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Re: (TFT) Tomb I
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:39:02 -0400
The Tomb
Justin Grabowski, 2000
After a week of traveling from the nearest comfortable tavern,
you and your friends arrive at your destination. Off the post road,
you can see the low-lying hill in the midst of the swamp that is
marked on the map. The wooded hill lies about a quarter of a mile
from the causeway that you are standing on.
As the party reaches the base of the hill, they are attacked by
a war party of orcs on the hunt. The party must make a 3d v. IQ or
they have been ambushed. If the party rolls a 3-5, they ambush the
orcs. The war party stands on the hill above the characters party at
about 15-20 hexes. Remember the hill is wooded, so allow some blocked
hexes and the orcs to begin with have the advantage of being above
the party.
Orcs (equal the number of the party):
ST 11 DX 13 IQ 8 MV 10 (8)
TALENTS: sword, shield, pole arms, and bow
EQUIPMENT: short bow and 6 arrows, spear or short sword and small
shield (50/50), and all wear leather armor (hits stopped 2 or 3). >Each
orc carries from $1-3.
Everyone died. Saturday I had three players. I told them to make a 38
point character and three 32 point followers. Each player had four
characters for a total of 12. The twelve orcs anihilated the players.
Twelve longbows, concentrating fire. One player threw up a three hex wall
(smart move), but it just caused the orcs to charge with spears and swords.
Total casualties eight dead orcs, all twelve players dead. Death ratio
8:12.
It occures to me that they would have lost the map on their first try
(as per second sentence above), but I allowed them to try again. By then
end of twelve weeks game time there was a total of 23 dead players. They
finaly beat the troll. Man you should have seen how scared the players
were, and there faces when I told them the stairs went down into water.
"Uh, I summon a myrmidon and send him into the water."
Congradulations. The TOMB scared the bejezus out of veteran players.
We had one beginner and one observer. After finding the magic lock pick
they went back to town and started making 5-Die rolls to sell it. They got
$6,000 for the lock pick after another two month of trying, and bought a
bunch of plus one weapons. The they drank a toast to the dead theives, and
they do not plan on going back to the tomb untill they get a lot more
experience.
After the Sunday night session I asked a few questions. "First, did
the adventure make you want to play in a full campaign?" The answere was a
resounding yes. They all wanted more, even the observer. "Second, did the
adventure make you want to write your own adventure?" The answer was no.
And lastly "was there enough treasure?" They insisted on a Not Applicable
answer on this one (surprised me really), they all answered N/A. They said
they would answer that if they ever got enough experience to try and finish
the tomb. Everyone wants to play again this weekend.
Now for the typos...
Section (1), should send them to section (10) not section (11).
The end of section (10) should say "Go back to 1."
I assumed the +1DX/+1dmg sword in section (24) was finely made and not
magical. Still a $6,000 item.
David Michael Grouchy II
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