Most impressive/memorable PC Death. . .

[WarhookDM]

After reading the "Favorite Character" thread, I remembered the death of my last 2nd Ed. PC., and it made me curious.

What is the most memorable/impressive/funny death experienced by one of your PC's?

For example, my last 2nd Ed. character was an elven Cleric, who had become enamored with the "Firetrap" spell. He was in Faerun, and started manufacturing grenades, and other firetrapped weapons. He carried 6 grenades most of the time (2 of which were enhanced with oil), and a metal bolo with firetraps on 2 of the three heads.

He died after he fumbled a firetrapped arrow - it caused one of the grenades to go off, which then caused all the other firetrapped gear to detonate. He was only 4th level, but the exploding gear did 125 points of damage to him :D . Incredibly, one of his magic items survived all the saving throws (a ring), so the DM ruled that it was still around a piece of my finger. Unfortunately, we shifted to a different campaign shortly after that, then converted to 3rd Ed., so he never did get resurrected. :extra6:

[Lich]

unfortunately,none of my character's ever made it (not that they died,just that I got bored & wasted them myself).however,in a sort-of-novel I wrote,a supporting character (a vampire wizard) was beaten into submission by lich-worshipping cultist,and crucified.though still (technically) alive,it was dawn,and we all know what happen's to vampire's in daylight *cackles maniacally*

[WarhookDM]

Oh, come ON gents and ladies! Surely we have some good tales regarding the deaths of our PC's! After all, PC's do die with fair regularity in nearly every game I've played in or DM'd. There is no dishonor in admitting to an entertaining/heroic/impressive permanent retirement. :)

Or is this board only frequented by a bunch of munchkin players?
You know the type. . .Heironeous himself couldn't kill 1 of their 5th level PC's, because they are armed with every magic weapon under the sun, and have an AC of 150!

[Mordrid]

Probably the greatest PC death I have experience in the last 5 yrs would be the time my 3rd level centaur fumbled with his battle axe and firmly placed his axe into and out of his upper torso.

[Ray]

I fumbled 5 times with my axe (Droped it all the time) and got killed by a bunch of goblins.... -_-* isnt that emabrising!

[WarhookDM]

Now this is what I'm talking about. More details, please?
Here's another example (from a space-based RPG of my own design):

During an assassination attempt on an NPC being protected by the party, 1 member found himself wounded in an alleyway, directly under a window being used by the assailants. After two other members of the party had been seriously wounded trying to get to him, the Avian (I cannot remember the PC's name) realized he had become the bait in the trap. Due to his injuries, he could neither walk nor fly nor effectively fight back. When a third party member ignored his signal to leave him, the wounded PC pulled out a fusion grenade, pulled the pin, and waited to see what came next. Just before the grenade went off, he flipped the terrorists the bird above the windowsill as his last great act of defiance. (GM Note: The grenade type he used has a blast radius of 15m; he took several enemies with him in the blast. He also blinded 1 of the party members for several hours :) )

[K´ Dash]

Mine was probably my 17th lvl-13 year old Monk.

Ambushed by a group of Drow in drawvin caves, about 200 hundred of them. I Role Played out of death at first, but it backfired, in so they forced my to fight a guantlet, 1 drow at first, if I lived, the me against 2, then 4, then 4, 5, 6, 7, ect.

I survived up to 47 drow warriors against just me, each fight A got healed so...

But the 47 killed meh, but not without a fight...That was the best.

[Ray]

Heres another death but its so redivoulus so i really wont talk about it but ill do it anyway. Me and my freind had two theif's we where in a manison trying o find an map. We found a guarded box so we killed of the guards and my pal opend the chest and took the map. After wards when we went out we had to get past some guards (Here's the redicoulus part). My pal manage through the guards but when i tryed al went wrong, first one gurad sees me and starts alarming my pal runs of i try to run of but when i try to take myself over the wall i fell down and died!.... thats embarising (I where injured from a trap earlier when we went in...)

[Standarr]

I have a character that lived through seven wars in the game he was in. he was all the way up to max level. The rest of the party was up there too. They decided it would be fun to wage war on hell itself and did so without relent. At the bottom of hell, three out of 11 PC's were still alive. Mine, my brother's, and the Gm's character (one of three). We were talking about how we had made it all the way to the bottom without dying.
My bro picked up a magic lamp from a treasure pile and rubbed it in hopes of getting a wish. It sucked his soul in and then exploded both his soul and his body. Two of us left.
The GM's PC was standing by the door with almost no health remaining when he triggered a trap in the room. He was incinerated on the spot.
Only me left now, so I figure I had better get back out to the surface before some ill fate befell me too. Turns out I would have been safer in hell than returning to the surface. Some evil churchmen had raised a rabble army and were waiting for me outside. I killed a couple of them before they turned me into a fine red mist floating about the battlefield. It was kinda funny to me.

[Tyrael]

I was DMing a game not long ago where one of the players had a pretty hilarious death. He walked up to a red dragon and innocently asked: "Can I have one of your teeth?" After that the entire cavern smelled of fryed dwarf :)

[WarhookDM]

So do your players often improve the PC gene pool in this manner? :grin:

[Tenryu]

This Is a story not of a character but of a orcish kindom from palladium fantasy ,My Frend Gerimy Had made a oger Warlock
and we had come to the kingdom of serafil a kindom that was with every race with tolorance(it wasnt my quest but someone elses)anyway there was a orc keep a human keep a elven keep ect..... well Gerimys character went to the orc keep to see if he could get a job on his was a old woman gave him a cloak and said it would protect him (Big mistake) unfortunaly for him it was a cloak of insanity so when he got to see the orc king of the keep
the orc sort of curst at gerimy and gerimy kind of killed the king and became the new ruler of the keep. gerimy had a dream that night from the cloak of insanity it told him to slay the great old dragons 1st born into the easter cliffs so the next morrning gerimy sent the orc army now under his control to kill this red dragons first born and sent for or wenches for all of us my elf mages charisma was 28 so 3 orc wenches had there way with him and the next morrning recived 12 dmg for it and the orc army return out of 2500 only 1100 returned gerimy celabrated with a great feast for the orcs durning this feast the Great red dragon crashed the party and destroyed the orc keep and most of there city after this occured a angle was summoned by the great kerigan(a lvl 15 summoner) the angle came over to gerimy and touched him on the forehead then vanished kerigan was very pissed off at this due to she had been trying to summon this angle for the past hour and had come been there 1 min then left well when all settled down the orcish city was in rune and gerimy had all his past removed so when he walk down the orcish streets and people started trowing rocks at him he didnt know why and that is my story.

[tinuveri]

I was DMing a game a while back and we nearly lost the whole party to a small group of goblins. Everyone kept missing! in the end we only lost two and had some seriuos wounds

[Meis Truimph]

I usually get killed in the most lame ways... I'm always the stupid fool who went the wrong way, hit every trap in the dungeon, and bumps into the dungeon level boss who by then, simply flicks my poisoned and tattered body into a wall of fire where I'm nearly incinerated right when my stupid wizard friend appears and casts an ice spell in a foolish attempt of rescueing me! I end up burned/Poisoned/Battered/and most of all... Impailed by a giant ice shard! BEAT THAT!

[icedrake2002sr]

Well, there are so MANY...

One time, one of my friends got his head cut off by a trap. The barbarian in the party, seeing as how the rogue had just been killed, picks up the dude's head. Next new hallway, the barbarian rolls the head down the hall bowling ball style, setting off the trap that was in the hall.

Later on, the same friend is playing another thief. He has a cloak of Elvenkind that he is basically using like an invisibility cloak. The DM gets sick of it. Now, this dungeon is premade, the monsters are already set up. So, the DM didn't just do this to be mean. The thief opens this door. Now, as to lighting, it is light outside, dark in the room. The thief started out outside. The twelve crossbow/bow/spear men inside saw his silhouette and fired. Dude just became a human pincushion.

Another DM let a boy use his level one vampire's (yes, that's what I said) Pounce ability to jump off a cliff, down to some rocks 100 feet below. Fella thought he could get away with it. Nope. Vampy go splat, Bye-Bye.

Now, as for the most embarrassing death for one of MY PC's, it is farely simple.

The story is, basically like the one for the Sunless Citadel. We are going into the goblin stronghold to find this nobleman's kids. Well, they had been captured by this evil druid and a spell cast on them that makes their skin look like bark. Now, outside the citadel, there is a cliff. You must climb down the 100 foot cliff to get to the dungeon. Therefore, it stands to reason that you must also climb back up to get out of it. As we're leaving the dungeon we hear a rumbling coming from up top. In this DM's world, there is a war going on. Turns out the noble we're working for is a strong player on one side. So, the kids are worth alot. I'm a Blickish (a hairy, teleporting Halfling, basically) Druid. I have bad luck. My dice are against me. We get all the way back up the cliff, hauling these two kids with us. When we get to the top, this evil anti-Paladin general whosis is sitting there with a couple of lieutinents. Now, we're all like 2nd or 3rd level, so this dude could take us apart by himself. He wants the kids, since they belong to this noble. The kids still look like shrubs. I get a brilliant plan. I step behind one of the bigger party members and whisper "plague" and cast Barkskin on myself. I lay down on the ground and started to shudder, like I was deathly ill. The general sees me and says, "What is this, then?" The party member I'd whispered to says, "It's some strange plague, sir, we're not quite sure what to make of it."
Now, this general is an evil bleeper. He reaches down, picks me up by an ankle, and holds me out over the side of the cliff. "If this man is really sick," he says, "Then I'll be doing him a favor. If not, then he'll do everything in his power to save himself." The thing about Blickish is, we don't like for people to know about us. So, I could just blink (teleport) away. Huh-uh. I decide to try to fool this dude. So, he lets go. I hit the point of no return. I hit the mark of "OK, dude, time to Reflex role and blink down to the ground so that it looks like you really hit." Yeah, so I botched the role. I hit, bounced, blinked, and hit. I was basically dead. The DM had given each of us one free life, however, and I got to use mine.
Now, this is the situation above. The general has turned ghost white and is climbing onto his horse. The last time the other party members saw him, he was riding into the distance, calling for a cleric. So, since we had no cleric in the party, the fighter tries to "set my limbs" and botches every role. "Lefty loosy, righty tighty" is the phrase he uttered as he tried this. But, hey, the plan worked and the anti paladin didn't wipe the floor with us and take the kids.

[Busylooking]

I have a story about one of my favorite characters. I had a Human Bezerker, who was about 5th or 6th level, and was in a major fight. He kneww the fight was coming and took the time to head into his bezerker rage. When in the fight with about a 100 goblins, with four other characters controlled by friends, he proceeded to reaches his full rage and was wasting some major goblin. All of the sudden we had a critical miss, and what do you know he manages to cut his head off. This character though didn't drop dead instantly, not knowing anything because of his rage he still fought and killed two goblins before finally dropping dead. It was harsh, and probably the most hurtful death of an RPG I could think of.

[Zhaliphyr]

Out of all my characters, Sir Marcus DeVue, Warlord master at lvl 30 with a massive army was my favorite and died the lamest way. i was waging war with the capital of the greatest kingdom in the world, i was winning greatly because my army was filled with all sorts of magical items and magic abusers (sorc and wiz and clr) and even psionics. we were destroying the enemy when a horde of dragons came down on us, now my character had an epic army with all kinds of soldiers, including dragons, undead, and other things. so i sent some of them at the dragons and they slaughtered the dragons, but the biggest dragon that was killed landed his corpse on me as a last act of defiance. after that little bit, my army won the battle and slaughtered the innocents in a rage of losing me, i thought it was a fitting end to the great warlord and CONQUERER OF THE WORLD that he led the battle and died on the field in glory.

