Disappointing NPC deaths

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>Disappointing NPC deaths
Player, not GM, but boy do I have experience with this

We spent almost two irl years worth of sessions that met about once a week building up to a showdown with a mindflayer sorcerer trying to explode our realm to power a ritual that would let him get back to his realm (which was otherwise cut off fro the planes due to cosmic bullshit I won't bore you with.)

Everyone was really, really fucking hyped to have the final showdown with this guy. He'd killed NPCs we liked, taunted us, and destroyed our home city completely just a few sessions prior. The whole charge up the tower powering his ritual was the most adrenaline pumping shit I'd had in years in an rpg

And then the DM decided that, as one final "twist," he'd reveal that the mindflayer's goofy comedy relief goblin butler/manservant had murdered him while he was preparing the ritual and stole his magic staff, whereupon he revealed he was secretly also a powerful sorcerer that had hidden his power levels so he could use this ritual to destroy all the material planes in the multiverse because he was ~CRAZY~

I'm still bitter to this day. What a fucking letdown.

>>55123959
At least the death itself was cinematic and not just " stake him in his sleep"

>>55124239
Did you tell him that idea is retarded?

>>55124771
Yeah, but it's a bit late for that to mean anything when the campaign is over

>>55123959
I was running PTU. There was a gas leak from a poison pokemon cage. The Pcs took too long saving her, though they didn't know she was in that much danger though she was kidnapped.
She died
The players felt depressed and the game stopped.