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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 3263973" data-attributes="member: 4682">This didn't work as I expected it to, mostly because the DM felt that it was too anticlimactic, but I think it should have killed the creature.[spoiler]We were nearing the end of the Tomb of Horrors, and lo, we enter a room with a skull sitting on a pedastal. I knew this was going to go bad when it bagan to glow and then started levitating off the pedastal.  After two rounds of mayhem, still alive, I recall a special cursed item my character had acquired in a previous adventure. She still had a bag of devouring she was holding for the right moment. We had been using as a convenient disposal mechanism all along.I dig the bag of devouring out of my pack, and dive at the floating skull with the bag open. DM tells me to roll an attack, nat 20. I swipe the bag down on the skull getting it into the bag of devouring and I close it.Its a creature, suddenly drawn into the bag right? Should be destroyed.The DM ruled that it was far to anticlimactic, and he wanted us to fight it out, so he said Acererak burst out of the bag, destroying it, and we had to continue the carnage.  3 PCs died afterwards, but our cleric lived and raised them.[/spoiler]Another time, years before and in a different group, the party was playing a Spelljammer sidetrek where the PCs are hunting down larger-than-human bugs on some rock. We enter a large nest chamber that is described in the boxed text with something like, "the ceiling is so fragile, the slightest noise might collapse the roof down." Combat is imminent as big bugs stir, everyone doing their best to keep the noise low. One twit who hadn't been paying attention closely decides she was going to cast a fireball. The DM asked her twice if she really wanted to do that. The party told her each time not to cast THAT spell. Not fireball, not here. It's a loud spell, we said. So what, she said.The DM said, "Congratulations, you killed the room full of monsters... by causing the ceiling to collapse... also killing all of you beneath thousands of tons of rock."So, sure, it was a self-inflicted TPK, but it did also kill a chamber full of huge bugs. After the fact, this was a funny way to kill a monster. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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