1000 ideas to get a TPK

[shadow]

NO! BLACKLEAF NO!!!!!!

 

[Xarlen]

29) Half-Black Dragon Lernaean Pyrohydra. With an item that grants Death Ward on the user.

All I'd say is to add the Elemental (Cold) template.

 

[Dragongirl]

37) Have the party find a large reclining statue with gem eyes. When they try to pry the gems out, have the avatar of the earth god wake up.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

38) Accidently misread the Giant Entries in the Monster Manual and send the first one on the bottom of that page against a party with average level of 4-5, instead of the first one on the top...
(THis actually happened in our Oriental Adventures campaign - the players were surprised - as was the master. He figured his mistake a half week later...)

Mustrum Ridcully

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

39) The party meets Vecna, and he's having a Bad Day.

 

[Ulrick]

Send the party into the Tomb of Horrors...DUH!

And if that doesn't work, make'em go through the Return to the Tomb of Horrors!

Ulrick

 

[2WS-Steve]

40) Send a CR 3 Allip against a party of four 3rd level characters with standard equipment for their level...

41) Watch the fighter fail her save against the suggestion, "why don't you zip down the hall and fight the dragon? Think of the glory!"

 

[Zappo]

42) When the party is on the Abyss, has just retrieved the ancient artifact, and is just about to use that Plane Shift scroll to get the hell (?) out of there 'cause there are three Balors behind them, then have one of the fiend set fire to the scroll.

 

[incognito]

Feindish Troll - Cleric with a +1 Brilliant Energy Falcion and Power Attack.

Shadow Template Sorcerers with Spell Focus Necromacy and Ray of enfeeblement

A Ghost with levels of paladin turned black guard and ghost touched weapons/armor

 

[s/LaSH]

46 - Power Word: Kill. Boy, was the paladin shocked.

47 - "You see five hundred goblins coming towards you." Oh, wait, the party survived without a scratch and only lost two henchmen. Forget that one.

48 - Kobolds with plasma rifles. (What? Why should PCs be the first to find the crashed spaceship?)

49 - Great red wyrm in its volcanic lair faces adventurers. First round: Snatch as many as possible. Second round: Dive into the lava, bullrushing anyone who isn't snatched. Proceed to hold breath for a couple of rounds until the fighter melts, then surface somewhere else and start over.

50 - Formians pour out of a gate, chanting 'Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.' They dominate every villain the PCs are facing and add them to their forces. They start constructing castles in the shape of huge cubes a mile on each side. They assimilate entire cities, nations and continents into their empire. And they ignore the PCs until the heroes attack any formian, at which point they throw legions at the PCs and do other unfriendly things.

For bonus points, introduce psionic items in the form of insectoid parts that must be grafted to your body to work. Then give every assimilated villain/NPC some of these to wreak havoc.