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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 643529" data-attributes="member: 8461">The second worst campaign disaster I ever had was when the PCs used a barrel of holy water on a giant half-fiendish mega-monster I made The creature was to be the huge final battle of the campaign... The holy water was just a ranged touch attack, the creature had no defense against holy water, and a barrel was equal to so many dozens of vials...it died instantly, having had no chance of survival.I wanted to cry. What happened later on in that same session made that seem like an insignificant setback by comparison.The worst disaster my campaign ever underwent was due to a combination of my unpreparedness, player innovation, a miscalculation of CR in a book, and ignoring a small DMG rule.My players had managed to retain the services of a small company of low-level paladins (about 30 of them, about level 3 each) of them, to defend a town from diabolic forces, something I had thrown together to try and put together a suitable final battle for the campaign. Well, the leader of the devils (Prince Losknek from Blood Reign of Nishanpur, part 2 of Paradigm Concepts "Canceri Chronicles") appeared to taunt the heroes. Now, in the book, his CR was 40, when in actuality, he was worth much less than that (about a CR 14 in my opinion).When he arrives, the PCs managed to bind him so he cant run or teleport away. They and the paladins each then proceed to douse him with holy water...given that he gets soaked by about three dozen vials of it, and that evil outsiders have no defense against holy water, he eventually dies when it becomes too much (in about two or three rounds).Now, given that those paladin henchmen pulled the average group level down to about 3 also, and since he was CR 40, they earned an ungodly amout of experience points, literally. Millions and millions and millions of experience points....enough to boost the PCs all to level 94, and the paladins to level 93. They then proceeded to kill any gods who had pissed them off...The whooping and hollering from the players, by that point, was so much that we ended the session and all went out to celebrate.The campaign ended shortly after that...although we're thinking of meeting up at GenCon if enough of us can meet up there for a one-shot with those uber-mega-epic characters. We'll be talking about that campaign for the rest of our lives. It was great. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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