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Post by scalydemon on Feb 29, 2016 18:25:17 GMT -6
This is courtesy of Andy Action's google+ feed, thought I would share it as I found it interesting. I believe TOH didn't actually get published until a few years after this so I guess it was sort of a play test ![](http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/srmoberly/AampE4%205_zpsqiluuurl.jpg) ![](http://i803.photobucket.com/albums/yy316/srmoberly/AampE4%206_zpssrkv9vtw.jpg)
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Post by scalydemon on Feb 29, 2016 18:27:10 GMT -6
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Post by idrahil on Feb 29, 2016 19:25:14 GMT -6
lol'd at the comment about no one knowing how to draw.
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Post by scalydemon on Feb 29, 2016 19:37:24 GMT -6
lol'd at the comment about no one knowing how to draw. Yeah I got 4 or 5 good chuckles out of it. An interesting perspective for sure.
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Post by geoffrey on Feb 29, 2016 20:46:46 GMT -6
While I do not find stories of "what we did in a game" interesting (alas!), I enjoyed the notes about EPT. Thanks for posting! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 29, 2016 22:34:44 GMT -6
Well, not as bad as the guy Jon Peterson quoted in PatW, whose reaction to Tomb of Horrors I characterize as "Waah, waah, waah."
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Post by scalydemon on Feb 29, 2016 23:01:02 GMT -6
This courtesy of Guy Fullerton - here is another fanzine from 1975 called GIGO with a brief player's review of TOH from Origins I- 1975 (page 27). The rest of the zine is pretty entertaining too if you like hearing the perspectives of the period as I do. www.costik.com/zines/GIGO_4-1975-09-21.pdf
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Post by Zenopus on Mar 1, 2016 0:06:53 GMT -6
Thanks for the articles, scaly. Will read later. Hadn't heard of GIGO before, but the editor Greg Costikyan was later responsible for the WEG Star Wars RPG, plus Paranoia & Toon.
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Post by Finarvyn on Mar 1, 2016 7:23:46 GMT -6
TOMB OF HORRORS is certainly an interesting dungeon. Unfair in many ways because of its lethality, but legendary in many ways becasue it is so unique. While I'm not usually a fan of reading about someone else's trip into a dungeon, I found thsi one pretty cool since the author clearly didn't have a preconcieved clue about what he was in for, and that's hard to find nowadays since the ToH has been published so widely for so long.
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Post by oldkat on Mar 1, 2016 11:00:28 GMT -6
While I do not find stories of "what we did in a game" interesting (alas!), I enjoyed the notes about EPT. Thanks for posting! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) What's interesting about it (imo) is not just the comments, but (to me) the fact that this is how (these) folks responded to something we hail as iconic (TOH)in the published-adventure realm. Once it (TOH) was published, I assume many of the flaws that were included in original test-play/tournament play/pre-published experiments, would be (or have been) corrected/adjusted/modified/etc. What's also interesting, is that the main objection found in the comments (a dry, trap-filled waddle-about), didn't change all that much in the published version; TOH is a trap-fest, 1st; puzzle-solver, 2nd; and slug-fest, last. (As far as i.r.) It is a snapshot of a time many of us wish we could have been present in/at.
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