Or maybe it's just that one person. Whatever. I'm lazy and will post everything at once too.
2. First RPG Games Mastered: D&D 4th Edition is still the only game I've DMed.
3. First RPG purchased: D&D 3rd Edition for the "First RPG Played" campaign above.
4. Most recent RPG Purchase: Reign, Microscope, 3:16 Carnage Among The Stars and the Swedish RPG Nyckelringsrollspelet. My interests have changed since 2001.
5. Most old school RPG owned: AD&D 2nd Edition.
6. Favourite RPG you never get to play: Capes. Forge-spawned gamey superhero games specifically asking whether or not you deserve your powers is a small niche.
7. Most "intellectual" RPG owned: Out of sheer prejudice, I'll have to nominate Nobilis.
8. Favourite character (tell us about your character): I made a Warforged Druid with an alternate spider form once. Short epic level D&D 4E game, go figure. Never got to actually play it.
9. Favourite die/dice set: I'm partial to the D12. It rests nicely in my hand without being too angular and doesn't roll forever on the table like the D20.
10. Favourite tie in novel/game fiction: Not having read any proper tie in-novels, I'll have to nominate the intro fiction from Eclipse Phase. Does a good enough job at introducing at least one major antagonist in the game, and is decent fiction too.
Or hey, does The Litany of Earth count as CoC fiction? Probably not, but it still deserves plugging.
11. Weirdest RPG owned: Well, Microscope is more about building a world's history than playing a character, so that probably counts.
12. Old RPG you still play/read: As if I've played much of anything in the last five years or so.
13. Most memorable character death: Left on a desolate ice planet, the mining base sunk into the sea, and no help would arrive before food ran out. Heck yeah Utpost.
14. Best convention purchase: Supergänget, known as Supercrew in the Anglosphere.
15. Favourite convention game: Utpost.
16. Game you wish you owned: There are plenty of major indie games I don't own, but Fiasco must be first on that list.
17. Funniest game you've played: Playing Sjätte Inseglet at LinCon 2014, the started with seducing the Pope and went downhill from there. I don't think all games go like that.
Well no, I haven't actually played any allegedly "funny" games. Not even Paranoia.
18. Favourite game system: Right now, I'm riding the Apocalypse World hype wave. In another decade? Maybe something else.
19. Favourite published adventure: Queen of the Spiders gets points for what happens if the PCs fail to stop Lolth. Lolth climbs inside her Goddamn Spider-Mecha and wrecks stuff on the surface world for about a week before being driven back underground. Yes, really.
No, I don't have a serious answer. Sorry.
20. Will still play in 20yrs time: Gee, what will I play after twice as long as I've already played? Best bet is that I'll be trying whatever D&D version is out then.
21. Favourite licenced RPG: I don't own any, but Smallville is on the wishlist.
22. Best secondhand RPG purchase: That would be one from question #4, and I'll pick Reign.
23. Coolest looking RPG product/book: Mutants & Masterminds (1st Edition) is certainly the prettiest book I own.
24. Most complicated RPG owned: D&D 3rd Edition. It's not a beast, but it's the most complicated one I own.
25. Favourite RPG no one wants to play: Wasn't this question #6? Frankly I suspect I could get together a group for most any good game I own on Google Hangouts. Maybe not Capes, on account of it being kind of old by now.
26. Coolest character sheet: I like the ones for Apocalypse World Hacks in general, and AW itself in particular. Most of the game mechanics relevant to players are on them. If you don't own the game, they even serve as a kind of game demo.
27. Game you'd like to see a new/improved edition of: Feng Shui... oh, that's coming. Capes rewritten to be readable by sane people would be nice I guess.
28. Scariest game you've played: Back in the dark 00:s, my DM ran The Speaker in Dreams, a D&D 3rd Edition module, and really pulled off the desolation as devils took over the town. (Spoiler, select text to reveal.) I have played Call of Cthulhu, but I can't call that session scary.
29. Most memorable encounter: Fighting wererats in a belltower, maybe? Eh, not many singular encounters from back in the dark 00s was particularly memorable.
30. Rarest RPG owned: I'd have to guess Svenil, just because it's a Swedish joke game.
31. Favourite RPG of all time: I want to carry Utpost's babies, but I only played it this year. Discounting games I just read/played, I have to say D&D 4th Edition.
Mid-heroic tier: The characters need to figure out where the cultists came from. The obvious choice is to go to Nulb - a hive of scum and villainy, where one might stumble into recruiters for the Temple. The less obvious choice is to track down the adventurers that defeated the Temple the last time and ask them. It's worth noting that the pair of retired adventurers in Hommlet (Burne and Rufus) weren't part of that dungeon crawl - they arrived in Hommlet later. Plenty of opportunity for adventures in the Big City!
In practice, the fighter blasts past them with an action point, bringing the fight into the proper rooms. A battlefront sets up, and Lareth steps out and says something nasty. Then he charges in, critically misses, and the party unloads with their dailies and kill the poor guy in one round. Or maybe that was just in my game. Rest in pieces, Lareth the No Longer So Beautiful.
Unlike the gnolls, the bugbears have been treated well by Lareth. If the PC:s trample in here, there's going to be a fight, no question about it. And it's a nasty fight too. There's a Bugbear Strangler leading a bunch of Bugbear Warriors. The former tends to grab one PC and slowly choke it to death (using it as a shield against any other attackers), while the Warriors move in and hit like freight trains, especially if you have them flank to bring up their hit chance. Going from memory, someone went down every round in this fight.
As it is, this encounter works out okay. The Claw Fighters get a relatively big room to zip around in, which they thrive on, and the Demonic Scourge hits like a mofo (it's not very sticky, but rather relies on being a legitimate threat to tie up PC:s).
Basically the only reason to go here, if you've figured out that the room is a dead-end, is to look for loot. There is some, but meh.
Cliché aside, four ghouls work pretty well as a combat encounter. Their regular claw attack immobilizes the target, which sets it up for a subsequent bite attack which stuns. Obviously, this works better the more ghouls are still alive. When the party has worn down the pack to one remaining ghoul, that one is pretty pathetic. Consider having it try to flee when bloodied.
What we have here is an encounter with the ogre Lubash and metric buttloads of zombies. If the PC:s get hold of the evil looking cloaks from room 12 and wear them, Lubash will invite them to his lair to keep them safe from the zombies (because he'll think they work for the evil cult running the show on the lower levels). The bandit leader is a good opportunity to drop this factoid, but as written, expect a fight.
What's supposed to happen here is that there are tons of archers firing at the group from inside the Moathouse, while the melee enemies (The bandit leader Enzer, a few regular bandits, and a barely tame rage drake) confront the PC:s in the courtyard (area #3). What actually happened when I ran this was that the whole group ran from the drawbridge to the stairs. Taking a double move gets you there in a round, so you can imagine the cluster that formed in the main hall (area #4).
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