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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swedish Chef" data-source="post: 5204927" data-attributes="member: 27141">Another epic fail from my group from 2nd Ed years.Mixed party, and the fighter/mage has an almost full Helm of Brilliance. Don't remember why or how, but he had it.Well, party is roughly 15th level and fighting the BBEG at the end of the adventure. Some over powered Ice Devil, if I remember correctly.Anyways, the same player who played the mage in the previous story was playing a mage in this adventure. His normal trick was to cast Globe of Invulnerability, then move into melee and cast fireball with himself at the centre (no, not *in* the globe, just outside the globe, thereby standing there immune, as the spells were written at the time).Well, he did it this time, but forgot that they were in a room that didn't have the volume to absorb the blast. In fact, based on how you used to measure fireball (number of squares in an area affected), the blast filled the room and about 30 feet out into the corridor. The fighter mage was standing near the door. Everyone else was in the room. Rolled for saves - fighter/mage failed. We played with the rule that if you failed, you rolled for each item in your possession. F/M goes through his sheet, making save after save, until he gets to the last item. The Helm of Brilliance. With only 2 gems used (out of 50, if I remember correctly. Some unholy number at any rate). Helm fails with a 1. Literally. Helm explodes with the fury of of dozens of fireballs, delayed blast fireballs and what ever other offensive spells it contained.My first ever TPK, and I really had nothing to do with it. The player of the mage could only look at the rest of the players, shrug his shoulders and sheepishly say "Oops!" But, they did stop the BBEG! And collapsed his dungeon around him and them. A fitting burial, I say!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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