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Tollak Vargsson wrote:

I was running a 3.5 homebrew game. Very first game I send the party into a swamp and the first "encounter" was the party finding an abandoned boat in a large pond. I just put it there for flavor, and expected nothing to come of it.

One of the players decided to swim out and investigate the boat. Fails his Swim check, and begins drowning. Another player tried to save him. They failed their Swim check and began drowning. The party ended up drowning as every rescuer failed their Swim checks and drowned.

A TPK from a CR 0 encounter. You ought to win something for that!

It's up there with my favorite/most accomplished encounters and games. It was just so ridiculous. One of my players still says "Don't wipe the party" if someone needs to make a Swim check.

I was running a 3.5 homebrew game. Very first game I send the party into a swamp and the first "encounter" was the party finding an abandoned boat in a large pond. I just put it there for flavor, and expected nothing to come of it.

One of the players decided to swim out and investigate the boat. Fails his Swim check, and begins drowning. Another player tried to save him. They failed their Swim check and began drowning. The party ended up drowning as every rescuer failed their Swim checks and drowned.

I sometimes feel sad about the state of the game. God forbid someone play what they want and not be an aggressively optimized sheet of numbers.

If you want to play a blaster play a blaster. If you want to play a controller, play a controller. If you want to dabble in both, dabble in both.

It sounds like you play with a group of table sociopaths. I'd just kill the game. It's not worth playing if you're not having fun.