The Saga of Kiki Coberal
I was just a fledgling Dungeon Master. My stories and the characters that inhabited them were fairly one-dimensional. That is, they were, until one player came up with the idea of Kiki. Kiki was, in most respects, a fairly standard wizard with one exception. She was a witch. According to “The AD&D 2 nd edition Complete Wizards Handbook”, witches gain their magic by making a deal with an extraplanar entity, usually a demon or a devil. Her player and I worked out a story where Kiki was the servant of some sort of serpent spirit and was plagued with nightmares that were caused by glimpsing into the entity’s inhuman mind. For us, this was pretty advanced stuff – up to this point our adventures consisted of me flipping open to a random page in the Monster Manual and having us fight whatever appeared therein. Kiki joined an adventuring party (I can no longer remember who her comrades-in-arms were) and the group set out on a quest. They m...