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A Very Special Roleplaying Session
On February 17th, 2008, I am planning on running a very special event. It will be first-edition D&D rules. And it will be the most gruelling dungeon of all time:

The Tomb Of Horrors.

Yes, Tomb of Horrors - the most unfair, killer dungeon in existence, able to wipe out high-level groups in a single shot. If you would care to attend this all-day session, wherein I will be reverting to the old-school Dungeon Master's technique of "I try to kill you, you try to survive," then you must let me know in advance. Not only will it be goony, classic adventuring, but prizes will be given - I will be bestowing actual gifts for "First Non-Suicidal Adventurer Death" and "Final Survivor," among others.

If you'd like to be slaughtered like drugged lambs participate, you must follow the rules:

1) Unless you are of sterling morals, the stats of your characters must be rolled up with 3d6 in front of me. There are no variants, no "roll 4d6 and keep the highest," no "allocating points" - this is D&D, baby. And if you suck at rolling, well, you'll be a fighter along with everyone else. (Oh, and since none of you are of sterling morals, you all roll.)

2) No dual-classed characters. This is classic. If you're a wizard, you wear the pointy hat. If you're a thief, you have lockpicks. You don't get to have lockpicks and spells.

3) Each character must have precisely one of each of the following traits:

a) A background characteristic.
b) A really obvious physical characteristic.
c) A notable personality quirk.
d) A slogan and/or battle cry, or perhaps both in one.

But here's the rub: Each of the four characteristics above must be something that you could have created in Junior High. There will be no deep characterization in Tomb of Horrors - someone will be playing the Barbarian from the Winter Wastes who has bulging muscles, a hatred of magic, and a cry of "BY CROM'S HAMMER!" and by God they'll like it.

4) I'll decide on a level cap and magic item allocation later. It won't matter, anyway.

5) The information in Tomb of Horrors is easily found. Therefore, anyone who shows the slightest evidence of knowing the traps of the Tomb of Horrors in advance will experience the joy of rocks falling on their heads from the sky.

Any questions? Ask. Any desire to attend? Lemme know.

(Tell me I'm full of it)

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From:[info]zorbathut
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:25 pm (UTC)
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Oh man, if I was anywhere near Ohio I'd be signing up this instant.
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From:[info]darthparadox
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:30 pm (UTC)
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Likewise. That sounds awesome.
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From:[info]towanda
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:28 pm (UTC)
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Haha, sounds like fun! What edition do ya'll usually play?
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From:[info]theferrett
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:32 pm (UTC)
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Actually, we don't. The setting is Planescape, the mechanical system is Hero, Fifth Edition.

D&D Rules? A little too toxic come the higher levels.
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From:[info]wiredwizard
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:30 pm (UTC)
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lololol! If I was anywhere near Ferrettland I would definitely sign up for that! (reminds me of when some pals & I spent a long weekend at boarding school finding new & exciting ways to get killed in the Barrier Peaks campaign - more characters died of different kinds of radiation poisoning that weekend than in all my years as a gamer combined)
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From:[info]technophobia
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:31 pm (UTC)
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I have never in my life wanted so badly to live near the Ferrett.

If there was any way for me to get to Ohio in February, I'd be on it in an instant.
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From:[info]lurkerwithout
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:33 pm (UTC)
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The original only THINKS its the most unfair. I've got the HackMaster version. There is no fairness anywhere near that thing...

Anyway, my favorite "Tomb of Horrors - BEAT IT" story was the guy who had his mage raise a graveyard full of skeletons, march them to the Tomb and then had them dig it up...
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From:[info]theferrett
Date:December 21st, 2007 11:17 pm (UTC)
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Mine was the folks who got a herd of pigs and ran them down the corridors. They found all the traps toot sweet.
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From:[info]fortuna_juvat
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:35 pm (UTC)
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:( Still in clinicals.

FANTASTIC character premise, by the way.
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From:[info]tormentedartist
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:45 pm (UTC)
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I loved the Tomb...in junior high I remember that we started playing and someone got killed right at the entrance. My character survived by thinking outside of the box and using a common spell in and uncommon way. my fellow players were pissed at me. LOL. Sadly we never got to finish the Tomb because after i left that session two of the players got into a fight. Oh well.

