A.o.D. posted:A tedious, oppresive adventure module disguised as a good time. Iirc Tomb of Horrors was initially designed for contests at DnD conventions like a tabletop version of Ninja Warrior where the winner was the last man standing, its not supposed to be the same kind of experience as a proper adventure set.
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I've heard that it was designed by Gygax specifically for his group, never thinking it would be published. So it seems ridiculous out of context, but they'd been playing together for years and new what to expect.
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Aug 5, 2017 02:02
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What was the infamous rear end in a top hat dungeon with the cursed staircase where putting a foot on each step permanently drained one level?
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Aug 5, 2017 02:06
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Update. In which we anticipate a descending slide whistle sound effect.
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Aug 5, 2017 05:17
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I for one am shocked.
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Aug 5, 2017 05:53
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I shouldn't be surprised and yet, i am.
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Aug 5, 2017 05:53
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Looks like allison's tally is going to go up in a bit.
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Aug 5, 2017 06:13
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Iirc Tomb of Horrors was initially designed for contests at DnD conventions like a tabletop version of Ninja Warrior where the winner was the last man standing, its not supposed to be the same kind of experience as a proper adventure set. The best part is the stories of it being used in these contests. Parties apparently, among other tactics, herded massive amounts of cattle ahead of them to trigger traps, hired dwarven miners to dig around the place (as using Ethereal travel to bypass the walls gets you mugged by devils), used an instakill crown trap on the boss, and tear the valuable Adamantine doors off their hinges and sell them, claiming victory on the grounds of having made more money lootwise. When the Tomb got remade for 3.5, the instakill crown trap had a rule that it couldn't be taken out of its room, and the doors were steel magically enchanted to be as hard as adamantine only while they stayed part of the doorway.
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Aug 5, 2017 06:33
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Dartonus posted:hired dwarven miners to dig around the place (as using Ethereal travel to bypass the walls gets you mugged by devils), IIRC, in the original set-up of the Tomb of Horrors, the actual tomb was buried twenty or so feet below ground. If you didn't have a wizard who knew an earth-moving spell, you had to hire excavators (dwarven or otherwise) to even get in the front door. Which is excellent design! It tells players upfront: this is the kind of bullshit this dungeon will expect from you.
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Aug 5, 2017 06:40
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Operant's mouse over text posted:Soon I will be drawing far less characters in these scenes, I assure you. Although depending on how frisky Allison gets with that blade, he may in fact be drawing less of the same characters.
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Aug 5, 2017 06:54
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Schwarzwald posted:IIRC, in the original set-up of the Tomb of Horrors, the actual tomb was buried twenty or so feet below ground. If you didn't have a wizard who knew an earth-moving spell, you had to hire excavators (dwarven or otherwise) to even get in the front door. The original Tomb was also written with the expectation that the Fighter had a small army of like 100 guys who followed him around, because that's what high level Fighters did in older editions.
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I can pretty well answer any questions you may have about the original Tomb of Horrors.   This may be my favorite illustration in the book:  It sees a lot of use. BTW, the entrance was only buried about 10' in loose sand and gravel; "Once an entrance is exposed, it will require about 1 hour for 6 characters working in teams of 3 to thoroughly clear a passage, but a crawl space can be opened in 1 turn by 3 characters digging with swords and hands."
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Aug 5, 2017 08:22
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Dead Reckoning posted:I can pretty well answer any questions you may have about the original Tomb of Horrors. What the gently caress is the guy in purple doing?
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Aug 5, 2017 08:42
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Either rebuking undead, or break dancing.
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Aug 5, 2017 08:46
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I think my favorite thing about Tomb of Horrors is that there is a fake ending room with treasure that vanishes after 30 days assuming you even get to it and back out with it alive and a countdown to instakill the party in 10 rounds after which the book instructs the DM to put the book down and go "how was that? Was that too hard?" I forget how to get to the real treasure room but it also has some (avoidable, to be fair) complete bullshit in it.
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Aug 5, 2017 09:18
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wiegieman posted:The original Tomb was also written with the expectation that the Fighter had a small army of like 100 guys who followed him around, because that's what high level Fighters did in older editions.
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Aug 5, 2017 10:20
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Isn't that a thing for one of the classes in the K6BD game? Mob Boss or something, and the style of play is to get expendable lackeys to do everything for you, including fight?
