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Interesting... from my first megadungeon, back in the late '70s: 60' dia. round room, domed 40' top w/5' hole in center, roulette wheel filling the bottom, treasure (crown or something) atop center. Wheel spins as long as you hang onto the center, and if you survive a few bounces of the 5' steel ball that drops down (deadly, roll bounce slot randomly), you win the prize. (The ball dissolves 5r later, & various other safeguards.)

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As you know, I never saw any of your stuff. But it is often eerie how great minds think alike...lol
My inspiration came from a bad movie where they strapped someone onto a spinning wheel and had someone blind throw daggers; at least three or four to one odds you won't be hit at all, but if you are, where?

Bracton wrote:
Just updating . . . so right now, Thursday, right around noon . . . doomsday.      

Cool

Am designing dungeon adventure even now. Looks to be a tough one.

Bracton, have I got a deal for you on apparel...hehehehhe.

mordrin wrote:I won't be able to make Thur noon.

Have fun and see y'all another time.

(I might be in early enough to pop in at the dinner, or maybe GaryCon)

Sorry to hear it.
So, we're down to a tentative twelve, a timorous thirteen if SaxonAngel plays. Or maybe fewer. Doesn't matter to me; just ask anyone that played in my NTRPGC games. TPK is TPK, large or small. And, from Texas, a few of them learned that life is TOUGH in my dungeons if your luck sucks.

Kaskoid wrote:Am designing dungeon adventure even now. Looks to be a tough one.

Bracton, have I got a deal for you on apparel...hehehehhe.

I've been carefully saving money for months now . . . and it seems like every time I try to bid on something on eBay, another bidder makes sure I keep saving.    So I'll be ready for GenCon, and whatever may come up, Tim Kask-wise, at auction.  

well getting turned to stone twice in the first 10 minutes of a game is something special that i won't ever forget....kind of a badge of honour from tim that.....

my daughter wants to go next year (she was most put out that i wasnt going this year), because she wants to "meet that nice old man" again who gave her the badge

its rare she says anything good like that - but the folk at GenCon last year, made it so she had such a great time. thats reason enough for me to go again for sure.

Al

Bracton wrote:
Then come on out!  The more the merrier . . . and it means Tim will need to come up with even more ways to kill all of us.   :twisted:

Like that would be a problem.

Right now, these are salient points of the adventure:
The dead (is he?) loony was heavily into vivisection and bizarre experimentation. (think Moreau)
He founded an order of itinerant clerics
His practices in his "religion" involved huge amounts of stimulants
He was an avid collector of first editions of esoteric books
His abode has just recently been discovered
Adventure name: "High in the Hellgate Mountains"

EDIT--Adventure details

ADDENDUM:
I have decided to make up 15 copies of the Acaeum adventure High in the Hellgate Mountains.

Any player in the group can get their own copy afterwards for a $15 donation to my service group, FISHING HAS NO BOUNDARIES. In the event of a husband/wife participation, two for $25 if you just both have to have one. They will be numbered and marked with the name of the pre-gen that you play.

(I figured that with the limited editions that I'm already putting up for bid at the dinner, it's better to just do this as a keepsake thing and my organization makes out while up to 12 players get something reasonable that they can write off. It will not be as big as the other two, but will have more pretty color maps.

lawrenson wrote:Hi,

have just booked a Concierge room at the Marriott Downtown, so we should be able to use the executive lounge for the game.

Cheers,
malc

You ROCK, malc! Now I will just have to bring a small soft-sided cooler with my "throat oil". (Really just diet pop; I don't much care for Coke products, so I bring my own in case of need.)

OK--in the event that this is not a fast TPK (I truly hope not), we should lay out some schedule times here.

OVERRIDING CONCERN here is that I will be scheduled to be in the Auction prpbably starting some time between 6 and 8 PM; I am going to go on the premise that it's 7 PM.
I am assuming that everyone would like the possibility of at least a four hour adventure, or perhaps even five or five and a half.

2 Days prior to GC: I will e-mail all of the backstory (this one is rather extensive) as a WORD file to all committed players. (PDF if you don't use WORD)

Still Thursday, right? (I told the Tower of Gygax event it is so as not to be cross-scheduled.)

WED. NIGHT at the dinner I will have anything else the group will need, including pre-gens and their sheets (which are yours to keep) and a sheet of SOP's that I want the group to have predetermined before we open the first door. These save a ton of time in the actual playing. [see later post] M-U's and clerics will need to pick their spells; the Character sheets will list all ST's, Turn table where needed, have blanks for spells,etc. M-U's and Clerics, for the purposes of this adventure, have a 60% chance of knowing any given spell, prayer or cantrip. Any spell in 3LBB, GH, BM or EW is good. The 6 OLB's (original little booklets) are the sum total of printed rules you might see.

GAME DAY--all players will need is: character sheet and writing instrument; favorite dice: (min) 3 each of d20, d12, d10, d8, d6 and d4; willingness to have some fun; the ability to willingly suspend disbelief; nothing better to do for the ensuing 4 or 5 hours.

Now I'm off to write about SOP's on my DF thread, then share them with you.

The adventure is coming along nicely. Three new nasties of my own devising and all the maps are in color, made with the Dundjinni software.

The pre-gens have been buffed up as a result of the NTRPGC testing.

If only there were a way for you players to pick your PC's in advance, I would print your name on the cover of your copy (assuming you were to obtain one as per the method described earlier in the thread).

How about if I made the whole set available to PM to the players that will be participating in a ZIP file? Even zipped, it's big becasue of all the art on the character sheets.

Imagine, a personalized, signed copy of the exclusive Acaeum adventure....

Oh, on more thing, for you togophiles; I will have something different this year, guaranteed to contain epitheleal cells.

And finally, there will be one copy of the GaryCon adventure and one for NTRPGC for the private auction at the dinner. The other two (one each, actually) are going into the big collectibles auction.