There is also this four year old blog post by Solomoriah which addresses the issue: https://basicfantasy.org/blog/?p=151 And if you find that low level play is too lethal for your taste, you can always start PCs with more experience. 5,000 xp puts most characters at level 3 and there is still a long...

Thank you for running this game!

Thanks for sharing this.
Vance is also one of my favorite authors.
I actually played DnD long before discovering Jack Vance and I only got to liking "Vancian magic" after reading his story "Mazirian the Magician".

Tam returns the grin: "Glad to be of service."
He follows Gombuks lead.

"I guess in this part of the city, nobody wonders about corpses in the gutter..."

Tam shrugs and puts his axe away.

"To the docks!"

"Surrender if you want to live, dog!"

Cool.

I like the original premise, i.e., being an agent of what passes for the "law" tasked to uncover anti-slavery activists.
So we can keep going in that direction.

Tam draws his axe, shouts "For the Emp...", curses himself for doing so, and tries to smash the first assailant's head in.

Glad you are feeling better.

It does look a bit like we lost MD5, too.
Do you want to continue with just one player?

Tam checks that his weapons are ready to be drawn and follows Gombuk.