Have your players / your group ever failed in their quest? What

>>51011422
They let the lich jump out the window, after 3 or 4 rounds of him opening the window. They didn't fail the campaign, but a simple tower quest turned into a continent spanning chase, and they're not even close to him.

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>>51011651
Wait, how? Did they just stand there, waiting for him to open the window?

>>51011651
that's fun though, like a fantasy version of Stardust Crusaders

The players thought they could control the sphere of annihilation with out the Glove of Control and set it loose upon the Sword Coast but escaped.
Then the 2nd and fatal blunder was interrupting the control ritual which kept takhisis sadly trapped on her own plane, and they released her and got ate up. The end.

>>51011422
>Have your players / your group ever failed in their quest?

Oh fuck yes.

>What was the reason?

Well, it's happened more than once, but I think the most lasting impact happened because we didn't stop to think through the implications of everything that the enemy was planning.

> What was the result?

Instead of crushing the enemy army in the field when it was away from its magical protections that we suddenly cast down, we committed our own forces to the field against massively superior forces where our trump card wouldn't work, got our army obliterated, and our capital sacked, and the alliance our nation was part of split apart.

They were supposed to retreat from the Orc army that had busted through the city walls and escort the caesar to safety.

Instead they used gunpowder to turn the alchemy labs magical waste dump in a massive bomb and tricked the orc king in a parlay. They detonated the whole thing when he rode onto the castle grounds on a weird googly eyed horse sized lizard thing.

The entire orc elite was vaporized along with their nobility, priests and their king. The weird unknown lizard however was standing 120 meter tall now, looking very dinosaurian, and immediately started just casting disintegrate on the city and the castle.

The campaign continued but they never fixed that mistake. When the players travelled through the land the monster had ravaged, they came across the dried out carcass of a tarasque, picked clean, bones broken open, and the marrow sucked out.

>>51011422
They decided not to pursue the quest. Seriously, that was it.

There were multiple signs that the thing they were ignoring was getting worse. Hell, they even met adventurers that were taking their place in the plot but coming up short, but they willingly ignored it.

The next campaign was them playing a party that was meant to clean up the mess left behind. I didn't tell them that it was the same world with the previous party being the group they were hating on IC until they were a few sessions in and emotionally invested.

>>51011841
In their defense, they were fighting a mimic as well. But, if I recall correctly, at least 3 of them could have gone over and engaged the lich while it was trying to escape without provoking an attack of opportunity or anything. I think they just didn't expect me to have him escape. Also, the mimic wasn't even supposed to be part of the encounter. Someone tried to open the mimic in the middle of the fight.

>>51011970
Right now it's more of a fantasy Carmen Sandiego.