Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Splat?

The D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge rolls on . . .

Day 11: First splatbook you begged your DM to approve.

Um . . . I don't understand the question.  I don't think I've ever done that . . . beg . . . that word - no - or splat.

:)

- Ark


Monday, February 10, 2014

First Magazine

On with the Anniversary Blog Hop . . .

Day 10: First gaming magazine you ever bought (Dragon, Dungeon, White Dwarf, etc.)

That would be Dragon #45.  As soon as I found out there was such a thing as a gaming magazine - I was hooked.

Now this dragon over on the left . . . well . . . he needs some work.  Been experimenting with markers.  Apparently I need a heck of a lot more experimentation. :)

- Ark

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Welcome to the D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge!

Day 9: First campaign setting (published or homebrew) you played in.

That one is easy.  I bought The World of Greyhawk folio early on, and everything, by default, happened there until I got around to making my own worlds.

- Ark

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Hardcore Wax Play

Welcome to the D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge!

Day 8: First set of polyhedral dice you owned.  Do you still use them?

They were in my box, of course.  With a crayon!  We were hardcore back then - rubbing our little no-brand crayons against polyhedral shapes until we got blisters.  I've got some of those dice still - but no, they are too chewed up to use.

- Ark

Friday, February 7, 2014

The Box

Maybe Some Things Shouldn't Be Drawn
Welcome to the D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge!

Day 7: First D&D product you ever bought.  Do you still have it?

It was the nifty Holmesian box with rulebook, dice, and, the B2 module.  I chucked the box pretty soon after buying it.  It was just in the way and the sides had split with me carrying it around everywhere.  I still have some of the dice, but as for the rest of the contents - well - they are lost to time.

- Ark

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Death Cubed

Welcome to the D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge!

Day 6: First character death.  How did you handle it?

I just rolled up another one.  Dime a dozen and all that.

:)

- Ark

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Urlik Banork

Welcome to the D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge!

Day 5: First character to go from 1st level to the highest level possible in a given edition.  (Or, what's the highest level character you've ever ran?)

My first character of note, after a slew of hopeless cannon fodder, was a wizard named Urlik Banork.  He was modeled after Gandalf - and I started him as a gray-bearded old man, not some young punk whippersnapper.

He got amazingly high in levels - not from my skill, or even luck, mind you.  Urlik was in multiple campaigns, had multiple DMs, was a Mary Sue NPC sometimes, and sometimes us kids would just narrate adventures with no DM and assign our favorite characters levels on a whim.  Not that, in the early days, we really understood - or cared to understand - all that AD&D had to offer.  We were playing for fun, and all of our characters ended up being '50th level' - whatever that meant.

Urlik was adamant about being Lawful Good and really hated Orcs - so much so that he got his buddies together, raised and army, and wiped the Bone March clean of evil.  At that point, we were only playing with those characters as narration, but still, it was fun to redraw the maps of Greyhawk.

As far as an actual character I leveled up to the tippy-top of the level limit?  Um - never, I'd guess.  At least not the honest way. :)  I was too busy DMing.

- Ark