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hedgie:
Not quite word processors, but hasn't TeX been around for about 40 years?
Edit: Of course, access to computers at the time, especially networked ones was quite limited. I suspect that a lot of folks didn't have access to BBSes or newsgroups in the early 80s.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 01 Oct 2018, 05:37 ---2018, So it only recently folded?
Wow.
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Nope, it's still going. Wow Indeed.
PDFs of past issues are available too, at $2 an issue. See http://www.conchord.org/xeno/aande.html
Some contents, describing events that happened in 1977. "Phil" is Phil McGregor, who later went on to author a number of RPGs and supplements. I introduced him to D&D, he introduced me to Traveller.
https://www.amazon.com/Phil-McGregor/e/B00J6VGPJE
--- Quote --- Well, it happened this way....Hippolyta (Phil's experienced character) was leading or attempting to lead a gaggle of Turkeys down the first level of High Dudgeon's Dungeon. After KOing a group of Orcs, some by Sleep, some by Clerical sleep (a mace just behind the left ear), the party came to...a Door! Out stepped an old Gent who ummed a bit, aahred a bit and Proclaimed himself *the* 10th ' level monk. (HINT! HINT!) On the first level.
Did the party ask for ID? No. For some reason--probably because my Dungeons have an (unwarranted?) reputation for deadliness, Hippolyta was not suspicious. The old man told the thief if he would just step inside, he would be told something to his advantage. (HINT! Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly..)
AT THIS POINT Hippolyta became suspicious due to Phil's knowing my motto is TANSTAAFL. Hippolyta was dissauded from taking action at sword point by Democratic Vote. The thief went in, the Doppleganger . neatly swiped off his head and spent several minutes getting his features good enough to stand a close inspection.' (HINT! HINT!)
Finally the Doppleganger came out and the party proceeded. Hippolyta frantically pleaded that in the streets of Denmark there was an odor of Decay. The Doppelganger, being an intelligent, hardworking, SURVIVING monster insisted on taking a position in the rear. Hippolyta was Of Course the Target For Tonight. The Thief stabbed her in the back, pleaded a pre-emptive strike since Hippolyta wanted him tied up, and because of popularity was forgiven.
After staging a few diversions (stab Run, run,a monster!" "Whewl Where's Fred?" "The Minataur lizard/ Balrog/ Orcs / Hydra got him.") (Massive hints all the time) Finally the Doppelganger hoisted the Jolly Roger and massacred the pitiful remnants of the depleted party.
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ZoeB:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 01 Oct 2018, 15:34 ---Not quite word processors, but hasn't TeX been around for about 40 years?
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Yes, it was being developed at the time A&E #39 was being written.
--- Quote ---Edit: Of course, access to computers at the time, especially networked ones was quite limited. I suspect that a lot of folks didn't have access to BBSes or newsgroups in the early 80s.
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Usenet was invented in 1979. The first BBS went online in Chicago in 1978. So BBSs and newsgroups post-date A&E 39. Fast transmission speed outside a LAN was 75 bd.
Gyrre:
Impressive that it's still going!
BTW, our DM corrected me. Our party has formed a "temporary alliance" with The Grand Dutchess Super Baroness Vulcanism Ultra Magus (Beryl named her). Assuming we somehow win and don't have to press the cosmic reset button The Stranger° offered us next week, TGDSBVUM will try to eat us. Thankfully, Two-Tongues managed to get the diamond unicorn back to the ship at harbor and now he's headed home. So I'll be introducing my halfling bard Jonah High-Hill and playing him for one session.
°Said cosmic reset button rewinds time to the beginning of the campaign. It costs all of our party's money (individual & group funds), everyones possessions, and there's a 50/50 chance for each character in tbe group being erased from existence.
Gyrre:
Well, we had to reset the world. Barely did it just in time, too.
Lo-Kag and Saravore were erased from existence, but everyone else survived. However, since we were all starting as slaves this time, we had to make new characters. I went with that dumb character idea of a surfer-dude/stoner barbarian Tortle. Mainly so I didn't have a bard die in the first 10 minutes of the second session again. Tato Po is from the Wyrmtail clan (great great great great grandpa is a red dragon), so he's got nubby horns that resemble bear ears, a more pronounced beak, and a long tail. I decided to go Path of the Totem Warrior on account of this being a super deadly campaign, but it was really hard choosing between that and Storm Herald. Despite the red dragon ancestry, Po's family are mostly hippy-dippy druids hence him learning Primordial for his bonus language (and also him being a stoner). He's a former sailor, and now former dock worker (tavern brawl got him arrested). And he's also the first party member to get rid of the cursed brand (slave lo-jacking!) all the party members started with.
After the Purple Worm strafe, we managed to break our chains and get some healing. Then, the 3 more magically inclined party members Disguised themselves and got into the city while the other 4 (including Po) waited outside of town. They managed to convince some rich guy to give us 300 gold (Friends) and they buy some group supplies and tracked down the job board which included a bounty for a "Demon Child". Meanwhile, Po and Marius (lycan bloodhunter) noticed a "floating cloak with mechanical arms" going from building to building through the alleyways carrying a sack that seemed to be getting bigger with each exit. Upon the party reuinting, Evard Blackheart (Tiefling gunslinger) showed everyone the bounty poster he'd found. Po and Marius had in fact seen the "Demon Child". So, Po asks Prof. Cerulean (variant human alchemist) if she could make one of the tracking brands sticky if it were cut off so they could throw it at the "Demon Child" and try to catch them at a later date (read level 10). She says yes, and Po takes the dagger he was given and cuts off his brand. Thankfully just passing his wisdom save to not rage. And the getting the wound healed by Prof Cerulean.
Also, for flavor, Po's great club is a surfboard with a handle.
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