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  gaaran

  Posts: 740 December 2010

  Well, it depends, have you set a precedent before in your games for using things that were beyond your players' ken, and offering them assistance to make it possible, or are you more the DM that runs a world where "the players are powerful, but there is always something MORE powerful." If the former, then you may have caught them by surprise, and perhaps a ritual to summon their equipment back to them could be garnered, and if the latter, then the players were foolish enough to challenge godzilla head-on. They should be glad they're all still alive (thanks to the raise dead). Basically, it all depends on what sort of game you've run up until this point.
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  Duskreign

  Posts: 1,085 December 2010 edited December 2010

  Funniest... thread-name... ever.
  
  First time DM's and the Tarrasque... I tell you...
  
  Wow.
  
  If I was you, oldmanofdoom, I would hold firm to the status quo, and allow them to chalk it up to a lesson well learned. If they aren't more careful, worse things can happen than the loss of a few items.

  Post edited by Duskreign on December 2010
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  RaseCidraen

  Posts: 890 December 2010

  Truth to what has been spoken before!
  
  So some 10th level characters walked into a bar with a Tarrasque...
  
  I agree with Dusk, with one caveat - Are the players truly aware of what a Tarrasque is? If they are, then it makes a poignant statement about their commitment to character - they might have been feeling a bit on-top-of-the-worldish, and this knocked them down quite a few pegs (Almost into the negatives, it sounds like..) If not, I'd be more lenient in cutting them a break. You could magick all of their items back for a fee, or you could make the next adventure something which could allow them to re-equip the disenfranchised character somewhat easily.
  
  The thing to be careful with about unstoppable forces - the Characters ego's seem like immovable objects, and they're always keen to test themselves...
  
  Lesson well learned indeed.
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  FemmeLegion

  Posts: 521 December 2010

  Does this party have a patron or other potential benefactor? Someone who could hear their tale of woe, regard them with a twinkle in his eye, and say something like "Oh, come now, did you really begin to believe that just because you have chosen to be heroes, that *everything* you encountered would be something you could defeat? That way lies corruption, my friends."
  
  Anyway, thinking patron/benefactor might have some "loaner gear" that is useful but not optimized for that character, and is definitely not perfect replacements. The party would have to leave something of significant value as a deposit for those goods, but then the next thing patron wants them to do would at least re-instate the most useful of the lost items, either by chance or by design ("I'd not thought it worth your attention since you already had something as powerful, but there is rumor of a treasure in the Catacombs...").
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  Duskreign

  Posts: 1,085 December 2010

  Crap, you know, I didn't even consider... did they know what the Tarrasque was? I take it for granted that everyone does, which kind of makes me a bit of a moron, frankly.
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  RaseCidraen

  Posts: 890 December 2010 edited December 2010

  It's okay - I only know of the Tarrasque as a Hand of He Whom Smites You kind of thing - nothing of what it's capable of :) And Don't call me Frankly! :P

  Post edited by RaseCidraen on December 2010
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  Duskreign

  Posts: 1,085 December 2010

  LOL.
  
  Hi, I'm Crap Frankly, Esq.
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  RaseCidraen

  Posts: 890 December 2010

  Crap Frankly, eh? That seems awfully close to my name... Frankly Crappy, III.
• oldmanofdoom

  Posts: 12 December 2010

  They DO know what a Tarrasque is. They are on are on Xen'drik on behalf of Morgrave University, so I guess they could get some help, even though they are evil. The only problem is, it'll be long before they return. Anyway, I always give them useful items during quests so it should be rather easy for them to adapt to the situation. Besides, they are feeling a bit better now that a few days have passed and I'm a bit less worried, too. Thank you all for your help :)
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  gnunn

  Posts: 423 December 2010

  ...and all I got was this bloody T-shirt.
  
  Someone had to make the joke!
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  RaseCidraen

  Posts: 890 December 2010

  Touche sir! I feel ashamed for not making it!
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  DarkMagus

  Posts: 425 December 2010

  Gnunn: Yes! That MUST become a t-shirt!! hahahaha
  
  Rase: It's ok, you can't get 'em all.
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  Everdark

  Posts: 122 December 2010

  I remember my first time DMing... I giggled merrily as I unleashed the tarrasque on my world. Then I was upset when I realized how badly it hurt my world and its progress...
  
  Learned my lesson! Don't toy with unstoppable forces!
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  RaseCidraen

  Posts: 890 December 2010

  No, it's better to toy with immovable objects. Players tend not to try to kill Yggdrasil, nor does it wreck your campaign. Unless you try to plant it on whatever Prime world they're on at the time...