Tomb of Horrors...for Gary

[Crow]

I am very saddened by the death of a man who I never knew. I have Mr. Gygax to thank for countless hours of entertainment, and quality time spent with good friends, past and present.

Next session, our group is going to roll up some characters and take on the Tomb of Horrors as a prelude to our normal game.

We're only sending in one group (no backup characters). It will very likely be a very short tribute to the man, but in that, it would certainly be fitting. So who else wants to run The Tomb in this man's honor?

[SoD]

I will also run Tomb of Horrors. And will certainly post the details: there will be six characters (one a DMPC, so he'll be first to go).

[lumberofdabeast]

I would, if I had any idea of where to get the thing.

I suppose tracking down the AD&D rulebooks wouldn't hurt, either...

[raygungothic]

Good idea. If only I had four dedicated tactical dungeoneers I would love to do the same.

I'm sad now.

Oh, and lumberofdabeast - an official 3e updated version is free on the web at
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20030530b

[Surfer99]

Id been looking forward to do tomb of horrors for a while before my group broke. I think next saturday i will force ask my group to play tomb of horrors it will be the 3.5 edition I hope Gary dont mind.

A sad day for many

[SoD]

Same here, the party will be (if I can convince them) comprised thusly:

Paladin Halfling (DMPC, first to go)
Wizard Human
Shaman Elf
Warlock Kobold
Scout Dwarf
Warmage Gnome

All 14th level.

Why? Why not?

[AslanCross]

I just downloaded the 3.5 update recently. I might give it a go.

[Roderick_BR]

Awesome idea Will be good to wake up my players.

[Snow]

I'm at the moment making a few changes on it to use it on a warcraft campaing I'm running. Warcraft characters can stand up to more chalenging things that normal D20 characters and I want to show my party that the character sheet means nothing without wits. In honour of Gary Gygax I will show my players what a REAL dungeons feels like.

We owe a lot to him, I hope wherever he is running a campaing his players are having fun.

[lumberofdabeast]

Good idea. If only I had four dedicated tactical dungeoneers I would love to do the same.

I'm sad now.

Oh, and lumberofdabeast - an official 3e updated version is free on the web at
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20030530b

*downloads*

*reads*

*twitches*

[SilentNight]

Am downloading it right now. I'll do it of I can convince my power-gamer to play below 13th level. The Horror .

[Fawsto]

I just downloaded it... I will read and Pay my tribute.

Hail Master Gary. The first DM ever.

[The Extinguisher]

I plan to.
Or at least, I plan to bug my group about it until they give in.

[Jayngfet]

I plan to hunt down the tomb of horrors at tthe very least.

[Matthew]

Heh, heh. All those who venture in (whether the AD&D 1e Tomb of Horrors, the AD&D 2e Return to the Tomb of Horrors or D20 Tomb of Horrors and regardless of system), let us know how you fare!

[cintain]

I have the 3.5 update, a present from a friend that I thought I'd never use. I'll try to convince my players to give it a go as well.

I have always admired Gary Gygax and his work. I have always considered him a personal hero and role-model. My sincerest condolences to his family and close friends, and to everyone who, like me, wished that I had such a cool name, and such a cool idea for a game

Requiescant In Pacem, Gary Gygax.

[Abjurer]

My group's going to spend a day in the Tomb. It'll likely be our last.
To die within the creation of such a great man will truly be an honor.
Even if he's looking down at us laughing when we fall for all his traps.

[Jayngfet]

anyone got a link to a sight that has a free update of the tomb of horrors, or a site that sells it?


EDIT: never mind

[JiveTurkey]

I told one of my gaming friends I was breaking out my first ed books and my copy of S1 and he ran away screaming.

Too bad Comeliness doesn't actually do anything to Acererak, as it was one of my more favorite of the optional rules from Unearthed Arcana.

[Matthew]

anyone got a link to a sight that has a free update of the tomb of horrors, or a site that sells it?

In case anyone else is after the earlier versions, you can download them from RPGNow. I think they're about $5 each or something. They're probably cheaper at Paizo

Tomb of Horrors




Return to the Tomb of Horrors



Hmmn. Those are some mighty big pictures...

[LibraryOgre]

My Systems Failure game isn't going to happen on Saturday, so I'm going to run "The Village of Hommlet" for them... after playing D&D on Friday night.

[Swordguy]

The heck with it - I'll run 'em through S1 at the next session.

[Ranis]

I downloaded and pulled a group together to run ToH this coming wednesday due to spring break. Updates on how many characters they go through will come around that time.

[Shishnarfne]

Actually, I'd already been planning on running a bunch of people (probably multiple groups) through the Tomb for a while (ever since I had the joy of losing a character in it)... This makes it even more time-appropriate.

Expectation: at least one character suffers from a no-save trap (not necessarily death, but a no-save trap) in each group.

[shaddy_24]

I downloaded it recently, and I've been looking over it and realizing that my group wouldn't have a chance at survival. Not only is it lethal, but none of us have the experience necessary to get past some of the rooms. We've only been playing for about 2 years, some less. So unfortunitally, I think it has to go onto the back burner for now. But make no mistake, that module will come into play sometime.

[xjermx]

I sure wish that it was in the public domain. For those of us without the original D&D one, is the 3.5 one similar enough to the old one that we could reverse engineer it, and run a group of D&D characters through it, using the 3.5 printout?

[Deadmeat.GW]

My group is running through it atm, sofar two rooms and no dead yet...

Luck is all, of the four players 1 has played it in first edition, 3 never done it and know nothing about.

And the player who has done it almost got the whole party killed ;).

[talltwin36]

I played it when it first came out. If you use 6-8 characters of 9-11th level (1st edition) you will be lucky if 1 person survives.

This dungeon is a death trap incanate.

msquared

[Renegade Paladin]

I'm in. Going to run this on Saturday.

[Jayngfet]

well, I got my group to agree to do it, one guy has done it before, the others have heard of it, the best part of DMing is going to be watching them honor the mans creation.