Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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Geordie, like English, but cooler.
First Edition or Basic D&D - proper games for proper men -
You had 3 classes - Not 4 or 8 - 3 let me explain why - Mage (Weak starting of World Breaking at higher levels), Cleric (healing factory / Balanced), Fighter (Strong to start Weak at Higher levels) are usable
Thief (Useless at low levels / Weak at higher levels) was a NPC henchman class you 'hired' and used to trigger traps generally you never need to pay them or you could reclaim there wages...after discovery of a trap and lets just say your 15% chance detect trap roll was successful this would give them a 10% disable trap roll chance -
The others Monk/Bard whatever - no one - no one who rolled dice in front of others ever got high enough -
1d4 hp and insta death when your hit /any hit and with an AC that means most stuff will hit -
Stats which made for cunning survivors not dumb hero's - roll 3d6 and thats your stats sure your constitution is 4 you still have 1hp more each level so no complaints -
Backstories - For wimps - you might go through 6 characters in a session
Advanced dugeons & dragons - around 1980.. when my Wizard hit -10 AC thanks to stacked items. That broke a lot of stuff but the campaign was set in Greyhawk so it naturally turned into an epic political struggle between the factions with us eventually pissing everyone off :)
Greyhawk - what a great setting the struggles and factions - my fav the Great Kingdom - and yes if you survive you can become a godlike in power - and perhaps a tyrant to rival those of the Great Kingdom
And none of this modern going up 2 levels in an afternoon.......
I remember playing an Elf fighter every weekend for 2 years and just scraping through to 5th level, which I believe was the maximum level for an Elf!!
You survived 2 years .... I remember loosing so many characters don't think any really lasted more than 8 sessions but can't be sure ... I think 6 in one day, certainly 2 in an hour many times, i remember they only got personalities after a few sessions. And the henchmen losses were uncountable
It was Bushido not D&D but my fav death was when my Yakuza friend was eaten when wading through a caves pool by albino crabs, poor fool didn't even see his opponent never got a chance to react. He'd got a story, made friends was really on the up...lol
Talking of leveling up I had the Basic D&D Gazetteer series which i felt is still amazing and in one there was a gold to experience magic item/machine, it looked like an outside privy and created skeleton after skeleton which you paid to kill in some way - I thought that was pulling a lever and you level up from the experience of defeating it - (perhaps its like getting a degree in a modern university)
Oh yes anyone free on sat morning uk 9am ping me
Remember the days if you lived long enough and fought hard enough you could become immortal. Yes Interested.
Is this a goer? I will need to up my Sanatogen game to prepare.
I think we are just about there, just trying to get my head around the technology, ill pm everyone with a discord invite hopefully by tomorrow