Cleaning out my garage, and I found an old folder I forgot about for year.  Inside?  Two of my old characters.  Merdock was my longest running character.  He's level 9, so I guess this was around mid 80s at the time.  Justicar was with 2e S&P, and I'm pretty sure he was in 97 when I was stationed in Germany.

Interesting how my handwriting changed so much in 10 years, and how much more complex the characters became.

Nice!

Any tales from their adventures you'd care to share?

Always neat too see just how different the numbers were back in the day and how the characters remained fun and playable anyway.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;680142Nice!

Any tales from their adventures you'd care to share?

I hardly played Justicar, which was a shame because I really liked the concept of an unarmored Paladin whose penance was to endure physical suffering while protecting his allies.  I normally don't like S&P, but it was great in creating an archetype like this by giving up the ability to wear heavy armor in place of additional hit points.

With Merdock?  Oh gosh....hard to nail down.  That was about 30 years ago in his heyday.  I know at some point by the time he reached level 14 (when he retired), he got a rod of lordly might.  In one adventure rather early on in his career, he rescued the tribespeople form Isle of Dread and led them on a successful attack against the green dragon.

Really cool! These are always like a treasure trove of memory.

I might have some old sheets lying around; and the relative simplicity of pre 3x appeals a lot to me now.


Now I have to dig through my game stuff and see what old characters are lurking around

All of my really old stuff got lost when I moved to a new continent.

I see you were in a Monty Haul campaign. You're way overpowered for ninth level.

I've saved most of my character sheets -- they tend to be relatively memorable on account that I've GMed about ten times as often as I've been a player.  This is my first character, Altasren of Vimlara, an Empire of the Petal Throne fighter from the 1970s:

This is a bit into his career, and he was 5th level and loaded down with all the loot a Monty Haul campaign can dish out.  (It got so bad that not so long after this, we players got together and decided to give away everything except for three items apiece, just so we could get back to solving adventures with our wits and skills, as opposed to our toys)

Quote from: The_Rooster;681171I see you were in a Monty Haul campaign. You're way overpowered for ninth level.

That really depends on playstyle and the theme of a particular campaign.

I have dm'd and played in many games all over that spectrum. Some monty haul, some very spartan.

Quote from: Ravenswing;681189I've saved most of my character sheets -- they tend to be relatively memorable on account that I've GMed about ten times as often as I've been a player.  This is my first character, Altasren of Vimlara, an Empire of the Petal Throne fighter from the 1970s:

This is a bit into his career, and he was 5th level and loaded down with all the loot a Monty Haul campaign can dish out.  (It got so bad that not so long after this, we players got together and decided to give away everything except for three items apiece, just so we could get back to solving adventures with our wits and skills, as opposed to our toys)

Markers.  Nice

Quote from: Bill;681218That really depends on playstyle and the theme of a particular campaign.

I have dm'd and played in many games all over that spectrum. Some monty haul, some very spartan.

Don't worry about it.  Someone doesn't know anything about D&D.  9th level in AD&D was name level.  That's when you start running a castle and territory as a fighter.  And a half dozen or so magic items by then is not even close to Monty Haul.  Perhaps he should look at some AD&D modules some time and see what magic items frequent them.  Monty Haul would be if he had +5 armor, a vorpal sword, girdle of storm giant strength, etc.

No, he's just doing what he's been doing for the past several days: popping into threads and posting some stupid remark to get a rise out of people.  Since everyone is ignoring him, he's throwing a fit and trying to troll.  Just ignore him.

Quote from: Sacrosanct;681231No, he's just doing what he's been doing for the past several days: popping into threads and posting some stupid remark to get a rise out of people.  Since everyone is ignoring him, he's throwing a fit and trying to troll.  Just ignore him.

That's your hallmark. If you hate what someone is saying, they're automagically a troll and a horrible person.

Your 9th-level character has a crap-ton of items. My AD&D games we wouldn't have had even half of that.

Stop assuming you're right in everything and that your way is the only way. To me, your character is in a Monty Haul campaign. Live with my opinion instead of dismissing it as trolling just because you don't like it.

All of you fail your Spot checks to notice the obvious discrepancy that this is a forged AD&D character sheet:

NO TEN FOOT POLE.

Very cool. And no, these characters are not especially powerful for name level.

Anyone who's actually played the game from level 1 through 9th would tell you that. It all depends on what happens during the character's adventures. The way these are built compared to the "modern" mindset of "encounter/gear appropriate" content uses a different type of logic in their set-up and organization, dependent in big part on the players' cleverness in finding out/unearthing/getting to treasure, mostly. The not-so-clever but lucky characters might get to level 9 (though the odds are fairly minimal if the DM ain't fudging rolls along the way), but with a mediocre gear. Others will make it, find out hidden parts of the dungeon, be really clever and obtain items that were really well guarded/hidden/otherwise being challenges, and get away with it. That's the way the game's supposed to function. The OD&D and first edition AD&D games, I mean.

Quote from: Benoist;681449The not-so-clever but lucky characters might get to level 9 (though the odds are fairly minimal if the DM ain't fudging rolls along the way), but with a mediocre gear.

It's always a dig from a position of elitist superiority with you people. "If you didn't play the way I played, you were a BAD PLAYER!"

And yet I'm the one accused of trolling.