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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vongarr" data-source="post: 3748277" data-attributes="member: 53022">I was running an Iron Heroes game, and I had set up a series of encounters leading to the bottom of an ancient temple where a small bronze tube was set on a podium. All throughout the temple there were various Fresco paintings detailing some ancient evil vanquished. The bronze tube was the key to this, if broken it would reawaken the sunken evil empire. I felt I made this pretty clear.So once they left, there was an ambush by a few agents of this empire that weren't trapped underground. The PC who was holding the tube was cornered, and as a last act before she thought her life was over, she destroyed the tube. I was amazed. I asked her a few times "Are you sure?" while reminding her of the paintings. I even said that their attackers were those depicted in the Frescoes. She still did it. So the evil attackers smiled, and ran off. The few struggling centers of humanity were soon destroyed, and the world as they knew it was over.Or at least that was what I said. That one act ended the campaign. But to be honest, the PC was just naive. I was the stupid one. I have finally since learned to have a story driven game only if there is a stable group who wants that. Otherwise, it's killing the orcs and taking their stuff...I've had too much plot destroyed by wiped out parties and players moving.But hey, that was what got me playing "normal" D&D again after two aborted non D&D campaigns.</blockquote>

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