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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neo" data-source="post: 1663166" data-attributes="member: 4139">Never EVER had a TPK in my 24 years of play... come pretty close a time or two, but I've generally always given the group either enough "hints" in play that something they could meet is potentially beyond them (such as one adventure where the first ever appearance of the BBG in Waterdeep was heralded by Khelben Blackstaff being unceremoniously blasted onto his rump) managed to avoid a TPK there (as that was not the point of the encounter and didn't want the group getting into a scrap with the BBG) by keeping them at bay with minions and a Spirit Wall spell.Coming quite close in play atm to a number of potential TPK encounters as the group are stuck in an elven prison that dates back to the time of Cormanthor, underneath Hullack Forest.  they are in a position where they have to stop the BBG who is currently imprisoned and acting remotely through his cursed brother (now undead), they cannot morally kill the cursed brother as he is not under his own control when forced to do wrong and the only way to properly end the threat caused by the BBG is to open the very seals that imprison him in order that they can try to slay him once and for all.  So far its taken them around about 7 months real time to explore the elven prison (was more of a mini cimmunity) and fought many undead, solved many puzzles, triggered many traps etc..  But now they have enough pieces of information that they know what they need to do.. they cannot leave because of the growing army of undead that awaits them outside and have been driven ever closer to the BBG's prison...as they go they have begun to encounter tougher and tougher undead guardians.. and now were in the relams of stat and level draining encounters, so TPK's are a distinct possibility if they get some bad rolls or play out some ill concieved tactics.  they have limited healing, only one means to bring someone back from the dead once... though that is something which if they dont use it on themselves will actually benefit them more storywise later by allowing them to do something generous and pure.I think though I'd probably fudge enough to ensure that no TPK occured even if by rolls it had in order to prevent everything coming to a complete standstill with everyone needing to make characters right before the stories finale.We did nearly have a TPK once when we played a test scenario for Epic play (the guys were curious...<shakes head>) just after the epic handbook came out.  they spent near enough 3 days making the characters from scratch to play in the adventure which was in Dungeon (first one for epic) and they died against the minons in about 3 rounds.. only one PC survived and that is only because he was so fast the enemies couldn't catch him too kill him.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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