Collectibles, notes, papers and all of the other things my mother left behind. For all of her 70-plus years she was a cosplayer, convention goer, fan and contributor. She gamed, she drank wine, she enjoyed handsome men who flew space ships. This is my best attempt to share some of her story.
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.
Level sheet
12 Thief
13 MU
11 Fighter
HP – 70
Spells
1st – 8
2nd – 7
3rd – 6
4th – 6
5th – 6
6th – 1
Language 7
Dwarfe
Common
Hobgoblin
Theives cant
Elven / Drow
A single sheet of paper only reads “Brought back from dead 1”. Heh.
Combat
This page has a two matrices of numbers, detailing scores for a fighter, wizard and a thief. The first matrix is marked out, so I won’t transcribe it here. It looks like a mistake was made in the first matrix, so it needed to be redrawn.
WordPress is terrible at formatting. The theme wants the table to only be so wide. Yuck.
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.
Weapons Profiecency [sic]
slots 5 + 2 + 3 = 10 7
Dagger (double specialized) (3)
S/sword specialized (2)
S/bow specialized (1)
Sling (1)
Hand to hand Florintine [sic] fighting
Weapon attack
Melee
Daggers
+2 to hit (+4) mage daggers
+4 to damage (+8)
”
s/sword
+1 to hit
+2 to hit damage
s/bow
+1 to hit
+2 to hit damage
Fighter 2/1 Throw daggers 4/1
My thoughts
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.
KIllsAmulet of seeingLight back storyClothingBackpack and pouchesSkill listEquipment
Millie’s Personel [sic] Treasur [sic] list
49,811 gold
29 silver
12 roman candles
100 fire crackers
Lizzard [sic] – 16 claws 20 teeth
1 oil – heavy machine
Pouch theives [sic] tools +5% on Rols [sic]
Pouch Regular Theives tools
2 1 Daggars [sic]
1 White clerical robe (fine)
(Dragon’s breath)
5 Boxes insence [sic] (jasmine)
2 Boxes reg candles
7 Robes 2 gray 5 brown
1 Pair gray slippers
Eating utensiles [sic] (plate, cup, fork)
2 shirts
Obiedesson [sic] (size of pop can)
Leather bag from menatar [sic]
Schaple [sic] (surgical knife)
Bandages 5 rolls
Alcohol 2 jugs
Bone scroll case (desepell [sic] mag.
Rope of climbing
X healing 3 1/4
Animal control
Gems
1 emerald (125)
1 shaphire (125)
1 cats eye were tiger 500
1 Ruby 200 (gambling)
1 Opel 200 (gambling)
1 Opel 200 (gambling)
1 (medussa)
1 (medussa)
100 diamonds – $100 gld
2 ” 125
3 ” 50
Blue crystal w/sword engraving (20,000)
Encounter / Kill Sheet
Fire beatlle [sic]
Beatles – oil
Draco
Giant rats
Carrion crawler
Cynidiceans
Human
Scorpion giant
Wer [sic] tiger
Owl bear
Minataur
Wessels
Gorm (Demigod)
Bug bear
Skelton [sic]
2 Orch
Hob goblenens [sic]
Centar [sic]
Drowl (dark elf)
Lezzard men [sic]
Giant
Amulet of Seeing (small note)
Amulet of Seeing – allows a non-magic user to identify magic 1x day
Millie (character note and equipment list)
Apprentace [sic] to Meralilis Magic user – given necklace of black panther as sign of appreintaceship [sic]
leather (padded) sleeveless jerkin or leather shirt lose leather straps on arms and cross chest
high hard boots
Backpack, sacks and pouches inventory
Back Pack
Cloak
Tunic
Leggens / Trousers
Boots
Vials – 4 empty
Med packs 5 – D8
Pouch – Small
Diamonds – 400
Spell components
Pouch
Spell book
Sack
Hide of Salamander
Hide of Red Dragon
4 teeth from Red Dragon
Pouch Small
2 Fire opals – Egg size
Gems
Rubys [sic] – 20
Diamonds 180
Gold 50
Platinum 30
Topaz 40
Saphires [sic] 10
Skill list (small note)
Ancient history 1
Blind fighting 2
Reading lips 2
Survival 2
Languages
Ancient 1
Reading / writing
Herbalism 2
My thoughts
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.
She was drinking wine while she played and was a little lose with the notes.
Quickly trying to capture information during a gaming session led to a “enh – I know what I wrote” decision. These were, after all, for her alone.
Maybe these notes are from a session later in life and the aging brain did what it did.
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.
Sheet 1 backSheet 2 frontSheet 2 backSheet 1 front
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!
