Looked through several old adventures I had written up for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game and decided to dust them off and have a new group of players explore the old realm once again. When I put this forth that I wanted to run an AD&D campaign, the oldest player in my group was upset and said he didn’t want to take a step back after player 3/3.5 & Pathfinder.
I’m going ahead and running it this summer.
Found 2nd Edition AD&D Character Sheets in the Style of 3rd Edition.
Found some old gaming material while looking through some storage boxes and found an incomplete map of a fantasy world I decided to call Myst. As you can see one of my young kids had scribbled over it when I had left it open on the table many, many moons ago.
The door to this room swings open easily on well-oiled hinges. Beyond it you see that the chamber walls have been disguised by wood paneling, and the stone ceiling and floor are hidden by bright marble tiles. Several large and well-stuffed chairs are arranged about the room along with some small reading tables.
While leafing through some old adventures I had written, I stumbled upon a little doodle of my old gaming group I did. It was something to do as they players were leveling up their characters.
Over in another forum a discuss arose about TPK (Totally Party Kill) and I offered a little synopsis of what I did:
I TPK’d a campaign universe. We’ve been playing an AD&D for several years and the players were epic level god-like beings and I needed a break from it and do something else in order to get the creative juices flowing again. But, a couple players whined and didn’t go the break game with full interest knowing they could be playing their high level epic characters. So each break game I started would end after two or three sessions because the players weren’t into it.
So, I decided it was time to break free from the world I created and after several years it was time to hang up the hat and start fresh. So, when I announced that I would be starting up the ol campaign once again the players rejoiced knowning their 25th level characters would be conquering once again.
I ran the first three session given them hints as to what was to happen, the sun eclipsing, little solar flares happening in the night, but they all thought that was some magical effect going on from the main villain. And then during the fourth session as the characters were gearing up for a huge battle with the big bed and a boatload of minions…. I had the sun go supernova! Taking out years of campaign works in the stroke of a few moments… that’s my bad kind of thing.
While going through some old boxes I stumbled upon an old dungeon I created on the fly some 22 years ago.
My youngest child mentioned that it looks like fairies fluttering about in this photo and it got me thinking of an adventure idea.
A path by a creek.
Iron Goblin in Space by ~Skavenloft
I look to the sea,
Reflections in the waves spark my memory,
Some happy, some sad,
I think of childhood friends and the dreams we had,
We lived happily forever, so the story goes,
But somehow we missed out on the pot of gold
But we’ll try best that we can to carry on
Styx- Come Sail Away
The nerdiest of all Valentines.
