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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gomez" data-source="post: 2042083" data-attributes="member: 20204"><img src="http://www.nndb.com/tv/628/000072412/hall1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />With several threads about D&D nostalgia. It reminded me about a not often used description of a type of play. Monty Hall! For you whipper snappers who don't know what that means. Monty Hall was the host of a game show called Let's Make a Deal in the late 60's and 70's. The host, Monty Hall, would stroll through the audience asking for all sorts of crazy items. “I’ll pay $200 for a rubber band,” he might say. A rubber band-waving audience member would leap to his feet and Hall would quickly pay out the cash, with the entire audience counting out the bills in unison.Then came decision time. “Would you like to keep that $200,” he would ask the rubber band trader, “or swap it for what’s behind the curtain?” Sometimes there was a car behind the curtain and other times a bucket of sand or something like that. Now in the world of D&D at that time, if you ran a "Monty Hall" game it was all about treasure and power. I knew a player who ran his favorite character through a dungeon that was nothing but one room after another with a Red Dragon in each room. He would killed the dragon and rolled up it's treasure. He then repeated this over and over. Greed was king. I remember having my mom drop me off at a local gaming store on a Saturday afternoon so I could play D&D. The game I got into was run by this kid who was the king of Monty Hall DM's. First off the main kingdom of the land was run by one of his own characters. His police force for the kingdom were Storm Giants. You catch my drift. I remember having my 3rd level fighter being giving an Arrow of Slaying by a NPC and after a bitter fight with some orcs we saw a giant headed our way. Well, I was thinking OMG we are toast. That giant will cream us. So I used the Arrow of Slaying and killed the Giant. Well it turned out the giant was a "Police Man" coming to save our bacon! LOL! I would like to hear your brushes with Mr. Monty Hall!</blockquote>

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