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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Razjah" data-source="post: 6498918" data-attributes="member: 98806">I had the PCs once abandon their mission because the paladin was slain. They were investigating a cult, dealt with the guards of the abandoned temple, and now had a dead paladin (he could only be hit by crits from the guards, they crit him three times in a row I rolled in the open). They decided the best course of action was to take the body back to his temple, which was almost a week away. No matter what I did, the PCs would not advance in the temple. I even gave them a DC 10 perception check, that everyone failed, to hear chanting before they should have. They were determined to leave. The cultists in the basement level were in the midst of a ritual to summon a demon, and it was so complicated they would be unable to defend themselves at all. So the demon was summoned, it subjugated the lizard people of the swamp and lead an army to attack the kingdom the PCs were supposed to protect. I even told them as part of the pitch that things like abandoning a mission would have dire consequences. When I look back it makes a funny story how the left to allow the kingdom to be attacked by a demon lead army. But I should have just had them hear the chanting and not asked for a roll.</blockquote>