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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 420333" data-attributes="member: 6929">Here's what happened to one of my players. This is spoiler for the future of my webcomic, but I'll try to keep it vague and hopefully you'll all forget by the time that chapter rolls around.So there the party was, deep within a ruined efreet palace, in a bizarre room that was once used to embalm efreet. While investigating an opening on the wall, they set loose a rather large fire elemental. After a few rounds of combat, one of them casts wall of ice to keep it away, because they're getting peeled and want to use one of their items to banish it (it doesn't always work). The caster has to make a concentration check, having just taken damage, and rolls a 1."OK," says I. "You fail. Oh, and roll again." (I treat fumbles much the same as criticals; you have to roll again to activate them.) The caster rolls another 1.I blink. That kind of bad luck is very rare and deserves something special. "All right," I say eventually. "The magical energies surge forth uncontrolled and condense into a dome of ice, sealing you in with the fire elemental. The rest of the party is trapped outside."The caster didn't even manage to draw their most powerful weapon before they got a flaming arm through their chest. The fire elemental went down shortly afterwards, although it wasn't from combat damage (they finally dispelled it). It was a cool encounter, but a sucky way to die.</blockquote>