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Message: <blockquote data-quote="F5" data-source="post: 522461" data-attributes="member: 4607">The closest I've come to a TPK due to stupidity actually just happened a few months ago, so I don't even have the "I was young and stupid then" excuse.  I hang my head in shame...My fairly low level party (we were between 4th and 5th level) were in a gnomish city, looking for minions of the Big Bad Evil Guy.  We've tracked our suspect to his lair in the sewers, and we want to get to him quickly because we know he's about to bolt for parts unknown.  Only three of the usual 6 players made it to that session, so it was just the Cleric, fighter and halfling sorcerer, but we figured we could take on one, solitary gnome.  We've snuck up on his chambers, and are outside the old, rusty door we know he's hiding behind.  In the interest of time, our brilliant plan is to throw open the door and charge the gnome before he can react.  Imagine our surprise when we find out that the "gnome" was a shapechanged Rakshasa, who knew exactly where we were, had cast Fire Trap on the door, and had readied a Fireball spell to go off as soon as the door opened.  And me without a Protection from Elements.  It hurt.Miraculously, no one took enough damage to put them at -10, so the DM "mercifully" let us survive.  In the clutches of the Rakshasa, who used a rat-bastardly combo of Bestow Curse, Lesser Geas, and Modify Memory to make us unwittingly destroy the Temple of the Paladins.  No one in the group likes to talk about that particular incident...</blockquote>

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