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Message: <blockquote data-quote="heimdall" data-source="post: 1397073" data-attributes="member: 12421">It just happened in one of my games. I had been pulling punches for a while and the players had drifted into that comfort zone of thinking no matter how stupid they were in combat, somehow they were going to come through it all. So I sent out the email saying if they continued to behave in such a fashion a character was likely to die. I reminded them at the beginning of the game session. Towards the end of the night, the ranger gets stuck fighting the two worgs by himself. The rest of the party, including the two massive fighters, go after the goblins one at a time, leaving him to fend for himself. The only one who tries to assist is the Kender rogue/cleric with his puny rapier. The mage with the heavy duty spells, including lightning bolt, continue to go after the goblins. The psion with his force missiles (using ITCK) is also popping at the globins. Meanwhile, the lightly armed ranger (did I mention he had chosen to go down the archer path) is getting wiped.The Kender gets over there, but by then it's too late. The mage could have set himself up and lightning bolted both worgs. Either of the two fighters could have come over in one round and gone to town. The psion could have turned his powers on the worgs. No one did. And the ranger goes down. What makes it worse is he had diehard, so when he went down, it was over. The post mortem had the rest of the players apologizing to the player of the ranger. One of 'em turned to the ranger's player and said, "I'm sorry, I got carried away. With the goblins I was able to use cleave!" That kind of broke the sad mood and we got a good laugh at the end of the whole thing.</blockquote>

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