D&D Shenanigans

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My group is currently playing the World's Largest Dungeon.

The party was(key word) composed of a Warblade(me), Dragon Shaman, Rogue, Sorcerer/Rogue/Favored Soul, Cleric, Barbarian.

Most of the party was inflicted with curses of some kind that would go into effect when we gotten any kind of stressful situation. I would attack the closest party member, the shaman and the S/R/FS would flee, the Barb would begin vomiting, the rogue would cower in fear, and the cleric would twitch.

So we got bored of waiting around waiting for the curses to wear off and decided to start playing with the magical deck of cards(Deck of Many Things) we had found. Up until now the deck hadn't done much mostly just made stuff appear and disappear so we we under the impression that is was relatively safe. I take five cards cause the game we were playing gave us that many. I get a crapload of pearls(ever so useful for the identify spell), some bracers of armor, my intelligence drops by 4 points, and I may draw again.

The second draw is wear the fun starts, I have decided to draw 3. The first card turns everything I own(including the bracers and pearls I just got) into dust. The second is immediately gain 10,000 exp(yay, I level up that moment), and the 3rd card is the 3.5 equivalent of the death card. I summon a dread wraith that is here to kill me and only me.

Even with my new levels I'm no match for a dread wraith, not that it matters anyway since I attack the closest party member which just so happens to be rogue who cowers in fear of everything. So while I'm attacking her the barbarian is puking his guts out and trying to protect her(way to go good alignment) the shaman and the S/R/FS are running away in opposite directions and the cleric is following the shaman.

Funny thing about wraiths is that whenever they kill a humanoid the victim rises as a wraith. So the dread wraith kills me and tries to leave the dungeon(it can't, whenever something is summoned here it's stuck), I rise as a wraith and kill the barbarian and then turn on the rogue, the barbarian rises as a wraith and helps me finish her off. The S/R/FS flees right into a trap that drops him to negative hit points and he bleeds out before anyone can find him. The cleric and the shaman make it out okay.

The aftermath is that I have now put a CR 12 monster in a part of the dungeon that is made for a level 3 party. Furthermore since there are many humanoids around this part of the dungeon a wraith population explosion is now ongoing.

And that's how I killed off over half the party. But since we start our new characters at halfway to the level our old ones died at. I essentially got 1 and 1/2 levels for nearly causing a TPK.