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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al" data-source="post: 787085" data-attributes="member: 2486">What surprises me is that the PCs had no backup plan.  As the old maxim goes, if you have no backup plan, you have no plan at all.Where were the Clones?Where were the Contingency Teleports?Where were the last minute Miracles?Personally, the goblin seems to be not particularly powerful.  Unless he had absurdly good luck, there is no reason why the party should have survived.  For one, unless you have houseruled Harm, that's the best place to start...As for my silliest ever TPK, the PCs had just had an evil nobleman executed for necromantic practices and murder.  Before their testified against him, he had told them that he was 'a wealthy and well-connected man' (he told each of them separately, so it became almost a comedic catchphrase) and in his final death speech, he reiterated the warning.  Later that day, the PCs received a message saying that if they were still in town in five days, they would meet their deaths.Here's the silly part: they had to be in a nearby village in three days for a funeral service for the aforesaid nobleman's victims.  So they went to the village, and instead of staying there, or even recruiting aid *despite having been offered and despite having explained their predicament to a local mercenary officer*, they returned to the town.The thugs sent by the nobleman then killed them.  It was ingenious- probably the only ever purely PC-engineered TPK, and certainly the only time that the PCs have gone out of their way to be killed <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" />PS The party consisted of a 5th level paladin, 5th level fighter and 2nd level bard/3rd level rogue.  The thugs sent were four 4th level warriors.  It was a very tough fight, and they reduced the final thug to 6hps - but they were meant to get help...</blockquote>

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