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<blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 3181912" data-attributes="member: 40522">Back in the good ol' 1E days, I was a paladin in a fairly large party (nine characters) stomping through a dungeon. We were all still 2nd/3rd level, mind you.In one room the halfling thief finds a skull sitiing in a pile of dust. Gems in the eyesockets and some of the teeth. The magic-user tells him to not touch it. I admit to a bit of metagaming, I thought, &quot;Nah, couldn't be a demilich... Could it?&quot; The halfling decides that he's gonna get those gems despite the objections of the magic-user and the two clerics in the party.A few horrible death attacks and some VERY lucky saves later, the skull hovers back down to the ground and rests silently again. Amazingly, none of the characters died. The demilich targeted the magic-user first and he was PISSED (both in and out of character). My paladin is just chiming in about not touching creepy skulls when the halfling thief's player boldly states; &quot;We made the saves before, we can do it again. Besides, it's not like I'm the one making the saves...&quot; And goes for the gems again.Our party runs like hell and leaves the halfling thief to his fate. The player was upset that we 'let' the demilich get him. The DM even said something to me about violating my code of conduct by not trying to save him. After the game, we worked it out and it was a fun experience for all (except for the thief's player, who suddenly lost interest in playing D&amp;D when the party wasn't terribly interested in pulling him out of hot water all the time).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dykstrav, post: 3181912, member: 40522"] Back in the good ol' 1E days, I was a paladin in a fairly large party (nine characters) stomping through a dungeon. We were all still 2nd/3rd level, mind you. In one room the halfling thief finds a skull sitiing in a pile of dust. Gems in the eyesockets and some of the teeth. The magic-user tells him to not touch it. I admit to a bit of metagaming, I thought, "Nah, couldn't be a demilich... Could it?" The halfling decides that he's gonna get those gems despite the objections of the magic-user and the two clerics in the party. A few horrible death attacks and some VERY lucky saves later, the skull hovers back down to the ground and rests silently again. Amazingly, none of the characters died. The demilich targeted the magic-user first and he was PISSED (both in and out of character). My paladin is just chiming in about not touching creepy skulls when the halfling thief's player boldly states; "We made the saves before, we can do it again. Besides, it's not like I'm the one making the saves..." And goes for the gems again. Our party runs like hell and leaves the halfling thief to his fate. The player was upset that we 'let' the demilich get him. The DM even said something to me about violating my code of conduct by not trying to save him. After the game, we worked it out and it was a fun experience for all (except for the thief's player, who suddenly lost interest in playing D&D when the party wasn't terribly interested in pulling him out of hot water all the time). [/QUOTE]

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