I killed Orcus with +50 guantlets.

[Daniel Proctor]

I started playing D&D (Mentzer red box) when I was 8 years old, and we didn't play it "right" for a long time. Well, never really because when I got older I switched to AD&D by the time I was more or less playing "by the rules."

So anyway I remember once my character, Reese (named after the guy who goes back in time in Terminator 1), managed to kill Orcus in one round wielding nothing more than his +50 gauntlets. Which begs the question of why we had Orcus in a basic game, so we must have had some AD&D books but we just didn't realize they weren't the same game.

We always had very powerful weapons. I think we stopped escalating past +200 swords or something like that. Also we all used scrolls of spells where we just made up the spells they could do, and when we had a scroll of spells we always had access to those powers at will.

Anyone else have oddball stories from your earlier days of playing? Oh and once we went to the future, and brought back motorcycles, machine guns, and packs of chewing gum, then blasted the hell out of some dragons.

[Piper]

I seem to recall a cartoon series in "Dragon" magazine in which a group of PCs killed Zeus with a push spell ...

[Gentlegamer]

I think the OP participated in the same campaign as Waldorf . . .

[Wizard]

In my school boy days, I recall wanting to challenge my players with "something different" as they were finishing G3 and preparing for D1. I hinted that might soon encounter a "third magic system" (as opposed to Clerical and MU spells). What I ended up running with were 'offworld' minions of the drow, mounted on giant preying mantis, equipped with Gamma World weapons and equipment. I haven't thought about that campaign for many years now. It seems pretty trippy thinking back, but they loved it. Good times!

[northrundicandus]

Oh the joys of mixing Gamma World and D&D. Is there any Middle School/High School DM in the 80's who didn't do it?

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