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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Altalazar" data-source="post: 1427018" data-attributes="member: 939">I had one TPK attempt that failed, though I can't say I tried that hard.  This particular party was sometimes rather strange in its pursuits.  One party member managed to escape, basically by being smart and not walking into the trap to begin with.  There was an evil NPC in the group that they thought was good - and seemed to not notice anything strange about her "wand of sleep" that she used quite often.  (As she actually cast Death Spell while waving around a Nystull's Magic Aura'd stick - on more than one occasion).  Now, you could forgive them not noticing it on the orcs, as they quickly slit all of their throats afterwards - without checking and finding out they were already dead.  But when it took down nearly a dozen drow, you'd think that might set off SOME alarm bells... much later, after they were captured, I pointed that out to them (when they knew who the NPC was and what she could do).  Hmm... sleep against DROW - (magic resistance on top of sleep resistance of 90%).  Not to mention the hit dice amount.  So I wasn't, strictly speaking, thinking I would get a TPK (captured, really) but in the sense that the NPCs were attempting to do one, and had a decent chance of succeeding (due to certain party blunders) it turned out that way - save the smart one who stayed out of the cave entirely.</blockquote>