Ran the Death Test today for my wife and friend!

[Sigulf]

I ran the Death Test this afternoon for my wife and my friend. I've been playing TFT since the late 70s, my wife started playing TFT with me in the late 80s. My friend is an avid RPGer, but has never played TFT, so he was game to try it. I made three pre-gen characters (all 35 pts) for them to choose one from. I also ran a GM/PC, a 36 pt dwarf fighter who had the Physicker Talent. (We play DT 1 with Talents).

My wife had a Mage, my friend had a Crossbow wielder, and my dwarf was an ax/shield fighter. My wife got toasted by a 3d6 Lightning bolt cast from a man in dark robes (he rolled a 16 for damage.) Then my friend's character and my character ran into 4 mercenaries, one a dwarf with a pike axe, a human with a halberd, an Elf with a longbow, and a half-elf female with a rapier & main-gauche. They managed to kill the dwarf, but then went down. End of the Death Test!

So we tried again, this time they picked two 35-point fighter types, I ran the same dwarf as before. This time, all three of them were killed by two bears!

My friend said - that was pretty brutal. I replied "they do call it the DEATH test!

Good afternoon of playing, even if the results were not to our liking.
Since getting the TFT Legacy Ed, my wife and I have run 5 parties through the Death Test, only one has survived.

We just finished a short campaign were the Thorsz Warriors finished serving their 6-month stint in the Thorsz Guard at a remote outpost, Fort Thorn - in the north/east corner of the Red Plains (just west of Morningstar on the map.) Two of the three, survived the campaign. Lots of NPCs died too. Brutal! but fun.

I purchased a bunch of modules from Gaming Ballistics and will be going to run the Citadel of Ice soon.