Shattered Honor – Part Forty-One
Chapter: Season Ten
Is Brett playing with forces he does not understand?
Of course, this canon is just *my* actual canon from Karthun and it is not official with regard to WotC and the actual Tomb of Horrors lore. I just grew up loving the World of Greyhawk and this was one of three ways I created a link between the two worlds.
I mean, how bad could it be? It’s just a prototype after all and as we all know prototypes are never as dangerous as the final product.
At the bottom of the pit lies an ancient scroll. It reads:
“Add spikes here. Also find cost-effective source for long-lasting poison. -A”
well… the proto was even more dangerous, it wasn’t balanced at all- eight groups of 15 pregenerated characters found their demise in this prototype adventure.
could be stuff in there that Acerak thought was TOO extreme for the tomb
Well played Brett (and Brian, of course) – good form
*butt pucker*
It’s less horrifying if you think of it as “Being in an Open Beta”, if that helps at all.
Not if it’s your production environment…
Didn’t we all grow up loving/cutting our D&D teeth on the World of Greyhawk? So – Tomb of Horrors and . . . ??
IIRC Barrier Peaks was pre-Karthun . . . You responded in the positive to my earlier Whiteplume Mountain question. Can’t wait to see if you drop more of these connections for us
Barrier Peaks was 4e at the latest and he didn’t make Karthun until after 5e was out. Well, at the very least he didn’t publish it until after 5e was out.
If you are talking the first Barrier Peaks adventure not sure if it is the one your thinking of but back back in time when I was a wee child I played it for first edition ofcourse I am talking about “Expedition to the Barrier Peaks” came out in 1980 got a copy from my mom on my shelf right now but not sure if that is quite what you are talking about.
I meant Brian using Barrier Peaks in d20Monkey, Sam ran a version when his dad guest starred – that was pre-Karthun in the comic
I grew up a nerd in the 80’s . . . the history of TSR modules is the story of my teenage D&D years
> Didn’t we all grow up loving/cutting our D&D teeth on the World of Greyhawk?
Almost everything in the comic has been pretty well new to me. (And I don’t want to go spoiling it for myself by looking up all the ins and outs of the modules.) I’ve gathered from the comments and light snooping that Tomb of Horrors is shit nasty bloodbath badness. The party’s OOC reactions are like they’re about to die on the spot.
But Annabelle’s come so far. She has to face Dwayla. As much as I love a fantastic villain, Dwalya has to go down. Breaks my heart to see her go, but the opposite would be a total party bummer. I’m on edge wondering how these two events are gonna resolve.
Hopefully you didn’t take offense to that statement – certainly wasn’t meant to upset anyone. Was just trying to illustrate how long I’ve been doing this gaming thing.
As to Annabelle – she was dead for a few seconds in Kharthun (extra baggage there me thinks) and now wields a Nine Lives Stealer . . . she might get her revenge but at what cost? In other words, don’t think that scenario ends well for anyone
Oh no! No offense taken. (My first TTRPG was Mage: The Ascension. Hope that doesn’t offend sensibilities!)
And it ending badly for the characters could still mean ending well for the players if action is right. Cool before Rules? Either way, I am so excited to see this play out.
Not all were blessed with a D&D childhood… My teeth be cut on Order of the Sick, The Adventure Zone, & other odds and ends D&D junk till I got to trying out at 5th Edition.
Oh noooo…
So, is this the part where most of the group curls up in the fetal position and starts crying? Because I wouldn’t blame them if they did.
I’m worried Sam will feel betrayed by Brett making something so very important to his world canon. Or I may be overthinking where Sam was being so weird about it all.
I think it is more fear because version of the tomb are canonically scattered across the multiverse so one being in Karthun isn’t too surprising but it is designed to be a deathtrap. It was made to be the end all be all of player killing dungeons (especially the OG tomb of horrors) you enter the tomb and you better be ready to think tactically, to stop roleplaying, and to fear everything unless you are ready to right up a new character because you aren’t being revived because the tombs are convenient methods of collecting souls for Acererak’s phylactory
Did you hear that? That was me squealing with giddy, devilish, delight!
Hehe. I am gearing up myself to run my group through Tomb of Annihilation. Thanks to my obsessive collecting of Reaper Bones miniature kickstarters, I recently got a 32-lb box of Reaper 4 full of prehistoric horrors to populate my jungle of Chult. My group has no idea what is in store…
That’s the original Tomb of Horrors map in panel 3.
That’s really fucking cool.
Tomb of Horrors was the first module I ever purchased – back in the Dawn of Time. I ran it a couple of times; it never went well for the PCs. Good times. WOG was my homeworld for many years. Love recalling this Old Skool stuff. Well done sir!
Ok…
Seriously…
Love where this is going! 😀
(*returns to watching, trying not to make too many excited squeeing noises…*)
I’ll admit that I only get the Greyhawk reference thanks to Rick and Morty vs D&D.
*pore over