I wish I could come sounds like fun, but even if I lived closer I already know too much : ( But hell it would be fun to watch.
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From:[info]transversecity
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:45 pm (UTC)
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Holy Geebus. If I didn't have that module memorized...
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From:[info]pete23
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:46 pm (UTC)
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ah, shoot. for once i'm on the wrong side of the atlantic.
From:[info]jonnorthwood
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:47 pm (UTC)
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Oh, Gods. I'm filled with envy for your victims players right now.
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From:[info]lyssabard
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:48 pm (UTC)
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Oh dude, that's a Sunday! Or I'd be *begging* B and Jan and Nick to come up with me for this. (Nick is Jan's husband. He is a D&D GOD..and AD&D, etc. It's his game, his love.)

Man...this would KICK ASS.

(Can't take days off, either. B flies out for work that week..or god I would.)

Dammit.

Lemme get back to you on this.

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From:[info]vrax
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:51 pm (UTC)
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I want to come but I'll need to make sure in terms of schedule.

I am of sterling morals. I absolutely think it's no fucking fun to bring a character, so I would like to roll whether you think my morals are shiny or not. That way you'll believe my stats, too - you know how lucky my dice are :)

I am an orphan

I wear an eye patch

I brag about nonexistent success in the past (why the time I fought a dragon, he was really no match for my patented...)

I'll CUT YOUOooooooooooo!

that's good right?
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From:[info]theferrett
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:53 pm (UTC)
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Awe-inspiring.
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From:[info]vrax
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:56 pm (UTC)
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So what will do after we're all deaad? do we roll new guys? start over?
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From:[info]theferrett
Date:December 21st, 2007 11:02 pm (UTC)
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Unsure. Depends on the number of participants, my mood, and the amount of work I feel like doing (since rolling 'em up on the spot won't be an option - 1st-level characters will DIE).
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From:[info]phizzled
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:56 pm (UTC)
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i wish. you should find someone to document the event. [by which i mean, have a camera guy. maybe live blog it. or maybe not.]
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From:[info]myrrhdusa
Date:December 21st, 2007 10:57 pm (UTC)
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Wow, first edition!

But too far from Tennessee.
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From:[info]ohari
Date:December 21st, 2007 11:02 pm (UTC)
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This would be the best weekend ever.
However, in addition to distance it is the same wekend as NakedCon, I mean Conflation, here in StL.
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From:[info]jfargo
Date:December 21st, 2007 11:06 pm (UTC)
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Should you really put this here, since players will probably see it whether they mean to or not?
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From:[info]caudelac
Date:December 21st, 2007 11:31 pm (UTC)
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OMFG, that is like, the first D&D game I ever played!

With my dad!

When I was 8!

And I had a mage with 4 hitpoints!

WANT.

Man, I'd do anything for some sort of magic transporty to Cleveland portal right about February.
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From:[info]wurmwyd
Date:December 21st, 2007 11:47 pm (UTC)
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Hi there!

Yeah, you forgot to mention: "Oh, by the way, I'll actually be running this module from my long-lost grand-uncle's house in Brick, NJ, just down the street from where [info]wurmwyd lives", right?

RIIIIIGHT!?!? :(
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From:[info]nacadas
Date:December 22nd, 2007 12:24 am (UTC)
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Bah. Am pouting from way over in Western Australia right now.

Good luck with the game though, and ah... I'm not sure if that's aimed at Ferret or the players really
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From:[info]goblinpaladin
Date:December 22nd, 2007 12:51 am (UTC)
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I would so play this. Curse the whole living-on-another-continent thing.
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From:[info]rocketman574
Date:December 22nd, 2007 12:55 am (UTC)
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I like the whole live-blogging idea. If nothing else, a recap would be awesome.
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From:[info]poobah103
Date:December 22nd, 2007 01:04 am (UTC)
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Well, this sounds like pretty much the funnest thing of all time.

If I wasn't 22, broke, and living on the other end of the country, that'd be right up my alley.
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From:[info]nightskywarlock
Date:December 22nd, 2007 01:54 am (UTC)
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this needs to be recorded and youtubed. the internet demands it.
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From:[info]rintheamazing
Date:December 22nd, 2007 02:30 am (UTC)
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Yes!
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From:[info]indigolands
Date:December 22nd, 2007 01:55 am (UTC)
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I am very tempted to fly out from DC and play a monk for you, even though you have no idea who I am. I was known as the Spastic Ecclesiastic...

I miss those days!
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From:[info]mishamish
Date:December 22nd, 2007 03:06 am (UTC)
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*WERE* there Monks in 1st ed?
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