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Offline Dr. Nick

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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #15 on: August 29, 2008, 01:29:53 AM »
Quote from: warzoneD on August 28, 2008, 11:36:31 AM
@NTN - The Black Hole and Johnny Mnemonic over Tron????  Buddy, say it ain't so--   ??? :o ;D

you misunderstood me!

the _cyberspace-depicturing_ of tron was awsome and only years later someone showed a good cyberspace, i know of (JM)

the black hole as an expample of a very nice _disney_-depicturing of something not childish, as expected by your friend
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #16 on: August 29, 2008, 07:45:32 AM »
Quote from: warzoneD on August 28, 2008, 10:41:40 PM
Hey MadBrad - I only remember 3 white books - what are the others?

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Top three, next to box are the base set.  Men and Magic, Monsters and Treasure, and The Dungeon and Wilderness Adventure (something like that..). 

The next 4 are the expansions, Greyhawk, Blackmoor, Eldritch Wizardry and God's Demi-gods and Heroes. 
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #17 on: August 31, 2008, 05:04:03 PM »
Quote from: warzoneD on August 28, 2008, 07:31:56 PM
Okay - now you're making me bust out some serious old school--

Remember these bad boys?

   

The quest for Wave, Whelm, and Blackrazor!

Yes - yes, I do remember those.  ::sniff:: 
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #18 on: August 31, 2008, 10:37:21 PM »
Is that a ten foot pole in your hands are or you just happy to be out of the tomb of horrors?  ;)
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #19 on: September 02, 2008, 03:03:47 PM »
I really hated playing Tomb O' Horrors.  I've had some pretty screwed up DM's send my party thru there.
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #20 on: September 03, 2008, 07:20:00 AM »
Quote from: DogOWar on September 02, 2008, 03:03:47 PM
I really hated playing Tomb O' Horrors.  I've had some pretty screwed up DM's send my party thru there.

I loved putting players thru that module.  Ran it at conventions for years... and of the seven parties sent through it, four never made it out, two had partial success (50% attrition) and the last one lost two of their six before saying screw it and attempting to get out.  They lost another two getting out. :)

So in seven games, I had a total of 51 PC's attempt it (largest party was eleven, smallest was 5, the rest ran in the area of 6-8) with an attrition rate of 84% (8 of 51 survived- though one of the survivors spent a lot of time with the clerics attempting to get his mind back.  (the GM of the player in question said he was going to enforce a derangement on him when next their campaign met)
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #21 on: September 03, 2008, 07:46:08 AM »
TPK-a-go-go!
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #22 on: September 03, 2008, 08:19:45 AM »
Don't forget about Expedition to the Barrier Peaks!  A gateway game into Star Frontiers.  Later on, the entire Lolth campaign (G1-3, D1-2, Q1) was absolutely awesome!
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #23 on: September 03, 2008, 08:45:00 AM »
Quote from: Petru5 on September 03, 2008, 08:19:45 AM
Don't forget about Expedition to the Barrier Peaks!  A gateway game into Star Frontiers.  Later on, the entire Lolth campaign (G1-3, D1-2, Q1) was absolutely awesome!

Exped was a blast...  The Loth campaign cost me five PC's... and others two or three. 
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #24 on: September 03, 2008, 09:47:57 AM »
Exped was AWESOME!  Loved that Bullette (sp?) battle and the Mind Flayer encounter.  Demonweb Pits was EPIC!  I also enjoyed Isle of Dread and Castle D'Amberville, though these came later.
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #25 on: September 03, 2008, 06:03:34 PM »
At the time of Exped, we used a critical hit chart that used a 30-sided die.  I'll never forget the expression on the face of my friend Kevin when his dwarf got his brains pushed out his ears by a Vegepygmie wielding a lead pipe.  He used to chew on the yellow PaperMate mechanical pencils and I still chuckle when I remember it dropping from his slack-jawed, dumfounded face.
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #26 on: September 04, 2008, 01:59:20 PM »
Quote from: warzoneD on September 03, 2008, 09:47:57 AM
Exped was AWESOME!  Loved that Bullette (sp?) battle and the Mind Flayer encounter.  Demonweb Pits was EPIC!  I also enjoyed Isle of Dread and Castle D'Amberville, though these came later.

     I have great mempries of the Drow series.  Isle has had many incanations in my DMing experience.  The last time was a cross between Isle O' Death and Call of Cthullu, all of which was set in Newhon. 
     Castle D'Amberville was used in a Middlearth campaign to much success.
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #27 on: September 05, 2008, 08:25:54 AM »
I remember running a Chateu D'Amberville game for a group years ago,  I don't remember the details... but I do remember them taking over the place in the end.  And a number of adventures stemmed from there...
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #28 on: September 05, 2008, 08:47:28 AM »
I was always partial to the UK series of modules, especially The Sentinel, and it's followup, The Gauntlet.  Great times.
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Re: This Week in Geekdom 8/27
« Reply #29 on: September 05, 2008, 09:07:21 AM »
I've never seen those.  What were they about?

@DogOWar - I had a group of players take over a dungeon once as their HQ - it was quite amusing.

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