Clarshh's Sepulchre completed
11/02/23 21:35
Bruised and battered the adventurers staggered back to The City of Greyhawk, loaded down with loot and amazingly all of them made it, although it was a close run thing for both Alvin and Raven.
Re-reading and editing this years later I was surprised to be reminded of quite how awful 1st level characters in AD&D 2e are at fighting in general. Given basic armour and protection spells, they are not too bad at resisting damage but they are quite terrible at actually hitting anything, the illusory troll in the village being a prime example and even 25 years later I can still recall laughing rather too much at their frustration in this encounter.
All in all we had sufficient fun and I got my feet back under the DM's table again and warmed up enough to be a tolerable DM after having had quite a break from the experience. I would however be taking a bit of a break from DM'ing to play instead since we were lucky enough to have a few DM's in our group so if I remember correctly Dave took over with the same characters for his next adventure, The Sentinel which is one of the excellent TSR UK modules. It would be 1999 before we would finally start my next game, Bladestar, an urban adventure in The City of Greyhawk.
Re-reading and editing this years later I was surprised to be reminded of quite how awful 1st level characters in AD&D 2e are at fighting in general. Given basic armour and protection spells, they are not too bad at resisting damage but they are quite terrible at actually hitting anything, the illusory troll in the village being a prime example and even 25 years later I can still recall laughing rather too much at their frustration in this encounter.
All in all we had sufficient fun and I got my feet back under the DM's table again and warmed up enough to be a tolerable DM after having had quite a break from the experience. I would however be taking a bit of a break from DM'ing to play instead since we were lucky enough to have a few DM's in our group so if I remember correctly Dave took over with the same characters for his next adventure, The Sentinel which is one of the excellent TSR UK modules. It would be 1999 before we would finally start my next game, Bladestar, an urban adventure in The City of Greyhawk.
Brian Parker, February 2023