[WarhookDM]

Very cool posts. The last (permanent) death in my group was a Rogue/Soulknife/Psy Warrior named Bretei. He looked over a wall while the party was dealing with some Brass and Iron golems
(the mage had separated the combatents with some well placed walls of ice) and suddenly found himself in a Brass Golem's Maze spell, with the Golem in hot pursuit. It took him a few rounds to begin attempting to escape the maze, rather than avoid the Golem. Since the golem had DR +3/30 or 40, and he only had a +1 Rapier, when the Golem got close, it was over pretty quick.

[pixsye]

Hiya...My most memorable death was a 16th lvl Psion: Shaper who was 50/3 every base race in the PHB. She was 1.37 (m) and 111 (k) with a fu manchu that was 4.88 (m) long which she used as a double weapon (whip) for two attacks/turn until a wizard from another plane made his fingers glow and convinced her that he could just cut the hair off to save her from the Plane of Fire; he actually just ripped it out (which sucked because of the Dwarf in her - the hair follicle is coiled under the skin).

So, the entire party (before she actually joined their group) had acquired one "Ring of the Djinn" that they each shared once per day - by force. So they gave her the ring when she joined in hopes that she could either get rid of it or stop them from having to use it. Well, she had no clue what it was, so never activated it (thus they were still required to make a minor wish, but had to word everything perfectly so it couldn't backfire and become something terrible) and just wore it around because it was pretty.

Well, one day, the entire group was teleported to an underwater city that was built inside a giant glass dome (or a collection of domes, sorry). Well, being somewhat Orc, she wasn't very fond of water - being somewhat Human, she was rather cautious of glass breaking under too much pressure - so did not want to be there...Then she did it; she activated the ring by saying, "I wish I were not in this bubble" and got her wish.

I hadn't selected any powers that would save her from drowning, but needless to say, after being nearly attacked by a pack of sharks while she was quite a few km under water, she drowned. Then WotC decided to come out with some Egoist powers that are perfect for surviving (breathing) under water...Poor, poor Sitha - if only I made her like, eight months later. lol It was fun though - I enjoyed playing her.

Her body ended up floating over towards the domes (where there was an exit/entrance) and one of the local merchants recognized her as being with the "band of hoodlums from the surface" and picked her body up and layed it on the ground next to the court (4 km away) where the entire group (because of a Barbarian with 5 intelligence and 3 charisma and a Tinker Gnome) was on trial for blowing up one of the smaller domes and flooding five others.

So they were all going to be killed, but the Tinker Gnome was working on a project while they were all on trial and it blew up the court (and the adjacent Mage's Guild). Inside the Mage's Guild was a 23rd lvl Wizard who (in a previous campaign) trapped the soul of my favorite character (a 12th lvl Psion: Savant who was a Pixie - my first character ever) in a soul stone. It was his most guarded possession, but when he went flying, so did the soul stone. It landed on the ground next to Sitha's body (which was totally avoided by the passing adventurers) and broke. So Pixsye (my Pixie) was able to enter the body and start anew. That was a glorious day for me - she'd been trapped there for nearly a year (actual time - not game time)!

Okay, that's it. ^_^
Pixsye :angel:

[Isometrica]

The last 2nd Ed. character I ran was a typical fighter jock named Drakken. My character ended up getting in a relationship with an NPC and was off to find her or something. It was quite awhile ago, so I don't remeber what happened. Anyway, Drakken ended up getting eaten by a beholder in the woods, but not before he did some considerable damage.

There was also this gnome theif I was running. We were in the basement of this monastary looking for the vampire who stole some sacred item. I think it was an urn. Anyway, being a theif, I actively checked for traps. Except this one. After a few battles with some ghouls and skeletons, my thief was down quite a few Hp's. I was down to 2. I was opening this chest when a trapped door opened up beneath me, and I fell to the floor below. Had I not failed my dexterity check, I would have tucked and rolled to safety, however, he now rests at the bottom of some hole.

[Nex]

Once, playing a modified version of the Sunless Citadel, disaister struck. As the party was climbing down the rope at the beginning, we all fell, got extreme subdual damage, then as soon as we would stabalize, the next person fell on us, and the process repeated itself. Our cleric finally healed all of us after he healed, and then it got worse...

We were doing down some DC 10 stairs... and we all made terrible rolls... everyone got extreme subdual damage again. about 2 weeks in game after we got into the campaign, we were all ready to go. Oh, look at that, our clereic left some stuff at the top of the stairs. He went to go get it, and coming down, he failed his balance roll on the DC 10 stairs... and he fell... 10 flights down... and took like, 210 points of damage. on a level 1 character. with 9 hit points. And he exploded when he hit the bottom.

[WarhookDM]

So Nex, I'm assuming this PC's name was Gerald Ford? Or maybe Chevy Chase?
:D

[Nex]

oh... Um... heh heh... <nervous laughter> oh... uh... I don't get it...

[Gamior]

I only really had one character for 2nd Ed and he died twice but he was so loved by the part they resurrected him both times. Well actually there resurrected him because he was really good at identifying things because he was a lvl11 Bard. Any way the first time he died was when he opened a trapped box and was poisoned. The cleric of our party was going to cure the poison but it took him a round to get to me, then the DM rolled two ones on the d4 for the check to see if the poisoned killed me that round so I died then.

The second death was in a dungeon, I decided to do something that my character didn't usually do which was be brave. I charged through a door to meet an old man and a young woman both naked doing erm....you know what. The man pulled out his wand (not that one you rude minded people) and started to fire fireballs at me and for some reason I couldn't hurt him and after three fireballs I was down. Then the party learnt it was an illusion so I got to make a system shock test and made it so I didn't really die I just sort of died lol.

[pixsye]

If he didn't pull out his magic wand, then which one did he pull ou...

*stops speaking before she realizes how disgusting that is.* GASP! That's not pleasant.

pixsye :angel:

[Gamior]

Lol I meant he pulled out his magic wand just some people might get the wrong impression if I just said wand and left it at that so for the rude minded people I said not that wand. so for the last time he pulled out his magic wand!

[Emerot]

A friend of mine had just gone into a royal castle like one minute after the game started and *ahem* relieved himself on the throne. He was throne into the prison. When his party members released him, he ran to the throne again and peed all over it. The party was then executed less than ten minutes into the game

[Boccob_001]

I remember one time, I don't think this was in one of my campaigns, but there was a character riding a horse with a carriage, leaving a castle that was about to explode. He had to cross a bridge to survive the explosion. Well, he was about half way there when the castle exploded like a friggin nuke and killed him just as he reached the bridge. So whether he reached the other side or not, he still would have died. The castle seemed like it was rigged with like blue C4 combined with a few tons of atomic bombs from what I remember of how big the explosion was.

[Azin]

A paladin in full armor falls overboard. He tries to surf on his tower shield, but the DM won't allow it. So I... I mean 'the paladin' sinks to the ocean floor and is eaten by sea zombies.

A half ogre barbarian steps on a shocker lizard. The other thirty-nine shocker lizards don't like this.

(non-DND) a ratman on a speedster hovercycle slams into a redwood at 200+ mph and is practically liquified inside of his body armor.

I could go on all day with this stuff :)

[WarhookDM]

I like it Azin. Outside of D&D, I had a random encounter once do what I had PLANNED to partially do to a troublesome player later in the adventure.
The player in question was running two PC's in a space-based RPG (my own), set in the Star Wars universe. The 2 PC's were piloting the party's main ship. I had PLANNED to have them suffer a bridge hit during an encounter with an Imperial cruiser; this hit was going to kill 1 of the PC's, and give the other severe amnesia (from which I would EVENTUALLY allow recovery. . . :D).
Then (completely on RANDOM ROLLS, before the planned encounter), the following events occured:
1. They came across an Imperial Star Destroyer, and were ordered to heave to for inspection of cargo. They RAN.
2. As they engaged the stardrive, the main battery of the destroyer scored a critical hit. Hit location roll determined that the critical hit was to the bridge. Damage to the area was severe enough that the bridge essentially disappeared. (It also caused them to come out of hyperspace the next day well off course. . .)
3. Upon determining this, and before informing the party what had just occured, I requested that each player write down EXACTLY where their PC's were at that point in time.
4. When the player in question told me that they were BOTH on the bridge, strapped in, etc., I simply handed him 4d6, and told him to start rolling. (This started the "dice of death" notification method within that group upon the death of a PC. :D )
Mind you this was ALL entirely on random rolls.

[Xultanis]

Well, let's see. In one RPG my friend made, me and another guy were examining a statue when were teleported into a room. Our other two friends were, there, with three very unfriendly druids, and a fourth on the groun. I take action, stab my dagger into the one on the ground, killing her, run between the other three, and use 70 of 100 spirit points (you could do all kinds of cool stuff with SP, but if you went below 100, you became a vampire temporarily, for every ten you went below a hundred, you became something less substantil, like 10- was a shade, and at 0 DEATH. I was at 30 making me a skeleton). Anyways, I used 70 SP and just ripped out, made an explosion, and killed two druids, knocked on unconscious. My skeletized corpse slams into a wall. Kris uses a pear to bring me back to life, then the grand druid walks in. She uses some kind of spell that sent a huge blast through the corridor. I shove Kao out of the way, and eat the blast. Bam, dead again, and in pieces. They throw me into a sack, and run. Going through a large room, they use another pearl on me. We run. Up ahead is the entrance to a treasure room, so I roll in their in case of wall and ceiling traps, and slam into some sort of energy barrier. Escape from first dungeon: 3 deaths.

Later on, I get Magic Bomb. A 100 foot monster is terrorizing a town, and we're just a couple of ankle biters right? I put like 300 MP (Magic Points) and 100 SP (you gain 10% of your max each level, so at level 2 you have 110, level 3, 121), run up, and slam the bomb into the ground at the monsters feet. Everyone else was outside of town by then. They were sunned, paralyzed, deaf, and blind for nearly an hour GT, and a huge smoking crater stood where the town was.

Later on in the same game, I was fighting some kind of half-animal dude, inside of a temple that we couldn't even scratch. I was like level 60-70. Anyways, the temple flies into space, I'm fighting this thing in the control room, and a huge beam catches me in the face, and blows a hole in the side of the INDESTRUCTABLE temple. Yes, the DM said it was indestructable. I bit the blast that blew a hole in it. I wasn't really dead, it was so powerful that I just became a spirit. On my way back to earth I try to possess a demon (unknown to me it's actually Kris), and fail. Anyways, back on Zythus (his planet, it's about 1000 times the size of Jupiter, has technology and magic) and create myself a new body, my Ultimate Form. So I'm the first guy in the group to get his. At the end of the game I became the 13th god of magic, and I even had my own made-from-scratch universe. I was killed because Kao went insane (his wife and kids were F'd up, from day one to the end) while I was inside his mind. Instance perma-death.

Also in that game (I forgot to tell you, it was called Heroes Horizon III) Kao had three auto-revives, so when you die, you come back automatically, and the revive breaks. He got crushed between two spiked ice walls. Dead, auto-revive, dead, auto-revive, dead, auto-revive, dead. In the next game he turned the difficulty up to insane, and was boiled by steam that shot from a volcanoe he was making a base at while being overrun by trolls, then getting covered in lava, and having it harden on top of him. Ouch.

