I still own every die I have every bought, I believe. There may be a few incidentals that got lost here and there, either left behind at a friends or rolled under a couch, never to be found, but for the most part, I still have them all.
The die that is the avatar for this blog is my very first twenty-sided die.
It is quite worn.
I retired that die after I used it to kill a Medusa.
Steve was running our group through The Caves of Chaos, which is the main source of experience points and treasure in the adventure "The Keep on the Borderlands", which is the first complete module included with the Basic D&D set. There was "In Search of the Unknown" before that, with the Caverns of Quasqueton, but that was just the two maps of the dungeon, with basic descriptions of the rooms, but no monsters or treasure. The DM had to add those to complete it.
So, we were going through the Caves of Chaos, and there is one part of the caves that houses the priests of an evil cult. In the cells of this area, the cult leader is keeping a medusa that had been captured. His plan was to cut the snakes off her head, put her eyes out, and then sacrifice her to his demonic lord.
Well, our group went into that room, not knowing there was a medusa in there. We heard movement from behind a curtain, so Fang walks around the corner of the curtain and whoa!! Medusa!! Steve rolls a saving throw vs Petrification... he makes it! He turns his head away just in time not to be turned to stone! He tells us there's a medusa back there, so Aubry, my elven bard, takes out his mirror, and walks around the corner. Aubry makes his saving throw, and the medusa makes her saving throw against turning herself to stone, so they both looked away just in time...
Aubry kept shoving the mirror in her face, and she kept pushing him away, until she finally shoved him, knocking him back, where he stumbled and fell. The mirror broke, and she went after the rest of the group, trying to "stone" everyone.
I ask Steve what my chances are for cutting off her head. He told me I needed to roll a natural 20 to hit her in the neck, and then roll maximum damage to cut her head off.
Well, she'd forgotten about Aubry for the moment, so he stands up, unsheathes his magical longsword and walks up behind her. He grabs a fistful of her snake-hair, and brings his longsword down on her neck!
I rolled that d20, which looked then pretty much as worn as it looks today, and it rolled...
and rolled...
and rolled...
AND ROLLED...
AND FRANCIS WAS TENSING UP AND MAKING THIS "EEEEE" NOISE...
AND IT ROLLED...
AND FRANCIS WAS SAYING "HOOOOLY SHIIIIIT!"
AND IT ROLLED...
AND IT FINALLY ROLLED TO A STOP!!!!
20!!!!
AND FRANCIS FREAKED OUT!!! "OOOH MY GOD!!!"
SCOTT PUMPS HIS FIST "YES!!"
STEVE CURSED AT US!!
Well, it wasn't over yet... I picked up my d8, which was in decidedly better shape, and rolled it...
AND FRANCIS FREAKED OUT AGAIN!!!
8!
IT ROLLED AN 8!!
AUBRY CUT THE MEDUSA'S HEAD OFF!!
HE ACTUALLY DID IT!!
HOLY SHIT!!!
"Fine!" Steve said, disgruntled. "The fucking medusa is DEAD. It's head comes off and rolls across the floor."
Granted, after that was the session where everything went to shit.. when we all got captured, and Alron got tortured... and Aubry got tortured too, even worse than Alron, 'cause the orc torturer REALLY wanted to hurt the prissy grey elf.
Ah well, win some, you lose some... that's the way the dice roll. heh.
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