D&D 30-day Challenge - day 1

I've decided to do the D&D 30-day challenge. I don't know where it originated, but that's alright. Here is a list of what it consists of though. Yes, I just grabbed the first result when searching for "D&D 30 day challenge" on google.

So the first day is today. Totally not because I should be tidying up the apartment because the realtor is coming tomorrow to take photos.

Day 1: How you got started.
It's been so long now that I barely remember it, but here's what I do remember. In 5th or 6th grade one of my school mates brought along a table top game where each player controlled a miniature and explored a dungeon. You already know the characters: a dwarf, a barbarian, a magic-user, an elf... I can't actually recall the name of the game, or many details about it, but I distinctly remember that it was in Swedish, because we were pretty bad at English back then. No matter.

The board game was a huge hit among a few of us, and we continued playing it between classes. Cut to the summer before 7th grade. A friend called me over for trying out this new "roleplaying game" he'd bought. It wasn't D&D, but a game called Chronopia. It's pretty well known in Sweden, but mostly for being so bad. That didn't matter though, because we didn't know better (and I still argue that whining about how bad Chronopia was is useless. I can't even remember the rules any longer, but the game sold us on RPGs, so it had to have had something). The book was also cheaply made and fell apart after a few uses, so you could basically ask for the equipment list and you'd get the pages but not the book itself. I kinda liked Chronopia -- the basic setting was this huge, old wooden tower-City. We never used it.

I recall an introductory adventure where my assassin (haha, yes -- my first character ever was an assassin) snuck into a room on the second floor and slit the throats of 20 sleeping guards. Or something like that. Maybe not 20. But yeah.

In other news: I had hoped to finish Death Frost Doom yesterday, but one of the players got sick and so we had to cancel. It happens, we'll play some other weekend. I'll write a short review sometime this week, I think.

Death Frost Doom, part 1

So today the group, after creating characters, set out to find the Screaming Mace, until the EQ player complained about the name and the wizard looking for it remembered that the name was the Wailing Mace instead. The group consists of:
Toger Ilfhem, Magic-User
Cha 13, Con 10, Dex 13, Int 16, Str 15, Wis 9.

Filip, Cleric
Cha 10, Con 15, Dex 13, Int 12, Str 11, Wis 14

Plax, Specialist
Cha 12, Con 15, Dex 9, Int 12, Str 11, Wis 12

Iam Toast, Gnome
Cha 9, Con 10, Dex 16, Int 13, Str 15, Wis 9

After some research and travelling, they thus reached the Mountain, where apparently the mace was last seen. Plax and Filip were freaked out a bit by the old man and then even more freaked out by the stuff in the cabin, the Magic-User picked up everything he found. Spoilers follow, highlight to read: They found the body, they're a bit disturbed by the mirror (only one is invisible) and think it's because the Magic-User stole stuff in the cabin. The painting freaks two of them out a bit too. They made their way down into the temple proper. They found the basins with teeth and promptly went up and kicked the dead guy's face in for the sacrifice. Before that the gnome played the organ but nobody died and the Magic-User picked up all the other loot in the room. They found the (first) book and the Magic-User took it. Plax and Filip are totally freaked out, the Magic-User thinks he's lost his soul already and the Gnome is acting as tank (AC 19).

So yeah, I suspect that this group of intrepid adventurers won't live for very long.