Sunday, March 28, 2010

Labyrinth

Solo dungeon 3 was Lee Russell's Labyrinth, released in 1977. Labyrinth is an old fashion dungeon crawl set in ancient Greece for first and second level human warriors. The adventure is full of references to Greek mythology. Other than the obvious Minotaur, you may also run into Theseus, Prometheus, the Hydra, the River Styx or any of the gods themselves. Of course all of these encounters are taken out of context to the original myths which was common in the early days of gaming.

In Labyrinth, Lee Russell introduces Invocations. Invocations are prayers to the gods for intervention in order to achieve a goal. This is accomplished the same way a savings roll is made and can be done on any of the attributes. Originally Tunnels and Trolls did not have any rules for gods or religion, so this is a good addition to the rules if you are using deities in you campaign.

Personally I have always found Labyrinth a bit weak, maybe it's the game's liberal use of the myths or maybe it is because it is not set on Trollworld. (Though don't let this stop you, there are many "dimensional doorways" on Trollwold that can send you to Greece, or send your Greek character to Trollworld for that matter.) Despite its weakness Labyrinth can be a fun little adventure and if you would like to enter you can here...Labyrinth

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