About: This is part of a collection of gaming notes left behind by my mother when she passed in 2020. Mom was an avid table-top role player, starting her adventures in the late 1970s and continued for as long as she could find a game. I’m slowly making my way through these papers and posting them as I uncover them.
About: This is part of a collection of gaming notes left behind by my mother when she passed in 2020. Mom was an avid table-top role player, starting her adventures in the late 1970s and continued for as long as she could find a game. I’m slowly making my way through these papers and posting them as I uncover them.
| Melee | Daggers | +2 to hit (+4) mage daggers |
|---|---|---|
| +4 to damage (+8) | ||
| ” | s/sword | +1 to hit |
| +2 to hit damage | ||
Fighter 2/1
Throw daggers 4/1
This is from a bundle of loose and random notes that may nor may not apply to Millie. But I wanted to save things purely out of trying to keep the whole record. I’m sure I’ll come across many more just like this.
For the sake of my own sanity, I might make this a daily thing instead of trying to transcribe dozens of items at once. It also might make for a more interesting reading experience.
About: This is part of a collection of gaming notes left behind by my mother when she passed in 2020. Mom was an avid table-top role player, starting her adventures in the late 1970s and continued for as long as she could find a game. I’m slowly making my way through these papers and posting them as I uncover them.
Amulet of Seeing – allows a non-magic user to identify magic 1x day
Apprentace [sic] to Meralilis Magic user – given necklace of black panther as sign of appreintaceship [sic]
Backpack, sacks and pouches inventory
As I begin this process of documentation, I’m surprised to see the number of spelling errors pop up. I’ve left them in for the sake of preservation, but, yeah.
You have to understand that Mom was an avid reader. She was always reading a book of some sort; science fiction, fantasy, mystery and occasionally detective thrillers were her staple. Her bed was covered in books. Her walls were lined with books. She loved books.
She also loved to do crossword puzzles. Later in life, she added in Sudoku. She was highly detailed about processes and systems (being an old school computer programmer).
So why the spelling errors for words that she likely read or used hundreds to thousands of times? I have a few theories.
The first theory seems the most likely. The last seems the least likely, given the state of the paper.
These seem quite old and are probably from the mid 1990s. One of the notes (Amulet of Seeing) is certainly from a game master, giving a magic item to her as a player. Our old Dragonlance GM, Jim Miklos, used to do this, so it might be his handwriting. That would certainly date the note itself to being late 1980s to early 1990s (depending on when she continued to play with Jim’s group).
The answer is probably the most obvious. For her book-ish, nerdy, nature, she probably just wasn’t that great at spelling.
About: This is part of a collection of gaming notes left behind by my mother when she passed in 2020. Mom was an avid table-top role player, starting her adventures in the late 1970s and continued for as long as she could find a game. I’m slowly making my way through these papers and posting them as I uncover them.
I get the feeling that Mom started this character at level 8ish. Though I’m not sure about the hit points. If she were level 8-ish with 68 hit points, what happened at level 14 where she only gained 2 more?
But with the eraser marks on the first sheet, with changes to stats and saving throws, things likely changed a great deal over six levels.
Millie is a triple class thief / magic-user / fighter. She reached levels of 14, 13 and 11 respectively. Yoiks!
About: This is part of a collection of gaming notes left behind by my mother when she passed in 2020. Mom was an avid table-top role player, starting her adventures in the late 1970s and continued for as long as she could find a game. I’m slowly making my way through these papers and posting them as I uncover them.
Born in the mountains to the north-west in a small village. Her family has lived there for the past century after fleeing from captivaty [sic] by the Drowl [sic]. Her grandparents village on the other side of the mountains was raided centurys [sic] ago and her parents were able to flee only a few 100 years ago and come to this area to live.
She wears a raven crest on her cloak, the family crest. She is told in her family the raven is a (royal) sign. But she has no idea where her family lived before being captured by the Drowl. She has vowed to find her home land and reunite her family.
Desc – 4’8″ tall, 90 lbs with dark short hair and a dark complexion (on a human she would have a good tan)
People may mistake her for a Drowl. There is a hint of Drowl in her family. She prefers to travel alone, but will go with a party for her own good. She will wear a reversable cloak. Dark colors (browns, blacks) for her thieving skills, bright colors (greens, reds, blues) for town or MU skills.
She is suspicious / cautious of people and places. Aloof, hot tempered and [cautious]. She prefers gems to gold. She has a fear of being captured and if bound in any way will panic. She does not like to be touched by strangers and will tolerate friendly expressions from her traveling companion.
The mis-spelling of “Drow” lends to my mothers mid-western drawl that might do something like add an “r” sound to words like “wash”. In this case “MU” is assumed to mean “magic-user”.
I think it’s funny that my mom noted “on a human she would have a good tan”. This assumes a few things:
Was my mom racist? No? She was born in the 1940s and was, herself, white. Her boomer bias is pretty clear. Her upbringing on may have contributed to that bias. Her parents (my grand-parents) were never openly racist but there was definitely a tinge of xenophobia when it came to talking about people of different ethnicities. This is all wildly off-topic, I know.
I also think it’s funny that my mom was playing the typical “edge lord”.