Sep 24, 2014 · My group has been playing the same characters for about 3 years now, and I recently narrowly avoided an accidental TPK (total party kill). It was a combination of bad judgement and bad luck, but I fudged a few rolls to leave some of them alive. I would hate to have to start over after all this time!

If you don't want to have a TPK, don't use a system that can TPK. Seriously. If you're running something really storyline heavy that'll get totally derailed if everyone dies, use something like 4e D&D that has a lot of anti-character-death fail-safes built into the rules.

Oct 31, 2015 · Absolute favorite TPK was while I was playing my badass half-orc barbarian Kalthak. My party was deep in a dungeon and thought we had managed to hole up safely in room with just the one entrance. It was my turn to keep watch and up scurries a group of Cranium Rats. I immediately fail my will save and I'm dominated.

TPK in a situation like this (and you guys want to continue playing these characters) you could talk to the group about the following options: Spirits in the etherial plane finding a way back to their bodies whilst running from some sort of "Death" or collector of spirits, posessing common NPCs (imo commoner stat blocks) to resurrect themselves ...

CR: Challenge Rating. Guideline (not exact!) for how tough a monster is. Official term. TPK (not TKP): Total Party Kill. Slang for an encounter in which every character dies. In general, you want to avoid these. BBEG: Big Bad Evil Guy. Again, slang.

Nah. Most folks die and horrible outcomes follow. Ima gonna open a bar. I don't need that stress or depression." (You are correct that those things probably would happen.) I haven't had a TPK since high school even when we roll up our hardcore fully random one shot adventures and play with abandon at least one person lives through the horrors ...

Mar 3, 2022 · A TPK should never be the result of a DM being overly brutal. Good DM's shouldn't plan to "play around" their player's abilities by building an encounter which makes the PC's helpless, but instead take advantage of the PC's mistakes. A TPK should be the result of the players either making missplays or blunders.

Yup, I played in a campaign where we had a TPK in Session 1 to kickstart the plot. After the TPK, as our characters were crossing over to the afterlife, we made a pact with something to keep reviving us when we got killed. Each time a character died, the revival DC became higher. It was a super brutal campaign, but fun!

Nov 17, 2022 · A TPK - especially a forced one - can be a real downer; starting the campaign with it may leave a bad taste in your players' mouths. OTOH, waking up in the underworld might be enough to reverse that. I don't know your players, do I can't guess where on the spectrum from "this is horrible" to "this is amazing" they'll fall.

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