This Troper's GM used to threaten her team with glass meteorites and cosmic communists. It turned out he really did use that on some other team who pissed him off.

This troper once got a little pissed off when the party's cleric started throwing a dead ghoul at the captain of the guard. When the rocks began to fall, they quickly took the hint, but the remains of "McJarvis" (the ghoul, the cleric was a little odd) were still carried around for a long time. So, rather than stick to the old classic, he got mummy rot.

This troper had this happen in her second "Call of Chtulhu" game ''ever'', several years ago. One of the players, who was RP-ing as a powerful psychic, had his character grabbing a summoning artifact and *placing it on his forehead*. Cue to the Dungeon Master literally ''screaming'' in horror because that threw off his whole game and quickly deciding it was payback time - by bringing a sort of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and killing ''everyone'' in the game off. The culprit was given the derisive "World Destroyer" nickname and we still call him that.

It's [=~H.P. Lovecraft~=]. If anyone is both alive and sane at the end of the game, you're doing it wrong.

One thing is everyone dying, another is to have bridges dropped on them just because one of the players got an enormous IdiotBall. =P

This troper once did this to her enemy [=NPCs=] when she got sick of a storyline and had no excuse to do it to the players.

This troper's dad's DM once got pissed off at my dad and killed off his dwarf rogue by having her trip over a rabbit and fall off a cliff.

This troper belongs to an online crack RPG based on ''TheLegendOfZelda''. There are very few rules. It's not uncommon for the players to randomly do in an unpopular character (Tingle, anyone?) with a ''Majora's Mask'' reference -- "Moon falls, everyone dies."

This troper had this happen in his last D&D game. A few of us poked fun at the DM cause he was going to graduate in a few months. As a result, he had one of the NPC's cast a spell that fortified all of the status buffs she got. We ended up having a 52 foot tall naked archer made of stone ''trip'' onto the party.

This troper ''opened'' a D&D campaign with it. Most of the major cities of the characters' home nation were destroyed by meteors (yes, there was malign intent behind those laser-guided meteors). The survivors were those who listened to an oracle that can project into people's dreams, and got the heck out of town. Cue famine, refugees, war, uprising of the undead, and local climactic disaster from the event, and that was just the backdrop.

Never actually happened to This Troper, but the DM did threaten to do it to the character's family if he saw another cousin of his. The same DM also jokingly asked everyone to turn in their character sheets after they entered a magic portal.

When dealing with a single troublesome/broken player, this troper decrees "Congenital Heart Defect, No Save."

And one time, a player turned up with a kobold, primed to become Pun-Pun (a result of rules abuse which can pretty much do anything), to which this troper responded "Congenital ''tail'' defect, no save." Laughs were had by all.

Between the end of the previous D&D campaign run by this troper and the one he is currently running, a hybrid RFED-bridge drop was visited upon a particularly irritating group of enemy [=NPCs=]. And there was much rejoicing.

This troper was in a Sonic-derived forum roleplay, as part of a party looting a cave full of valuable gems. Another player followed us into the cave and attacked ''all five of us'' without provocation. Despite being heavily outnumbered, shot, magicked, beaten to a pulp, and otherwise ass-kicked, this guy refused to back off, culminating in my normally timid character planting explosives ''and blowing up the mouth of the cave so the assailant would be trapped until he died of dehydration'' and he just came back for more. It ended with an moderator killing the player's character with a powerful NPC to make him leave us alone.

In her second ever attempt at [=DMing=], in a one-shot, ThisTroper came very close to accurately uttering this statement. The party was fighting in a set of catacombs, that essentially were under a Mountain. The Dream Dwarf Cleric utters the words, "I cast Earthquake..." She decides to help the newb out and says, "...make a wisdom check." The boy rolls a 4. She had arbitrarily already set the DC to be 10. With his stats, that was a 7, but she was also giving him a +2 (stonecunning...yeah) to it for being, not just a Dwarf, but a Dwarf native to the UNDERDARK. The fact that he BARELY made it made her want to cry. After she pointed out his folly, the fight progressed for approximately another three rounds, and the one-shot ended with the party victorious. Afterwards, the players asked her what she would've done if he had failed his save. Her response? RocksFallEveryoneDies

But that only adds up to 9.