The same friend who DM'd those games, his dad was also a DnD DM. One character had an enchanted clay jug of exploding super bounce balls that explode after going X feet. He throws one at this dude who runs up, catches it at the halfway point, and throws it back. The guy with the jug is blown off a cliff, where the other 100+ balls explode. I think they once calculated the damage from one of the balls, when it blew up in a 30 square foot room, to be 850 damage per square foot (closed off room, walls held up the blast) from all factors.

Also in HHIII, we fought this one guy that we had no hopes of killing on our own. However, anyone that touched the Time Orb was instantly killed. So I had to use my magic to hold the Orb (like telekenesis, but very short range), and throw it at him. He caught it with magic as well, and threw it back. I caught, then threw it back to him. He COPIED it, and threw 3 Orbs at me. I was on a roll, my rolls were going good, I threw them back, then got shredded by a barrage of 15!!! Game over, retry! I ended up killing him by catching the three, teleporting above him, throwing one, teleporting beside him, throwing #2, then behind him and #3. Then we fight his next form...ouch. It took us nearly 10 tries to win that boss fight.

In the next game, Gherian War, I threw a dagger at some kinda monkey thing. I see a blur, then no more dagger. The monkey was that darn fast. It hit me between the shoulder blades, with the hilt of the dagger, for 30 damage!!! My max HP was like around 20!

In Magic Sands, the third game, I was a parasite, in a host, in Dreamland. Standing on top of a rainbow getting some kick @$$ magic items, when I roll for my luck for that day. 4 on a d20. Bam, storm clouds roll in, the sword I just picked up is cursed and I can't drop it, and some birds start attacking me. I jump off the rainbow, land in the water, unconscious. I wake up, next day, roll a 1 for luck. Dear god, I'm dead. That's what I was thinking. I was in the middle of the ocean, being slowly leeched of life by a cursed sword that I couldn't drop, and it was big, and the water was cold, and the host was starving, and I'm still in Dreamland. So I die. I freeze to death. The host died of drowning.
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Sorry about the spelling mistakes but I was typing in a hurry, it was a lot of typing to do.

[pixsye]

Yeah, so like, in my most recent game (DMing, of course), one of my players stole a sailing ship. Well that's all fine and good, but everywhere she went, she saw notes that were written in an unknown language - even the bill of sale. So she stops in the nearest town to see if anyone can translate it while the rest of her teammates go out into town hunting for supplies (which they conveniently forgot to purchase so the only magic user was creating a lot of food and water). That was a good idea - they weren't doing so hot - lots of fighting amongst the group.

So she finally finds someone who may know what language it is, but isn't sure - he suggests that it could be a rare language called DROW but not to assume that he's correct. So she sets out to find someone who speaks DROW and ends up finding him. So the guy says "My gift to you" is what's written all over this stuff. She's cool with that and being the weirdo she is, decides to tell everyone in the world that her name is "My gift to you".

So that's fine and dandy until they go out to sea after spending a little time in the port and realize their ship has been taking on water. "My gift to you" decided to go underwater (after dropping the anchor) and see what was up. When she went down there, she noticed they probably hit something and were currently missing a small plank. Her idea (to fix it) was to grab her backpack and stick it in the hole then lay her two immovable rods on the fabric. So the ship keeps going and the bottom is completely torn off and she looks up at me and says, "I figured the immovable rods would move with the ship." So they all died, at sea, in the middle of the night while most of them were sleeping. "My gift to you" was lacing the entire food supply (because she had her own stashed away) with a drug from the Book Vile Darkness.

Okay, that's it.

pixsye :angel:

[WarhookDM]

:rotflmao:

Gee, I guess they won't do THAT again! :D

I do have one observation, though. . .unless the ship weighed more than 16,000 lbs, or a gale force wind came up, it would have just stopped moving. And it might have taken the party awhile to realize that it wasn't moving.

[Dark Matter]

I think the Best one i experinced was with my Barbarian Militia Character, there was Lucas Knight(Me) D'than,Silaqui, and like 4 others well we went to this Village away from Bronze HillOutPost where we were stationed at the time. So anyway we went to this Village and when we got there we say the Defense Walls were almost in shambles from Previous Orc and Goblin and HobGoblin Attacks. So we began to Repair the Gates. well 2 nights of Fending of Goblin and HobGob Attacks it was Lucas's Night Off((Meaning i didn't have to show up if i didn't want too for the last addy)) BUT Strife ShadowKite never showed up((A High Class PC S'ppose to play)) So Lucas went to take the WesternWall with D'Than...WEll suddenly Goblins and HobGoblins attacked on all Walls Western Southern and Eastern the Others were doing alright...But in the middle of the Assault D'Than's Player had to Leave, Making Lucas take on them by himself with a NPC D'Than...well Lucas had already gotten 2 Javelins to him and was forced out of the Lookout post back into the Village, D'Than and Lucas took up Fighting Positions Infront of the Western Gate ready to attack those who were forcing their way in. WELL Back up was only a Round Away when the Busted into the Village Lucas Raged attacked just as the Back Up arrived and One of the HobGobs with a Great Axe Nailed Lucas for 9HP Downing him...D'than backed off so the others could get in..D'than Dragged Lucas back when the coast was clear but at that time Lucas was at -7 almost dead, well D'than Finally Stabilized Lucas at -9 BUT...Heres the Sad Part...Lucas's Rage Wore off and knocked him down too -11...it was such a sad day.

((This is all Played Via Online Chat))

I was truely crushed that day.

[WarhookDM]

Ooooffff! Sounds kind of like when my Paladin failed his spellcraft check and charged a mage. He had about 16 hp left, was 14th level, and had Endurance up for an extra 4 points of Con (3rd Ed.). Unfortunately, the evil drow wizard had a Globe of Invulnerability up at the time. When Sir Robert hit that 10 feet away from the wizard, he lost 28 hit points when the Endurance effect went bye-bye.

[pixsye]

3rd ed.? How did your Paladin cast Endurance? That's a Clr 2 or Sor/Wiz 2 spell. Oh well - either way, sounds like it sucked.

Also, good observation, but you're not thinking of what happened correctly. If the ship weighed 16,000 pounds, it would be able to move the rods. There wasn't much stopping the ship from moving (seeing as how the rods were simply placed on the inside of the ship where the hole was). When the ship traveled far enough for the rods to reach the back of it, the boat kept going and the rods (staying in place) tore through the wood, thus, removing the right, rear side of the ship and causing it to sink. One of the players (a munchking wannabe - won't let him - who used to DM) thought it was a really creative way of doing that and he just laughed. I thought I did well - I guess not.

pixsye :angel:

[WarhookDM]

My Paladin drank a potion of Endurance.

Regarding the rods - I didn't say you didn't do well; I just would have handled it differently. The end result would have been the same either way. I will simply assume that whatever they placed over the hole was thicker than the ribs holding the hull together, or the ship would have stopped dead immediately, then maybe torn out the keel, if the vessel in question weighed more than eight tons.

Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm sure it did, since the smallest of Columbus' ships weighed about 50 tons, and was only a 60' long 3-master ship. For that matter, a typical single mast sloop weighed about 20 tons fully loaded. Note: Sometimes being an amateur historian causes you to absorb some REALLY esoteric and useless (for most purposes) information. Also, I have an advantage in this situation from my Naval service; I have a decent idea what the interior of a wooden hull actually looks like, and how they were built.:extra1:

[WarhookDM]

Again, my apologies for not keeping current on my posts, but college started up 2 months ago. . .I've been busy studying. I must admit I'm surprised nobody else has posted on this thread in all that time.

I must wonder if death is now unheard of in RP campaigns? Personally, as a DM, if I don't kill someone every couple game sessions, I start to think seriously about upping the CR's of the monsters. Granted, at our current level in my campaign, PC death is little more than a short break for a PC, but they DO still die with fair regularity. In fact, the current group don't consider a PC to be a full member until they have been resurrected at least once (excepting the monk; he's the only original member who has never died). Certain members claim to have their own private entrances to Elysium/Valhalla/whatever, they've been killed so often. It is a running joke within the group. It also serves to drain some of their excess cash - true res spells are expensive.

So, come on gang - lets get some tales going here. If we can't laugh about how our PC's have been killed, we are taking the game WAY too seriously.

[moo_poo323]

My most impressive death was for my rogue. I stepped in some water, and poof. I died. And heres the trick. It's acid, and a sorceress put an illusion on it to seem like water. Once someone steps in, the sorceress casts a fireball into the acid. The acid blows up, and you with it. It was kinda funny.

[moo_poo323]

Another is when some people were carrying my fighter, and a friend tried to save me by killing the guards holding me over spikes, but when he killed them, I fell. I laughed for hours.

[WarhookDM]

Very cool.

[Faenor]

I played as a guest in a party once. The character I played was a 3rd lvl elven fighter with a strength 18, wielding a greatsword. Other partymembers: A paladin, a crusader, an elven archer, a wizard and two halfling rogues.

We where exploring a dungeon when we stumbled into a couple of trolls and some orcs. We forget to run away and started to fight. The three fighters stood side by side in the corridor, the archer was arching(rogues aswel), the wizard was casting. Round one started of fine, we delivered some blows, took some hits but generally we where OK. Round two the crusader (standing in the middle) decided (without informing the others) it was better to retreat after all...

This effectively ended the entire parties hope for long lives, within the next two rounds.

I later heard that the player playing the crusader had quite a record of losing his characters.

[Fourka]

Ok so I am new here and that's because my character died 2 days ago and I still feel the death inside me... The character I was playing till 2 days ago is called Fourka and she is a human diviner. I created her 2 years ago from level 0 and I got her at level 5 (with 2nd edition rules).

