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I wasn't in this campaign, but here's the story. Two parties, questing for the Hand of Vecna, one party gets the Hand, but they also leave clues and trails to a "Head" of Vecna, and as the other party follows the trail, they don't realize it's a trick until two of their party members have died.

 Oh, I heard about that one. They thought the head was like the hand/eye of Vecna and they got into a fight over who got to use it, right?

 That's actually a story from the old comic book Knights of the Dinner Table.

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I wasn't in this campaign, but here's the story. Two parties, questing for the Hand of Vecna, one party gets the Hand, but they also leave clues and trails to a "Head" of Vecna, and as the other party follows the trail, they don't realize it's a trick until two of their party members have died.

 Oh, I heard about that one. They thought the head was like the hand/eye of Vecna and they got into a fight over who got to use it, right?

 That's actually a story from the old comic book Knights of the Dinner Table.

 I’ve heard of that.

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I wasn't in this campaign, but here's the story. Two parties, questing for the Hand of Vecna, one party gets the Hand, but they also leave clues and trails to a "Head" of Vecna, and as the other party follows the trail, they don't realize it's a trick until two of their party members have died.

 Oh, I heard about that one. They thought the head was like the hand/eye of Vecna and they got into a fight over who got to use it, right?

 That's actually a story from the old comic book Knights of the Dinner Table.

 I’ve heard of that.

 It's like almost an urban legend among D&D players........

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Here's a funny story, about how I tpked the party in the first session we ever played.

So, me and my friends were just getting into dnd, and we decided to run Dragon of Icespire Peak as our first campaign. We start our first session, and intro our characters which consist of Edgy Ranger that should've been a Blood Hunter, a Rogue who was two steps away from being a druid, a Wizard who had the largest superiority complex ever (the character, not the player), and me, the stereotypical edgy Fiend Warlock. Eventually , the party gets into an argument, which was between me and the Ranger, since we'd been kicked out of Phandalin, and the Ranger wanted to kill the guards to get in, whilst I thought it was safer to charm our way in. The argument gets out of hand, the ranger fires a crossbow bolt at me, so I shoot back with Burning Hands...forgetting that the party was all clustered together. Failed Dex saves ensue, and since we're all level 1, my high-roll Burning Hands incinerates everyone. Cue about a minute of straight laughing. Eventually, we reset and started Curse of Strahd instead, with me making a kind hearted Artificer, to balance out the highly antagonistic personalities of the party. Everyone was cool about what happened, since we play very casually, and we got a good kick out of it. 

 By the way, is Dragon of Icespire Peak any good as a follow up to another starter adventure? I was wondering because I was thinking of starting a D&D group and after we finish a starter module, I'd like to know a follow up.

 Not really, it’s levels 1-6, sometimes 7.

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Here's a funny story, about how I tpked the party in the first session we ever played.

So, me and my friends were just getting into dnd, and we decided to run Dragon of Icespire Peak as our first campaign. We start our first session, and intro our characters which consist of Edgy Ranger that should've been a Blood Hunter, a Rogue who was two steps away from being a druid, a Wizard who had the largest superiority complex ever (the character, not the player), and me, the stereotypical edgy Fiend Warlock. Eventually , the party gets into an argument, which was between me and the Ranger, since we'd been kicked out of Phandalin, and the Ranger wanted to kill the guards to get in, whilst I thought it was safer to charm our way in. The argument gets out of hand, the ranger fires a crossbow bolt at me, so I shoot back with Burning Hands...forgetting that the party was all clustered together. Failed Dex saves ensue, and since we're all level 1, my high-roll Burning Hands incinerates everyone. Cue about a minute of straight laughing. Eventually, we reset and started Curse of Strahd instead, with me making a kind hearted Artificer, to balance out the highly antagonistic personalities of the party. Everyone was cool about what happened, since we play very casually, and we got a good kick out of it. 

 By the way, is Dragon of Icespire Peak any good as a follow up to another starter adventure? I was wondering because I was thinking of starting a D&D group and after we finish a starter module, I'd like to know a follow up.

 Not really, it’s levels 1-6, sometimes 7.

 Thanks.

Oops..... That sounds PAINFUL!!!!!!

If you have Dragon of Icespire Peak code, you also get the next three steps (eventually going all the way up to lvl 13)

Here would be a funny one:

A battle of wits (classic poisoned drinks: poisoned with 20dCRAZY doses of purple worm poison), wizard (the smart guy) guesses wrong and dies in mid laugh due to both being poisoned

No, have him die because the outside of the cup was coated in contact poison.  The drink itself was harmless.

The Princess Bride was funny, but the contact poison would be genius.