Eaten by Beetles, then set aflame by a Pixie-Fairy...

[pyat]

Alas poor Glimmerdim, I hardly knew ye. You were a poor Gnomeling Cleric/Thief, a loyal servant of divine Draper... but what gods smile on your bones, lost in the sewers 'neath Happenstance?

There was a Hackmaster tournament tonight in Toronto. neosis lived. I did not. Let us drink libations to the heroic dead!

Also, I rolled 100 when making breakfast, so Glimmerdim had the added shame of serving charcoal-encased lard to his friends as his final act of questionable charity. But they didn't mind, god bless 'em. They didn't mind.

And in the end, I won the Tourney Prize. A Hackmaster PLAYER's Screen. Thus is balance restored to the universe.

Comments

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

...if your PC contains the word 'dim' anywhere in their name, they deserve be eaten or torched by bugs.

::B::

P.S. Charcoal-encased lard? G-Dim invented the Oreo?

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Oi! If only I'd added sugar, I could have retired rich, instead being eaten by beetles in a sewer.

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

Nod. And if only you had played a Keebler Elf, and not a pointy headed gnome, G-Dim would be back at the Hollow Tree making cookies right now.

::B::

[melstra.livejournal.com]

Cheer up, you could have been eaten by the Beatles!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Look out! It's a Greater Woodland Ringo!

[neosis.livejournal.com]

Ugh, whoever thought "An all-insect adventure will be fun!" needs to be shot!

Low armor class monsters and 1st level characters don't mix!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

I think our big issue as a party was lack of firepower and tactics. I should have looked at the pregens and taken a warrior, but I figured a couple of clerics would fill that gap.

Part of "tactics" was the DM's fault - we needed a map for the first encounter, and the map in the second was belated. However, he mentioned he usually uses minis, so without them I suspect he just wasn't used to keep track of combats abstractly. I know I need a map, and get confused without them.

But, definitely, we should have sat down for a minute and thought about a way to get across, instead of going one at a time. I partly blame myself - it's been so long since I was an actual player, I wasn't even doing trap checks.

Which brings me to the one big complaint I have about the adventure itself...

The damage potential of the beetles! I was assuming they'd have 1d6 bite, maybe even 1d4... 1d8 tops. And then I took 21 points damage in one round. The pregens should've been 2nd level, I figure.

Other than that, I thought it was tough, but fair.

Also, I got my $10 back.

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

"Also, I got my $10 back."

You bet against yourself in the Hackmaster Tourney's 'Dead Pool'?

::B::

[pyat.livejournal.com]

That would have been a good idea, but no. :)

The con charged me $25 just to walk in the door at 6PM. If I'd kept my mouth shut and just paid the one-day fee, it would have been $15. But I mentioned I was there for a free tourney and just the evening, assuming it would be even less.

Apparently, "free tourney" means "we charge you another $10."

However, neosis arrived around the same time, and was told he only had to pay $15 for the evening. When I heard this, I tried a couple of times to get $10 back, and was stonewalled by some guy who claimed not to have the authority to do so... though I later discovered he was the con coordinator. Passing the buck, it seems.

He told me that the evening rate only applied after 7 PM. I pointed out that all the evening events START at 7 PM, so if someone came for an evening event, they'd naturally be there before 7 PM. The only way to get the "evening rate" was to arrive late for the evening events.

He promised to send the con owner to see me. The con owner didn't come by. And then, when I went out again at 10 to try again, I was told that the con owner had ben by a couple of times, and they'd forgotten. And then I was told that I'd "been there too long" and "no one would refund me at this point." I pointed out that I was paying for the evening events, which run till midnight or later, and then asked for the con owners email.

And then, magically, no one knew the con owners last name or email. So I ook it from a program, and went back to game.

When the game finished, I walked around asking for the con owner, and found him in ten minutes. He told me the evening rate actually only applied to the dance, but before I could say anything else, he said that since neosis had paid $15, I could pay that rate.

Whereupon I explained this to the people at the door, the same people I'd been talking to all along, and was asked for $15.

Sigh...

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

Hmm...

With such morons as the gate, maybe I didn't miss out on anything after all...

Did anyone you know attend the game auction that ran from 2 to 6 pm?

::B::

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Assuming they were Water Beetles, they do 3d6 damage!

[neosis.livejournal.com]

Seems like a safe bet.