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<blockquote data-quote="Squire James" data-source="post: 62011" data-attributes="member: 548"><p>My take on those tactics was that you as a DM was being very unfair if you decided to kill the characters off ahead of time. Not all retired adventurers are 20th level! If you didn't plan to kill them, and they died from bad luck, that's okay.</p><p></p><p>My only TPK was in a Rolemaster game, where a bad critical can kill something quick. Two PC's fell dead from the first hit they took, and the other 2 KNEW there was a Black Troll Martial Artist in the tower (and they knew how... unkind such critters were), yet they went in there anyway! It's been pretty much a running joke that my players carefully check all my trolls to see if they have "karate belts", even now when we're playing D&D.</p><p></p><p>I had a near-TPK recently when a party of 3 2nd level oriental characters was fighting an ogre Clr 1 and a bakemono with +1 frost nekode. The ogre knocked the samurai out quickly (not before taking a lot of damage), and the monk fell to the bakemono that everyone seemed to forget about (it wasn't a rogue or anything, just a plain old bakemono with a decent magic item). When the dust settled, the shugenja left standing was real happy that ogre only had 2 hp left when he ran out of spells (and that he had a chakram handy)!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Squire James, post: 62011, member: 548"] My take on those tactics was that you as a DM was being very unfair if you decided to kill the characters off ahead of time. Not all retired adventurers are 20th level! If you didn't plan to kill them, and they died from bad luck, that's okay. My only TPK was in a Rolemaster game, where a bad critical can kill something quick. Two PC's fell dead from the first hit they took, and the other 2 KNEW there was a Black Troll Martial Artist in the tower (and they knew how... unkind such critters were), yet they went in there anyway! It's been pretty much a running joke that my players carefully check all my trolls to see if they have "karate belts", even now when we're playing D&D. I had a near-TPK recently when a party of 3 2nd level oriental characters was fighting an ogre Clr 1 and a bakemono with +1 frost nekode. The ogre knocked the samurai out quickly (not before taking a lot of damage), and the monk fell to the bakemono that everyone seemed to forget about (it wasn't a rogue or anything, just a plain old bakemono with a decent magic item). When the dust settled, the shugenja left standing was real happy that ogre only had 2 hp left when he ran out of spells (and that he had a chakram handy)! [/QUOTE]
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