Klaatu Barada Nik-Aghuhauuu!

Fellow Dungeon Masters of your systems of choice; Lets discuss our experience in campaign failures and or main story-line deterioration in just one moment of horrid mishap. So... There the party was of near epic level (D&D 3.5) after marching through a twenty two floor level labyrinth of unspoken horrors and the deadliest of traps. They've just reached the resting place of a unspoken evil from Faerun's time of troubles. (The High Priest of Tiamat) Mind you this party was after one of Tiamat's relics, which this one being the Chromatic Rod with a twist of the ability to control dragons. The party nearly out of resources and just thrilled to see their objective after such perils. They walk to the open grave to find it empty, and a cruel laughter above them. They look up and see the Lich-Priest. Now the epic battle begins or so I thought... After rolling initiative, the Lich got first, and used Wail of the Banshee. And then the worst luck I've ever seen, two party members rolled ones, and the other two members simply did not make the saving through And there you have it. In one moment the entire party dies, leaving the group speechless. This campaign was going on for nearly two years... They all just sat there in disbelief. I'm interested in reading your stories and mishaps. Your Evil DM -Xelus

IF you wanted to be cruel sadistic DM just make the last session a horrible dream vision of what could happen and roll it back to them waking up at their last camp site. This gives you the chance to have them replay it but you would get to change things up if you wanted to. It would be funny if they get the deju vu sense then they run into something that they didn't dream. If they can do it with Dallas then why not your game.

Was that a quote from Army of Darkness? If so you said the words wrong! You've doomed us all! 

Well, lets just say the group enjoyed the rest of the night drafting up new characters for another campaign. They eventually heard about their old party disappearing after a rod that controls dragons in some old labyrinth. That group simply stopped coming to our game nights, and now I find my self using Roll20.

Klaatu barada nikto!!!

David H. said: Was that a quote from Army of Darkness? If so you said the words wrong! You've doomed us all!  "Klaatu barada nikto" is specifically from The Day the Earth Stood Still . It's the message that the alien Klaatu gives to Helen to relay to the robot Gort so that Gort does not destroy Earth in retribution for Klaatu's death. The phrase has been used repeated throughout fiction since then (and I believe it was in Army of Darkness ). It is one of the most famous commands in science fiction. When The Day the Earth Stood Still was remade, the writers almost left the famous phrase out of the movie. Keanu Reeves insisted that it be included. (Probably so that he'd get to say it, but I'm glad he got the phrase into the movie.)

The Day the Earth Stood Still movie quote Army of Darkness movie quote   I'm glade we've learned some new stuff, though I hope we get to my original topic. 

"Look we need to go right here, folks..." Last words of not only the rogue. Whole party perished when running back to a formerly easily avoided glass floor trap over a deep chasm. As they were running so fast they all broke through the unstable glass parts and plummeted to their deaths. They might have been able to stop but the half-ogre running last bumped into them and pushed them ahead in an c(h)ase. Funny thing is, they wanted to do "just a lil harmless dungeon crawl" before the next part of the big campaign was to start.

Haha!  That is amazing, I myself was a part of a group with a DM who enjoyed dungeon crawls and made a 60 floor dungeon with its own lore and such.. The story was the party was after a ring of three wishes, It was really fun but after floor 54 we all died due to Mind flayers of thoon. :( 

I was running this game where the party was a bunch of first level characters (4th edition D&D). They had been sent to investigate what was going on with a fort that had lost contact with the military. Well they get there and discover that it had been attacked by goblin/kobold forces and somewhat overrun. After dealing with the ambush party they manage to free the remaining military force and the few healers that were left alive. The party is informed that the main force was supposed to be returning in the morning and that they couldn't abandon the fort. So the party starts to fortify the place, set up traps the whole nine yards. Well a decent sized force shows up that out numbers them and the battle begins. First the eladrin wizard teleports on top of a roof, gets reduced to zero and starts bleeding out and is now somewhere where no healer can get to him. Then the cleric (the player one) gets out right killed by damage from an attack. Looking grim the party manages to turn the tide and start whipping ass leaving only the Goblin leader to fight them that in the process manages to drop the dwarf paladin with an attack that deals on going poison and before anyone can get to him the dwarf dies due to poison damage. First quest finished with half the party dead...I couldn't believe it. I felt like such a dick.

Sith happens... And that reminds me of the Star Wars game where we crashed into a mountain because of a totally botched piloting attempt. Luckily, the campaign was in its early stages so we just made new chars to "clean up after the losers." I was sad to see my Ishi Tib die though, first time I played one and the GM said that it would not be so logical to bring in another one. Which was true.

I have been watching Rollplay on itmejp on youtube and they've been failing so hard in the last few sessions, even having two party members fall several feet to their deaths taking 70 damage.... The party member&nbsp;Vincent had a ring of 3 wishes with only one left and wishes for:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUFc2HyXJ7M" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUFc2HyXJ7M</a>