July 27th is recognized as Gygax Day in some circles so I figured I'd run a session of D&D using B1 to celebrate. It just took me a while to get around to writing a post about it.
The deadliest encounter of the session
Stocking the Dungeon: Instead of the normal B1 lists I used the 1e DMG and Fiend Folio, checking for room contents while altering and ignoring results that seemed whack. The stocking process took me about 4 non-continuous hours. The results are found below:
1. 1 Bullywug with a sword
Notes: The deadliest encounter of the whole night, the high AC + surprise chance + hopping is a lot stronger than you would think
3. 8 Giant rats
4. 1 Cerebral Parasite
Notes: Since there were no psionic chracters in the party, the parasite would have drained 1 point of Charisma per turn if it had been encountered.
7. 1 Anhkeg
Silver ring with 6 opals worth 6000 gp
825 gp
Notes: The DMG has a fairly robust jewelry generator, the only problem is that its separated into three or four section fair from each other.
9. 1000 cp
10. 100 pp
12. 3 Bullywugs
2 aquamarines worth 550 gp each
1100cp
13. 5 kobolds
1100 cp
825 sp
14. 4 fire beetles
20. 250 gp
26. 750 cp
28. 1 Tween
Notes: Fiend Folio is based.
30. 250 gp
31. 1000 sp
32. 1000 sp
36. 3 Troglodytes
275 gp
825 ep
Notes: A randomly generated encounter supported by the pre-written rumor table? More likely than you think.
38. 500 gp
39. 3 Gnolls
42. 2000 sp
46. 4 giant centipedes
47. 2000 cp
48. 1 Forlarren
49. 2 giant frogs
53. 4 volts
Notes: I could not see this encounter ending any way other than a TPK.
55. 200 pp
Here ends my key for B1 - In Search of The Unknown
The party ended up TPKing after 3 real life hours/55 in-game minutes.
