I have some musings to share about my upcoming D&D birthday marathon. First of all, I own a very worn and heavily used italian copy of Keep on the Borderlands, so much so that the maps are almost unusable. Therefore, I have to print new ones for the game. Fortunately though, google has plenty of good scans of The Keep and The Caves of Chaos, so I managed to find these:
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| The Caves of Chaos |
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| Wilderness Map |
So I'm right for the maps. I will, of course, use Labyrinth Lord to run the game. The only major variation to the rules will be non-variable weapon damage (this is because 99% of the possible players are total noobs, and I don't want them to be puzzled by alien concepts like the d12). Characters will have some standard equipment (magic-users are going to have a couple of magic items too), two cure potions each, enough money to hire some (
abusable) henchmen and one random item from the wonderful
Deck o' Stuff. Every player will be required to bring to the game a) at least one 6-sided die and b) paper and pencil. I don't expect all of them will bring that stuff with them, so I will buy some cheap pencils, a ream of crappy paper and
36 6-sided dice (I'm not going to spend more than 15€ or so on this). I guess I should have on hand a few pre-generated characters too. That said, it looks like I'll easily be ready within a couple of days. I'm also reading all about ChicagoWiz's awesome experience with the Caves of Chaos marathon,
here and
there.
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