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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darren" data-source="post: 1815116" data-attributes="member: 22701">A party of 6 is exploring a dungeon.  They come across a small 5x5 ft room.  There is a bench across the back wall with a hole in the center.A privy.The party crinkle their noses and move on.  When the party beds down for the night in one of the abandoned dungeon rooms, the DM gets a malicious gleam in his eyes and calls for fortitude saves, then announces that 2 PCs feel a certain ... need ... to visit the privy.Somewhat bewildered, the 2 PCs head down the hall toward the privy.  A minute later, the rest of the party hears shrieks of terror coming from the privy.  Rushing out, they are greeted by the sight of one collapsed PC and one PC fighting a carrion crawler... a carrion crawler that had apparently been lurking at the bottom of said privy.Within three rounds, the carrion crawler has paralyzed all melee fighters and heads for the spellcasters.  Next the cleric goes down, soon followed by the sorcerer.  (The party was low on spells - the cleric's crossbow attacks weren't cutting it, and the sorcerer's magic missiles were just making it mad...)  So now the entire party has been paralyzed by a carrion crawler.  A 3.0 carrion crawler, with paralysis lasting 2d6 minutes.So the carrion crawler begins to gleefully scamper over its various victims, biting chunks out of adventurers at random.Three fretful minutes pass.One of the fighters recovers and stands up, wins initiative, swings... and misses.  With all party hopes riding on his second attack, he stabs with his off-hand dagger and crits, dropping the carrion crawler.  Cheers of joy erupt from the other party members who ignore attempts from the DM to shush them because they are still paralyzed.The party survives but spends three days recovering hit points (we were about 4th level and had no wand of CLW at the time...) and vows to never leave a privy unexplored again.  Fortunately this was also the last time the DM instituted an ad hoc potty break for the party.Never split the party, for anything.</blockquote>

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