What are some good TPKs for groups who forget to set up a watch

>>53694560
>[whatever monsters inhabit the forest] sneak up and kill your party while they sleep.

It's kind of straightforward.

>>53694560
Sudden rainfall and flooding

>>53694560
No need for a TPK per se. Have a random low-level monster attack and handwave the coup-de-grace to put him no lower than 0 HP.

Then let the screams and gurgles from trying to hold his throat shut wake the rest of the party. They won't fuck up twice.

Wolves.

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>>53694560

Owlbears

Fucking owlbears

>>53694560
It's more effective to have all their shit stolen and then not let them roll new characters

>>53694560
Monkeys/faeries/goblins/jews steal their stuff

>>53694560
They set up camp underneath some widow makers. A wind storm rolls in and they all die.

>>53694560

Why TPK them right away?

Have a low-CR monster sneak up and start eating a random PC.
Have the PC getting eaten wake after the surprise round.
Give the other PCs checks to wake up (remember there are usually distance and sleep penalties).
Let PCs realize how unprepared for combat they are (unarmed, unarmored, prone).
Once PCs are victorious, remind them of sleep interruption penalties (like recent casting limit, if any - spell slots used within last 8hrs before prep don't refresh).

If PCs insist on not setting up secure shelters, continue raising CR of wandering monsters until they do (or until they die). This way, the PCs get a chance to learn and change, and you don't look like a dick dishing out disproportionate punishment.

And if they do set up defenses, remember to have a weak monster trigger the alarm/trap and run away in fear, so the players feel their efforts at setting up the defense aren't wasted.

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>>53694560
If they're sleeping in magical woods, then fairies.

If they're sleeping in normal woods, then a pack of werewolves.

If they're sleeping on the border between magical and normal woods, then a pack of werefairies

Have a bear steal all their food

Make them starve

>>53694560
Rather than killing the whole party it's easier to just have their stuff get stolen. The bonus is that this could end up being a TPK if they're out in the wilderness and they don't have people with survival skills.

The Hobbit: The goblin cave where the dwarves get captured. Old but solid.

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>>53694560
Corrupted Giant, Blighted Crone and Hateful Virago.

>Darkness closes in, haunting the hearts of men.

deadly radon seeps up from the ground

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>>53694560
>You have forgotten to set a watch in the woods
>Over the night, the Fae come
>The minotaurs ambush them and eat them
>The undead ambush the minotaurs and eat THEM
>The lamias ambush the undead for their sweet sweet marrow and all this left over cow and faerie glitter snacks
>They wake up the PCs and demand that they put on a 3am show and party RIGHT GODDAMN NOW, break out the tequila wake up wake up get up you fucks it's TIME TO ROCK, TITTIES AND BALLS OUT
>PCs are severely hungover and underslept the next day for the big confrontation
>Even the BBEG says they look like shit

This is what happens when you don't set watch.

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>>53697411
Sounds like a fun time to me desu, who doesn't want to have a party with a sexy lamia? It's a shame the fairies got eaten and the skinwalkers and wendigos couldn't come though.

A big band of sneaky goblins. Men get shanked to death. Women get gangaped. Red Sonja wakes up to the unmistakeable sensation of three dicks being stuffed to her at once.

Those that played male characters get to reroll as female slaves and they all must join together to escape the goblin sex dungeon.

Everyone will have good time in an impromptu quest that was directly brought to them by their own choices and decisions, and they will probably learn to be more careful from here on.

>>53697461
The wendigos are NOT INVITED because they keep fucking wassailing and stealing all the beer. They're fuckin' freeloaders. Look, see? I checked the chart.

>94: 2d8 freeloading wendigos too lazy to even bother skinwalking to get what they want

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>>53697461
>who doesn't want to have a party with a sexy lamia

After you've been waken up at 2am for the 17th time that month to snake rattles, tassels, and viper beer in your face you start to get right awful sick of it

no goddamn respect for those who have a job and need to sleep

>>53694560
> Forgot to wake up.

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>>53697638
>PCs wake up 100 years later after a Fae plays a trick on them as they sleep
>The BBEG already won, lost his kingdom to time, and had it usurped by another BBEG

>>53694560
Rape Horse

>>53694560
A bear eats all their trail rations. They must now find food in the wild.
A doppleganger replaces the person with the map and starts leading the other PCs to a doppleganger lair so they too can be replaced.
Roll a lot of dice behind the screen, frown, roll some more dice, and when morning comes declare one of the NPCs to be missing come morning. Never answer where they went.
A druid grows a giant tree around the party. They must now get out alive.
Faeries switch everyone's clothing (and armor), and magically glue it on. The wizard is now stuck in plate while the fighter is in robes.
A PC contracts a nasty rash.
A PC contracts lycanthrophy.
A PC contracts a demon who signed his name in his blood while he was asleep.

>>53694560
Don't kill them but have an arcane organ thief.

>>53697727
>it's independence day

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>>53697932
>they invited fireworks in the meantime and the PCs wake up to the 4-hour grand finale level supershow

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>>53694560

>>53697727
> Their favourite tavern hasn't changed at all.
> The same innkeeper serve them their favourite drink as usual, without any particular comment.

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>>53698316
>PCs have a massive existential breakdown realizing no matter what they do, nothing will really change anyways

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>>53694560
>Start rolling dice behind your screen
>On the third roll, pause for a moment and furrow your brow
>Tell your players to each roll a check
>Pick PC with highest number
>"You startle awake. Still dazed, you peer into the night, determined that you saw someone, or something, just beyond the shadows. You can't shake the uneasy feeling that something was in your camp just now..."
>Await PC reaction

>>53698427
>PCs discover that their bartender is actually an ageless vampire
>Staying inside a dimly-lit tavern all day is the perfect cover
>Drunk people having "incidents" is the perfect way to satiate his hunger without arousing suspicion

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>>53699316
>It turns out that nearly 90% of the best inns are actually ran this way by a cabal of ultra ancient and peaceful vampires just watching the world go by and facilitating the entire adventure economy