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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8254182" data-attributes="member: 6988941">I wouldn't recommend Tomb of Horrors as a place to send characters anyone is invested in without major modifications. My group just played it as a one shot (over three sessions). One of my characters fell into lava and instantly died after failing a single athletics check. Another character died because he choose the silver side of a scepter rather than the gold side (no save, you chose wrong, you die). In both cases no bodies to revive, just dead. A funhouse where a single wrong step can bring you instant, meaningless death can be fun if you have zero investment in the characters, but for most people it's not a satisfying end for a character they've spent any time with. Also having not been told what the one shot was going to be we did not design characters with a &quot;the point of the game is to acquire treasure at all costs&quot; mindset, so we ran into a character roadblock after the first few horrible things happened at this tomb we had minimal investment in raiding as to why sane characters wouldn't just cut their losses and leave. Basically the metagame conceit of &quot;this is the whole module so we're going to play it&quot; won out over character motivations. But had it been something offered to us in a wider game world where we had had other adventures we probably would have left for other adventures.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 8254182, member: 6988941"] I wouldn't recommend Tomb of Horrors as a place to send characters anyone is invested in without major modifications. My group just played it as a one shot (over three sessions). One of my characters fell into lava and instantly died after failing a single athletics check. Another character died because he choose the silver side of a scepter rather than the gold side (no save, you chose wrong, you die). In both cases no bodies to revive, just dead. A funhouse where a single wrong step can bring you instant, meaningless death can be fun if you have zero investment in the characters, but for most people it's not a satisfying end for a character they've spent any time with. Also having not been told what the one shot was going to be we did not design characters with a "the point of the game is to acquire treasure at all costs" mindset, so we ran into a character roadblock after the first few horrible things happened at this tomb we had minimal investment in raiding as to why sane characters wouldn't just cut their losses and leave. Basically the metagame conceit of "this is the whole module so we're going to play it" won out over character motivations. But had it been something offered to us in a wider game world where we had had other adventures we probably would have left for other adventures. [/QUOTE]

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