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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 3187577" data-attributes="member: 6957">Sorry, I meant to edit out the 'stupid', and thought that I had. I tend to think of overlooking things as stupid mistakes, and this is what I have called them when it has been my mistake. It has been about twelve years or so since I have killed of a party because of an oversight, but I still think of them as 'stupid' - the reference was to my own mistakes, not yours.The last time that I killed a party by my own stupidity was in 2nd ed. when I forgot that the unidentified ring that a PC was wearing allowed water breathing. Heck, the trap involved was why they had found the ring in a previous adventure. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> (Essentially they were in a room that is filling up with water from a large pipe that emptied into a sloped hall leading to the room that they were trapped in. A character with waterbreathing could travel back down the corridor to close a valve... I still feel stupid when I remember this one.) I did have to rewind time on that one.I have had two TPKs since 3.X came out, both of those were because the party didn't pick up on clues that they were outmatched. (And in one case that the critter could be reasoned with rather than attacked....) One near TPK involved the bulk of the party trying to swim the Rhine in spring.... and none of the characters having swim as a skill. (Actually the one survivor did have swim, but decided to just go upstream to a bridge instead.)It seems that I spend a fair amount of time drowning characters.The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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