Dragaera

OT: Monty *Hall*

Fri Jun 4 15:10:43 PDT 2004

>      Gary Gygax named the style of
>      play where game masters hid treasures behind some doors, monsters
>      behind others and then let the players choose their fate "Monty Haul"
>      gaming, making a pun on the game show host's name.
>        The term has come to be used to refer to sessions where game 
>masters
>      encourage munchkin players; basically any game can be considered a
>      Monty Haul game where the game master sets up unfathomable amounts of
>      treasure and earth-shattering magic items guarded by weak and wimpy
>      monsters, thus giving enormous amounts of power to beginning-level
>      characters.
>
>So for our purposes, Haul.
>
>-xx- Damien X-)


For the love of all that's holy, it goes all the way back to Gary (freaking) 
Gygax himself?!

I don't get out enough (apparently).  And here, I think of myself as this 
big gamer.  Sheesh.

If anybody needs me, I'll just be over here in the corner eating my 
"shut-the-hell-up" sandwich with the other Teckla.  ;)

jc

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