Sunday, March 9, 2008

Garycon: Face the Eye Tyrant!



In celebration of Garycon, I put my players up against a beholder. Awesome. I've never had a party high enough level to even look at a beholder without dying. It was pretty crazy, they kinda peppered it with arrows till it died, which shows just how awesome the Champions of Cauldron are.

I wish I had a picture of it handy, but back in the day my mom made a beholder costume for halloween. My brother used to play D&D, he's the one who I inherited my first rule books from. He had a fistfull of mini's (which my dad would paint up for him) one of which was a cheap grenadier beholder knockoff. The bad boy shown over there on the left. Think it was painted glossy grey, if I dig deep enough, I might be able to find it in my box of discarded mini's.

Her "eye monster" was a big purple scaly thing with a giant eye for a head, and tubing tipped with styrofoam eyes dangling around the bottom. For some reason she didn't win the contest she went to, got beat out by a sexy witch or something. I'm thinking the judges thought it was a rental, not made from scratch (which it was!).

Really have nothing to say about E.G. Gygax's death that hasn't been already said, more eloquently, on other blogs. It really is a pity, makes me sad.

7 comments:

Infamous Jum said...

We are awesome!

skeleri said...

Yeah, now I wanna make you guys fight mind flayers, githyanki, and every other bad ass monster I've never seen in action.

May said...

Oh, man I want to see a picture of the beholder costume! That's totally awesome, I wish that my Mom had dressed me up as something cool for Halloween. By the way, I don't think in all the years of playing D&D have I ever fought a mind flayer.

skeleri said...

Always wanted to use mindflayers, they seem like the kings of weird humanoid monsters. Seems like every run of every miniature company has had at least one mind flayer knock-off, giving me a wide variety of different looking brain sucking squid men to choose from.

Infamous Jum said...

Reaper has a mind flayer pirate. "Avast, ye scurvy dogs, I've come for ye brains!"

skeleri said...

That would have been awesome for spelljammer!

Infamous Jum said...

Only if I can play a rogue autognome...