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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 1060164" data-attributes="member: 893">A situation simmilar to this led to one of the only times I hit the rewind button in a campaign.  The party I was DMing had just bashed their way though a very long and complicated dungon at the tail end of a campaign to kill a Necromancer Archmage and destroy Ashracks Heart a very powerful homebrewed artifact that had allowed the Necromancer to get as powerful as he was.    All but two of the party had died in the battle but they had suceeded in their mission and were fleeing out of the collapseing tower when they set off a trap.  To be fair the only survivors were a fighter and the party's only mage so I couldn't have expected them to find and disable the trap even if the building hadn't been collapseing around them.  I figured it was a simple enough trap, a mere spiked pit and though the fighter fell in he managed to catch the edge.  The mage bent over to help lift him out and proceeded to roll a natural 1 on his STR check followed by a natural 1 on his... Rod/Staff/Wand (I think that's what it was, whichever was the "Reflex" save in second ed) check.  They both fell into the pit and died.  I looked over at the mage's player who was still stareing stunned at his second 1 in a row and said.  "You know, lets pretend this is your Str check" and gave the die a nudge so that the 20 was on top.It didn't matter anyhow, the campaign was over, the characters were all between 15th and 17th level, had just killed the big bad, restored peace and order to the world and so on and so forth.  All they really had to be alive for was their triumphent return to the capitol city and the ability to live out the rest of their lives as NPC's talking about the "good old days" while getting more and more overweight.  I wasn't about to deny my players that.</blockquote>

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