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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EP" data-source="post: 4646335" data-attributes="member: 41744">I guess I'll go first.  This entry will not be considered for voting and is provided simply as an example.It was Dark Sun, somewhere around 1994.  We had been playing for a while and were pretty much into all of the TSR worlds at that time (except for Birthright, but that was just because there was no time, dammit) and my buddy Derek had been running this one for some time.  I could never keep a character alive past the end of the adventure.  Druids were normally the safest and I liked the shapechanging, but went with a straight fighter for DS.The details are sketchy (it was 15 years ago), but we had invaded a temple and went toe-to-toe with a lone female warrior at the top of an immense staircase with a balcony overlooking the courtyard below.  We couldn't take her down.  All by herself, she tossed us aside, disarmed us, and was impossible to hit.  She even teased us by putting one hand behind her back and practically did everything except blindfold herself.  Nothing was working.  So I improvised and it ended up changing how I play and DM forever.Everyone had at least struck her once, but I wasn't able to do anything.  "Bad dice" is what I said then and it's what I'm saying now.  When my latest THAC0 roll came up zilch, I freaked out.  "Screw this!" I said (actually, it was much more profane, but I'm trying not to get the boot here) and pulled out my 50' rope.  "I'm gonna wrap a noose around her neck and toss her over the edge."The DM paused for a moment.  It was the first time any of us had broken ranks and tried to fight using something other than weapons.  "Uh, okay.  Can you tie a knot?"  (We were rather strict about non-proficiency skills and as a fighter, I had nothing.)"No," I replied, dismayed."I can, " another player broke out.  I tossed him the rope while everyone else in the party jumped on her.  Held down with a noose around her neck, I picked her up and tossed her over, leaving her to dangle for all to see.  The noose was too tight to  untie and if she cut the rope, she  would fall to her death.  Because we were only 18 at the time, we were too stupid to wait for her to die... but we never saw her again.Without a doubt, it was the sloppiest collection of XP I've ever received, but it gave me new hope in roleplaying.  No more was I tied down to typical attacks and damage rolls - now I was going to mix it up.  We all did, actually, and it made for some of the richest roleplaying experiences I've ever had.</blockquote>

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