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
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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