Drowning and Falling

One of my new year's resolutions that I expect to keep was to post write-ups of the two games that I played last fall that I never talked about here. Inspired by Steve's Character Guide, I'll do Drowning and Falling first.

Drowning and Falling is kinda like Munchkin; the various tropes of 'classic' fantasy rpgs are amped to 11, and you die a lot. Here's the tale of our doughty adventuring band:

On the way to the dungeon, it began to rain. As we walked down the muddy, potholed road, a pack of jeering children began hurling rocks at us. Not three feet into the dungeon, a narrow strip of the 10'x10' corridor dropped about six inches, tripping us and barking us on the knee. At the end of a rollicking minecart ride, we were ejected toward a target painted on a suspiciously stained rock wall. We woke up in an orc tribe's village, where they made us partake in their manhood ritual; We had to run over a series of rolling logs suspended above a pond of discusting orc water. After escaping, we encountered evidence of Intelligent But Tired Design, when a bridgekeeper tried to keep us from crossing a bridge over...the ground. Tired from our travails, we rested the night in a spooky mansion on a dark hilltop, and were amazed when the entire building started spinning us like bingo balls! We traveled through the bog of eternal stench (of Labyrinth fame) and were attacked by a stinky minotaur. Finally reaching the dungeon again, the doorbell at the side entrance caused the gargoyles overhead to vomit a torrent of boiling pitch at us. Hacking our way past this obstacle, we came to a broad canyon with a cannon on our side and a depressingly thin twin mattress on the other. Finally, at the heart of the dungeon, we found a simple barrel of water with some apples bobbing on the surface...WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A LEVEL 30 APPLE BOBBING BARREL MIMIC!

It was a long slog and a tough battle. We lost a lot of good men, but in the end, with such awesome challenges, monsters, and of course, a huge pile of treasure, everyone was a winner. Two thumbs way up.