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Sunday, August 3, 2014
First Game Dungeon Mastered
Ah, that was a long time ago. But for me it was the original Chivalry & Sorcery by Fantasy Games Unlimited. In 1978, when I was a junior in high school, I met a fascinating fellow student who introduced me to RPGs by running a game of Chivalry & Sorcery for me. Naturally I played an elf fighter (duh!). Then he transferred to another school and I was the only one with the books. I whipped up a world map and threw together a story line. It began with the party leaving the tavern at closing time, hearing a fight in a dark alley, and arriving just too late to save some dying guy who'd been attacked. The dying guy asks them to return a small wooden box to a city in the elf land, then drops dead on cue. From there I just added new stuff for each session based what happened this session and what the players had talked about doing in the next session. I had about 4-6 core players and 1-3 who would sort of half play and half just hang out to enjoy the story and watch me do funny voices. I think my talking eagle impression was the high point of the campaign.
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