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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 3172471" data-attributes="member: 149">Look, I don't know how experienced a DM you are, but one of the constants I've found in my decades of gaming is that players will do the unexpected and often that means what you might consider the stupidest thing to do.Also while you may have thought that it was "clear" that going after the monster was "suicidal", there's really little reason for the players to have assumed that. They are the "heroes" after all and "heroes" are "always victorious". You did also have options beyond just simply wiping out the entire party, especially if you were going for a "horror" vibe. The monster in movies even though it is often perfectly able to do so, never kills off the entire cast in the first five min of the film, because then what do you do for the rest of the movie? You could have had it kill one of the characters and then run off to eat that character and have the remnants of the party find various pieces of the character that had been gnawed on. Most horror films use the whittling down of the cast as an important element to build tension.I must confess that I am somewhat puzzled as to how you got a TPK with a creature only 1 cr higher than the party. Even if they were minus the paladin. Third level characters aren't nearly as fragile as 1st level characters.</blockquote>