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<blockquote data-quote="Kestrel" data-source="post: 211819" data-attributes="member: 384">Mine was in 2nd edition days.&nbsp; During a run of the Undermountain dungeon in FR, I had the same player do two stupid things.&nbsp; He was playing a drow fighter/mage.The first instance was the party encountered a large pillar of light, about 20' in diameter.&nbsp; In the center of the pillar, floated a Book of Infinite Spells.&nbsp; The rules for the pillar, if I remember correctly,&nbsp; was that it destroyed any non-living material put into it and no magic functioned within its confines.&nbsp; The player experimented with the pillar, putting his staff in it, which was promptly destroyed, and casting various spells to no effect.&nbsp; Then he gets a brillant plan, he backs up and jumps through the pillar, to grab the book. This is while wearing all his gear.&nbsp; Needless to say, he got the book, but was naked, hairless, and lost all his possessions on the other side.&nbsp; Much later, the same character runs into one of Halaster's curtains of darkness.&nbsp; These are pretty much a wall of darkness that cannot be dispelled by any means.&nbsp; The player experiments once again, poking various things through it and determines two things.&nbsp; There is some kind of dropoff (a pit) on the other side and that there was a very strong gravity pull downwards.&nbsp; He then backs up, gets a running start, dives through the curtain.&nbsp; He promptly is pulled down a 90' pit, accelerated by a magically strong gravity pull, slamming into the floor.&nbsp; Then he is teleported to the top of the pit, where he is pulled once again to the floor.&nbsp; (This is one of Halaster's traps, the neverending pit)&nbsp; My description to the other players was: &quot;The drow gets a running start and dives through the wall of darkness.&nbsp; You hear the sound of his scream howl deep into the earth below you and then a loud thud.&nbsp; Strangely, a weaker moan starts directly before you on the other side of the curtain, then it quickly descends again, cut off shortly by another meaty thud. (at this point, the player was dead, after taking 24d6 damage) Then there is silence followed by another meaty thud.&nbsp; This continues for a while, the thuds becoming wetter and wetter.I loved that dungeon <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kestrel, post: 211819, member: 384"] Mine was in 2nd edition days. During a run of the Undermountain dungeon in FR, I had the same player do two stupid things. He was playing a drow fighter/mage. The first instance was the party encountered a large pillar of light, about 20' in diameter. In the center of the pillar, floated a Book of Infinite Spells. The rules for the pillar, if I remember correctly, was that it destroyed any non-living material put into it and no magic functioned within its confines. The player experimented with the pillar, putting his staff in it, which was promptly destroyed, and casting various spells to no effect. Then he gets a brillant plan, he backs up and jumps through the pillar, to grab the book. This is while wearing all his gear. Needless to say, he got the book, but was naked, hairless, and lost all his possessions on the other side. Much later, the same character runs into one of Halaster's curtains of darkness. These are pretty much a wall of darkness that cannot be dispelled by any means. The player experiments once again, poking various things through it and determines two things. There is some kind of dropoff (a pit) on the other side and that there was a very strong gravity pull downwards. He then backs up, gets a running start, dives through the curtain. He promptly is pulled down a 90' pit, accelerated by a magically strong gravity pull, slamming into the floor. Then he is teleported to the top of the pit, where he is pulled once again to the floor. (This is one of Halaster's traps, the neverending pit) My description to the other players was: "The drow gets a running start and dives through the wall of darkness. You hear the sound of his scream howl deep into the earth below you and then a loud thud. Strangely, a weaker moan starts directly before you on the other side of the curtain, then it quickly descends again, cut off shortly by another meaty thud. (at this point, the player was dead, after taking 24d6 damage) Then there is silence followed by another meaty thud. This continues for a while, the thuds becoming wetter and wetter. I loved that dungeon :) [/QUOTE]

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