Our last gaming session was the finale of an old school D&D campaign that lasted over a year. It started out with Swords & Wizardry Complete, moved to a house ruled S&W, and then switched to my take on Basic D&D Lasers & Loincloths. The game was undertaken in the spirit of old school hack and slash, focusing on dungeons and the danger that inevitably comes when players roll 3d6 in order for stats and the DM makes all the combat rolls in the open.
Eventually we grew out of the “dungeon crawl” as focus of play as the characters began to develop motivations and well, character. They became involved in the power struggle for their home city of Sanctuary, and after “saving” it took off for wider horizons. The campaign became bifurcated with one party on a Sword and Planet sci fi jaunt, and the other trying to not die in a Carcosa hex crawl. Eventually the two parties rejoined to once again save Sanctuary, this time from the unspeakable machinations of a former player character.
We played nearly every weekend for about 15 months, with brief breaks for a few other games. I estimate the campaign lasted 40 sessions.
Many great stories were made, and I think a good time was had by all. The game is now “done.” I intend to have a denouement to revisit the remaining characters just to see what they have got up to. I think perhaps the holiday of Secret Santicore might be a good time to check back in on them.
A complete chronicle of the characters, and the “plot” of the campaign are too convoluted and idiosyncratic to retell fully, (never mind that I don't remember all the details.) I do have quite a lot of data on roll20 however, so instead of recounting the complete history of the adventure how about some statistics?
Lasers & Loincloths
Number of Real Players: 12
Number of Characters Played: 31
Character Deaths: 10
Number of Characters Killed by other players: 2
Highest Ability Score: 18
Lowest Ability Score: 3
Character Race Breakdown:
Human: 20
Elf: 2
Blarka: 1
Robot: 2
Red Man of Shulim: 1 (kind of)
Bone Man of Shulim: 1
Yellow Man of Shulim: 1
Seablood: 1
Space Dwarf: 1
Alien From the Planet Kalmurga: 1
Number of Male Characters: 29
Number of Female Characters: 2
Number of Fighters: 9
Number of Clerics: 5
Number of Thieves: 3 (then 2 with Belgrators class change)
Number of Magic users: 4
Other Classes: 11
Highest Character XP total: 38, 414 (Azax)
Highest Character Level: 6
Highest Character Hit Point Total: 46 (Ibash)
Highest Level of Magic Spell Cast: 3
Highest GP total on a Record Sheet: 100000000000000000000000 gp ( La Bomba)
Highest Legitimate GP total on a Record Sheet: 5200 gp (Azax)
Character that survived the most sessions: Ibash
Character that died the quickest: Redoutable Will (died in first combat)
Number of Crits ( (a roll of 20 on a d20 followed by another roll of 20): 5
Crits on Players: 1
Crits on Monsters: 3
Number of Crits followed by a roll of 100 on the d100 Arduin Grimoire Critical Hit Chart: 1
Number of Shoggoths defeated: 1
Number of Spawn of Shub-Niggurath defeated: 2
Highest Level NPC Defeated: Level 8 Seablood (Fighter/Cleric) Jabba
Civilizations Destroyed: 2
Planets Destroyed: 1
Planets Created: at least 1
Miles Traveled: around 84 trillion
Space Ships Destroyed: 4
Space Ships Lost: 2
Number of Carcosa Hexes Traversed: 16
Dimensions Visited: 4
Magic Rituals Learned by players: 2
Magic Rituals Performed by players: 0
Number of Characters that ascended to Godhood: 1 (Bishma)
Number of Characters that married: 3
Number of Wives: 63
Number of marriage refusals: 2
Number of children fathered: 1 plus the matter created in a supernova
Number of Henchmen lost: we stopped counting at 17
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