This troper was in a game of 1000 Blank White Cards when someone pulled a 'Rocks fall, everyone dies' ''card''. Everyone lost one life. As nobody had any lives to start with, this didn't particularly worry them.

In a forum RPG based on ''TheMatrix'' that I once played, Smith, who would otherwise be a very overpowered character, was a GMPC with his bodies referred to as "the Team of the Masters' Wrath". After some initial roleplaying, he was PutOnABus and since then was only used to materialize en masse out of nowhere and "assimilate" rules-violating players.

The Matrix Online beta test ended with a spectacularly genocidal Rocks Fall, ''Everyone Dies!'' I still have screenshots of me crumpled into a painful-looking ball under blood-red sky filled with disembodied eyes. After that, they went commercial, and everyone who continued to play had to start fresh.

Can we see?

I just looked up "Matrix Online beta" on Google images and this came up. You can tank me later. Chocolates are appreciated.

And, I suppose aproperately enough, the game itself ended in a simmilar fashon, "WAKE UP!"

ThisTroper and his then-partner in crime were the cause of a rare inversion of this trope: notably, the ''players'' being so upset at the jackassery of the ''DM'' that we decided to destroy his game world. Fortunately, the DM was as much of an unimaginative dunce as he was a lying, cheating sack of crap, so it only took us four sessions to figure out how to maximize available opportunities to open a permanent, undispellable portal to Baator and thus bring about the Apocalypse via unstoppable fiend invasion. Hail Ahriman!

Made even more delightful by that it was an evil campaign, and my partner's PC was a high-level cleric of Ahriman, ''so the DM couldn't even complain we were acting out of character''.

In our ''Aberrant'' gaming group, the DM has (in OOC omake) spontaneously killed us all with "anti-quantum rocks of doom" approximately 50 times, and spontaneously exploded one of our PC's approximately 200 times. Busting out one of those comments has become group shorthand for 'The DM's patience is about to expire, so get back to focusing on the game before ''you'' do.' Sadly, the spontaneous explosion gag became HarsherInHindsight after that particular PC actually managed to nuke himself ''during'' the game. got better.

A temporary example that only affected this Troper(if anyone has a name for a more appropriate trope, I would be thankful). During a game of D20 Modern, this troper and the party were walking through an underground drug base, with pipes. I had been snarking and arguing with the DM over some logical pitfalls in his story, and when DM was through with it, he had a pipe filled with searing hot water fall on my face and put me at -5 health. When I didn't stop snarking, he had the doctor's heal check fail, causing him to slice my throat. It was only after a formal apology that I was resurrected with 2 hit points.

This troper is involved in a Marvel based RP room. A few years ago, the room host decided to reset the timeline. As such, plots in the room got darker and darker until it got to the point where several governments attacked Genosha and people were getting killed left and right. To hopefully make things better, Magneto somehow amped up the Scarlet Witch's power to the point where she was able to rewrite reality and turn back time to months before hand where things were a bit better. However, due to Thor making some sort of deal with Nightmare, things began to take a different slightly dark turn.

The Main page names a particular ''SomethingPositive'' comic as the TropeNamer, but I can recall being in a creative writing class (in the late 1980s) where the professor described something like this as a cathartic way to end your story after you've written yourself into a corner. He suggested that the first, second, and third drafts of many of his own works ended with: " ... and then rocks fall and everyone dies", before scrapping that draft in anger and re-writing everything.

This troper's brother once got sick the way my cousin was playing and had everyone's (level 2) characters fall through the floor into a chamber containing an angry ancient black dragon. Needless to say, everyone died.

