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<blockquote data-quote="renau1g" data-source="post: 4917707" data-attributes="member: 54810"><p>I'm always an advocate of splitting up. It makes the game more interesting, and by interesting, I mean more TPK'ing. (happened twice in our RL group)</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Boring Story]</p><p>*Group consisted of half-orc barbarian, half-elven rogue (me), elven bard, and human ranger. Yes, I realize we had no real arcane or divine presence, but them's the way the cookie crumbled.</p><p></p><p>We were asked by a cleric of Sune to go and clear out an old temple of theirs, being told there was undead down there, not sure what kind. We were level 1's and full of bravado, after all, this was our <em>second</em> campaign and the DM was pretty gentle in our first one. We go down the stairs to the tomb and fight some skeletons/zombies and defeat them pretty handily. We get to a T-intersection. My PC (an elven rogue) and one of the other PC's (half-orc barbarian) have been at each other's throats the whole campaign (two sessions prior, 1 RP, 1 minor fight with some bandits) and they almost came to blows last game. After the party bard managed to quell the fighting, my PC had a great idea, I challenged the half-orc to a kill competition as we were both dealing some pretty good damage (and we had just seen the LOTR the night before). So in that I also had the great idea to split up to prove who was more effective, my PC bragged he was the best damn elven swordsman that the world had seen (with a huge bluff bonus the other PC's were helpless against this, despite him being only half-elf). So we split up and go our seperate ways. We each encounter a pair of ghouls, which are normally not too bad when you have 4 PC's but after splitting up things were difficult indeed. The ranger and barb went to the right and at first laughed at the enemies, Bonk the Barbarian decided he would single handedly take them on while the ranger fired his bow. He charged and missed, while the ranger hit one of them, but enough to kill it. The missed on hit amazingly hit with all three attacks and barb was paralyzed then the ranger was hit by the other one. With the PC's helpless for 5 rounds (DM rolled in front of us) they were easily killed and devoured. Our group fared little better, with my PC being paralyzed first round and, although the elf was immune, he fell after a round or two of lucky rolls and high damage.</p><p></p><p>Of course we didn't learn our lesson and kept on splitting up, but nothing ever was as bad as that...</p><p>[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="renau1g, post: 4917707, member: 54810"] I'm always an advocate of splitting up. It makes the game more interesting, and by interesting, I mean more TPK'ing. (happened twice in our RL group) [sblock=Boring Story] *Group consisted of half-orc barbarian, half-elven rogue (me), elven bard, and human ranger. Yes, I realize we had no real arcane or divine presence, but them's the way the cookie crumbled. We were asked by a cleric of Sune to go and clear out an old temple of theirs, being told there was undead down there, not sure what kind. We were level 1's and full of bravado, after all, this was our [I]second[/I] campaign and the DM was pretty gentle in our first one. We go down the stairs to the tomb and fight some skeletons/zombies and defeat them pretty handily. We get to a T-intersection. My PC (an elven rogue) and one of the other PC's (half-orc barbarian) have been at each other's throats the whole campaign (two sessions prior, 1 RP, 1 minor fight with some bandits) and they almost came to blows last game. After the party bard managed to quell the fighting, my PC had a great idea, I challenged the half-orc to a kill competition as we were both dealing some pretty good damage (and we had just seen the LOTR the night before). So in that I also had the great idea to split up to prove who was more effective, my PC bragged he was the best damn elven swordsman that the world had seen (with a huge bluff bonus the other PC's were helpless against this, despite him being only half-elf). So we split up and go our seperate ways. We each encounter a pair of ghouls, which are normally not too bad when you have 4 PC's but after splitting up things were difficult indeed. The ranger and barb went to the right and at first laughed at the enemies, Bonk the Barbarian decided he would single handedly take them on while the ranger fired his bow. He charged and missed, while the ranger hit one of them, but enough to kill it. The missed on hit amazingly hit with all three attacks and barb was paralyzed then the ranger was hit by the other one. With the PC's helpless for 5 rounds (DM rolled in front of us) they were easily killed and devoured. Our group fared little better, with my PC being paralyzed first round and, although the elf was immune, he fell after a round or two of lucky rolls and high damage. Of course we didn't learn our lesson and kept on splitting up, but nothing ever was as bad as that... [/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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