I'm a little behind on posting these, so time to catch up.

Name of PC: Klovis Goodharper
Class/Level: human gestalt human paragon/bard/cleric mix
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Catalyst: Mokmurian plus other giants
Story: They left the dungeon for a few hours to help the dwarves escape which gave Mokmurian time to learn of and make adjustments for the party.

Name of PC: Fonkin
Class/Level: gnome gestalt druid/monk
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Catalyst: see Klovis
Story: see Klovis

Name of PC: Jamal
Class/Level: halfling gestalt fighter/paladin
Adventure: Sins of the Saviors
Catalyst: Seven-headed White Dragon
Story: I reworked the story for the white dragon from just being there to being a guardian for that entrance to runeforge. Jamal was attack with 5 bites, two of which crited him.

Name of PC: Erik
Class/Level: half-orc gestalt barbarian/druid
Adventure: Sins of the Saviors
Catalyst: Wraiths in runeforge
Story: Attempted to collapse a chamber of runeforge in the necro section while wild shaped as a huge earth elemental and pulled 4 wraith. He was alone at the time with the rest of the party two rooms away.

Name of PC: Zaran "Boomer" McPego
Class/Level: dwarf gestalt rogue/sorcerer
Adventure: Spires of Xin-Shalast
Catalyst: The Hidden Beast
Story: Complete fail on the party to detect the invisible Hidden Beast floating in the room. Full attack with 9 successful hits on Boomer. Full health to death in 1 round. I changed one spell THB had, I changed the 5th level spell to teleport, so now THB has a fancy new minion. The party ran away to do some research away from Xin-Shalast instead of trying to stop Boomer's return.

Up to date for now. I expect a death or 5 when the party next meets Boomer.

Well I have got 5 players playing this and had four deaths over the course of the first three books, all to one player! I shall try to recall them all.

Name of PC: Kaleb
Class/Level: Human Monk (7)
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Story: On the assualt into Hook Mountain he used his movement to get between two of the ogre's. It ended badly...

Name of PC: Thurn
Class/Level: Dwarf Ranger/Fighter(2/4)
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Story: Attempting to take back Fort Rannick and got o nthe business end of an ogre hook.

Don't recall the others off hand except that one was to the Golem in the Skinsaw Murders book and another to the Greater Barghest at the end of Burnt offerings. So thats one per book and two for book three! Book four is two sessions old and they are still hanging in there!

First time aware of this post, so I have a little catching up to do...

Name of PC: Dhuum k'Zadren
Class/Level: dwarf Artificer1
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Junker's Edge - Sandpoint

Story: Dhuum was an artificer who had an eye for creating his own mechanical contrivances, particularly mechanical minions or even a clockwork golem. I assured him he had plenty of time to gather the mats for such things when he'd gained some time, money n' even the feats necessary to create such gizmos, but he was determined to search the junkyard beach below Sandpoint for parts NOW!! What's worse, he told no one in the party what he was doing or where he was going, and so he went alone to the junkyard at night... needless to say, a band of 4 goblins from the Seven Tooth tribe was also rummaging for parts n' pieces that night, and poor Dhuum was no match for a 4-against-1 fight at 1st level.

Name of PC: Toren
Class/Level: human Ranger3
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Tentamort - below Thistletop

Story: Not much to say here... Toren was a two-fisted Ranger, maxed his Str n' Dex at the expense of only having a 13 Con or so... He was stung in battle with the Tentamort twice and failed both saves, resulting in a total Con loss of about 18. You don't get much deader than that.

Name of PC: Anthius
Class/Level: human Paladin3
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Malfeshnekor - below Thistletop

Story: This one was rather epic. The party had found the key to Malfeshnekor's Prison and so of course when they found a door it seemed to fit, of course they were going to open it! Since the barghest heard them outside the door, he'd cast his bull's strength, blink, and invisibility sphere spells in advance, so when the party opened the door they saw just an empty room with a firepit, golden candles and a carved symbol on the wall. After they'd entered to investigate, the fiend attacked with total surprise, laying out Tarsus the warlock nearly instantly and incapacitating the fighter Pomari with Crushing...

Name of PC: Alezandro Mandrezi. Oh, and the rest of the party, too, but they were never important. No one ever wrote songs about them
Class/Level: Bard 10 (explains the song part)
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Catalyst: Big Huge Artifact Cauldron of Doom (Editor's note: Name has been altered. Don't know the actual name).

Story: Against the brilliant (and not to mention charming and very talented) bard's advice, the rest of the party insisted on toppling over a big magic cauldron filled with a liquid whose mere vapours caused blindness and nausea. The room was flooded, no one survived.

I guess their wait in the line to be judged by Pharasma will be one big row.

Name of PC: Xaldin Durogath
Class/Level: Crusader 4
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Final Boss
Story:

This is making me sad

We are about a 4th of the way through Hook Mountain and I have yet to kill a character.

I have droped alot of my players close to death but no deaths yet. The next game might kill people Ogre Hooks at x3 critical fun fun

This is making me sad

We are about a 4th of the way through Hook Mountain and I have yet to kill a character.

I have droped alot of my players close to death but no deaths yet. The next game might kill people Ogre Hooks at x3 critical fun fun

First Death was Jubyl Parooh Gnomish rogue and grandchild of Veznutt Parooh, he died while single handly investigate a bunyip lair, he was ingested soon afterwards. Kailin the Elven rogue and Victor Scarnetti the Fighter were killed when they interrupted a religious ceremony at the temple within Thristletop. Victor was slain by a Yethhound and Kailin was knocked to negatives by Lyra the mage, and her cat slowly finished the job as all the other heroes were fighting for their own lives.

