Flukes!

[Crothian]

I let it happen. Sometimes the good guys win easy.

 

[hong]

I'd let it happen, and play up the BBEG's overconfidence just as he realises his torso is now missing. It's all good as long as there's an opportunity to chew scenery.

 

[mythusmage]

Even Worse

The BBEG surrenders and the party is tasked with getting his minions etc. safely home.

 

[Ciaran]

To much fudging like that can result in unfortunate player deaths, and that's worse than unfortunate NPC deaths.

QFT.

 

[Nifft]

I don't even bother trying to come up with dramatic speeches and the like. If they kill the dude, he's dead, and that's that. Drama shall be delivered via stone tablets, found journals, or NPCs whom the PCs are unlikely to kill.

-- N

 

[Kelleris]

It depends on the situation. If it looks like the players in general are okay with an anticlimax, I'd let it happen and pretend to be more irritated than I actually am so they enjoy the easy win more. Otherwise, I throw the sorcerer a hero point for using GM fiat and the BBEG makes the save. I don't see myself ever using a BBEG with no minions, cohorts, bestest buddies, or darn near impregnible first-round defenses at a level where disintegrate is a go-to option, though.

I, too, was hoping for a thread about deadly, deadly flatworms, however.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

Yeah, dude's dead. Seriously. If I knew my DM was going to make it so that it was "memorable" or "happen the way they intended" then why prepare Disintegrate in the first place? Talk about anti-climactic!

Usually about the only time I fudge as a DM is ifn the party's favor. And that isn't all that often, either. I can easily come up with another BBEG with no-love-lost. But then again, I'm not a member of the DM-vs-players school of thought. So, someone from that school would see this differently. And that's okay.

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

let it happen.

 

[howandwhy99]

I'm such a bastard I actually kill player characters when they fail the disintegrate save.

 

[pogre]

I never fudge a climactic encounter - either way. When I do fudge, and it is exceedingly rare, it is to save a PC from an obnoxiously, unlikely roll from a minor encounter. Has not happened in a while.