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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corathon" data-source="post: 3808026" data-attributes="member: 22238">Back in the eighties, I had a character draw from the deck and get the card that allowed you to gain a level of experience if you defeated the next monster encountered in single combat. As it happened, we left the dungeon just after drawing from the deck, so I was expecting the next monster encountered to be met on the next trip into the dungeon, but that's not what happened. While we were walking along the streets of the nearest city, we saw an ogre chewing on a length of rope. In this city ogres were allowed to roam the streets as long as they obeyed the law.I was an 8th level paladin (and probably shouldn't have touched the deck in the first place, but that didn't occur to us back then), and could easily defeat an ogre. But I couldn't simply attack the ogre for no reason.At that point, the ogre knocked a couple of passersby into the mud. This was rude, but not murderous, so my character stepped up (sword still sheathed) and told the ogre to apologize to the people that he'd knocked down. The ogre's response to my admonition was to attack me - unluckily for him and luckily for my PC. Easiest level I ever made  <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=":)" /> As for other people drawing bad cards like Donjon or Void - this didn't end the campaign when it happened in our group; it just meant that we now had a new adventure (to rescue the imprisoned character or soul).</blockquote>

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