I once (as the DM) caused a TPK with fireball.
A cultist mage was about to die. He knew fireball. The whole party was around him.
The reasonable thing to do was a con check to see if he had the mental fortitude to follow through, then kill himself for the cause. So he mustered his strength and fireballed himself.
People were mad
To be fair, if the party can’t handle the heat they should get out of the kitchen.
Assuming this is either dnd or pathfinder, if by the time a rando cultist can cast fireball, 6-30 (and half of a save) damage kills your whole party you really shouldn’t be in meele :D
If you TPK your party, that’s on you. DnD is supposed to be fun. You know what isn’t fun? Getting TPK’ed in a random encounter that isn’t a boss fight at the end of the campaign.
Speak for yourself. I would absolutely LOVE that.
You know what isn’t fun, to me? Playing random fights that have no meaning because there’s no danger anyway, since the DM is too afraid to kill us.
And I would know, I quit my campaign because of that.
