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<blockquote data-quote="Ulrick" data-source="post: 4101500" data-attributes="member: 775">^ What rossik said. I've run Tomb of Horrors thrice. Each time as a one-shot, and each time with a high death rate. No one made it to the final resting place of Acererak. And the players didn't get mad at me, they got mad at Gary Gygax for designing such an unfair module.While I understand that some traps in that dungeon could be considered unfair, but I told them that it was a &quot;thinking player's module&quot; (to quote Gygax himself). Your character's level and powers almost do not matter. Gygax designed that modules with this in mind. He was tired of seeing &quot;inexperienced&quot; players with &quot;experienced&quot; characters walking around boasting about what their characters could do. I think this was the case in all three times I ran the module. And I think the reason why the majority of my players were pissed, not because they weren't careful enough, but they would make foolish choices and they could only blame themselves. I would love to run this module again (not updated 3.5 version!), but I'm wondering how much of an uproar it would cause.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ulrick, post: 4101500, member: 775"] ^ What rossik said. I've run Tomb of Horrors thrice. Each time as a one-shot, and each time with a high death rate. No one made it to the final resting place of Acererak. And the players didn't get mad at me, they got mad at Gary Gygax for designing such an unfair module. While I understand that some traps in that dungeon could be considered unfair, but I told them that it was a "thinking player's module" (to quote Gygax himself). Your character's level and powers almost do not matter. Gygax designed that modules with this in mind. He was tired of seeing "inexperienced" players with "experienced" characters walking around boasting about what their characters could do. I think this was the case in all three times I ran the module. And I think the reason why the majority of my players were pissed, not because they weren't careful enough, but they would make foolish choices and they could only blame themselves. I would love to run this module again (not updated 3.5 version!), but I'm wondering how much of an uproar it would cause. [/QUOTE]

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