This troper's DM plays with this. After a player either complains or mocks the DM, he will say "rocks fall on (player), take 5 damage." Also, through some of our own use of the idiot ball, we ended up in the underdark at level 3. Guess what's going to happen next!

This troper DM'd a Warhammer Fantasy-based RPG some years ago. Whenever the players announced a too stupid action, Galrauch The First Of Chaos Dragons would come flying across the sky. If the players changed their minds, he would pass without noticing them, otherwise he'd attack.

This troper experienced a game where the DM, wanting to do something new, had us roll up level 14 characters (or something like that) for a supposed free-for-all adventure. What he didn't tell us is that, instead of the campaign ACTUALLY being free for all (which led to something like 3 rogues, 2 fighters, a paladin, and a monk), he dropped a TARRASQUE on us, which, after 2 hours of deliberating over weapons and spells and such, we couldn't defeat. So, Terrasques Fall, Everyone Dies (and hates the DM).

In the MSPA forum that I'm i'm in, someone made this adventure called "Rox Fall, Everyone Dies" Which had rocks just falling out of the sky on everyone but the main character.

This Troper remembers a semi-famous online group who pissed off there DM so much that he wrote up a new monster (called something like "Gargantuan Iron Golem) and unleashed it upon the party. (P.S. If someone would link the monster description in question, they are a nice person who I will harbour goodwill towards.)

This happened once or twice as a joke in this troper's D20 Modern Day campaign, usually when the DM got annoyed or just felt like messing with us. At one point, this troper's male strong hero character and his vampire gunslinger comrade were going through a Silent Hill-esque setting doing most of the things one does in Silent Hill where the DM, the vampire, and our resident military/gun expert were discussing the technicalities of firearms and how a certain gun can't get jammed a certain way or whatever, until the DM ended it with a good-natured "Whatever, that's it. Rocks fall, everyone dies." The vampire takes advantage of this troper's character name (Roc) and retorts, "Okay, Roc falls down!" I'm actually planning to turn that into a running gag the next time this happens in the campaign.

I was playing a Lord of the Rings RPG with my advanced gaming class in middle school. Half the party decided to abandon the original mission to do some errand for Elrond and subsequently abandoned the other [my] half, taking all the food as well as the mule. The four deserters all got killed by a troll that night. One got stepped on while he was sleeping.

This troper was really getting annoyed at one of his characters to a steam-punk mod for ''{{Cyberpunk 2020}}'' he was DMing. the character decided to ignore the plot hook completely, break into someones apartment, shoot him, stuff him in a bathtub and jump out the fire escape before the police arrive, all while wearing a diving suit. This troper got so annoyed that he struck him with a lightning bolt (2d100 damage x2 for the metal on his suit).

This Troper was in a WH40K Rouge Trader game. It wasn't so much rocks fall as "The Building that you are currently in..." Falls. rolling 9s as a psycker is fun.

Back in the late 90's our GM at the time got tired of the party fooling around and ignoring his railroading, so he had a grand piano fall on and TPK us. Outside, in the wilderness, totally clear sky. We weren't playing Toon, by the way. We didn't mind because the game was incredibly stupid and boring (never let your GM get stoned).

This Troper sometimes induces it by frustrating the DM. At one point all the characters were bards, his based off of Ziggy Stardust, and he convinced the other players to name their band A Flock of Dire Seagulls. In response, the DM hit us with a rock trap we had no hope of escaping from, and then saying, "I guess you didn't run".

This Troper has nicknamed his first truly successful DwarfFortress Mountainhome "The Place Where Rocks Fall and Everyone Dies" after installing over 10,000 stone-fall traps.

A friend told me of an adventure where the GM placed the party into a gorge, and had a 25 foot flash flood come down the valley. In what could also be a CrowningMomentofAwesome, the Mage, with an exponential fireball, rolled three 20s, and evaporated the entire flood in one move. The party had to carry him for three turns afterwards though.

