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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 1425797" data-attributes="member: 2804">I have never had a TPK as a DM. But had a similar experience as a player.The party was exploring a Lich's dungeon and we were all torn up by fighting through his minions. Desperately looking for a place to rest and heal the party enters a corridor with two rooms. The party opens one of the doors and finds themself face to face with the Lich himself!The party was pretty much all neutral or evil. One of the party Rogues runs away to the other door, goes inside and locks it, locking everyone out to face the Lich!Half the party stood their ground and fought a hopeless fight. The other half started banging on the door for the Rogue to let them in. He refused and then to make things worse, dribbled contact poison through the lock! Killing another Rogue when she tried to pick the lock and failed her save!The first Rogue fled and escaped. The rest of the party died to the last man fighting the Lich.However, my character was an evil mage with an Imp familiar. And the DM ruled that familiars like Imps grant their masters some of their special abilities like Regeneration. I believe this was actually the rule in 2nd Edition but I can't remember. Since the source of the regeneration was not me, and since the Imp escaped the Lich. The DM ruled that my character regenerated back to life after some time passed. All of this was done with note-passing so no one knew I had an Imp familiar or actually survived that encounter.Later, in that same night, while everyone else was busy rolling up new characters, the DM was doing one on one's with the Rogue's player since he survived.He was sitting in a bar, drinking his ale, and counting all the coinage he had secretly pilfered from the rest of the party. Suddenly my mage bursts into bar and confronts him! The DM ruled that regeneration didn't totally heal all the fire damage I took from the Lich's spells so there I was in tattered robes, my body covered with blood and charred flesh, eyes wild with rage and the Imp cackling madly in my ear, "There he is! Kill the traitor, master!"All of my character's activity was done with notes in secret. You should have seen the look the Rogue player's face! Oh, it was classic.He tried to go for the exit, but I won initiative and just fireballed the whole taproom! He failed his save and the rest is history. One of my favorite game memories of all time.</blockquote>

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