So, I was attending lectures at the Academy of Wizardry at Keoland and was working in a small book shop just for having money to live. When a Flann came in carrying a strange skull (it was like a human's skull but it had strange bones...). I then found a book in the shop which was ordered by someone and was REALLY expensive and had this skull in it. I read it and learned that the skull belongs to a great Necromancer and Great Bone heart called Kaihet who was serving Iuz and that he was killed by an asshole who wanted to have this skull to use it for his own power. All of this turned me into wanting this skull for me but as people met me they knew something was not good by having this skull. As the story goes by, we met priests of Nerull (actually one of them in their forest) and told us that Kaihet was a very good friend of them so I had to return the skull in his tomb. What follows is a dangerous adventure...We had to kill Savoth (the one who killed Kaihet). We went at Kaihet's palace to kill him and we did that after many upside/downs...(we were ready to be killed so many times), and I got Kaihet's ring OF MIND SHIELDING!!!! hehehehe (which I took care of so much! It saved me from a lot of circumstances, but it caused me many troubles as well. And Kiahet was trying to "speak" with me through it and through my dreams..), So, we went to his tomb (another dangerous part, I am not gonna explain what happend during the journeys etc), and after many tries and damages caused to us we managed to put the skull in his body which was in a big glass ball of blood in a pyramid...Anyway, this part of the adventure ended and we had a big break at Greayhawk, doing research and working for money (and having another adventure that had nothing to do with Kaihet, it was a project of a member of my party a mentalist called Van Trellen), and after surviving form this adventure as well the priests of Nerull found as and told us that our next BIG step is to bring Kaihet back to life!!! So, we should bring them some stuff: 5 litres of Holy water, a death mask that belonged to a dead Sultan buried in Zeif, and a priest of good deity. After almost killing ourselves we managed to bring all these.. In the meanwhile, the mentalist was doing jobs with the priests of Iuz, but only to raise his experience. They as well wanted to have Kaihet in life and priests of Iuz and Nerull had discussed what they needed for this to happen. BUT, the priests of Iuz wanted to have Kaihet back on track for serving Iuz...Anyway, after getting to Theocracy of Pale (to the forest) for this case, we had to kill everything in the forest to make sure that everything will work fine which took us some days (ah, I forgot to say that we had to retrieve Kaihet's body from the tomb which we did and brought back by almost again killing ourselves). We were then split to clear the forest. After a small battle with some dwarves in the forest, I was hit by a dwarv and had my hit points to -6. When I woke up I was at a house binded and some guys were asking me what the hell we want to the forest with over 100 orchs and priests and that I am one of them (Iuz), but I am not, I just wanted to ressurect Kaihet. I should NOT tell ANYBODY about Kaihet so they tortured me to death (almost) while a woman got inside and told them that I was caught by mistake (Bigby told them to set me free, he knew me from Grwyhawk). I did not have any hair after the torture, I had my neck cut and I woke up the next day at 1 hit point and set free (my charisma had fallen to 6). I ran with a horse back to the forest where they were starting setting up the place with candles etc. The mentalist (Van Trellen)told me that Marryneck (the priest of Iuz that was responsible for the ritual together with the responsible one from the priests of Nerull), wanted to change the way that this would gonna happen (in other words he became a betrayer to priests of Nerull) so he charmed Van Trellen and made him go to the nearest village to persuade the priest of the village that the villagers are in danger from priests of Nerull that had come to the forest and they should all get in by afternoon in the church to be protected. The priest of Iuz, Marryneck, then would send the two women/tanari (who were there with us, everybody there was useful for the ritual), to transform all villagers to tanari so that they would then come and attack to priests of Nerull and so that the priests of Iuz could go away with Kaihet. I had to stop them (but Marryneck wouldn't let us from his eyesight), so I told him I would get there to have some healing so, I went and I told them not to get in the church but they all thought I was a bad witch cause of my bad charisma so they all got inside. The time the door was closing the woman/tanari looked at me and gave me an evil smile while I remembered I had a rode that could do only on fireball and I used it. So, I killed 150 villagers. When I was going back to the forest, I met Bigby (who had made me official member of Wizard's Guild in Greyhawk), and he told me that he was very worried about me and that I should think first before doing anything silly. I could not tell him what was to happen but he understood and he left. I went then back to the forest and everything started. They had 30 women and there husbands as well as there children so that they would give a poison to the children and kill them and so that the mothers would start crying (The ritual was called The mourning Song, because of the mothers' crying). But Marr6neck didn't do it properly and he gave the fathers a potion that turned them to phychotic human beings who started choking their babies. (Iuz is chaotic evil). They also needed the ring of mind shielding which I had for so long.....(damn...) I gave it and I started having panick attacks after so long under its control. At an instant Kaihet woke up (he was very weak), and Marryneck was very glad but Kaihet told him that he did not want to return to Dorakaa to serve Iuz again. A tear fell from Marryneck's eye and he screamed and told him how could he do this to him after doing everything for Kaihet...Kaihet gave me a look and he said that with my help (the ring), he saw things he could never see in his past life. At this time, Marryneck started shouting and crying and he then called me a slut by pointing at me.......Oh, well.....he casted finger of death at me....I rolled saving throw versus spell and it was succesfull therefore I got 12 hit point damage......But I was at 1 hip point.....So, I FELL DOWN DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After that, a small battle started while Kaihet left and my body was split in parts (caused form a fireball). So the mentalist (Van Trellen) found my leg and took it with him for a possible ressurection. After one weak, he arrived back to a village were he met Bigby and told him that I was dead and that he had my leg in case.......Bigby said that he knew that was going to happen and so he had cloned me!!!!! Yay!! At least the Iuz emperor is now distroyed cause Van Trellen told the truth about them in priests of Nerull after getting uncharmed due to my death.

We stopped there cause it was 6 o'clock in the morning....I REALLY am sad about it. Cause I really loved my character...It's bad to think that you are a copy of the original hero and that the original Fourka who was waiting for so long and having been in such torments did not have the chance to get happy about Kaihet.....anyway....I will see how it gets the next time with role playing my "new" Fourka who is exactly the same as the original with the same memories and experiences but know that she is just a clone, and I surely need to find Kaihet!!!

*goes back to start crying for poor Fourka*

Hope you liked it...

Anybody can suggest me how I can ressurect the original Fourka? I mean I know I have to find a good priests to ressurect me but he probably wouldn't after all my work with Kaihet (great boneheart of Iuz) and by loosing 4 years of his life. The spell "wish" is forbidden as well... The same stands for reincarnation....Kaihet who ows her a BIG favor cannot do ressurection because he is of Evil alignment (and now porbably Iuz wouldn't give him any spells)....And finally the most difficult case is that me as Myrto wants the original Fourka back....not the new Fourka...It would be really crap is me as new Fourka thought:" Ok, I will die in roder for her to be alive...or I will give her back her stuff and spellbook...". Besides, Bigby spent a fortune to cloned me.....But I am REALLY SAD about the original one....I even listen to music that reminds me of her death...so any suggestions that would actually stand ok?

[WolfDrake4000]

In our last campaign I went epic, and I had met Coralon himself, (I was a bard.) and had basicly become Jesus, folowers and all. But in the prosses, I PO'ed an assasians guild that had killed lesser gods!
At that point I had amased 6 beutifull, loyal wives, and instead of leaving them compleatly powerless, I got the lesser 5 two put a cut on my left arm, and as she cryed "helped" the 7th, and faivord, slide the blade into my heart. This, so they could "level up" and protect the unborn children, (All six where pregnant.).
For this act, corelon made me a lesser god, whos titles became, Sorowfull One, Blesside Father, and Protecter of the weak. My symbol was a flexed, muscular arm, with 5 scars from wrist to shoulder, and cradled in the crooke of the arm a peirecd
heart. I was a verry loved deitie by all elves and many humans, and hated by the elve hating races.

[WarhookDM]

Now THAT'S a different ending to a PC . . . {and also why heroes shouldn't have children :) !}

[Nabrin]

one time our dm trapped our party in a steel room filling with water my charecter was rouge proficent with old time pistols i shoot one of my pistols at the steel after rolling a crit the bullet bounced against the wall and it hit my char right in t6he head causing instant death

[moo_poo323]

lol. poor you

[Irahan]

I cant remember many of my many deaths.lol. but now that i have found a charicter style i can properly controle i dont die as often. i just need to find a way to get the dm and players to stick with a campain long enouph for me to have an epic level char.

[Nabrin]

i was dming a goup for a short period before i moved and i had them pinned against tiamat and 7 avatars since over a month had killed 20 black dragons mainly babies(cowards) they fought till there death and when it was over htere bodies where feed to the babies since they where brought back from the dead.........serves them right

[moo_poo323]

i was playing with my friend and his brother, and they wanted to scare the crap out of some NPC, and that really pissed off the DM. So he just said 'Your struck instantly dead'

[moo_poo323]

oh yeah, fourka? you could create a cleric, and have someone else play it, and they ressurect Fourka. But otherwise, ask the DM to ressurect her

[mutt]

i had a level 33 fighter who had his own kingdom and armie ect...
so at some point i was makeing peace with waring monk monitaries
when a level 100 mage comes out and starts casting spells at me it wasnt until later when i learned i had killn his brother in a war when i was level 15 so i launch a campain to kill him i went all out and sent a million men (most of my force) 100 necromancers and all my resorces so we launch the attack and he comes out with hundreds of dragons and blow most of my force to kingdom com and my force kills em graet victory for me ah ha ah ha then the guy cast all his spells on me im down to what 12 hp and he cast a spell and all the bodies living and dead blow up and he fluds the arrea in blood i die and ive got a cleric about to raise him.

[DarkWarrior666]

funny story
when third edition came out i had a seventh level fighter and we was adventuring in a cavern dungeon place, but anyway, it had like a 200 ft cliff in it at the center, and we was there, my fighter, a 6th level wizard, a 7th level cleric, and a 4th level ranger, we was standing near the edge of the cliff, and a blue dragon burst outta the ground behind me, my fighter being a pussy, failed his frightful prsence check miserably, and fell off the cliff, the wizard being the good friend he is, decided to cast feather fall on me, so i was falling, but i wouldn't be hurt, and the dragon, knowcked off the ranger, since then the cleric ran and hid, my fighter landed safely on the ground, and the wizard obviously forgot about the ranger falling, and anyway he landed on the fighter
but, my fighter survived, he had like 7 hp left, and he was on a ledge and then the dragon was looking for the cleric. so i was just wandering sown at the bottim of this hole, and turned out it was a volcano. lava started started puring out of the ground, this was a premeditated thing, but the DM wasn;t expected anyone to be down there. so i started climbing up the cliff. this went on for a few rounds then the blue dragon which had been burrowing, burst out where the fighter was and swallowed him whole. The wizard cast firevall on him and killed the dragon, but since i was in him, we both fell into the rising lava....neat huh

[WarhookDM]

Yup, that's embarassing. Last weekend, the party lost two high level PC's for a time. The 18th level monk (only original party member to have NEVER died) reached into a bag with some jewels in the bottom . . . turned out to be a bag of Devouring. We had to buy a wish to get him back. The 17th level Rogue/Wizard got himself killed by a 13th level Cleric while scouting ahead of the party. The spell sequence was: Rnd 1 - Blasphemy (as if quickened) - (Rogue dazed) - Harm (missed first touch attack). Rnd 2 - touch attack hits (rogue at 4 hit points) - Blasphemy (as if quickened) - (rogue dazed). Rnd 3 - Unholy blight (as if maximized AND quickened) - [rogue DEAD]. Seems the cleric had used some expensive incense which causes all spells to be available as if quickened, AND maximized, with no slot increase needed. Just UGLY.
Glad I wasn't the DM that night. :D

[Valiente]

A friend of mine managed to kill not only himself, but nearly kill two of the other party members.

Our characters were in a creepy haunted house, and we come across this huge room with a big fireplace. I was playing a rogue, so I went up an investigated. There was no flew(sp?) or chimney, but a HUGE scorch mark on the back of the fireplace, and on the mantle were three silver skulls.

Now isn't that suspicious! Says I.

"Don't touch ANYTHING!" is the warning I give.

So what's the pansy (and greedy) elven archer do? Goes and plays with the friggin' skulls! Oi!

Anyways, he ends up twisting one, and unleashing a high level lightning bolt trap that gets three of our four party members, killing himself by ONE hp, and dropping our paly and cleric down to single digits.

It was quite amusing. Finally, an instance of greed that can't be blamed on the rogue!

[WarhookDM]

It has again been awhile since anyone posted a death! How will we ever get a good Hall of Departed Heroes at this rate?!

Also, as an aside, more details are a GOOD thing here. But PLEASE proofread your posts; some of them are kind of hard to follow with all the mis-spellings. I will refrain from bringing in the grammar police, but could we please at least spell-check occasionally?

[Valiente]

*Looks around sheepishly* Didn't think I misspelled too much!

That character in my above story, the rogue, had a rather memorable almost death, heheh. In the same house, the party got trapped in a pit with a crown naga. (Crown Naga's are from the Scarred Lands/Sword and Sorcery books) and are WAY nasty. After doing an insane amount of damage (yay for sneak attack!), my character got bitten not once, but TWICE, and I failed both Fort. Saves. Was brought down to -9 HP...thank goodness the cleric was standing right next to me!

