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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old Gumphrey" data-source="post: 1577820" data-attributes="member: 12872">In early 3e I ran Sunless Citadel for three friends. We had a gnome rogue by the name of Zifflewig. So the group is down in the dungeons poking around, and Zifflewig finds a hole about so big that only he can fit into (a human and a dwarf were the other party members). So he shrugs and gets into the hole, and starts climbing up the slope he finds inside. I don't believe there were any notes on what this hole was for so it went something like this:DM (me): Alright. You climb up about 50', and it's pitch dark. You can see about 40' with your low-light and that torch.Player: Ok. I keep going.DM: Ok...you climb up about another 50'. Nothing.Player: I keep going.DM: Well...how long are you going to keep going then?Then the player looks me dead in the face and says "I am going to keep going until something happens." At this point I figure the only things that are going to happen are running out of torches, a random event, or a wandering monster, varying for time. So I dice up a wandering monster after about 1 hour. So I roll on this table and get a Thoqqua. Thoqquas are CR 2. Thoqquas move faster than Zifflewigs. This is a 1st-level adventure.DM: *roll* *roll* *scrunches face* *roll*Player: *looking worried* ...what?DM: Well, something happens. A worm-like creature with a head made out of what looks to be burning magma burrows out of the rock. Initiative.Player:  *Nat 1*DM: *sigh* It leaps straight at you... *pause to roll* *scrunches face* *rolls again* ...and bores deep into Zifflewig's chest. You take 34 damage and die.Then there was a rather large argument stating that "there's no way I'd just climb up this tunnel for over an hour". Meanwhile, the other characters are beginning to call up the hole after a while, and after camping the night down in the dungeon near the hole with no results in the morning, they went back to town assuming the worst. Pretty lame way to go, but that's what happens when you 'climb up a dark tunnel until something happens'. Be warned.</blockquote>

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