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<blockquote data-quote="Jon_Dahl" data-source="post: 6019028" data-attributes="member: 89822">My 3.5 campaign was getting completely out of hand. Well, the good news is that it ended and we will now start something new. The sad thing is that the campaign that lasted 73 session and three years ended in an extremely unclimactic way.Since there has been too many PC-deaths lately, I decided to be honest with my players and hint them that now there will be the BBEG they have been hunting all this time. They had three 7th-level characters and I placed a 8th-level melee-NPC to protect them.They went to save a city, which was obviously on a brink of total destruction, and exhumed the giant mummy which was used a focus, as a sort of phylactery.The mummy's CR was 8 and the NPC was unfortunate to die during the second round. No biggie, now the PCs had their chance to launch their attacks...And they launched... Invisibility, Fly and a sneak attack (ineffective). One of them flew away, one escaped while invisible and one died. The one that flew away was completely eliminated from the rest of the session. I tried to give the invisible PC some fighting chance by introducing a lesser BBEG which was intentionally suboptimal.However, the invisible PC insisted to avoid all contact with any enemies.In the end I let them have their way and the city was destroyed. Everyone had to evacuate. Now there are about 10,000 - 15,000 spectres, numerous high-level demons and lots of other things inhabiting the area, simply because the PCs decided that escape spells were the best way to approach an enemy who was about the destroy their lives and homes.Now my campaign will continue in a totally different place with totally different PCs.In total: 2 PC deaths.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jon_Dahl, post: 6019028, member: 89822"] My 3.5 campaign was getting completely out of hand. Well, the good news is that it ended and we will now start something new. The sad thing is that the campaign that lasted 73 session and three years ended in an extremely unclimactic way. Since there has been too many PC-deaths lately, I decided to be honest with my players and hint them that now there will be the BBEG they have been hunting all this time. They had three 7th-level characters and I placed a 8th-level melee-NPC to protect them. They went to save a city, which was obviously on a brink of total destruction, and exhumed the giant mummy which was used a focus, as a sort of phylactery. The mummy's CR was 8 and the NPC was unfortunate to die during the second round. No biggie, now the PCs had their chance to launch their attacks... And they launched... [I]Invisibility[/I], [I]Fly[/I] and a sneak attack (ineffective). One of them flew away, one escaped while invisible and one died. The one that flew away was completely eliminated from the rest of the session. I tried to give the invisible PC some fighting chance by introducing a lesser BBEG which was intentionally suboptimal. However, the invisible PC insisted to avoid all contact with any enemies. In the end I let them have their way and the city was destroyed. Everyone had to evacuate. Now there are about 10,000 - 15,000 spectres, numerous high-level demons and lots of other things inhabiting the area, simply because the PCs decided that escape spells were the best way to approach an enemy who was about the destroy their lives and homes. Now my campaign will continue in a totally different place with totally different PCs. In total: 2 PC deaths. [/QUOTE]

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