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R.P.G. (Ransack People's Gold) is the tale of four D&D/Star Wars/RPG players and their DM, who wishes he were a player. These intrepid players are, from left to right:
Kenneth, the over-achieving, yet under appreciated DM.
Adam, the guy who has a theater background but needs a girlfriend.
Barry, the munchkin power-gamer with a bad case of arrested development.
Josh, the straight-laced guy who just wants to play the game.
Kassi, Josh's homicidally-minded younger cousin, whom he regrets inviting.

My last home group threw a party of min/maxed combat monsters at me, this is to be expected from a munchkin party that complains when fighter aren't hard/interesting enough. But what drove me up the walls was the stupid Cleric. Knowing how I like to have NPCs lie to and ambush the party he built a mind reader with crazy skills at detecting lies and living creatures.

For the Insight I started throwing in Illithid who can manipulate minds better than the PC, allowing me to sow disinformation and doubt in the party. For the psychic Perception I started using more animals and constructs who had no thoughts. But the insane healing he could pump out was making my party way to cocky. I decided I could use the crazy healing to justify nastier enemies and started using maps and monster to split the party as often as possible, cutting the Cleric and Wizard off from the reckless melee characters and trapping them in damage alley out of range of the suicidal Rogue. Another great trick was to slowly wear the PCs down in a series of smaller battles so they would run out of surges and have to fight smarter to survive.

I did eventually TPK the party but that was because a. they rolled horribly, b. I didn't, c. they made fantastically bad tactical choices, d. the wizard died in the surprise round in a combination of bad luck and having had his plot armor was revoked, e. the party was unwilling to spend resources, including a stockpile of nearly a dozen healing potions I had handed them in earlier sessions, and f. I had to end the campaign in the next couple of weeks anyways so I figured I'd just try to wipe the party since they provided me such a ripe opportunity to get my first TPK.

Description
R.P.G. (Ransack People's Gold) is the tale of four D&D/Star Wars/RPG players and their DM, who wishes he were a player. These intrepid players are, from left to right:
Kenneth, the over-achieving, yet under appreciated DM.
Adam, the guy who has a theater background but needs a girlfriend.
Barry, the munchkin power-gamer with a bad case of arrested development.
Josh, the straight-laced guy who just wants to play the game.
Kassi, Josh's homicidally-minded younger cousin, whom he regrets inviting.

My last home group threw a party of min/maxed combat monsters at me, this is to be expected from a munchkin party that complains when fighter aren't hard/interesting enough. But what drove me up the walls was the stupid Cleric. Knowing how I like to have NPCs lie to and ambush the party he built a mind reader with crazy skills at detecting lies and living creatures.

For the Insight I started throwing in Illithid who can manipulate minds better than the PC, allowing me to sow disinformation and doubt in the party. For the psychic Perception I started using more animals and constructs who had no thoughts. But the insane healing he could pump out was making my party way to cocky. I decided I could use the crazy healing to justify nastier enemies and started using maps and monster to split the party as often as possible, cutting the Cleric and Wizard off from the reckless melee characters and trapping them in damage alley out of range of the suicidal Rogue. Another great trick was to slowly wear the PCs down in a series of smaller battles so they would run out of surges and have to fight smarter to survive.

I did eventually TPK the party but that was because a. they rolled horribly, b. I didn't, c. they made fantastically bad tactical choices, d. the wizard died in the surprise round in a combination of bad luck and having had his plot armor was revoked, e. the party was unwilling to spend resources, including a stockpile of nearly a dozen healing potions I had handed them in earlier sessions, and f. I had to end the campaign in the next couple of weeks anyways so I figured I'd just try to wipe the party since they provided me such a ripe opportunity to get my first TPK.