tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post7068552060329074216..comments2024-03-27T22:32:17.055-05:00Comments on Jeffs Gameblog: Throw the what into the crack of what?Jeff Rientshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-35565554526948999142011-01-11T13:58:33.824-06:002011-01-11T13:58:33.824-06:00Love all these destruction methods. Just been read...Love all these destruction methods. Just been reading the old DMG for nostalgia's sake...<br />I do remember sniggering about having to bury my Axe of the Dwarvish Lords in Marion's Trench.<br /><br />I also recall us having one artifact that could only be destroyed by the foot of a humble ant. Oracles, divination spells, we tried them all but we never figure out what it meant in game.<br />I do remember it made us hideously paranoid about letting ants anywhere near our Hut of Baba Yaga, just in case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-33002325412928953082009-01-19T06:37:00.000-06:002009-01-19T06:37:00.000-06:00I'm pretty sure that when I was about 12 we destro...I'm pretty sure that when I was about 12 we destroyed an artifact (possibly the Sword of Kas?) by disintegrating it in the putrid ichor of Juiblex’s deliquescing flesh. Unfortunately, this was achieved with a simple Polymorph Other spell, turning him into a harmless critter that was squished. We hadn't read the spell description properly and so didn't realize there was a saving throw.<BR/><BR/>Soon afterwards we were enlightened and our god-killing campaign was over.PTRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01804620638450848244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-483048365581645062009-01-14T13:09:00.000-06:002009-01-14T13:09:00.000-06:00We had the sun, the forge from whence it came, and...We had the sun, the forge from whence it came, and under Talos' heel come up in play. (Our Talos was the argonauts guy, triple hp, triple damage etc. from ordinary iron golem stats.)<BR/><BR/>It was both lame and cool when many years later, these old high-level badasses dusted off for 3e, a single Mordenkainen's Disjunction from a 20th level lich and his troop of demons wound up destroying three PC artifacts in a single fight. They don't make 'em like they used to, I guess.<BR/><BR/>At least I took those characters down a peg.<BR/><BR/>- CalithenaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-45401429266646525342009-01-11T00:13:00.000-06:002009-01-11T00:13:00.000-06:00While I'm sure I've used a few these over ...While I'm sure I've used a few these over the years, the Cornerstone of the World plays a major part in the mythology of my primary D&D milieu. Essentially, when the dragons finished building the world and the gods set up to run it, there was a large piece intersecting several domains that no one could decide what to do with. This large, generally triangular land mass was removed from the world until the gods could figure out what to do with it.<BR/><BR/>The region this 'The Cornerstone of the World' occupied is now a bottomless triangular hole in the ocean. Legends say the Cornerstone was eventually returned and only by navigating past the triangle "the wrong way forward" can you land on it. A Grey Dragon that seems to be made of stone lives there. <BR/><BR/>There are many stories surrounding this place and the Grey Dragon that supposedly calls it home.Adam Dicksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-7031886031153328722009-01-10T19:55:00.000-06:002009-01-10T19:55:00.000-06:00"What, 9 comments so far and no has yet admitted t..."<I>What, 9 comments so far and no has yet admitted to being 14 years old and sniggering at the double entendre inherent in "burying" something in "Marion's Trench"?</I>"<BR/><BR/>I was wondering why nobody else picked that one out. When I first read it, I thought: "'Marion's Trench'? I wouldn't touch that with a 10-foot pole." LOLChristopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17368794259249607299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-83711527699881015162009-01-09T22:44:00.000-06:002009-01-09T22:44:00.000-06:004. By ‘triple iron golem’ I assume that Gygax mean...<I>4. By ‘triple iron golem’ I assume that Gygax means an iron golem with three times as many hit points and three times as large, but I’d be up for a three-headed golem myself, maybe with three bodies joined shoulder-to-shoulder-to-shoulder.</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah. This would be the Tri-Sentinel that Spider-Man had to fight when he was exposed to the Enigma Force.Ian Sokoliwskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02088518873613161316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-25901542039962570942009-01-09T19:45:00.000-06:002009-01-09T19:45:00.000-06:00Should I start rolling percentile dice every time ...<B>Should I start rolling percentile dice every time PCs encounter ants, to see if any of them are humble?</B><BR/><BR/>No, man. That's what the random personality trait table is for. "Lessee. OK, you found an ant, but it's ... *rattle* ooh, a lecherous hypochondriac. Bad luck."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-32338685731180953752009-01-09T15:56:00.000-06:002009-01-09T15:56:00.000-06:00In my 2E AD&D campaign the Characters found ob...In my 2E AD&D campaign the Characters found obsidian like pieces that created a "vorpal" sword called the Vlindaran Shard. In actuality it was part of the power sorce for the "world tree" starship that Elves used to colonize the planet and then sent in a massive elliptical orbit in space (every few thousand years the thing would appear as a "comet" in teh sky.)<BR/><BR/>The Characters visited the ship and found it infested with Mind Flayers and Beholders so they figured out how to self-destruct the thing and managed to destroy the "shard." One of the greedier Characters really wanted the "shard" sword and had a ring of wishes...twisted that poorly worded Wish and the whole ship came back into being. They went and destroyed it again only this time the "shard" (one of about a dozen in the ship's power source) fell to the planet and was snatched up by the BBEG before teh Characters could recover it. I too like me some SciFi in my Fantasy!Randolphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03643391983738506935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-22270775085007521592009-01-09T15:43:00.000-06:002009-01-09T15:43:00.000-06:00What, 9 comments so far and no has yet admitted to...What, 9 comments so far and no has yet admitted to being 14 years old and sniggering at the double entendre inherent in "burying" something in "Marion's Trench"?