Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: Difference between revisions

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Steve Jackson Games's ''[[Toon (Tabletop Game)|Toon]]'' actually has a table of 'Apocalyptic Big Finishes' in the back of the ''Toon Ace Catalog'' sourcebook, for when the characters don't quite make it to the end and you need a quick way to end things. Of course, no-one dies, but the principle's the same.

* Years ago, TSR (then-owner of D&D) published ''The Apocalypse Stone'', a module ''deliberately designed for DMs that want to do this.'' In it, the players steal a [[MacGuffin]] that triggers the end of the world. They can undertake quests to prove they are worthy to [[Heroic Sacrifice|die heroically]], but in the canonical ending, can't really do anything to prevent the world from imploding. However, the book included several cop-out scenarios to save things at the last minute in case the DM gets cold feet (or is being threatened with death himself...)

** The express purpose of this was to clean up everybody's campaigns for Third Edition. Likewise the wonderfully named ''Die Vecna Die.''

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* A wonderful ''[[Something Positive|Something* Positive]]'' strip that illustrates a proper usage of the idea, and is widely [[Older Than They Think|believed to be]] the [[Trope Namer]]. [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05032002.shtml She had it coming].

** In an early strip, he threatens to strike everyone with 2d6 lightning damage when the players refuse to stop quoting Monty Python. It doesn't work, because Legolas sees the violence inherent in the system. The DM finally gives in and refers to him as a "Bloody peasant!"

** "Rocks fall, everyone dies" [[Memetic Mutation|has become]] GM shorthand for "stop whatever it is you're doing before I lose my last shred of patience and kill you all" over the years.

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