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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DungeonmasterCal" data-source="post: 1884609" data-attributes="member: 5388">How to choose just one??  Man...My most memorable moments as a player spring from my 1e days.  I began DMing in the last days of 1e, and seldom ever got to play again.  Anyway...  My favorite player memory was playing my anti-paladin, Schwartz the Lawless (this was before the movie "Spaceballs", so the stupid Schwartz jokes didn't apply, thank you very much.  I chose Schwartz because it's German for black and I was listening to a lot of WASP at the time and..anyway...).  Schwartz and some of his fellow acolytes of Set had been translocated with their wild west counterparts (Boot Hill rules from the 1e DMG).  In this person, he was Clem Whitaker, Scourge of the West, although he had Schwartz's mind and memories.  Schwartz was alone in his hotel room, when there's a knock on the door.  Opening the door, a trail-dusted bounty hunter shoves a double-barreled 12 gauge under Schwartz's nose and says, "Clem Whitaker.  I've been after you for nigh on five years.  You're a very popular man.  $5,000 dead, $10,000 alive.  I'm not a greedy man", and then pulls the trigger.The look of shock and then the smile on my DM's face told the whole story.  The bounty hunter rolled a 1.  My DM ruled the gun had jammed.  This was the only break Schwartz needed, as he grabbed the gun from the man and beat him to death with the stock.  This was the first instance of what we began to refer to as "Schwartz Luck", where at the most fortunate time the dice would fall in my favor and the whole adventure would spin round to bite our foes in the butt.I have many, many more of these...those were good days.</blockquote>

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