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Friday, 4 January 2019

Beginner's luck






  1. Very funny !
    My first RpG as a gamemaster was not from the commerce, but a home-made one loosely inspired by the "Dark Eye" with added contents from the gamebooks Lone Wolf and Sorcery! (especially for the medicinal herbs...)
    My lone player was my best friend, a warrior called "Conan" if I remember well. The adventure took place in a castle lost in the mountains, where a sorceress had lost control over her zombies. This was always the same pattern : he killed the 1st level zombies, and stole everything he found. In the laboratory, he found strange "meatballs" (the ones from Mampang) he ate... and reptile-scales grew on his skin (giving + 1 protection...). After this unexpected event, he just put the other herbs into his haversack.
    Once he came back to civilisation, (and after the rescue army had realised he was not a real lizard-man...), he sold the selection of herbs he had plundered....
    And bewilderment was mine as I saw he had some Oed herb whose price was... one million gold crowns...

    1. Lol -- my first character (the one who got the 12000 Kaitar gem)was called "Elric". And they say young people have more imagination...

      Eventually Elric put together an expedition to the same fortress in the swamps that had lured those 1st level PCs to their doom. But I waited till I was about 15th level first!

    2. "Conan", with that wealth, wed the noble damsel he had saved in the previous adventure and bought a fief. However, once his village had grown to outnumber the neighbouring town thanks to the buildings he paid for, he came back on the roads for adventures through the whole Empire. He traveled in a customized horse-drawn caravan, with his private escort of riders (so that he could choose which encounters were interesting in terms of experience points...). Thanks to magic potions, he got 20/20 on Charisma and 25/20 on Force (I still have the Character Sheet). One of his mission included finding back the Philosophers' Stone for the Emperor. He succeeded (but of course he used it a little to his own benefit before bringing it to his sovereign...)

  2. Probably my first real RPG experience came in college when I played an all-night session with some guys. I didn't have a character, so they let me have a Druid who had something called the Staff of the Druid (think Staff of the Magi but for Druids - I think).

    Anyway, we were going to play through "The Steading of the Hill-Giant Chief." In that module there's one room just filled with giants that can easily murder an uncautious party. A potion of Clairvoyance let us see into the room. So, I look at the stuff the staff could do, cracked a door and did "Transmute Rock to Mud"

    The GM: Okay, the giant dropped into a big-ass mud-pit.

    Me: Transmute Mud to Rock.

    GM: Okay, they're trapped, but if you try to attack them, they can still hit you.

    Me: Insect Plague. Three times.

    GM: (calculates accrued damage of the spells) Um. Okay. Uh, they're all dead. Since nobody else participated, you, uh, get all the XP.

    So my character basically jumped almost two levels (from I think 8th to 10th) in one "fight."