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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 1970455" data-attributes="member: 9646">I have always been known as a lenient and benevolent DM. Very rarely do I kill a character, and this one was my only TPK. The dungeon had been made so the characters could kill the orc priest. What I believed was that they would discreetly close the double door while the orc priest was in prayer (turned toward the statue and praying eyes shut), then attack him without risk of the miners coming to help their leader. Unfortunately they acted stupid, without any pecaution, without looking beyond the great double door, etc.; plus they killed the miners so the orc priest was really angered! (Hey! Orcs need much less motivation to kill anything that moves!).More resently I killed 2 PCs and captured a 3rd like this:a group of four 9th/10th level enter a monastery of assassins. They KNOW this is a monastery of monks-assassins, from a previous adventure. So they enter, and at some point there is a large scale battle between them and the monks. The two big warriors (actually a barbarian and a monk) are fighting with their back to a door, and behind them the gnome sorcerer. Since basic monks are 4th level, they hold the place and suffer few damage. Note that the players see me openly making count of rounds as the combat proceeds! The gnome says: "Oh finally, no need I waste a Stoneskin with such mooks, just let the monk and the barbarian finish them..."  <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=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />  So, at one point I have got enough rounds of combat so the senior monk-assassins had (1) cast Invisibility, (2) cast spider climb, (3) crawled onto the ceiling until being above the PC, (4) observe the PCs for three rounds, (5) cast True strike, (6) and then fall on them and perform their death attack. Two PCs dead, and the barbarian captured. No players complained, they agreed they had actd stupidly. I was not happy either as this did put an end to my last D&D campaign.</blockquote>

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