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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 7858411" data-attributes="member: 4348"><p>Not really a gotcha DM, but a jerk move DM.</p><p></p><p>Many years ago (decades actually)...</p><p></p><p>We had gone into caves to hunt a pestering goblin tribe down. As a Human I had no infravision. We were playing at work as a group. One weekend between workdays the DM continued play with two others that he knew. They played our characters. They decided to leave to town and leave the rest of the party in the dark without any lights (yeah...really, like my character or others would actually even agree to this).</p><p></p><p>Then, while in the dark the DM had the goblins attack us. Everyone of the party but those two characters died.</p><p></p><p>They came back, got all the treasure after wiping out the last few (we took some of the goblins with us) and leveled up.</p><p></p><p>Ironically, we continued to play with that DM, but looking back at that instance it was sort of gotcha (aha, you are a human who has no lights in the dark) even though I had no say in the situation with my character...AND was a VERY jerk move by the DM (who the heck has someone else play others characters only to leave characters in situations that the players would never approve of and then kills them off??? I'd call that a jerk move by a DM).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 7858411, member: 4348"] Not really a gotcha DM, but a jerk move DM. Many years ago (decades actually)... We had gone into caves to hunt a pestering goblin tribe down. As a Human I had no infravision. We were playing at work as a group. One weekend between workdays the DM continued play with two others that he knew. They played our characters. They decided to leave to town and leave the rest of the party in the dark without any lights (yeah...really, like my character or others would actually even agree to this). Then, while in the dark the DM had the goblins attack us. Everyone of the party but those two characters died. They came back, got all the treasure after wiping out the last few (we took some of the goblins with us) and leveled up. Ironically, we continued to play with that DM, but looking back at that instance it was sort of gotcha (aha, you are a human who has no lights in the dark) even though I had no say in the situation with my character...AND was a VERY jerk move by the DM (who the heck has someone else play others characters only to leave characters in situations that the players would never approve of and then kills them off??? I'd call that a jerk move by a DM). [/QUOTE]
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