[WarhookDM]

My 17th Level PC just last night went from 179 hp. to -8 hp in 4 rounds against a CR 13 Undead beastie; thank heavens for the rogue/wizard being able to use the wand of cure serious wounds, as the guy who plays the (somewhat stingy on healing) cleric wasn't playing. This same critter killed our 16th level Wizard TWICE! The first time, only two members of the party faced it, as the rest of us were off getting the monk brought back (he was swallowed by a bag of devouring :D ). Then when we got back, we had to get the wizard resurrected, and the following day, we went into the same room, and he got killed AGAIN. (Maintenance note to self: NEVER hire a wizard who apprenticed under Tenser again. The stupid SOB's just don't understand that Tenser was the exception that proved the rule that Wizards should avoid melee combat at nearly all costs.)

[KIIRAR]

i was playin a brownie third Level bard/rouge in second ed with a dm who's sense of humor was whithout bounds , and i was wearing dragon scale armour whith litte wings on it, the only one we could find in my size and we were on a flying ship called the good ship lollypop. I not being able to resist started to sing lollypop followed by the good ship lollypop when the captain(captain crunch) walked up and said annoying pixie get off my ship and grabbed me ,
im not a pixie im a brownie
dont lie you've got wings and he proceded to throw me off starboard and our wizard who knew feather fall was down below getting ressurected so I fell very far over the ocean and landed on a tiny island but the dm was nice enough to say i hit so hard that i was buried six inches in the sand

moral of the story bards should never really sing they should just roll to se how well they did :extra4:

[KIIRAR]

not a pc death but i guess i killed this thread

[Elwing]

I remember the first time I ever played and my dm ran me through a little mini session all by my lonesom. my level one mage got frustrated and I told him that she walked outside and kicked a trashcan. like four dire rats came out and killed me in an embarassingly short time. Did i mention that I only had 2 frickin' hit points?! It was a sad, sad day....

[WarhookDM]

Kiirar - easy there; sometimes this thread goes for a week or more without posts; not too many players are willing to admit that their PC's died unless it was in a suitably heroic way. The guy in my campaign who finally lost his monk (at 18th level) got taken out by a bag of devouring, when nothing else was happening. He's still a bit miffed that I posted it here. . .

[moo_poo323]

lol. My friends wanted this thread printed out. But that took 5 pages for one page, so lets see here...
5x3=15 pages. Whoa. So anyways, a fighter thought he could take on an ancient dragon. I did kinda well. My lvl 5 fighter managed to get about 20hp off. The dragon eventually (as I- i mean, the fighter, was running away) opened his mouth next to a mountain, and the fighter thought he could hide there. So eventually he got tired, and dug his sword into the tounge of the dragon, thinking it was the ground. So they dragon yelped in pain, a lifted his mouth up,to scream of course, and the fighter was swallowed. in there, a cleric tried to teleport him, asking the dm nicely. So then the fighter was teleported out and he was inside out.... nasty..... so I learned not to face dragons with a cleric.

[Valiente]

Did I mention earlier the same elven archer my friend played managed to triple crit himself and shoot himself in the head? (rolled three 1's) -- LOL

My 9th level ranger in the Underdark campaign just bit it. But she went out like a champ, heheh. Took down nearly two aboliths by herself (Yay for bow rangers!). Can't go wrong doing 40 points of damage in a round. =) She'd also died from "finger of death" a few sessions before that, but out cleric pawned off a bunch of stuff and had her rezzed.

I don't really have any comical character deaths, otherwise I'd certainly put them up here. ^_^

My friend (the same one that played the elven archer) played an elven charisma rogue in the same Underdark campaign. His rogue had a six for a con. He was pretty slippery though. He managed to evade literally six or seven fire balls, but then two arrows smeared him.

[WarhookDM]

Comedy is not a prerequisite for posting here; I'm all for suitably heroic death notices as well. . .LOL

[Valiente]

I think my Ranger had the most heroic death so far, of my characters. =)

My 3/1 Cle/Paly aasimar had a completely lame near- death. A bunch of the characters are coming down a hallway that's 10' wide and has super-insane-O-ultimate deepest darkness (so my light spells couldn't do anything to counter it) and an ogre mage hits us with a cone of cold. Now, everyone else in the party had at least one level of rogue (this was still a 3.0 game), so they had evasion. And they all make their saves. Does the cleric? Newp. WHACK. Went from something like 30 HP to -5. Would have been outright dead, but had the 5 cold resistance. Man did that bug me. >.< It was such an unbalanced encounter! Our DM had in the room not only the ogre mage, but FOUR neogi elders. And then had dopplegangers waiting for us outside, after we had to run from that fight. Mind you this was AFTER we had to fight 30-40 orcs to get into the damn cave. Argh. Argh I say.

[moo_poo323]

Lucky you. And so It took you 5 turns to do something, in which case you would be dea. When you are between -1 and -9 hp, you lose 1hp every round.

-10 = dead.

[moo_poo323]

HAH! this is a must read.

Some newbies were walking up a hill, and saw a gazzebo. Now they didn't know what a gazzebo was, so they thought it was a monster....
'I know! I'll shoot it! I take out an arrow and shoot it!'
It sticks out, of the gazzeebo...
'I'll use my trusty fire arrow! It's never failed me before!'
It sticks out of the gazeebo.
So they go up, and are wasting everything they have on the gazeebo, and finally the DM says 'The Enraged Gazzebo Attacks!'

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and heres another must read...

Some more newbies are walking in a dungeon hall. You cuold go either left or right. The DM wants left, but the PCs go right, where the is a giant sleeping spider on the ceiling. They go down, and the DM is rolling 1s for the spider to wake up, and the PCs begin to spark and idea.....

'IT'S A SECRET PASSAGE! TAKE OUT THOSE BRICKS!!!!!!' one says. So they begin to make all these strength checks to see if they can pull a brick out. So they pull a lot of bricks out, and the DM says 'The roof looks unstable. It could fall any minute.'
so this is what they say....

'Good! We're getting closer!' then the DM rolls to see if the roof falls on them. 19. so they all die, except for the one who shouted 'Good! We're getting closer!', he was trapped between the bricks. He was killed by a giant spider poking at his head.

[WizardInBlack]

playing Chaotic Evil Barbarian (LV 1 just started)

well....i decided to barge into a shop and demand the shopkeep to give me what ever i wanted....when he didnt comply with my drunkin demands i proceeded to hit him in the face....i missed :extra3: the shop keep then ran around the front counter and darted just out of the reach on my battle axe.
i chased him out side in a blind drunking fury only to find the true reason he ran out side. The shopkeep ran into the view of a town watch tower and yelled "help hes trying to rob me, and kill me" the gaurds (having already known the shopkeep) began to fire cross bow bolts at me, i was struck 5 times and died where i fell....... :bawl:
later my companions came to look for me and found my body crucified upside down on that very same gaurd tower......(ohh thats gotta hurt, luckey he was only a level one!!) :rotflmao:

[WarhookDM]

My previously mentioned Pal7/Sor4/Spellsword5/EldKnight1 died this past weekend, due to convincing himself that there was a secret door underneath a bronze serpent statue (which was actually a golem).

When he attempted to remove the massive pearl from the statue's mouth (thinking that would cause it to move off of the "door" he thought was under it), it activated. Since both his hands were in its mouth, he took immediate electricity damage. The Bronze Serpent then grappled him, and crushed him in about three rounds. Dead. Joined the choir invisible, even.

The secret door he thought was under the damn thing was about 100' away, out in a hallway. The rest of the party were largely unable to help him, because they were dealing with the 260 CR2 skeletons outside the room that activated when the golem did. The two PC's who did attempt to save him killed the damn thing on round 4 (about 6 hit points too late!).

[Valiente]

Dooooode, that sucks War!

Still though, kinda funny. Sounds like something that would happen to me though, with the statue/golem thing.

[WarhookDM]

Yup, that was the 3rd True Res in as many days the party had to go pay for. :(

One nice thing about high-level PC's. Greyhawk is never more than a "teleport" away, and these PC's generally have the cash on-hand to cover such costs. Also, each skeleton had an Adamantine coin on them, at 1/10 of a pound each. 26 pounds of adamantine will cover a LOT of bills. :)

[Valiente]

OMG...I can't believe I haven't put this one up yet!

My friend (the same friend who played the archer that crit. HIMSELF, and died to a lightning bolt 'cause he was touching things he ought not have been touching!) played a minotaur as his next character in that same campaign, same adventure.

The haunted house our character's were in led to a puzzle dungeon. One of the rooms was like mine sweeper. There were safe panels on the floor and numbers would appear around the panel you were standing on like in the game, but if you stepped on the wrong panel you got bolted. The wall also moved up five feet every round, so you couldn't sit around and think about where to step.

Now my rogue didn't have too much trouble since I had evasion and an INSANE reflex save (which was good because I'm terrible at Mine Sweeper). In the party when we got to this room was the rogue, a paly, an NPC cleric, the minotaur, and an NPC dwarven fighter. The dwarf was only there for story purposes, because he had something to do with the minotaur. Anyways, the rogue, cleric, and paly all make it through the room relatively unscathed. But the minotaur and the dwarf got stuck because one had stepped on a wrong panel and the wall kept moving. So there they are, standing in front of the door with only one safe square to stand on. Both couldn't fit through the door at once, so it was down to who got there first made it through.

Now it get's amusing.

They go on the same initiative, if I recall correctly. So what does the minotaur do? Stiff-arms the dwarf, knocking the dwarf onto an unsafe square which KILLS him. Why is this funny? The dwarf was the one that conviced our characters to go after the minotaur in the first place, because the dwarf had helped to raise the 'cow'.

We all nearly laughed ourselves stupid at that one. Or maybe we did. Hard to tell. ^_~

[Gir]

Easily the most memorible deaths for one of my PC's was when I was DMing, and I decided for a change that we should go to the future. So after finding some reasonble way for them to get there, I decided to have some fun. They started on a hover train platform, and when the train arrived, they got in. The train started moving and they all sat quietly near the front. Then I decided to have 4 HUGE bouncer looking guys to approche them and start a fight. Now, our sorceress, god bless her, didn't like this. I can remember the players words perfectly: "I get out of my seat and get off the train".

Now, either the player was stupider then I imagined or he was talking when I said the train left. Do you know what happens to a character with 12 HP the steps off a train travelling 100Km/h 1Km high? The sudden change in pressure crushed her to within an inch of her life, and the large steel piller that was holding up a travel ring for the train liquified her on contact. It brang back memories of the good old days of Paranoia. We all almost died laughing, except for the scoresses player who got majorly pissed off. Hell, I would have been too, he spent weeks creating her, and there wasn't enough of her left to resserect.

[Clangingshield]

while storytelling a game a vampire one night the players thought of a very interesting idea of how to destroy our nemisis. wire the house with explosives and push the button. well the vamp with the button saw that, after the house was primed, the main "bad guy" kicked out the front door. (they were standing on the lawn) seeing this the player boldly ran to meet the vampiress on the doorstep and upon arrival pushing the button which of course blew the house the nemisis and my player to kingdom come. honestly his best performance ever!

[moo_poo323]

lol. I'm still waiting for more stories People!

[Valiente]

Oi...

I now need suggestions!

My new just turned fifth level cleric got roped into an engagement....

.... .... .... .... to a young GREEN DRAGON.

She doesn't have to marry him for two years. What do I do?! She gave her word to keep the dragon from eating the rest of the party, and the dragon kept his word...so...

