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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 1663643" data-attributes="member: 5122">My one TPK under 3E was the result of a combination of an extraordinarily poorly designed encounter in a published adventure -- Forge of Fury, for the curious -- and a group of players that behaved, for some reason, as if they had script immunity.&nbsp; The encounter was inevitably deadly as written, and the players completely ignored the steps I took to make it surviveable.I'm curious if anyone else has the problem I have with TPKs ... they depress me.&nbsp; Seriously, whether as player or DM, when a TPK occurs, I completely lose my desire to play the game for quite a while.&nbsp; The thought of having to pick through the scraps of the campaign to salvage what can be salvaged ... it's just blah.Anyway, to answer the question, after my group was wiped out in Forge of Fury, we took a hiatus for a month or two from my game while another player DMed.&nbsp; Then we started fresh, with the Maiden Voyage adventure, leading into Freeport.&nbsp; That campaign is still going strong after three years, despite a disastrous failure in The Banewarrens that has produced a slowly spreading blight on the world.&nbsp; (Think the Black Circle, in Roger Zelazny's Amber novels.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeff Wilder, post: 1663643, member: 5122"] My one TPK under 3E was the result of a combination of an extraordinarily poorly designed encounter in a published adventure -- [i]Forge of Fury[/i], for the curious -- and a group of players that behaved, for some reason, as if they had script immunity. The encounter was inevitably deadly as written, and the players completely ignored the steps I took to make it surviveable. I'm curious if anyone else has the problem I have with TPKs ... they [i]depress[/i] me. Seriously, whether as player or DM, when a TPK occurs, I completely lose my desire to play the game for quite a while. The thought of having to pick through the scraps of the campaign to salvage what can be salvaged ... it's just [i]blah[/i]. Anyway, to answer the question, after my group was wiped out in [i]Forge of Fury[/i], we took a hiatus for a month or two from my game while another player DMed. Then we started fresh, with the [i]Maiden Voyage[/i] adventure, leading into [i]Freeport[/i]. That campaign is still going strong after three years, despite a disastrous failure in [i]The Banewarrens[/i] that has produced a slowly spreading blight on the world. (Think the Black Circle, in Roger Zelazny's [i]Amber[/i] novels.) [/QUOTE]

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