Some of you will be familiar with this anecdote

It was the Nucon 199? convention and we'd reported for a single-session "AD&D 2E" module with self-generated characters that were totally munchkin-ised, eg. the warriors had the animal handling and training proficiencies and were flanked by blooded war dogs.

If this min-maxing wasn't enough to put the Dungeon Master - whom none of us knew - offside, in the scene-setting flavour text, which saw a poobah charging us with investigating eldritch goings-on, there was a brief mention of the captain of the city guard's nose twitching.

"Wererat!" said BP.

To the DM's credit, he barely flinched.

Fast-forward 2.5 hours and our band, black'n'blue and having reluctantly left the mastiffs at the bottom of a climb I suspect was inserted on the fly, had brawled its way through a sewer complex to the lair of the mysterious mastermind. Who/what do you think we found there?


Listening: "The Final Frontier" (2010) by Iron Maiden