End of the Week with Major Mal Drizzt Edition

[Produktion_Malphunktion]

1979.
Summer.
That was the first time I saw a Drow.

I was introduced to DnD the year before by my mum on vacation. We had a good time, my mom as the DM, and the rest of the people on vacation playing various classes. I was an Elf. Yep, Elf as a class. I think I died being bit by a poison spider.

Everyone else went on with their normal lives, I became an addict. Those AD&D books are burned into my mind from those early years. Every picture memorized. Every list known, and usually I can still remember what page they were on. Lucky for me we had a great bookstore in my hometown that had a huge game section. My DM bought G1-3 (The giants series) and D1-3 the Drow series. A Drow? What was that? Evil elves that hate everything good in the world? Sparks the imagination. Imagine Elrond not only bad, but super powerful and EVIL, not just evil. Finally a villain worthy of my hero Lannon's time. Remember this was the days of dungeon crawls, not high drama or 'storytelling is king' that the game has evolved into.

On it went, defeating the Drow and their nefarious plans, traveling the Underdark for about a year, Kao-toa piercers, Shriekers, Xorns, a purple worm (who ate our human paladin), mind flayers, and other nasties. Then Q1 came out. Waaait. We are going to fight a goddess? On a different plane, in her home? And she has a AC of -10?!? We all gleefully died that afternoon, and even though a year of a good character was lost, we had a ton of fun.

2012.
Forgotten Realms, really?
Pinch me!

Lolth is back in my life, little Drow are running around the office, and our destination is the Forgotten Realms? Seriously, this is a dream come true. I have to chuckle about all the arguments I had with my parents back in the 80's about wasting my time with D&D and designing my own games and worlds. I guess I won those arguments 25 years later…

So now you know why we have been busy, and hopefully some confusion of what we have been doing is clearer.
In the short term, we are wrapping up a bugfix-only patch hopefully today for next week, and tromping along with Update 13.
Most of the patch will fix things we broke in December. There is some fixes to Challenges, loot and lag. And that is about it.

Maj

EDIT: See how excited I am? Go Patriots! I feel so ashamed. Well, on the day after the anniversary of the Snow Bowl when all of NE fell in love with a kicker, and all of Oakland was wondering what a tuck rule was may we as fans get a fantastic game on Sunday.

[stainer]

This pleases Lolth (All Hail).

[grodon9999]

All hail Lolth.

[TheDearLeader]

I just hope the new FR "Drow" that we fight at higher levels don't have the insane SR that Epic Drow in eOoB/eBoB/eTTT have, and more like the Epic Drow in the challenge quests. High, but possible if you actually invest in Spell Penetration.

[Elegorne]

All Hail Lolth.. /genuflect

(and +1 to grodon, just for the sig )

[Qezuzu]

All hail Lolth....

[NytCrawlr]

1979.
I was an Elf. Yep, Elf as a class.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I started with 2nd ed., but we tried the D&D Rules Cyclopedia version of the game for a bit after some burn out. Despite its simplicity, I think it was one of the versions I enjoyed the most.




Keep up the good work.

[Captain_Wizbang]

Thanks fir the update.

Awesome stuff to hear about your mom as DM.

Good to know us old hippies had a positive impact on someone other than whale watchers.

[GoldyGopher]

The All Mighty CUBE is not pleased with all this worship of the Blasphemous Demon known as Lolth or Lloth in Drowish.

Throw aside this impure She-Spider and join me in the worship of the perfect being.

All Hail the Cube for it is perfect on six sides.

[stainer]

The All Mighty CUBE is not pleased with all this worship of the Blasphemous Demon known as Lolth or Lloth in Drowish.

Throw aside this impure She-Spider and join me in the worship of the perfect being.

All Hail the Cube for it is perfect on six sides.

/wiggily fingers smiting the blasphemer

[ComicRelief]

Hmmm...if the "Forgotten Realms" are remembered by so many, how can they (still) be forgotten?

Oh, for the good ol' days of the (original) Unearthed Arcana! {Talk about 'forgotten realms'....}

[grodon9999]

The All Mighty CUBE is not pleased with all this worship of the Blasphemous Demon known as Lolth or Lloth in Drowish.

Throw aside this impure She-Spider and join me in the worship of the perfect being.

All Hail the Cube for it is perfect on six sides.

Get a rope, some pliers, and a blowtorch.

[SardaofChaos]

The All Mighty CUBE is not pleased with all this worship of the Blasphemous Demon known as Lolth or Lloth in Drowish.

Throw aside this impure She-Spider and join me in the worship of the perfect being.

All Hail the Cube for it is perfect on six sides.

Seven sides.

[blkcat1028]

This is the one I started with...



My copy was published in the late 70s though.

[GoldyGopher]

/wiggily fingers smiting the blasphemer

Thy Cube will protect Thee from thy lowly incantations for thy irreverent Demon for she means nothing to Thee.

[Rhysem]

So the funny thing here to me... years ago I played Asheron's Call. Leafcull, in particular. And the guy who recruited me into the game was in a monarchy... of displaced drow. Now drow come to DDO, the Turbine game I'm currently playing. The circle is complete.

Also, that's why I couldn't make heads or tails of lol-this-coming.com as a domain they registered. Who? What? Lolcats in ddo?

[Thrudh]

1981 for me.

We did G1-G3 Against the Giants (my favorite) and D1-D3 that summer.

I never made it to Q1 because we all died in D3 (or maybe D2?)...

Looking forward to finally defeating Lloth.

Edit: My ranger's name was Aragon. Man I was original... I sure loved that +1 damage PER LEVEL against those giants... He wasn't nearly as awesome against the drow...

[Scraap]

Eight legs good.
Six sides bad.
baa ram ewe.
Thanks for the update maj.
That physics upgrade comes up next update, not next patch then?

[Uska]

yeah but originally the vault of the drow was in greyhawk a much better world but thats ok I am excited we are getting a hopefully awesome expansion even if it includes the I wish they were forgotten realms and oh yeah I started playing june 1975

[DANTEIL]

Oh now you have gotten me on a bit of D&D nostalgia -- I started in 1979 or thereabouts and I have all those modules in a box somewhere. I never had a consistent enough group to play through them all, but loved pouring over them and reading all the details. I can't wait to see what you guys do in the same world.

AC -10 yes!