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So this Thursday I spent the evening at Brooklyn Strategist playing a game of Labyrinth Lords with a guy I met there and his roleplaying circle. First let me say that it was weird being the youngest player at the table. These guys were talking about roleplaying in their late teens in the early eighties when most of us weren’t even born yet. Trippy. The only guy even close to my age is about to finish Law School. Yup, I was the underachiever of the bunch.
Labyrinth Lords:
The game is a simplified version of the original D&D. It’s weird, we started with feats & skills and this game has none of that. I’m talking THAC0, for those of you who know what that is, and prerequisites. It’s really old school. You roll stats first and once you assign your numbers then you determine whether you have the prerequisites to be a non-human race(example: to be a dwarf you have to have at least a 9 CON). Once you have your race you have to choose a class that is available to your chosen race. Basic classes (fighter, cleric, magic-user, thief) are easily available but specializations (ranger, monk, paladin, assassin, druid, and illusionist) all require prerequisites and they are serious (illusionist: DEX-18, INT-15)! Fighters have no abilities; Thieves are the only class to have skills. Very, very old school.
The Game:
The GM is a little boring and seems to lack much in the area of creating imagery. He was running a module made popular by a magazine that was probably old before were we clum babies, lol. ‘White Dwarf’ or something like that. The group was very funny and it reminded me of playing with you guys. I had fun but part of me is entertaining stealing this guys group, like Random always claims I do… I was brought in halfway through the adventure so I literally explored the first floor of a castle cleared by the party already, which was good because I’m a level 1 Illusionist with 5 hp and one spell day (Illusionist don’t get Magic Missile…). By the time we got to a fight Brooklyn Strategist should have been locking up but the cute bookish girl who staffs the place at night was busy playing board games with one of the player’s girlfriend and her sister. Cute nerd pussy everywhere!
I think I’m going to play another session but I’ve been reminded of what we used to have. We need to set up a weekly game.
Labyrinth Lords:
The game is a simplified version of the original D&D. It’s weird, we started with feats & skills and this game has none of that. I’m talking THAC0, for those of you who know what that is, and prerequisites. It’s really old school. You roll stats first and once you assign your numbers then you determine whether you have the prerequisites to be a non-human race(example: to be a dwarf you have to have at least a 9 CON). Once you have your race you have to choose a class that is available to your chosen race. Basic classes (fighter, cleric, magic-user, thief) are easily available but specializations (ranger, monk, paladin, assassin, druid, and illusionist) all require prerequisites and they are serious (illusionist: DEX-18, INT-15)! Fighters have no abilities; Thieves are the only class to have skills. Very, very old school.
The Game:
The GM is a little boring and seems to lack much in the area of creating imagery. He was running a module made popular by a magazine that was probably old before were we clum babies, lol. ‘White Dwarf’ or something like that. The group was very funny and it reminded me of playing with you guys. I had fun but part of me is entertaining stealing this guys group, like Random always claims I do… I was brought in halfway through the adventure so I literally explored the first floor of a castle cleared by the party already, which was good because I’m a level 1 Illusionist with 5 hp and one spell day (Illusionist don’t get Magic Missile…). By the time we got to a fight Brooklyn Strategist should have been locking up but the cute bookish girl who staffs the place at night was busy playing board games with one of the player’s girlfriend and her sister. Cute nerd pussy everywhere!
I think I’m going to play another session but I’ve been reminded of what we used to have. We need to set up a weekly game.
