Now, it's story time. I'll try to keep it brief but, I need to 'put you there' first.
We had some very devoted players and they would even come in costume occasionally. They all tried to, 'get into character', as best they knew how. (We had a great group.)
One guy, a worrier, had achieved level 15 and was a pretty mean dude. He always led the pack into each scenario. He, personally, was a big guy himself. Over 6' tall and well over 200 lbs. and was the reason he chose to be a worrier. In reality, he was just a big ol' teddy bear... As nice as one could ever be.
Anyway, this particular dungeon was a stinker. We just about killed everybody off with the dice rolls that night and had to modify them accordingly so we wouldn't. (It was a bad night for dice.)
We had the group emerge from the dungeon, finely but, they were all pretty well beat up with broken bones, bloody body parts, limping and crawling to the best of their abilities and, the leader of the pack, the great worrier, was out cold and dying. He was being dragged on a stretcher.
This is kinda funny but sad, too. When the worrier took that 'fatal' blow that knocked him out, he started crying and couldn't stop. Right there at the table!
We told the group that they had about an hour to do something about all this or they'd loose the worrier among some other badly damaged body parts of their own. (He was devastated and cried even louder. We actually had to stop the game to console him. They were all quite devastated, btw.)
OK, this 'dungeon' wasn't over yet and we tried to get them to continue but, this 'big ol' teddy bear' wouldn't stop crying and broke up the game for the night.
What they were supposed to do was find a place of shelter then send an able bodied member out in search of help but, we couldn't get 'em to do this. Little did they know, there was a healing pond not too far away but, we couldn't tell 'em this, they had to find it on their own.
Unfortunately, this was the last dungeon we played. It was a two part dungeon. (We couldn't tell them this either.) The healing aspect was going to be the beginning of the second dungeon.
I'm sorry to say, this guy went home in tears.
If they'd only continued on...
By the way, I did bump into this worrier and a few of the others to let them know about the second half and that everything was going to turn out for the better IF they'd continued on.
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a.k.a. Rick
At my age, 'Happy Hour' is a nap...