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Aug 5, 2017 10:47
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Renaissance Robot posted:Isn't that a thing for one of the classes in the K6BD game? Mob Boss or something, and the style of play is to get expendable lackeys to do everything for you, including fight? Yep. The Boss, though you get more respect/less chance of rebellion if you go in with your gang and do some of the dirty work yourself.
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Aug 5, 2017 10:56
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I'm gonna bet on it being a power play and the Gold holds the rope for Allison to make it the rest of the way while being all " could've let you drop anytime, human".
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Aug 5, 2017 15:11
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It would be a dumb mistake to try and actually murder Allison considering this entire endeavor is to rescue Allison's friend for Allison, and would probably cause Cio to kick her rear end if Allison were to perish.
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Aug 5, 2017 15:39
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SunAndSpring posted:It would be a dumb mistake to try and actually murder Allison considering this entire endeavor is to rescue Allison's friend for Allison, and would probably cause Cio to kick her rear end if Allison were to perish.
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Aug 5, 2017 15:42
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Pureauthor posted:I'm gonna bet on it being a power play and the Gold holds the rope for Allison to make it the rest of the way while being all "
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Aug 5, 2017 16:08
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SunAndSpring posted:It would be a dumb mistake to try and actually murder Allison considering this entire endeavor is to rescue Allison's friend for Allison, and would probably cause Cio to kick her rear end if Allison were to perish. But if Allison dies accidentally due to her own foolishness then they can just grab some treasure and leave. AND they'll have one less share!
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Aug 5, 2017 16:20
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Begemot posted:But if Allison dies accidentally due to her own foolishness then they can just grab some treasure and leave. AND they'll have one less share! Yea, but you never backstab the mark until after they've done something you couldn't do (typically some sort of obstacle or door), this is Turnabout 101 here. Then again, I don't think Allison is actually providing anything but the impetus for this little jaunt? Still seems quite a bit early to pull this sort of prank, at least wait until you can throw her in front of a slavering horror as a distraction or something... So yea, I'm in the "they're just loving with her" camp.
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Aug 5, 2017 17:48
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this is honestly a pretty great prank idea so throw me in that category too
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Aug 5, 2017 18:32
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Aside from being a prank it'd be a good way to see how she handles the sudden pressure of falling towards a pile of perfectly ordinary chairs.
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Aug 5, 2017 19:23
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White Coke posted:Aside from being a prank it'd be a good way to see how she handles the sudden pressure of falling towards a pile of perfectly ordinary chairs. But it turns out she handles it with screamingly loud cosmic headbutts that attract the attention of every far more dangerous security system in the place
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Aug 5, 2017 21:17
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Pureauthor posted:I'm gonna bet on it being a power play and the Gold holds the rope for Allison to make it the rest of the way while being all "
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Aug 5, 2017 22:25
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Fish Noise posted:I suddenly want this to be the new incarnation of the doesn't-click-on-monsters skelemancer in some clickfest aRPG. Next edition D&D just managing your org charts and supply invoices for the 70,000 man army the adventuring party sent charging into some mausoleum to gently caress the lich's poo poo up
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Aug 6, 2017 00:37
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I see Alison falling then zapping herself behind gold devil rope dude then shoving his/her/xe's rear end down into the pile of chairs below
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Aug 6, 2017 07:32
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Well, poo poo
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Aug 6, 2017 09:45
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perfectly good excuse to learn how to fly
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Aug 6, 2017 15:24
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If Allison falls those mimics better copy her. Hundreds of Allison mimics, drooling with exceptional stupidity. Unless those chairs are just normal chairs in which case lol
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Aug 6, 2017 20:53
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http://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/seeker-of-thrones-6-70/ That bitch.
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Aug 9, 2017 04:35
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which of Aesma's body parts will they name this time 
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Aug 9, 2017 04:40
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YeeeessssssssBilirubin posted:I see Alison falling then zapping herself behind gold devil rope dude then shoving his/her/xe's rear end down into the pile of chairs below
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Aug 9, 2017 04:41
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Quick, effective.
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Aug 9, 2017 04:42
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I guess this confirms the Devils don't actually know what the gently caress they're even in here for. Either way 
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Aug 9, 2017 05:46
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drat allison you so fuckin cool
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Psssh… Nothin Personnel… Kid…
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