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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 5611599" data-attributes="member: 29746">The last game-end I was involved with was a party that TPKed at 10th, due to a vampire (and apparently also a couple of other behind-scenes villains we never met who were watching us) that Dominated or Magic Jarred half the party, and of the remaining 3 characters (one of which was mine), the only caster who could cast Dispel Magic failed his save (with a natural 1 no less) against a Suffocation spell in the surprise round and dropped dead a couple rounds later as a result. My guy opted to soldier on with the party's remaining tank (an Oracle of Battle), in the hopes of taking out the vamp and thus freeing the guy who was under its control, but sadly we ran into an Elder Mud Elemental and rolled ourselves three natural 1s at critical points during the ensuing combat.In other words, the dice were just Out To Get Us that night. I don't know whether the two of us honestly could have taken out the vamp on our own, of course, but I do know we were up to the challenge of killing the Elemental if we hadn't rolled those nat1s. We had it close to death when it managed to encase us.The game that started up after that one sort of petered out at level 2, when half the players who had originally joined the group stopped being able to make games for one reason or another, and those of us who were left got together with a couple of other people and started a new game that began at 10th and is still going.Prior to the TPK group, I was the DM of a 9-1/2 year 3.0->3.5->houseruled/Immortal's Handbook game that went (during its entire storyline) from 1st level all the way up to 999th, and ended with the player characters all "winning the game" for lack of a better way to explain things. That was one of the most satisfying (if occasionally exhausting) gaming experiences I've ever been involved with. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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