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From: darin@ut-dillo.UUCP (Darin Adler)
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Subject: Re: Tomb Of Horrors
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Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 00:36:50 EST
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> ... party made its way down the first main corridor, my thief was looking for
> traps, and outlining them with chalk for the rest of the party. He was
> wearing a helm of comprehend languages at the time, so as he was doing this,
> he happened to notice the letters spelled out in the floor tile which gave
> some major hints on how to make it through the dungeon. This helped us avoid
> a number of dead ends (pardon the pun) and traps.

I have to assume this is an attempt at humor.  When I adventured
through the "Tomb of Horrors" a number of years ago, I am certain
there were no miscellaneous clues written on the floor tiles. :-)
Looking back at the text of the module, I find no such description.
This would seem to be quite convenient for a DM who realized that the
traps were just too difficult and wanted to give some clues.  As I
recall, the characters I used were the highest level that I have EVER
bothered with, and we still were unable to bother the demi-lich.

In another vein, I still do not understand this talk about 18th level
characters.  Are these one-shot characters created at a high level so
that they will be powerful enough for the dungeon.  If not, I
recommend that you play more than one character, or more than one
game.  After 6-7 years of enjoyable AD&D play (and more years of
DM'ing), the highest any of my first-level characters has ever
attained was 12th level.  Actually, this really has no bearing on
anyone else's game, but I find the rules are mostly oriented around
characters that are of this level and below.

One more thing.  Have you folks out there seen "Oriental Adventures"
(yet another volume in the ever-growing EGG AD&D collection)?
It looks interesting.  I have a friend who particularly likes the
Shukenja class (peaceful "clerics" who do not like killing, but pack
quite a wallop).  I think that the Monk class is a lot more
interesting with the introduction of martial arts styles.
-- 
Darin Adler
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