Do I just hope in 2 years we're all level 20, or what? LOL

[moo_poo323]

get in good with the DM, and have the DM smite the dragon!






or just suffer

[WarhookDM]

get in good with the DM, and have the DM smite the dragon! or just suffer

My idea for how to deal with this can be found in my "Embarassing/Funny situation" thread, over on the D20 board. Check it out.

[Deadly_Angel]

One of my old char's had a run in with a retarded hill giant. He challenged the giant to a fishing contest, and the giant threw a manatee from the ocean... needless to say the sea cow dropped. Right on top of my character.

[Faenor]

Not a memorable death, but it was realy funny at the time:

Duting the low-level stages of a campaign we encountered a hill giant. The fight I (halfling thief) tried to tumble through the legs of the giant. I fumbled my check horribly (1). I hit the leg of the giant, who decided to practice his golf-swing... Fortunately I did wake up to see that the rest of the party had slain him.

[Twilight]

Hmmmm, well, I had an elven fighter once who was level 10. I don't rmemeber if this was early 3rd or late 2nd ed. One drunken night of gaming (we banned drinking and gaming at the same time the next day) the elf got his hands on an unused ring of nine lives, with all nine charges intact. The DM was irritated at his own drunken stupidness for giving this to me, so he attacked me, by myself, with a venerable green dragon. The dragon literally chewed on me, biting down enough to kill me nine times, before his jaw got tired and he spit me out. Now, technically my character was still alive, and the ring was now useless. The only problem was, the ring had nine Raise Deads in it (instead of True Reserection), so now my elf was a lowly level one character. I played this out like he was senile, and couldn't remember all the "experience" he'd lost. It was actually kinda fun.

[moo_poo323]

drinking and gaming. I would have ran away from the DM if i was actually drunk. I don't drink though. I'm 11. But turning 12 march 12!

[Hariman]

Hmmmm. I can't speak from personal experience, but the funniest death my DM can remember was one of his many Rogues.

This Rogue had managed to get ahold of a rather good sword during a campaign and kept it equipped or with him for about two months. The bad news was was that this sword was cursed with intelligence and began to argue with the rogue. The lovely little sword would also amit a clicking sound, much like a metronome whenever the rogue tried to sneak somewhere. After about two weeks of an arguing, anti- sneaking sword, the insanity rule was invoked. The rogue went to the gates of the local Kings Castle and begged for an audience with the King on the grounds that he had vital information that he had to give directly to the King. So the Kings guards bind the rogue, lest he try something dastardly and take him to see the King.

Upon arriving in the Kings chamber, the King asks the Rogue. "What is this vital information you have for me?" whilst obviously irritated.

To which the Rogue replies, with an evil grin, "I am going to slice your lovely daughter to pieces while you watch!"

The King Immediately says: "Kill Him!!"

Guard draws sword, Rogue is beheaded.

I've been told that you shouldn't mess around when you want to kill off a character.

H

[Hariman]

O.K.
Me Again.
I've got a SET of Deaths that is just priceless.

The battle was just last night.

Me and My DM had a Power Match between 3 20th Level Characters Each, Anything goes, with no Magic Items allowed.

I chose a Half-Dragon Fighter, Level 17, ECL 3.
A Human Druid,
And a 15th level Mind Witch/5th level Master of the Unseen Hand.

My DM Chooses an Evil Human Monk,
And then he makes 2 EVERQUEST Clerics, one human and one Vasheer and gives them them boosted Spell Access, allowing them to use 10th level spells at 20th level instead of level 30. (I let him go on this because I was being nice.)

After the Monk used Dimension Door to avoid an "Earthquake" spell while carrying the Clerics and appearing behind my Druid, we Traded blows until My Druids turn comes up again.

My Druid casts Earthquake again while using "Quick Spell". The Vasheer Cleric misses the Reflex Saves and is crushed in a Fissure. Poor little kitty. The last thing she said was, "AAAAAAAH!!!!!!!"

The Druid then casts "Finger of Death" and aims at the Human Cleric. He Misses his Fortitude Saving throw and collapses. Final word: "URK!"

Now the lone Monk survives for six more turns alone, thanks to 23 points of damage reduction (Spell enhanced +13 plus 10 points from a Monk Skill),
Improved Evasion (Bane of Spellcasting) and 10 Spell Resistance.

The turning point is when my Witch/Unseen Hand pins the Monk on the ground using the Combat form of Telekinesis. With a telekinetic strength of 38, and the Monks strength only a total of 37.

The last words of the Monk were:

"Try a breathmint, you need it!!" As she tossed a pack of breathmints at the Half-Dragon.

And My DM forgot about the Vasheer's "Divine Aura" and the Monk's "Etherealness" Skill. And Both would have been huge helps during the battle. That's the Kicker.


Hariman

[WarhookDM]

Very cool. Good way to avoid the nastiness inherent in amped up clerics.

[Flambeaux]

Here's a death of my first character in Vampire Genocide. He was killed by the character I currently play.


http://forums.rpgchat.com/showpost.php?p=1013373&postcount=66

[NNyMoose777]

The last character I seriously played died by unmaking existence. We were questing to save the planes from eternal war, but by the end of the campaign the only ones left were me and my fighter friend, neither of which know anything about the item that controlled the fate of the universe. It was a cube with runes on it that turned like a rubix cube to from different runes. Well, since I was the rogue and had the higher intellegence, I figured I'd give it a go, and since I didn't know anything about it, I turned it 'till it was all Xs, and placed it back upon its pedastal. The item sank into the pedastal, and the universe ceased to exist.
Then my friend had a character that carried around many magic items. He had a plus four enchanted crossbow, and he decided to try and make it plus five by tinkering with it. He failed, and the crossbow exploded, and the magical discharge set off all his other magical items, and when the entire reaction was done, the entire area within five miles was glass.

[Abyssalmole]

My best death (Well actually it was my players cause I was DM) was a 15 level game consisting of a barbarian ,a wizard, and a rogue (Who was only really fourteen because he died before) And while these character were dungeon delving a very interesting thng occured..."The Roof of the dungeon begins slowly rising .. Of this you take little notice until you realize you cannot see ceiling... you continue traveling until you meet a bend in the corridor you look around it and see the feet (about up to the shin) of giants..." ok so you see the basic setup of the adventure. now the rogue tries to sneak behind them to set off a trap they are within the trouble of. While the wizard distracts them with ventriliquism. When the rogue reaches halfway to the giants. The barbarian laughs :juggle: because the giants are fooled (and this is funny because the character decided he has a HUGE BOOMING Laugh) Which causes the Wizard to miss his concentration the giants notice and begin to travel toward the wizard and Barbarian Completely missing the rogue.. as the two characters run the giant follows (being followed by the rogue) as they are running the rogue assasinates one of the giants causing it to fall on top of the PCs Crushing them to death. Now the (CN) rogue takes all the stuff of his comrads and becomes rich... OH Yeah!!!!

[TheEponymousOne]

Six words... "I have plenty of hit points!"

*Fighter/Ranger Opens Door*
*Sets off trap*
*rolls... a 2*
*takes 119 damage, bringiing him down town 2 hit points*

"I... don't have plenty of hit points."

Now the characters behind him, which unfortunately do not include a cleric (She was off taking the other fork) look through the doorway and see a pack of CR 1/2 weasels and an evil level 14 druid. The weasels win the initiative, charge the door... and kill the fighter. It was a sad day for Sir Conway...

[Abyssalmole]

he got killed by weazles

[moo_poo323]

Hehehhe. I was a nice DM, one fine saturday. I was DMing a bunch of epic level characters, level 20 in all classes except paladin. So they all have true ressurection, those damned players, and I come up with a way to slaughter them. Let's bring them into the future, a bit. An evil sorcceress has found out how to clone, and she has the scale of the Terasque with her... I know the teerasque is one of a kind, but this is cloning, now. So the players hunt her down, bringing down entire cities and countries just for the hell of it as they hunt her. She find them, with her 20 Terasques. There are 4 about.... i think total level of 140 characters.... So they all basically rely on magic mainly.... So They finally meet Annar, the sorcerress, in the planes of unknowns, where magic doesn't work.. hehehe.... they all died completely and miserably from the terasques.

[Abyssalmole]

I got another one. a psion, a barbarian,and a ranger. (well the ranger was away so just a psion/bar) walking down a crystal cave with sharp crystals EVERYWHERE. for reasons that were at that time unknown to me the barbarian was holding a log that barely fit into the cave. any as they march downhill a troup of grimlock halberdiers come marching from below. the psion ( a daring little fellow) has only one hit point. his turn. P{sion uses skate slides down the cave on his back with his arms tripping the grimlocks. through some very great luck he tripped all but one (the leader) but the downfall is the crystals did him one damage (0hp Disabled) and he falls to the ground. before the barbarian notices he rolls the log down the hill crushing all except the leader (poor tyler) 1 down.the barbarian gos toe to toe with the leader when the ranger (who found a back way through) gets tripped by a log (shame he didnt have darkvision) and then he gets speared by an angry myrmark (who came to takre grimlock slaves) 2 down. after a long heroic battle the barbarian slays the grimlock and dismantles his body. then (via psionics) loses control of his mind and becomes "one with the hive"

[Hariman]

I've got some more for you,
My DM got cruel in last weeks game session.

The party, My Necro, My half-Celestial Paladin/Anointed Knight, My Hexblade, Plus the NPCs, A halfling Monk, A Samurai "Swashbuckler" (They used Samurai because it was the closest to swashbuckler at the time) and the Wyrmling Dragon, Sirrus (Like the cloud) are journeying into a green dragons lair that has been taken over by evil.

The first enemies that we encounter are Bodeks.

The HALFLING misses the save against the Bodek's Death Gaze (Even with a +9) and Dies. :extra3:

Not much further down the lair (One battle and some healing later) we round a corner, and about forty feet away, we see Torga, (Paladin 5, Hunter of the Dead, from The Complete Warrior) Stripped of her armor, chained to a wall, with an executioner hefting an ax. There is also the Wizard that becomes a temporary bane to the party, and a dragon slayer (Who Immediately chases the Silver Dragon Wyrmling out of the room)

The executioner makes the save against the Hexblade's Bow of Unconciousness, and in THREE blows, not just one, slices Torga's head off.

(Now I know that Valiente can't like that.)

Now, also happening DURING THE SAME ROUND, the Samurai, who was barely saved from a previous Incident where all of his flesh, but not his bones, were stolen by a Demon by placing his soul into a construct body, has his Flesh reappear on the ground in the middle of the room.
Now the A*****E Wizard that has been plaguing the party, Teleports the Samurai's heart out of his flesh (Still Beating) and explodes it in a spray of blood. The Samurai misses HIS fortitude save (Played out as a "Stop Heart" Spell) and Dies.

As the Battle ends. (One round later, the Wizard Runs and the Executioner had way too few hit points, I use my Paly's "Limited Wish" scroll to bring Torga back, And also find out that the Samurai is Terminally F.U.B.A.R, He's a plaything of the Gods now. I pity Him.

A quick "Which Door" puzzle, and a small summon (I'm calling a level 7 summoning a Psion Killer SMALL, ye Gods They're Munchkins.) later, the party is faced with a Huge Undead Creature, covered in disease and pus, holding a young adult Gold Dragon against a Spiked wall, licking it's lips, known as a. . . uh. . . Heinophant? Heironophant? (Check the Fiend Folio, or Maybe the Book of Vile Darkness, I know it's very big, undead, and covered with disease.) With a huge glowing portal against the far wall.

