If you were to TPK your current party, what would be your best and most creative method of decimating the characters all your closest friends have invested hours and hours into?
Asking for a friend. I would NEVER purposely to this. No sir. lol
The best tpk for a party is where they do it on themselves with bad dice rolls. They cause it to happen not the dm. That's the only way.
When I dm I tell the players that if I screw up and cause a tpk that they don't die. Cause it was my fault and not theirs. If they screw up and cause it then it's all on them and perfectly acceptable.
The best TPK I’ve experienced was when the party followed crying noises to a large abandoned looking house. We went in and eventually found a crying woman looking to be holding a baby on the floor. We approached and asked if she was okay to no response. One of the players put a hand on her shoulder. She lifted up the baby, which happened to be a doll, screamed and bright light shown and caused radiant damage all around us to the point it was an outright kill for the entire party. Lol
we were all screaming and panicking hoping to save ourselves while the description of devastation was being laid out. Haha! Very memorable, though.
We were a level three party trying to do much higher level stuff, so I guess we got what we deserved.
As someone who has managed multiple TPKs over the years, almost all of them were accidents. There's a simple way of accomplishing this: just make sure to give them lots of legitimately challenging fights. Still biased toward the PCs, but if the odds are 80-90% in the PCs favor, eventually that 10-20% comes up. Then look helplessly at the players. "I thought you could handle it".
The good thing about this is that beating hard fights feel like legitimate accomplishments. The bad thing about this is that eventually you're going to accomplish a TPK, entirely by accident.
If I was going to TPK a party on purpose, I would have them fight three modest fights in the same period (before they went for their long rest). Then, about when they were going to set up for a long rest I would entice them with something that looked real small and suck them in. Then the fight would be an ambush that was about as tough as the three earlier fights, but now that they are out of spells/smites/ whatever they can't stay in the fight long enough and get killed.
It is a pretty nasty thing to do to players because you appear to be giving them a moral dilemma; am I just going to kick back and rest or am I going to jump in and save one more group of folks?
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Tiamat riding the tarrasque. Or vice versa. And in this version, they’re cohabitating (they’re just figuring out what their relationship is, no need to put labels on it) so they’ve got joint lair actions. And they were having some liches over for dinner, cause undead don’t breathe so they don’t have to worry about masks.
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If you were to TPK your current party, what would be your best and most creative method of decimating the characters all your closest friends have invested hours and hours into?
Asking for a friend. I would NEVER purposely to this. No sir. lol
The best tpk for a party is where they do it on themselves with bad dice rolls. They cause it to happen not the dm. That's the only way.
When I dm I tell the players that if I screw up and cause a tpk that they don't die. Cause it was my fault and not theirs. If they screw up and cause it then it's all on them and perfectly acceptable.
The best TPK I’ve experienced was when the party followed crying noises to a large abandoned looking house. We went in and eventually found a crying woman looking to be holding a baby on the floor. We approached and asked if she was okay to no response. One of the players put a hand on her shoulder. She lifted up the baby, which happened to be a doll, screamed and bright light shown and caused radiant damage all around us to the point it was an outright kill for the entire party. Lol
we were all screaming and panicking hoping to save ourselves while the description of devastation was being laid out. Haha! Very memorable, though.
We were a level three party trying to do much higher level stuff, so I guess we got what we deserved.
As someone who has managed multiple TPKs over the years, almost all of them were accidents. There's a simple way of accomplishing this: just make sure to give them lots of legitimately challenging fights. Still biased toward the PCs, but if the odds are 80-90% in the PCs favor, eventually that 10-20% comes up. Then look helplessly at the players. "I thought you could handle it".
The good thing about this is that beating hard fights feel like legitimate accomplishments. The bad thing about this is that eventually you're going to accomplish a TPK, entirely by accident.
If I was going to TPK a party on purpose, I would have them fight three modest fights in the same period (before they went for their long rest). Then, about when they were going to set up for a long rest I would entice them with something that looked real small and suck them in. Then the fight would be an ambush that was about as tough as the three earlier fights, but now that they are out of spells/smites/ whatever they can't stay in the fight long enough and get killed.
It is a pretty nasty thing to do to players because you appear to be giving them a moral dilemma; am I just going to kick back and rest or am I going to jump in and save one more group of folks?
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt
Tiamat riding the tarrasque. Or vice versa. And in this version, they’re cohabitating (they’re just figuring out what their relationship is, no need to put labels on it) so they’ve got joint lair actions. And they were having some liches over for dinner, cause undead don’t breathe so they don’t have to worry about masks.