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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caliber" data-source="post: 3763263" data-attributes="member: 1310">Its tough to say, but looking just at what I've run I'd have to say ...Worst: 3E has just come out and I convince my group to jump to it from Alternity. Of course, since this is my idea, I'm stuck DMing it!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> Lucky for me, WOTC comes out with the AP, starting with Sunless Citadel and working its way onwards, and I jump into it with gusto. The party jives and levels up, moving up the modules slowly, as I fill in the blanks and string them together, giving a vague-ish storyline across it all. And then we come to Lord of the Iron Fortress. I'm not sure if my party somehow became underpowered at some point or what, but the whole slog through LotIF is extremely rough, with nearly a character death per session. So the player's come upon the eponymous Iron Fortress, and, seeing the large iron golem guarding the entrance, decide they'll be smart and sneak in. By disintegrating a hole in the back wall.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> I have the whole fortress laid out with 3D tiles and they point out where they want to blow the hole. Which, of course, is the throne room for the BBEG, and his Pit Fiend friend. A meteor shower later and suddenly I'm minus one party. Damn. (On the upside, we still joke about "hey, lets blow a hole in the back and sneak in!")Best: A short, one or two session game I ran once. Telling my players I was going to convert over a bit of the Conspiracy X campaign setting (for those not in the know, think every crazy conspiracy you've heard, even the contradictory ones, is true) and run a one shot, I stat up several different characters for everyone to play. Calling the game d20 Horror, all the usual horror tropes are there, including the mad scientist (whose player gets some hidden behind the scenes knowledge.) Apparently, he accidently released some zombies on the island. Oops! These aren't your DnD zombies though ... one bite basicly means your through, and as the player's try to slog their way through the small island they are stuck on, their numbers dwindle down as more and more become infected. Finally, running for their lives, the remaining characters arrive at the dock on the island, a hundred ravenous zombies from the local resort coming after them. They begin untying a small yacht when ... the mad scientist goes nuts (as his notes instructed him to do.) He had been dropping hints the whole time to not being "all there" but no one commented, and when he turns everyone is suprised. A full battle breaks out, with the BBEG being ... another player! Completely without my fudging, one man manages to survive, setting himself out, adrift on the ocean. Such a fitting ending for such a strange campaign. <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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