Now I know your thinking this had to be a huge battle with more death and pain involved.



You'd be Wrong if you did.


One of my characters draws a "Wand of Polymorph" and, thanks to my DM missing the "one willing creature" part of the spell description, the Huge creature is suddenly small-sized, and cured of all diseases. All it's got left is a bunch of hit points. (Meanwhile the hexblades blink dog familiar ran health potions over to the gold dragon)

Now as my party of four prepares to battle the now small ugly (guffaw, cackle), a swarm of bats appears from behind us, summoned by that Bleep of a wizard, the Silver Dragon Bard then flies over the Wizard, leading the Dragon Slayer (120/average fly), with his 300/clumsy fly rating, to slam into and get stuck together with the Wizard. (The silver wyrmling kept escaping the dragonslayer by tricking him into slamming through the doors in the lair, some of which had traps on them. Others of which had epic traps on them.)

The next round, as a story element (Because I ruined the huge battle against the undead ugly,) the silver Dragon flies across the room, skids to a stop in front of the portal, and as the Dragonslayer chases the silver Dragon (Still stuck together with the wizard), the gold dragon picks up the now small ugly and holds it in the way of the Dragonslayer, causing all three to fly through the portal, which, of course, closes behind them.

Not much later in terms of Game time, I find out that the Halfling Monk can be ressurrected. Though it will take a few days. The characters then get given a small, recently decimated, village.

After a short rest in the village, the Three sisters leave to do battle with the Spellcaster who started it all. (By killing two of the sisters).

The villain is Hacastor (?) the Blackcloak (I'm sure of the BlackCloak part), from the Epic Level handbook, nerfed just a little bit, and not using many of his epic spells (Maybe bacause he is insane.).

During the battle, my Necro's 10 skeletons come in handy to figure out which of the 30 illusions the Blackcloak creates. (I find him pretty quickly, I rolled well for that the second time.) Then I have the skeletons go into the River, which the battle taking place next to, to destroy a "Wall of chains". The skeletons do destroy the "Wall of Chains", but get washed away in the next turn. (Reflex save 20, with a +2 on the skeletons.)

The battle then goes my way for a turn or two, then the Blackcloak casts "Epic Mage Armor" (+20 to AC for way too long for my characters to handle.) This would have tilted the battle in the Blackcloak's favor, had it not been for my Everquest Necro's Fourth Level Spell, "Lifedraw" (6d6 magic damage, tranferred to the caster as healing) and the Quick Spell Feat, allowing my lucky six siders (roll lots of sixes, but they aren't loaded dice, I just roll them well!!!), giving my necro the ability to do 173 HP of damage to the Blackcloak over the next three rounds (While everybody else does nothing, because they need to roll 19's and 20's to hit.) taking him down to -20.

This unfortunately doesn't kill the Bastard, though he is trapped in his mountain for 2 years. (Darn Divine gift of Life) My necro and my hexblade Immediately gain 4 levels each, along with some Kick-A** Artefacts, and My Half Celestial Paladin/Anointed knight also gains 2 levels.

The ends of stories tend to be the most fun, though some characters from this will stick around for a long time (The main three will run a city in my own world)

TTfN
Hariman

EDIT:::: Sorry to make this post so darn huge, this is actually two weeks worth of D&D in one post.

[Shadow Dragon]

This isn't a PC death... but more of an NPC death. A PC Orc Barbarian and a PC Elf Paladin were sent to the colleseum as punishment. They had to do battle with some orc champion. Anyway, my party wooped him. The barbarian was in rage, and doing some little tribal victory thing, cut off the champions head and flung it around. He told me he lets it fly in a random direction. So I rolled 1d8. It flew off in the direction of the announcer, who stands on a pillar near the center of the arena. I asked him to make an attack roll. He rolls a 20. Checks for critical. Rolls another 20. He rolled on the d4 for damage, plus his +4 str bonus... x2 critical... the force knocked the announcer unconcious, and off the pillar. He landed in a fire pit with big spikes meant for decoration or for the combatants to use. The crowd was silent. Me and my PCs laughed so hard, we had people from other rooms telling us to keep it down.

[WarhookDM]

Good stories. Keep 'em coming!

Ohh, and Hariman. . .dude, MUNCHKIN players would HATE being compared to THIS level of munchkinism. . .LOL. Maybe you should drag them back to reality by running a low magic campaign. (I have seen a number of ways to do that, BTW. My personal favorite woud be to put them in a world where "magic" is outlawed, and hunted. This makes it very DANGEROUS to use spells in public, though it may eliminate the possibility of having a Paladin in the party. In fact, it would basically turn Paladins into good-aligned Bad guys, as they would turn in wizards at the drop of a hat. Hmmmm. . .)

[Hariman]

Good stories. Keep 'em coming!

Ohh, and Hariman. . .dude, MUNCHKIN players would HATE being compared to THIS level of munchkinism. . .LOL. Maybe you should drag them back to reality by running a low magic campaign. (I have seen a number of ways to do that, BTW. My personal favorite woud be to put them in a world where "magic" is outlawed, and hunted. This makes it very DANGEROUS to use spells in public, though it may eliminate the possibility of having a Paladin in the party. In fact, it would basically turn Paladins into good-aligned Bad guys, as they would turn in wizards at the drop of a hat. Hmmmm. . .)


Aaaaahhh, gimme a break Warhook, I'm not the one doing the story, yet. And my characters were also in Kalamar. (But not from Kalamar.)

The big problem is that my DM is "Pro Player" (Must come from having his old DMs kill PCs when they hit sixth level.) and wanted to see how far I/We could take the characters.

Also, that last battle was more nerfing and lowering caster level for fair play. (Instead of just using the Blackcloak to slaughter my PCs) besides, the guy is listed as "Insane" in the Epic Level Handbook, why shouldn't he lower his own caster level to "Test" the Heroes. (Roger was actually surprised by how my Necro started to dish out the damage, which was only possible because of Everquests Mana System, otherwise My PCs would have been just about FUBAR once the healing potions ran out.)

But If you want to hear something Truly "Munchkin". . . .

Try Wyrm Swords, Artefacts that are literally Wyrm age dragons transformed into swords, which grant the weilder "EVERTHING THAT THE DRAGON HAS FROM THE DRACOMICON" and they stack with other Wyrm Swords because they are MAJOR Artefacts.

And my character has Two, and is a Dual Wielding type.



But to keep this somewhat on topic, In my Necro's second fight, at first level, In the Krakenhiem arena, She goes up against an Orc.

Now she does alright for a couple of rounds, but it becomes blatantly apparent that the orc is much tougher (A second level Barb, in rage for half of the match.) I lose that match because I miss two castings to summon more skeletons, then I miss two attacks with a weapon that would have practically wiped the orc out. (Four turns wasted, owie.)

And this with a noble betting 50 electrum on my victory.

He wasn't happy that I had lost.

Not a death per se, but memorable.

H

[Hyren]

In a practice game I played not that long ago, we had a rogue, a cleric, and a fighter(me) in the party, all level 1. SO, we rescued this guy and his daughter from undead skeletons. He lets us stay in his house for the night, but we all decide to keep watch over the house. So my watch is up first. Nothing happens, so the rogue goes out. He gets jumped by goblins, and gets the tar beaten out of him. At one point, I made a roll to wake up and succeded, so I woke up, but then failed my roll to hear the battle, so I went back to sleep. Meenwhile, the rogue was holding one goblin by the neck with one hand, and fighting off more goblins with the other. He never once thought to go run for help. SO he ends up getting down to 0 hp, with 5 goblins surronding him, but then we have to stop for the night cause the store we were in was closing. But we knew he would have died.

[ForgottenMemory]

I was in game that going nowhere; we were all in some militia thing and trying to get the wagon order just right. This took over hour real time, in game time that was almost a day, so the fighter of the party leaves. After another 5 minuets, real time, we go, soon the party sees some figure moving the forest, and of course we assume it was one of the orcs we were hunting, so we kill at range; unbeknown to the party that was the fighter.
Another favorite death was, when the party (different game from the one above) a wizard (me), a fighter, and a ranger, were defending a town under siege, with the help of a few low level NPCs, we kill off most the orcs attacking the place and that leaves the human wizard leading the attack. There was some massive combat with the wizard, and the guy was almost dead when he sends a distraction beam at my head, I fail the check and my head fizzles. The character wakes up a day later two levels lower and flat broke, it took all the money I had to pay the cleric for the true resurrection spell to bring me back to life.

[Taran Wanderer]

Shyte Pyle one of my most favorite character deaths. I was alone in a bar and my guy was Chaotic Evil and a mean drunk, well I got into afight with the bar tender, and Was knocked out. When my character woke up he was in a cave full of kobolds like 3000 of them and I more or less escaped to a cliff...and forgetting that Chaotic Evil characters always did basically what you said I'm like I should probably jump off this cliff...then I was like nah, but no my DM was a dick and was like nope you're jumping so I jump, and with my etheral armor that had a mind of it's own I was up to my chest in solid stone...well the party came along and gave me a potion in my unconcious state...which I might add was was mixed randomly from about 20 different potions...well I got out of the ground, and when I awoke I was part platypus...then everytime I feel asleep after that my char. would turn into part another creature...so by the fifth night I was part platypus, dog, hawk, donkey, and walrus...well I went to take a pee outside a village and when I got back a hunter thought I was a demon thing and killed me

[caliga]

Our DM was running a 3rd ed campaign where if it had been successful we would have created a new world and become gods in it. So to do this we had to collect these old tomes used to create the current world. Well we were going to this mountain and faced this cave entrance. Upon stepping through you felt the urge to choose: left or right. You chose and were spit out in that direction, unfortunately you couldnt step back that way to make your way through, you had to continue. Well two of us were wondering what happened to the rest of the paper, and so i got the bright idea of tying a rope around us. So he stepped through first, made his choice and i was yanked in. Unfortunately being tied together the rope was trying to pull me in his direction, but the entrance was trying to make me choose. Needless to say i was being split in half. So my DM being very nice, decides that my god (who was vecna) would help out and i had to make a sacrifice (my hand and eye) so then the rope whips around yanking the other end back through, the other guy grabs one of our other party members and they both are ejected out where they came in at extremely high speeds... they became goo on the wall. And even though i was saved by my god i am left there to bleed to death from massive wounds, until some spirits come and give me the option to become a demi-lich and possess the book of death (one of the ones we sought). Great times it was.

[caliga]

heh have two more.

If anyone has ever played dragon mountain on 2nd ed you might remember this. So we finally make it to the mountain, make our way up through many kobolds and reach the first section. The area we were in was were diplomats would once stay, where the halfings once stay has been turned into a latrine. Well we find information that there could be an enchanted sword that could stop the dragon in there. My thief is "elected" (and by elected i mean thrown in by 2 fighters), so making his way through searching through a place filled 4ft deep with crap and other bodily fluids he comes to a door, which he tries opening, it ended up being trapped and a block came down and crushed him, he lived from the block, but unfornately died from drowning in crap.


Sometime later one of our dwarf fighters in the same party went crazy, took off all his armor and equipment, and went looking for something to kill. He find a kobold where the stables once were and proceeded to try kicking it into a large round hole in the wall, the kobold managed to grab him and pull him (he rolled a 1 on his str check) and was pulled down a crapper shoot, slide a thousand feet, coming out somewhere on the side of the mountain and fell to his death. very amusing for all of us.

