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<blockquote data-quote="Azlan" data-source="post: 1428037" data-attributes="member: 2340"><p>The one and only time I purposely tried a TPK, I did not fail. But how could I fail, if a TPK was my purpose and I was the DM? Anyway, that was back during my first days of DM'ing, which was with 1st Edition AD&D.</p><p></p><p>I had given the group's fighter an artifact sword that was similar to Elric's Stormbringer, i.e. this was actually an evil demi-god in the form of a sword. The fighter (i.e. the player) quickly grew to love this sword, since it was a really cool and quite powerful weapon. But after a few game sessions, he realized the sword was evil and bloodthirsty; and after the sword tried taking him over a few times during combat (and one of those times, succeeding), the fighter eventually saw fit to discard the sword. (He threw it into a chasm and walked away.)</p><p></p><p>A couple of game sessions later, I placed the PC group in a seemingly no-win confrontation with a group of arch villains, and in the middle of this, the sword came back, making a grand re-entrance. Radiating waves of hellfire, it floated across the room and addressed the group's fighter: "Take me back into your possession, and I will help you out of this. Together, we shall be a most powerful, unstopable duo! But if you do take me back, know that only you will survive the hellfire blast that I will unleash -- your comrades as well as your enemies, here, will all perish." After thinking about it for only 10 seconds or so, the fighter took the sword -- and it exploded, wiping out everyone in the room, including the fighter.</p><p></p><p>And, of course, the sword then reverted to its true form and flew away, laughing and saying, "Farewell, friend! I was a thousand times more evil than thou!"</p><p></p><p>Well, that was the end of <em>that</em> campaign! And that the night, I witnessed two guys actually weeping over their slain characters; one, a 16-year-old, who played a halfling thief; and the other, an 18-year-old, who played a half-orc ranger. But the guy who played the fighter, he thought the ending was damned amusing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Azlan, post: 1428037, member: 2340"] The one and only time I purposely tried a TPK, I did not fail. But how could I fail, if a TPK was my purpose and I was the DM? Anyway, that was back during my first days of DM'ing, which was with 1st Edition AD&D. I had given the group's fighter an artifact sword that was similar to Elric's Stormbringer, i.e. this was actually an evil demi-god in the form of a sword. The fighter (i.e. the player) quickly grew to love this sword, since it was a really cool and quite powerful weapon. But after a few game sessions, he realized the sword was evil and bloodthirsty; and after the sword tried taking him over a few times during combat (and one of those times, succeeding), the fighter eventually saw fit to discard the sword. (He threw it into a chasm and walked away.) A couple of game sessions later, I placed the PC group in a seemingly no-win confrontation with a group of arch villains, and in the middle of this, the sword came back, making a grand re-entrance. Radiating waves of hellfire, it floated across the room and addressed the group's fighter: "Take me back into your possession, and I will help you out of this. Together, we shall be a most powerful, unstopable duo! But if you do take me back, know that only you will survive the hellfire blast that I will unleash -- your comrades as well as your enemies, here, will all perish." After thinking about it for only 10 seconds or so, the fighter took the sword -- and it exploded, wiping out everyone in the room, including the fighter. And, of course, the sword then reverted to its true form and flew away, laughing and saying, "Farewell, friend! I was a thousand times more evil than thou!" Well, that was the end of [i]that[/i] campaign! And that the night, I witnessed two guys actually weeping over their slain characters; one, a 16-year-old, who played a halfling thief; and the other, an 18-year-old, who played a half-orc ranger. But the guy who played the fighter, he thought the ending was damned amusing. [/QUOTE]
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