This Troper was in a SWSE campaign, where the three [=PCs=] (Jedi, Slowly defecting Jedi, and Droid) were all against each other, so the ending of the campaign ultimately came down to which of the three won in combat. The droid's plan? Set the ship that we crashed in (long story) to explode the entire planet, effectively combining this trope with StuffBlowingUp.

One of Tropers/{{Magnezone}}'s friends once joined a text roleplay of hers, where the group was traveling through a volcanic cave (it's Pokemon, they can do that). A few minutes after this friend joined, she needed to go; and when that happened, she proceeded to kill her character with a spontaneous bout of lava and rocks that miraculously missed everyone else. The general response: "Oh, okay, he [the character] was creepy anyhow."

In a D&D campaign, I was playing a CN orc barbarian, who had been mostly in it for the fighting. When the GM had decided to put an end to the campaign, we encountered a Lord of Hell (forgot the name), who demanded us to choose between submission and death. Servitude of any kind had always been my character´s worst nightmare, so after standing silently at the back, while the others negotiated how we should help him conquer the world, he came to a decision. I fired off all of my magic item (extra action, enlarge, strength boost) and performed a Leap Attack Power Attack Charge with almost full Power Attack. I missed. Needless to say my poor orc did not survive the round. So with half the group dead, and the other half Face Heel Turned the campaign ended, with a short description of the reign of terror they wrecked upon the world. New campaign.

This troper once joked with a friend that, if I ran a campaign, anyone who tried to question me too much would be hit by a thunderbolt from the heavens, resulting in instant death (or, if they spend a fate point, they just fall unconcious. Alternatively, a thunderbolt would just miss them to let them know that they need to shut up). His friend was not amused by the idea, although he saw the funny side. He also took it too far in a plan for a set of three combined campaigns: in the first, the survivors get trapped inside a cave when rocks fall and block the entrance (they can be rescued and join your party, but will be treated as NPC's, to prevent confusion). In the second, the survivors are left fighting for their lives inside a cave full of goblins (anyone spot the LOTR reference?). In the last (and main) one, the survivors are mentally scarred by what they see and retire from adventuring (included an awesome idea with the potential for a total party kill: get a pack of cards and draw the same number of cards as you have fate points and an extra one. If you draw a spade, you lose a fate point (the ace of spades is instant death, for fortune telling reasons). If you draw a heart, you gain a fate point (the ace of hearts saves you from the ace of spades, but you lose all your fate points because of this). If you draw a club, you lose 100XP. If you draw a diamond, you gain 100XP. Feel free to use the idea if you wish (the idea was designed for 2nd ed. Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, so remember to change it to suit your game system)).

The first D&D campaign this troper played in ended with the DM saying "The demon steals all your souls. No, you don't get to make a saving roll."

This Troper's DM threatens to sic a Tarrasque upon the party when players try to metagame.

This Troper always heard the phrase as "O.B.B" standing for "Orbital Bovine Bombardment" or basically a cow falling in your head killing you. This troper has also used OBB several times in games, mostly in Shadowrun and D&D. Once, after an OBB killed a particularly annoying player who spent the entire session trying to backstab and steal from the other [=PCs=] and who threatened to kill the bandit leader who they were tasked to bring back alive, the surviving players walked back to town to see a mage launching cows via a magically powered trebuchet.

The GM of Fate Moon White jokingly threatens players with Rocks Fall Everyone Dies ending every single time we start an endless discussion in one of his Role Plays.

This troper actually had an original character invoke this trope ''by name'' without ever having heard of it in her life. Said character was attempting to tell his young son a bedtime story, and, becoming frustrated with his utter lack of creativity and his son's insistence, ended the story as such: "ROCK FALLS! EVERYONE DIES!" This led to the phrase becoming a thing in this troper's group of friends and much woahing when this troper discovered it was already a thing in general.

This troper has jokingly announced "Rocks fall, everyone dies" whenever his players started coming up with stupid ideas, but has no problems killing off problem characters or removing players.