Sunniva the Witchhunter lived through Jim Raggi’s Death Frost Doom! Huzzah!
Well, she sorta lived, anyway. I mean, the entire area – the mountain, the village below it, the surrounding countryside and everything in between will pretty much be uninhabitable for, uh, ever… but still, Sunniva and friends were running away as we wrapped things up. Maybe they’re close to an ocean?
Two things here: First, regarding Sunniva. I’ve never played a female dwarf before, but for whatever reason, I really enjoyed running her (not that I expected a female dwarf PC to be bad, I’m just saying…). She never got much background story going on, but I still ended up really falling for this particular character. It happens sometimes. As a player, you occasionally stumble into a new character you have a major soft spot for. If one of my characters ends up dying, I don’t bat an eye at it, but I was geniuenly concerned that Sunniva was going to bite it at one point. Of course, she’s probably dead anyway because of the way things ended, but at least I don’t have to see that happen on screen.
The other thing – PC’s inflicting collateral damage on the GM’s world. You ever wipe out a huge chunk of your campaign world as a player? I won’t spoil anything from Jim’s adventure before it sees the proper light of day (although I will say the ending that occured for our group is not necessarily the regular ending most groups would get from this adventure, we were just kind of a wrecking crew), but I don’t think I’ve ever been in a party that caused the sheer amount of carnage we caused tonight. Granted, this was just a one-shot and we did unleash this cataclysm unwittingly, but it still seems somewhat, I dunno… gratifying to know you’ve pretty much doomed an entire fucking culture to death and destruction.
What?!
Don’t look at me like that! It’s just a game!
Maybe it’s because I was just a virgin to this sort of thing and I’m enjoying the first time a little too much, but then again, I was always the kid who built up huge cities in the Sim City games only to throw every single disaster in the game onto the city at the exact same time just to watch it crumble.
Eh, yeah… nevermind me. I’m not quite there in the head.
Hopefully I can talk more about Death Frost Doom when I see the final product. Check out Lamentations of the Flame Princess for updates on this project and other words of wisdom from Mr. Raggi.
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June 5, 2009 at 02:13
kelvingreen
I have had two separate Call of Cthulhu groups destroy whole cities. In all fairness, the first was because the adventure was rather poor, and didn’t offer much of an alternative to Yog-bloomin’-Sothoth turning up. The second had an avatar of Nyarlathotep stomping about the east end of London in the 1890’s, resulting in the military bombing the whole area into dust to get rid of him. That time it was entirely the players’ fault, but it was a one-shot, so it wasn’t as bad as the first occasion, which occurred mid-campaign!
June 5, 2009 at 06:51
jerm
I had a blast playing last night, and wanted to be sure to thank you and each of my fellow players for such an entertaining evening, as well as Jim, of course.
(Cerran the Thief)
June 5, 2009 at 09:44
yoyorobbo
Yes, we sorta became Pyromanics, Inc. there didn’t we. And to think we burnt the place down with just freakin’ torches and oil. Nice. Somewhere there’s a big brown bear in a hat shaking his finger at all of us.
BTW, I too had an awesome time playing with you guys and Jim has a very, very cool product there. The technical difficulties were basically nil, once we got rolling, and it was a very smooth session.
jerm (Cerran the Thief) after you logged, we asked Jim a few things about the events of the night, and one of the funniest ones was your (presumed) “condition.” We were on the verge of doing some very bad things to ol’ Cerran, and we now see that it would have been all out of our own paranoia.
Well, actually in the end, we kinda did do Cerran wrong…but I’ll leave that as a mystery for now. MUUHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
Great time, guys. Thanks so much Jim (if you see this). Hope to game with ya’ll again very soon.
June 5, 2009 at 10:40
yoyorobbo
Oh yeah, I left some additional comments over at
jerm’s site, regarding your blog here Matthew. A little something like this:
” Same for you Matthew (Sunniva the dwarf) and your blog The Dwarf and the Basilisk. I recall reading your Lost City (Moldvay’s awesome B4 module) posts a while back, and totally digging them.
I first read some session notes on B4 (and X1 I think) over at Robert Fisher’s blog as one of the first old-school D&D blog entries I ever read. That was one of the first few that really got me all back into this stuff, and yours wasn’t too far behind. Great stuff guys!”
June 5, 2009 at 15:10
Matthew Conway
FYI, my Lost City game will resume at some point in the near future, so watch this space.
July 22, 2009 at 05:07
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