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<blockquote data-quote="Jd Smith1" data-source="post: 8579346" data-attributes="member: 6998052">Back around 2003, I was running a long-term Hackmaster campaign (not my choice of system, but so it goes). The players were up against an evil guy called The Ant Master, who was terrorizing the local countryside. Thinking to be clever, they arranged a meeting in a large empty field for the next day. They set a pavilion, and secretly left a ranger to keep watch against any treachery. Naturally, they were planning treachery.So the next day the AM shows up, orders his body guards to move 200 feet north from the pavilion while he met wit the NPCs whom the group worked for.The party immediately moved 200' south of the pavilion, and prepared to assassinate the AM.Then the ground beneath them collapsed (giant ants had tunneled there during the night, undetectable by the watching Ranger), and the party had the fight of their lives to escape, losing 3 PCs in the process. We narrowly avoided a TPK.To be honest, I didn't think they would fall for it...but they griped about that for years.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jd Smith1, post: 8579346, member: 6998052"] Back around 2003, I was running a long-term Hackmaster campaign (not my choice of system, but so it goes). The players were up against an evil guy called The Ant Master, who was terrorizing the local countryside. Thinking to be clever, they arranged a meeting in a large empty field for the next day. They set a pavilion, and secretly left a ranger to keep watch against any treachery. Naturally, they were planning treachery. So the next day the AM shows up, orders his body guards to move 200 feet north from the pavilion while he met wit the NPCs whom the group worked for. The party immediately moved 200' south of the pavilion, and prepared to assassinate the AM. Then the ground beneath them collapsed (giant ants had tunneled there during the night, undetectable by the watching Ranger), and the party had the fight of their lives to escape, losing 3 PCs in the process. We narrowly avoided a TPK. To be honest, I didn't think they would fall for it...but they griped about that for years. [/QUOTE]

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