<BR/><BR/>Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more!<BR/><BR/>Yeah.Erin Palettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09984632637166408245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-6645845650047799412009-01-09T14:16:00.000-06:002009-01-09T14:16:00.000-06:00Another thumbs-up for the "humble ant" method of d...Another thumbs-up for the "humble ant" method of destruction. When I was young and dumb and literal-minded (as opposed to just dumb and literal-minded like I am now), I spent many hours pondering how an ant could destroy Heward's Mystical Organ with its foot...<BR/><BR/>I never got a chance to introduce an artifact into any of my games. I love the idea of including one or more of those mythical locations on the campaign map, though...something I'll have to keep in mind for the future.KenHRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11613789646908929989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-10261326250574202752009-01-09T14:05:00.000-06:002009-01-09T14:05:00.000-06:00Talos is the giant animated statue from Jason and ...<I>Talos is the giant animated statue from Jason and the Argonauts. He's made of bronze in the movie, not iron, but this is almost certainly what Gary was referring to in the DMG.</I><BR/><BR/>Works for me, as the mythical Talos was also made of bronze. Had the same weakness too, with the single vein of ichor that opened all too damn easily.<BR/><BR/>Hm. Think I need to give more golems unusual weakness and sources of power ...taicharahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02213053468697534564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-75048822804802361402009-01-09T12:55:00.000-06:002009-01-09T12:55:00.000-06:00I always thought of "triple iron" in the same way,...I always thought of "triple iron" in the same way, sort of like a four-cheese pizza.OlmanFeelyushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17521657876810568251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-40479752674091530652009-01-09T12:39:00.000-06:002009-01-09T12:39:00.000-06:00Talos is the giant animated statue from Jason and ...Talos is the giant animated statue from <I>Jason and the Argonauts</I>. He's made of bronze in the movie, not iron, but this is almost certainly what Gary was referring to in the DMG.James Maliszewskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00341941102398271464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-69321320832126153232009-01-09T12:26:00.000-06:002009-01-09T12:26:00.000-06:00The first thing I envisioned when I read Talos was...The first thing I envisioned when I read Talos was the <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Rhodes" REL="nofollow">Colossus of Rhodes</A>.<BR/><BR/>That Gygax dude sure had some wicked cool ideas. ;-)Gamer Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05006232842482959060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-60345246046735020782009-01-09T12:21:00.000-06:002009-01-09T12:21:00.000-06:00I've always been a big fan of the "humble ant" des...I've always been a big fan of the "humble ant" destruction scenario. Does Gary mean "humble as in possessing the qualities of humbleness" or "humble as in mere or commonplace"?<BR/><BR/>As with a lot of the classic rules, it's up to the ref to make the call.Michael Curtishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13217338828086458862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-74529962355243803962009-01-09T12:11:00.000-06:002009-01-09T12:11:00.000-06:00My memories are hazy of the exact sequence of even...My memories are hazy of the exact sequence of events, but my college group did toss an original artifact I created using the 1st edition ones as a guideline into a sun. They first had to get their hands on an aether ship, then sail it close to the sun. They were, of course, attacked, and in the combat the mage's (NPC hireling) apprentice was knocked out of the ship and into the sun as well. However, as he fell into the sun at the same time as artifact, instead of dying he became a god. Not that they figured that out until nearly six months (real life) later. <BR/><BR/>Yeah, I know, very Marvel Comics. "Nobody dies forever." ;Dtrollsmythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01895349218958093151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-55932643263089472432009-01-09T11:24:00.000-06:002009-01-09T11:24:00.000-06:00My initial thought about the triple iron golem was...<B>My initial thought about the triple iron golem was that there was a substance called "triple iron" (perhaps three times as strong and durable as regular iron?) that the golem would have to be made of.</B><BR/><BR/>Holy cow! That's a great idea!Jeff Rientshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17493878980535235896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7652921.post-21523982637501528702009-01-09T10:45:00.000-06:002009-01-09T10:45:00.000-06:00As I read it, any particular relic has one (and pr...As I read it, any particular relic has one (and probably only one) way to destroy it. So if dropping something into the sun is easy in your campaign, it seems likely that all the artifacts that could be destroyed that way have already been disposed of over the millennia. Also, you wouldn't need to decide whether any particular ant was humble unless you happened to have an artifact (<I>the</I> artifact?) that could be destroyed by one.<BR/><BR/>My initial thought about the triple iron golem was that there was a substance called "triple iron" (perhaps three times as strong and durable as regular iron?) that the golem would have to be made of.<BR/><BR/>My players did once get hold of an artifact, which they deemed to dangerous to allow to continue to exist, and went on a quest to the Land of Death and Dreams to give it to the God of Death for safekeeping. That was fun.Joshua Macyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10838733328132877699noreply@blogger.com