The Campaign Builder's Guild

Quote from: SteerpikeI wanted to un-ironically thank you again, sparkletwist, for a great session, and for putting up with the inelegance of OD&D. You really nailed the gonzo hyper-deadly style, and I got a real Dark Souls/Nethack sort of vibe from your dungeon (I especially liked at the end realizing that the hole in area 1 connected up with the dark elf torture rooms). The slight chaos of having 2 characters/players notwithstanding I actually thought the combats worked quite well. If we'd had a few more I could have seen myself starting to get a bit more creative. Anyway, I thought you did a great job.

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it, and I'm particularly glad that you felt like I ran OD&D true to its roots and style. It was a departure for me, since I'm not really ordinarily that style of DM at all and that style of gaming doesn't really appeal to me. As for the system itself, I may be a bit biased, but I am pretty sure there wasn't really anything in that game that Fate wouldn't be able to do equally well or better. Or a more modern version of D&D, I mean, but I was thinking of something rules-light.

So, anyone up to continue this? I'm really not interested in a long-term OD&D campaign but I still have a decent amount of material prepared, and Hrund really should get to fight some dark elves.
Doodle link for the next session is here: http://doodle.com/poll/6wmwd7usg97wvx99 (All times CST)

I'll have some logs up soon.

By the way, do we get XP from the session, or would it be every few sessions or per adventure or whatnot?

I don't know if I even feel like dealing with XP. The method for adjudicating it is kind of bonkers, the fact that every class uses its own XP table more so, and I have no idea how Elves are supposed to work at all. Another problem is that you get XP for gold and treasure collected, which works great except until you consider weird and dangerous magic items, like the always-on death-wand... which, as you observed before, have a cost of "???" most of the time.

Fair!

Due to lack of participation in the doodle I don't think there will be another session of this for the moment. We could try for Wednesday the 21st but with two players missing it could be kind of rough.

I've just got no free time until after christmas now, sorry :(

By the way, if others are up for more of this, I'm still game.

I'd be up for it. When is good for you (and anyone else interested)?

Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Friday afternoons PST work best for me, but I am somewhat flexible. I'm in the last term of my PhD and have only one class to teach, and I've got dissertation details to finish but not so many that a 3 hour D&D break doesn't sound attractive.

Next Thursday (January 19th) afternoon would work great for me. I'm pretty flexible timewise, too, I could start any time in the afternoon or evening PST. So tell me a time that works for you and we'll try to do it.

Anyone else on board?

Ha, just me, huh guys?  :P

I can't do Thursdays at all, unfortunately

My rota for next week has annoyingly not been confirmed yet, so I'm not sure of my availability.

I'm not sure if I can participate, but I'll try making characters just in case.

First PC:
Strength [blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 5, 5, 4, total 14[/blockquote]
Intelligence [blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 1, 6, 6, total 13[/blockquote]
Wisdom [blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 3, 4, 6, total 13[/blockquote]
Constitution [blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 5, 6, 3, total 14[/blockquote]
Dexterity [blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 5, 1, 3, total 9[/blockquote]
Charisma [blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 2, 6, 4, total 12[/blockquote]

Second PC:
Strength [blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 5, 6, 3, total 14[/blockquote]
Intelligence [blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 1, 5, 4, total 10[/blockquote]
Wisdom [blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 4, 6, 2, total 12[/blockquote]
Constitution [blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 2, 4, 4, total 10[/blockquote]
Dexterity [blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 2, 6, 6, total 14[/blockquote]
Charisma [blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 2, 1, 2, total 5[/blockquote]

I think I'll be making the both of them into fighting men. Now to roll 2nd level HPs:

[blockquote]Rolled 1d6 : 4, total 4[/blockquote]

[blockquote]Rolled 1d6 : 6, total 6[/blockquote]

And starting gold:

[blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 2, 2, 1, total 5[/blockquote] x10

[blockquote]Rolled 3d6 : 4, 5, 3, total 12[/blockquote] x10