Re: (TFT) I knew this guy --> Knights of the Dinner Table story...

[Rick Smith <rsmith@lightspeed.ca>]

  I think I saw this story in KotDT.  I wonder if they
heard it from someone or if it was just great minds
thinking alike.

  Regards, Rick.

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 14:37, davidgrouchy wrote:
>         I knew this guy who did an amazing thing.  There is this dungeon that is a nightmare of traps and tricks.  It is published in an issue of Dragon Magazine.  I mean whoever designed it is deranged.  It is supposed to be the Title Level Test for Theives.  There are no monsters, just four levels of automated death.  At the very end of the dungeon is the only treasure in the whole place.  It is some big diamond or something.  You may have actually seen a tame version of this Dungeon in the D&D movie. 
>      Anyway, back in the day, Ted Deiker decides to take on the dungeon.  Now this could have taken years to actually play out.  First the GM rolls to see if the player noticed the trap.  If so, the GM gives a big description of this particular traps' wicked perfection.  Someone had been spending too much time reading 'Grimtooths' traps.' and was stuck in a rut.  No one else would even bother with the dungeon. 
>      So this is what he did:  Remember in AD&D first edition how they have live stock on the equipment tables.  Cows, chickens and such?  Well, he buys every sheep he can find.  He has more money than there are sheep.  He gets tons of sheep.
>      He herds the sheep into the dungeon and goes in after them.  He finds sheep pinned to the walls, piled up in pits, smashed to the floor, melted by acid, burnt to a crisp, exploded, grated, and diced.  More importantly he also finds every trap already sprung.  He just walks to the end, takes the diamond, and leaves.  He gets to be a Title Level Theif, and the DM is greatly relieved. 
>      It is a master stroke.  Ted Deiker is still a legend in our gaming community.  For about five minutes of actual role playing, we laughed for a week.  
>       David Michael Grouchy II  
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