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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9214" data-attributes="member: 177">Let's see...The party enters an ancient abandoned elven city.&nbsp; The buildings are still intact, skeletons lie in the streets.&nbsp; In the center of town, the party finds a gazebo-like stucture.&nbsp; Within it, they find a heatless blue flame burning, with no apparent fuel source.&nbsp; The party paladin attempts to sense evil powers, and get's knocked on his butt by the response.&nbsp; Definite, palpable evil there.The party rogue is curious about the heatless quality.&nbsp; He tried to burn a stick in the flame.&nbsp; Nothing happens.&nbsp; The skewers a bit of dried meat from his rations on the stick, and &quot;cooks&quot; it in the flame.&nbsp; No apparent change in the meat.&nbsp; He then eats it....Leadin to a line that became immortal in the gaming group - &quot;Don't eat the evil beef jerky!&quot;Different campaign, same player: &quot;Don't worry!&nbsp; They couldn't trap all the doors in the place!&quot;&nbsp; Boom!And, my own personal boneheaded manuver - the party is deep underground, in drow territory.&nbsp; They have just had a major fight with some spidery things, and are healing up and curing poison.&nbsp; A couple of the party are in really bad shape.&nbsp; We can fix 'em up if we have some peace and quiet for a while.&nbsp; The party elven ranger (played by myself) was not injured much, and takes a decent hiding place one room back, to watch for enemies sneaking up.Lo and behold, a troop of 8 drow, walking in two columns (by gear it looks like 4 fighters leading 4 clerics), comes down the corridor.&nbsp; The ranger knows that reinforcements are at least 3 rounds away.&nbsp; Does he cry the alarm and retreat?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; To this day I don't know why, but I chose to attack.&nbsp; Did I at least lie in wait to get at the backs of the last pair of spellcasters?&nbsp; No.&nbsp; I jump out and do a frontal assault on the armored fighters.This ranger should have died.&nbsp; By all accounts, this was a boneheaded manuver, and this DM was not shy of killing us even when we weren't stupid.&nbsp; He also didn't fudge dice rolls, which is what saved my bacon....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 9214, member: 177"] Let's see... The party enters an ancient abandoned elven city. The buildings are still intact, skeletons lie in the streets. In the center of town, the party finds a gazebo-like stucture. Within it, they find a heatless blue flame burning, with no apparent fuel source. The party paladin attempts to sense evil powers, and get's knocked on his butt by the response. Definite, palpable evil there. The party rogue is curious about the heatless quality. He tried to burn a stick in the flame. Nothing happens. The skewers a bit of dried meat from his rations on the stick, and "cooks" it in the flame. No apparent change in the meat. He then eats it.... Leadin to a line that became immortal in the gaming group - "Don't eat the evil beef jerky!" Different campaign, same player: "Don't worry! They couldn't trap [i]all[/i] the doors in the place!" Boom! And, my own personal boneheaded manuver - the party is deep underground, in drow territory. They have just had a major fight with some spidery things, and are healing up and curing poison. A couple of the party are in really bad shape. We can fix 'em up if we have some peace and quiet for a while. The party elven ranger (played by myself) was not injured much, and takes a decent hiding place one room back, to watch for enemies sneaking up. Lo and behold, a troop of 8 drow, walking in two columns (by gear it looks like 4 fighters leading 4 clerics), comes down the corridor. The ranger knows that reinforcements are at least 3 rounds away. Does he cry the alarm and retreat? No. To this day I don't know why, but I chose to attack. Did I at least lie in wait to get at the backs of the last pair of spellcasters? No. I jump out and do a frontal assault on the armored fighters. This ranger should have died. By all accounts, this was a boneheaded manuver, and this DM was not shy of killing us even when we weren't stupid. He also didn't fudge dice rolls, which is what saved my bacon.... [/QUOTE]

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