143" data-attributes="member: 258">Worst game I ever played inHow I killed a campaign. By Son_of_ThunderBoy, the memories this thread has resurrected from the darkest recesses of my mind. It was a 2e game an old friend invited me to play in. Mistake one: I played the first session on the last day of my honeymoon; wife still doesn’t let me forget it.The DM’s were brothers. They had crafted a well thought out campaign. I liked the background and my friend said it was a blast to play in. I rolled up a dwarven cleric, about 6th level I believe. Not bad but str only 15. I later realized he couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag when compared to the ‘3 core’ player’s PCs. Mistake number 2: They told me what happened to the last player’s character they had leave their group. He was a bard that was used in Minotaur fertility rights, that’s all I’ll say.DM 1 had a fighter w/berserker kit. He had a magic sword akin to that pasty-faced Elric dude, you know steal souls that type of thing. Oh, he also had complete and utter immunity to dragon breath of any type because he was born in the year of the dragon.DM2 also had a fighter w/peasant hero kit. Specialized in longbow and quarterstaff. Had a quarterstaff of speed and longbow of slaying and +4 elven chain.Friend who introduced me to game, has a +1 two-handed battle-axe for his dwarven fighter, until later. This is important.My guy, Hammer of Creation. Seems fair right. Artifact dedicated to my deity, who is a creator deity. It supposedly makes me this incredibly gifted smith and what do I create, +1 plate mail. Oh, Hammer of Creation in a fight is a +1 war hammer.I introduced two friends to the game later. Friend 1 had a paladin with +1 bastard sword, light on command and full plate. Friend 2 had a human cleric of Heimdall from Legends and Lore 2e. If you’ll recall, the clerics special power was to be able to hear any noise within like 500’ or something, it’s been awhile. This is important.The situation that started it all. Alright, the dm’s have a race of drow called woodrow, silly huh? Anywho, they live on the surface, no light blindness but same as subterranean drow, this is important. Adventure is we’re on the plains of his campaign world traveling. We come upon an entire geographical area that is covered in magical darkness. We go forward into the darkness and investigate. We’re attacked by ‘drow’ without any casualties and flee the darkness.Now, we think this is an invasion force so we set up plans. Things do not go even bad, they go bend over the not ‘core 3’ players and give it to ‘em up the tailpipe. The cleric of Heimdall is ambushed by four ‘drow’ outside the area of darkness, never saw or heard (remember special power) anything. The paladin uses sword to shed powerful daylight effect but, inexplicably didn’t work; later explanation, they must have been woodrow, shya right. We later find out that they were really the deep dwelling drow that had been pushed out of their caverns by mind flayers. Me, I might as well have been fighting goblins for all the good I was doing. My spells didn’t seem to work against these particular ‘drow’, you know magic immunity and all that.So, my two friends and I just let the ‘core’ group clean ‘em up. They did so with efficiency and no loss of life.Later, in a town we came to, think frontier old west, we enter an inn. The proprietor is a duergar, who the axe-wielding dwarf considers scum, racial enmity and all that. So without further ado, he strikes the head off of the innocent innkeeper. LG dwarf mind you. No alignment adjustment at all. It was simple murder. My two collaborators and I accuse the dwarf of murder, he flees town after receiving an ancestral artifact two-handed battle-axe from a relation that just happens to be going through town.Well, my colleagues and I are pissed. I email the DM and say “I regrettably can’t play in his campaign anymore because I want to start my own campaign”. My friends left with me and his campaign collapsed shortly thereafter. I guess no one to show off to.There’s more I could tell but I’ll stop there.</blockquote>

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