Heh. Well, to put it simply: it was a classic crawl of his own devising (could’ve been one of the other OG’s, I don’t actually recall all I know is that it was brutally unforgiving) and he had a stack of pre-gens next to his screen. At first, I assumed they were errata, campaign notes, etc., but all became clear as we started to die. The crowd around the table was on edge, like some fanatical musical chairs ritual. As soon as the player of the freshly dead PC didn’t immediately fork over another $5 for a new character sheet from the pile, the clamor erupted. Predating Fry by decades, the shouts were more or less the same: takemymoney! 😅🤦🏼♂️
To each their own, but I never DMed anything like that ever again. I hope that was his intention; playing 4D mental chess with the new generation. 🤞🏼
To be fair, he was only one of the guys, and was known for taking the spotlight more often than not. Personally, I’m more partial to Ed Greenwood’s contributions, for instance, and the establishing storylines of Melf, Fizban, Bigby, Mordenkainen, et al. 🤓🤘🏼
They are two different method for assigning your starting stats for your character. On p13 of the Players handbook under section Determining Ability Scores. It’s not explicitly named “Standard Array” but you can assign these numbers to your stats: 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8. Point buy is explained in the section Variant: Customizing Ability Scores. You get 27 points to spend on your ability scores. Each score starts at 8 and the costs are: 8 - 0 points 9 - 1 point 10 - 2 points 11 - 3 points 12 - 4 points 13 - 5 points 14 - 7 points 15 - 9 points.
Working for me, it would be a QoL upgrade if you copy and pasted the text into the body of your post here as a quote but that’s not necessarily important, link works and can be read so that works for me!
Hoo boy! I wish you and your party much luck, that's a really fun encounter.
I was the DM for that, my group: Tabaxi ranger, Yuan-ti necromancer, Human battlemaster. When the great Lich appeared, our wizard cast fly on the fighter, who used the disarm maneuver on Acererak, took his staff and broke it over his knee, causing a massive AOE that he barely survived. This was enough to deal sufficient damage to make Acererak retreat while giving him another reason to hold a grudge. It was very epic and I was proud of my party for using such great tactics.
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