[Yayo]

mine would half to be my halfling rouge, Kerwin, he was in a sanitarum (my bad, can't spell to great) until him and his friend escaped, but neither one were to bad, they just liked to pull pranks, but he got seperated from the party (after he escaped the sanitarium and lost his friend) and needed to earn money so he went to do an assination attempt (told you i can't spell) but anyway he was killed in the attempt, but he should of have lived but the dm gave a reflex save to the guy after i rolled a 19, and a 20 to confirm it, but oh well. *drops of brandy hit the ground* thats for my dead homies. rest in peace Kerwin.

[Rhelkin]

My most memorable death would be my level 20 Vampire Sorcerer. Yeah I didn't bother going any prestige class...prolly should have but whatever. Me and my party of three others were into the thick of things when the rogue ended up opening an ancient book (artifact-means no touchy with this dm lol). She began to read out several inscriptions placed in a mix between infernal/abyssal (had to have both languages to read). This was an amazing mistake seeing as how when translated it brings forth the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

So at any rate we decided it was best to take death, and pestilence on first. Big mistake seeing as how after we mopped the floor with death, pestilence, rotted the minds out of two of my companions (cleric included). They rolled a two or something, pretty bad timing to make bad save.

At any rate they were reduced to a 2, and a -5 intelligence score. The one with the negative five collapsed immediately where as the one with two was reduced to insanely rambling on about the end of the world.

Time came in and sped up war's (4th horsemen) actions, which then when it came around to being my turn, I was down to like 5 or six hp. Simultaneously the rouge continued to read the book however, and found that only when the sun rose once more upon the land would it be saved. So with one last ditch effort to save the world I made a wish spell, and teleported right next to Pelor himself. Heh vampires don't last very long up there...especially lawful evil ones. I didn't think about discussing the situation with him seeing as how it would prolly be to late by the time I get the first words out, so I (attack of opportunity due to surprise visit lol) decided it was best to make a second wish spell that propelled me right into him and then detonating causing absolutely no damage (for some reason or another he didn't receive any), but it infuriated him enough to make the sun come up about 9 hours earlier than normal, and causing the majority of all vampires to be destroyed.

To say the least I nearly wiped out my own race, but saved the world somewhat single handedly...heh...I think that about wraps this one up.

[neodemus]

very nice sacrifice,
recently played an evil psion half-vampire-bitch, who after numerous deaths on the lv11 barrier finally had to decide if she wanted to be undead or not, a decition she wanted to push to epic because of the severe consequences.
Now I know what you think, go go go for it, awsome resistances and nice drain-powers as the full vampire.
But my lady was a rather sensitive, considering character, who enjoyed life (esp. art). Being undead, outside from rules is a lonesome, as cold, as terrifiing as one could imagin. With numbness throughout the whole body, no touch-sense, no emotions, nothing but infinite carelessness.
So she died ... and stayed dead, wandering around the great wall, and since our DM a perverted way of letting old chars come back as kick-ass npcs i told him if you do that to her, ... I'll eat you alive ... (i wasn't smiling at all)
...

[Spluckor]

Well only one of my characters died and thats mainly because I killed him. But we were in a NPC group of about 50 NPCs and 10 or so PCs. Well my thief who I was extremely bored of playing and I had about 4 PC's to control decided hey, I wanna kill someone. So he walks behind another thief and stabs him in the back of the neck. Killed him instantly. Well it really pissed off the half orc nearby so my thief did a flying jump and landed a dagger in each of the Half-Orc's eyes. Well our party who is seeing all of this decide this isn't right. So one of our fighters who half angel half human or something like that comes by and hits me with his great sword. Yeah he rolls a 20. Then he rolled again for effectivness of the critical or something like that (can't remember what the DM called it). Well he rolled a 20 again. So my thief, who has 2 daggers in this Half-orc's face. Blows up. Most of his stuff is completely destroyed. All that isn't is some gold and the 2 daggers which my Shadow Knight gladly confiscates from the Half-Orc's face.

[WarhookDM]

Glad to see that PC's stil die occasionally.

[Sei Kensou]

My most memorable death would most likely be that of my level 11 Half-elf Bard. One of his party members, a Samurai of equal level, jokingly attempted to shove him over a cliff and into the waters below. My Bard managed to make the reflex save called for by the DM, but the party Rogue decided to be a pal and give my character yet another shove. My low roll, coupled with the penalty applied to the result of said roll, had my Bard tumbling over the edge and into the waters below.. Where, luckily enough, a Kraken had been temporarily lairing, or some such thing. My Bard was hit by each of the Kraken's attacks, two of which were Crits, and was dead and well on his way to being digested before the Rogue (Who had jumped in a few moments after the Bard fell) had hit the water.

[Spluckor]

Hah last nights was pretty hilarious. Our ranger killed a rabbit and went to examine it, but it turned out it was the top of a vicious predator and not a rabbit. So he starts getting dragged towards its mouth and gets a leg bit off. Then the other. then out Barbarian/werebear went up with his Energy Full Blade and slashed down at the plant. Well he slashed to well and after killing the plant he went straight through the ranger. So he killed his best friend. We are on a strange space ship and found these healing canisters that spray a mist that heals almost anything. So we lined the two halves of the Ranger up and sprayed it down and it reconnected. Then we did it with both legs. Then we did a Raise Dead spell. Amazingly it worked.


AHAHA Also our ranger died earlier, and when I tryed to do raise dead I rolled a 1, and this ship we are in makes magic work strange, so it killed our monk. Well after a few hours my spell recharged from the ship and so I tryed it again. This time we killed the Necromancer. The cleric said that he would never raise dead again so they burried the Necro and Monk but the Werebear kept the ranger. So later on they forced the Cleric to raise dead.

[Sephylight]

We had followed a band of Trogladites that had been attacking a farmland back to an old ruined estate, and saw them sneak into a Cellar. Well, we camped right at the entrance, and the second person on watch heard noises and woke us up. The party consisted of two dwarf fighter/clerics and me, an elven mage/thief. One dwarf stood behind the opening, battle-axe in hand, the other stood in front, bastard sword at the ready, I stood as far away as possible, ready to magic missle whatever came out of there. Here's what happened.

DM: The first Trog sticks his head out, what do you do?
BasDwarf: I'm swinging at it, of course.
AxeDwarf: Same here.
Me: Magic missle.
DM: Alright, roll for initative. :: Rolls die and gets 8 ::
Me: :: Rolls die and gets 2 :: Two.
DM: Eight, you get initative. Roll for magic missle damage.
Me: :: Rolls 1d4 :: 5 points of damage.
DM: Alright, it hits him in the face, but he shrugs it off. BasDwarf, roll for hit.
BasDwarf: :: Rolls, makes it ::
DM: Damage?
BasDwarf: :: Rolls :: 14.
DM: He drops as you cleanly cut off his head.
AxeDwarf: I'll hit the next one coming.
DM: Roll to hit.
AxeDwarf: :: Rolls :: ... 1.
DM: Ooh, fumble. Roll reflex save.
AxeDwarf: :: Rolls :: ... 20.
DM: Ouch, critical fumble. :: Rolls dice :: 10 damage. Roll system shock.
AxeDwarf: :: Rolls :: ... 99%.
DM: ... You swing your axe high above your head, then bring it down, toppling forward into the Cellar. As you fall, your axe slams into the back of the already dead Trog, then the other side goes into another body, yours.

Ohh.. That was fun. Worst roll he could've possibly made. We were all laughing our asses off. We resurerected him later, but he'll always have a scar where his favorite axe used to be. xD

[hamster]

we were playing a highly modified D&D 3rd ed campaign, where the whole plane of existence was just below the prime material. in fact, the prime material plane was where good people went after they died, reborn as someone in our (real) world. our dm kept threatening us with sending our chars to wisconsin or some such.
anyways, my wizard, Justen, was having a grand old time creating all kinds of magical items and profiting enormously from them. magical glasses, hat, gloves, all kinds of toys, and each he made himself.

the party: an aboriginal dreamwalker, fighter/cleric, a half orc drunken monk, an Aes Sedai from Wheel of Time, the wizard (me) and a swashbuckling fighter with some family issues.

the setup: we fight through a whole lot of evil cleric-types, intent on doing this blood magic ritual and reviving the evil god of dragons. we suceed, or so we think.
in the end, we're in a giant throne/treasure room full of these obviously powerful artifact items, and the gods responsible for the upper and lower planes are having an argument. the angelic one and her demonic "cousin" dont notice us until the dragon-god we thought we stopped starts materializing. as the party gets their traveling papers to wisconsin, heaven, and cleveland, the dreamwalker opens a plane gate and leaves, wisely. I stay behind, in the hopes of getting some more magical mojo before i lose altogether.
long story short, the one thing i touch is a rod of power (think Green Lanter ring, but a rod and blue) and the demon god, Lucifer, now sees me. he says, "would you like a job?" of course, i take him up on it, and he explains how i can now shut this plane off from the others, leaving the insane, evil dragon god locked up, and saving the "real" world.
the catch: now i am "immortal" and in charge of the highest plane of hell, as well as being lucifers bitch boy...go here, get this.
all in all, it was a fair trade for old Justen to make.

[WarhookDM]

OK, this one is about my last gaming session, and deals with the slaughter of what I thought was going to be a particularly challenging encounter for the PC's.

I threw a squad of Githyanki, with some changes to increase the CR, at our band of intrepid (high-level) heroes. The changes: two extra mid-level Psion Gith, and the Red Dragon was an adult, not a juvenile or young dragon. Also, the squad had the maximum number of 20 level-3 Gith.

Planned tactics: Gith dimension slide to effectively encircle the PC's, springing an ambush upon them, while the PC's are dealing with the flying fire-breathing dragon.

Enter the rogue/wizard on his flying carpet. While hasted and invisible, he throws not one but TWO hold monster spells on the first round of combat at the dragon, BEFORE the dragon gets close enough for the fear effect to come into play. The dragon saves on the first attempt due to SR. However, the second spell penetrates, AND I rolled a one on the save. Dragon crashes from an altitude of 100 feet. Monk then runs up on his partial action (he was next on the intiative order, and ALSO Hasted) and delivers a coup-de-grace on his full action. One CR 14 Dragon, dead in TWO ACTIONS! :extra3:

So much for well-thought-out, challenging encounter. . .I won't bore you with the details of the ensueing slaughter of the Gith, except to say that it took the PC's about three rounds to kill them ALL. :extra3: And the PC's now have FIVE +3 Githyanki Silver Greatswords. :extra3:

[Sweettooth]

In a modified Dnd game, the party was fighting Kali the goddess of destruction. One of our clerics, who happened to be the avatar of a god who didn't like anyone who wasn't a high elf decides to take advantage of the situation. He sticks his staff in the area kali is channeling her power from and uses it to increase gravity and negate the floating tree/stone's powers. Mind you, the world was a bunch of floating islands over a sea of acid. Wiped out the entire world including our party. Only three made it out but one, being a samuri and being disgraced committed suicide and the other was ridiculed and went to live with the dwarves. The only member who had a good time afterwards was the party's mage who mass teleported everyone left alive out.

Ahh, world destruction is so nice in the morning.

[WarhookDM]

Well, I had an unbelievably BAD string of luck last weekend.

The party was running through "The Lord of the Iron Fortress" module.

My 18th Level PC (Pal7, Sor4, Spellsword6, EldritchKnight1) attacked an advanced (36 HD) blade golem. On his first attack, He rolled a 1. In our campaign, you must make a reflex save, DC 15, when this occurs to av