Your Very First Monster Encounter

[fenzer]

I too am a member of the old fart club.

About 1980, my long lost buddy Lance ran me through my first game of D&D, some dungeon he created. The only thing I really remember (it's true, the more kids you have the less your brain functions.) is running into a Wight, yes the undead kind not a glowing "white" ball of light, the image my young brain conjured up at the time. I kept seeing this huge nasty Will-O-the Wisp like "white" hovering around kicking the crap out of me.

Fun, fond memories.

 

[trilobite]

Mind Flayer. I was a first level magic user. Less than 30 minutes after creating my first character, I was lunch

Now that is a Rat-Bastard GM!

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

I believe my first was a bone golem, way back in the red book Basic set days.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Keep on the Borderlands.

I only vaguely remember the description of the thing that looked like, "A lizard walking on its hind legs but with a head kinda like a dog."

I was terrified.

It killed me with a sword.

At the time, it was the coolest thing ever.

Now it's just a goddamned kobold. (I got killed by ONE kobold.)

I miss being a newbie.


Wulf

 

[Garrett Thorngage]

I like Kobolds far too much...

Have you ever come across a Dire Kobold? What do you think of them? They can be very nasty and could be something you might be interested in if you like kobolds and destroying PC's so much.

 

[Orius]

For me it was a bunch of nasty elf women that tried to enslave us. I fought back and died.

 

[Garrett Thorngage]

I was a newbie, first time out, playing with a group of very experienced guys. No idea what I was doing and they gave me a cleric to play. The next thing I know we are coming across a roper that attacks and kills me while the rest of the party goes off looking for other creatures and treasures. It couldn't have been too bad though, I still play, right? Besides I was only sitting in that one time.

 

[trilobite]

Keep on the Borderlands.

I only vaguely remember the description of the thing that looked like, "A lizard walking on its hind legs but with a head kinda like a dog."

I was terrified.

It killed me with a sword.

At the time, it was the coolest thing ever.

Now it's just a goddamned kobold. (I got killed by ONE kobold.)

I miss being a newbie.


Wulf

I remember later in the same dungeon that we ran up against some kobolds. The one thing that sticks out in my mind is the magic user wrestling on the ground with a kobold as he tried to stab it with a iron spike.

 

[diaglo]

Now it's just a goddamned kobold. (I got killed by ONE kobold.)

I miss being a newbie.

n00bs still get killed by kobolds....they just have 20 lvls of sorc and the vampire template with half-dragon whatsits thrown in.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

2e, I *think* it was a goblin. Either that, or a wererat.

3e, the first actual monster we saw was a hippogriff. Before that, we fought a lot of human thugs.

Brad