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<blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 3278076" data-attributes="member: 3929">If any of you are familiar with Doc Midnight and his story hour Knights of Spellforge Keep, you'll remember that they were tackling the spire in the middle of the volcano in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil.They met the skeleton with the Deck of Many Things, and one of the characters drew the Fates card:Fates: This card enables the character to avoid even an instantaneous occurrence if so desired, for the fabric of reality is unraveled and respun. Note that it does not enable something to happen. It can only stop something from happening or reverse a past occurrence. The reversal is only for the character who drew the card; other party members may have to endure the situation.As the PCs were decending the stairway they ran into the dinosaur guards and were nearly TPK'd, the sole surviving party member being the one who drew the Fates card. The action he reversed was opening the door to the stairway to the dino's room without demanding everyone buff themselves for combat. Strictly speaking, the DM could have said this doesn't work, but he thought it was clever enough and allowed the party to avoid a TPK through this miniature Save Button.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felix, post: 3278076, member: 3929"] If any of you are familiar with Doc Midnight and his story hour Knights of Spellforge Keep, you'll remember that they were tackling the spire in the middle of the volcano in Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. They met the skeleton with the Deck of Many Things, and one of the characters drew the Fates card: [indent][i]Fates[/i]: This card enables the character to avoid even an instantaneous occurrence if so desired, for the fabric of reality is unraveled and respun. Note that it does not enable something to happen. It can only stop something from happening or reverse a past occurrence. The reversal is only for the character who drew the card; other party members may have to endure the situation.[/indent] As the PCs were decending the stairway they ran into the dinosaur guards and were nearly TPK'd, the sole surviving party member being the one who drew the [i]Fates[/i] card. The action he reversed was opening the door to the stairway to the dino's room without demanding everyone buff themselves for combat. Strictly speaking, the DM could have said this doesn't work, but he thought it was clever enough and allowed the party to avoid a TPK through this miniature Save Button. [/QUOTE]

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