Oh boy. I hate editing my own work! Remember that even at Uni I would try and avoid it. Still, it must be done.
SCC Sat Jul 28 13:42:15 2018
Indeed. I always thought it unfair that a reader could just skim through something that took someone so long to write.
Hagtar Sun Jul 29 11:21:53 2018
I don't get how testing my skill works. I presume I have to roll higher than something, but higher than what, exactly?
Hagtar Sun Jul 29 12:08:03 2018
I think I get the skill rolls now. If I roll *above* my skill, I lose the roll (and die, generally).
Much of this is down to lucky guesses, so I doubt anyone will win this in the first go. It became mostly a game of restarting, skimming through the correct choices, then taking a different choice in the end (or attempting the skill roll again). I would call that "fake difficulty", as it has nothing to do with my skill and everything to do with having played the game before.
Not bad, but too much fake difficulty.
paul Sun Mar 24 19:54:12 2019
squashed by a giant :(
mcg Wed Nov 20 20:43:38 2019
Charming little adventure. It wasn't that hard.
hessus Sat Apr 10 00:49:19 2021
you did a great job writing this i really enjoyed playing it!
big lad Wed Apr 21 08:49:05 2021
good
Mage Fri Oct 22 01:04:40 2021
I've run the gauntlet!
Saladbutt Sat Oct 23 06:29:14 2021
Damn lizards! Forced me into quicksand.
haze Mon Aug 8 22:42:37 2022
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im not a spoiler
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haze Mon Aug 8 23:01:12 2022
Its Really Fun
SCC Tue Oct 4 10:25:05 2022
I've sent an updated copy of Golem's Gauntlet to the webmaster, so hopefully it should be uploaded soon. I'm also going to revamp Gem Runner, as I was ill at the time and didn't do it justice.
The new Golem's Gauntlet is uploaded now.
YARD Tue Aug 8 14:40:34 2023
What a great concept! Tey is an excellent villain, and I love the atmosphere of every entry! The progression is certainly rather linear, but I suppose it would have been difficult to do it any other way. I do wish your run didn't effectively hinge on one of those two checks - either the Skill check when
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the Formorian Giant spots the fireplace
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or the Luck check if
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you don't go to the cottage and have to hide from the patrol without the aid of the Invisibility Potion.
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Now, I must mention there are more than a few typos. I see that the last post from the creator was to say he would like to correct them...but that was five years ago. I hope this comment will finally get them fixed.
46: "must be a huge underground complex. Plus "and when you are lower your arm are surprised to see" - what is that structure?
7: "you may be able to jump for the rock". On the other hand, "might be able to be jumped" reads rather dubiously.
11: "you are about to discard it".
16: "noting how much easier it is".
73: "just as the soldiers re (?) the main room."
10: "It would be near impossible".
98: "Dejected, you re (?) the fireplace"??? And "as both will beare effectively losing the last of your ground cover. The sides of the valley are also narrow"
51: "Running will only alert them to your presence, but there might be a chance"
99: "And re (?) the valley floor".
19: Is it Daren Tey or Dalen Tey?
60: "Will now work to your benefit."
93: "A third woldier".
61: "slash at (?) your throat"?
Observations:
Shouldn't losing a clay arm to rain also lower your skill, or at least hit your fighting ability in combat alone?
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Using acid, vapours and the Blade of Disruption does not remove them from your inventory.
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I also have no idea if
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carrying a potion for use later is impossible
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in 12 is meant to prevent you from bringing
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Potion of Fortune
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into the battles with
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The Overlords
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but I'm glad it doesn't work, then, because the battle is really arbitrary without it. Not to mention that while unlikely, I found out it actually is possible to
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lose to Orc Chamption without the potion if the rolls go really well for it.
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And further, if
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we destroy the Earth Overlord first, even before the fight begins
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how come
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they still get to use that overpowered Gravity Storm during the fight?
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I would have thought that
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Gravity would be Earth, and Meteor would be Air, and not apparently the other way around?
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Some suggestions:
Can we have at least the description of a
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demise by electrical current in 55
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differ a bit if you have the
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Ring of Fire Protection
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? Even if you just have it destroyed by the current almost immediately, it's still better than ignoring it.
I don't quite understand why
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the giant was so spooked by the fireplace being lit. The two orcs were coming back from checking traps, laden with food. Why wouldn't he expect them to light a fire? If anything, would the lack of one be more suspicious?
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Instead, I think it would be nice if
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you could avoid the skill check by dragging the two bodies out of sight, but this stains your form with gore and makes you lose more sanity.
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In fact, perhaps
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winning with low sanity could resultin worse endings.
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Granted, perhaps this already exists, and I just haven't discovered it yet.
I wonder if perhaps there could be
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an ending where you don't approach Tey so closely for whatever reason, and so he doesn't get the chance to slash at you, but also manages to escape and then keeps plotting against you, or something, leading to a worse ending.
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I've fixed these bugs (as opposed to the observations/suggestions), thanks for pointing them out. I've gone with Dalen rather than Daren as it involves the fewest changes.
Simon did provide an updated version last year, and it's on the downloads page, but I didn't go through it to work out what had changed so the online version is based on the text from 2012.
YARD Mon Sep 11 14:06:34 2023
As I have been getting more and more (re)acquianted with Titan's canon, I began to wonder how well the stories I have already seen on here fit.
Upon closer look, I discovered that not only does the ref 109, which makes you fight two ettins as part of a group fight, arrive with zero context (you are literally told nothing about the creatures outside of their stats), but it seems like ettins are one of the seemingly few fantasy/folklore creatures to exist in D & D but not in Titan's canon to date. There's also the Formorian Giant (?)
At the same time, it's also technically possible this story isn't actually set on Titan in the first place, but rather just in Forgotten Realms or the like? The only thing which might place it in Titan seem to be references to Atlantis (when you get the steel body), but that seems to be in every fantasy setting anyway.
And once again:
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15 "He stands at the end of a long red, carpet" - isn't the comma meant to be between long and red, not red and carpet?
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SCC Tue Nov 21 14:57:07 2023
I'm tweaking a few things. Standby.
위대한SJ Wed Sep 11 06:30:44 2024
뭐야이거 왜이래
The Great White Tue Sep 24 13:33:57 2024
Thanks - most dangerous part is being the Wood Golem which has little stamina.