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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FungiMuncher" data-source="post: 272239" data-attributes="member: 1094">Here's my related story, and only TPK.  The party of 7th - 9th level characters are investigating an ancient elven shrine with rumors of people becoming missing in the area.  They discover the shrine is being besieged by a band of orcs, with a higher level half-orc druid leading them.  During the course of investigating, they notice a small ship floating just above the tree tops.  They deal with the orcs and druid rather well, but don't concern themselves with the floating ship.  They take a week to hike back to the big city, and hire a bunch of NPCs in hopes of rededicating the shrine to their own god.  When they get back, they notice that the ship has landed, with a bunch of ogres and witches on the ground.  They are greeted by one of the ladies, and she tells them that this shrine is now dedicated to the local goddess of magic, and that they best be moving along.  Combat starts, and they're doing OK against the ogres.  Then, the two enemy witches fling fire balls into the melee.  The fighter/rogue leader of the party fails BOTH saving throws (rolling a 2 and a 3), and drops to about -25 HP.  Everyone else makes at least one of the saves, and are doing fine.  The witches hold their actions, telling them to "retreat now, or else."  The remaining party members choose to attack.  While they do OK for a couple rounds, the witches are eventually able to entangle or take out the lot of them.  Those who survive, including the NPC hirelings, spend the rest of the lives serving the local goddess of magic.The party was doing just fine until one of them went POP!  I don't feel too bad about doing this.  I gave 'em a couple of chances to back off, or at least to regroup and come up with another plan.   Fortunately, the players were all rather good natured about it all.  The only thing that I don't like is that they chose to restart at first level, in another part of the world.  That's made it necessary to plan out a new set of plots!FM</blockquote>

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