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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Humanaut" data-source="post: 4671017" data-attributes="member: 49498">Back in high school, we had a gem-dragon nemesis that we one day cornered and killed... while it was just above us on a ledge.  When it fell it landed on one of the PC's crushing him to paste.  First we cheered at it's death, then stopped jaw open when it fell and killed the wounded fighter.  Sucked the wind outta that victory. Worst I think was a near TPK when we went through some early Dungeon adventure.  This was a one off, a tomb I think, where you climbed down some well but about half-way down a gas comes out to petrify you, then the blades swing out to cut your rope, then you plummet and shatter.  At the frack'n door.  The one PC who was basically still at the top watched us all die and just left.  We were ticked.  Impossible saves, instant death.  I even remember reading letters to the editor later about how that was not a mid-level adventure, that high level partys met similar deaths... I'm sure in 30 years there have been many others...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>