Verg the Kobold Druid (with a 7 STR) was killed in the first round of his first combat whe a shadow crit him with a Str draining touch. a couple rounds later he rose as a shadow to wreck vengeance on his brand new party members.

First Death was Jubyl Parooh Gnomish rogue and grandchild of Veznutt Parooh, he died while single handly investigate a bunyip lair, he was ingested soon afterwards. Kailin the Elven rogue and Victor Scarnetti the Fighter were killed when they interrupted a religious ceremony at the temple within Thristletop. Victor was slain by a Yethhound and Kailin was knocked to negatives by Lyra the mage, and her cat slowly finished the job as all the other heroes were fighting for their own lives.

Verg the Kobold Druid (with a 7 STR) was killed in the first round of his first combat whe a shadow crit him with a Str draining touch. a couple rounds later he rose as a shadow to wreck vengeance on his brand new party members.

Name of PC: Harmin Bentlicook
Class/Level: Beguiler 11
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Catalyst: A thin green beam of pure pain, a.k.a Disintegrate

Story: The party decided to do the "stealthy" approach to Mokmurian's lair, and little brave Harmin went in alone, honestly believing that invisibility will keep him safe from harm. It didn't.

Sneaksy Dragon wrote:

First Death was Jubyl Parooh Gnomish rogue and grandchild of Veznutt Parooh, he died while single handly investigate a bunyip lair, he was ingested soon afterwards. Kailin the Elven rogue and Victor Scarnetti the Fighter were killed when they interrupted a religious ceremony at the temple within Thristletop. Victor was slain by a Yethhound and Kailin was knocked to negatives by Lyra the mage, and her cat slowly finished the job as all the other heroes were fighting for their own lives.

Verg the Kobold Druid (with a 7 STR) was killed in the first round of his first combat whe a shadow crit him with a Str draining touch. a couple rounds later he rose as a shadow to wreck vengeance on his brand new party members.

Best. Death. Ever.

we were working on character for the Key of Destiny module for Dragonlance. While he was building a 1st level Dwarven scout we pondered why all the dwarf names where so tough sounding ( like Goblinsmasher or Forgehammer or Mountainfist) we came to the conclusion the the Orgesnack, Bladefodder (and our personal favorite) Critsucker clan all died out due to reasons already explained. Tim stated he liked Critsucker.

the first combat we ran against was a bandit camp, we tried to sneak closer but a unarmored barbarian exited his tent and noticed us. the first round of combat was him charging Tim's dwarf and rolling a 20 with his Greatsword...his character was instantly slain with the 20+ damage dealt and our table grew quite. I then burst into manic laughter to the confusion of our other friends. once i caught my breath the only thing i could say was "HIS NAME WAS CRITSUCKER!!!" ^^

sorry for threadjack, carry on.

Name of PC: Volta
Class/Level: Druid (3)
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Warchief Ripnugget
Story: Volta the druid archer was citical in the attack of Thisletop. Unfortunatly he and his party failed to see the trap that was waiting for them when they entered Chief Ripnuggets throne room. During the fight, not long after the fighter had been killed by Ripnugget, Volta found himself prone at the feet of a gecko mounted warchief... he faced two options... switch to his melee weapon and slash the gecko, or provoke the AoO and try to take Ripnugget out with his bow. With courage Volta took the shot scoring a critical hit and sent Ripnugget flying clean off the gecko, unfortunantly the AoO ended his life....

Name of PC: Baal
Class/Level: Fighter (3)
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Warchief Ripnugget
Story: While holding the hall the that leads from the main entrance to the stockade and Ripnugget's throne room he was tore to shreds by a combination of Ripnugget, the Gecko, and the wolverine animal companion of Gogmurt the goblin druid. Ripnugget finished him with a critical hit.

Names: Sir Lucas, Paladin of Cayden Cailean (14th)
Chasm Blackfrost, Dwarven Sorcerer (12th)
Module: Sins of the Saviours
Location of Deaths: Halls of Wrath
Cause of Death: Ripped Asunder by the Shemhazian Demon

Lucas and his company of heroes put up a good fight, dropping Highlady Athroxix (even all Pathfinder'd out in stats) in four rounds. Unfortunately, those four rounds allowed the terrible demon of Lamashtu to inflictt massive damage, focusing the majority of its wrath on Lucas (as per their descriptive outlook in the text desscribing them). By the sixth round, and one failed save vs paralysis later, the Demon ripped Lucas apart, scattering the hero to bits. He had accompanied them since 6th level (Skinsaw Murders) Two of the companions (Sorcerer and Druid) were dropped into the negatives, causing the Ranger to flee for his life.
The Demon thereby ripped out the unconcious heroes eyes, killing Chasm and mortally wounding the Druid (Grog). A desperate rescue effort was fought, with Krags and his new companion (Replacement PC, Elven Cleric) recovering the Druid and the body of Chasm. Of Lucas, his spirit decided to rest rather than return. Runeforge was cleared, as they begin the final module..

Name of PC: Ron Corval
Class/Level: Monk (3)
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: The Howling Hole
Story: A very pious, almost overly so, monk, Corval gave most of his wealth to the poor, and had several disagreements with Jack, the halfling rogue who was a money-grubber. Corval couldn't reach the fight that was going on between the Armeth the ranger and several goblin dogs, so, to tease Jack, he dangled a pouch of gold over the Howling Hole and called out, "Hey Jack!" At this point the remaining Birdcruncher goblins came around the corner and saw him there, and promptly piled on to shove him down the Howling Hole, and Corval was promptly eaten by the bunyip therin.

Name of PC: Maltheria
Class/Level: Druid (3)
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Gorkmurt the goblin Druid
Story: Maltheria and the others were fighting Gorkmurt, who was making proper hit and run tactics through the briars, and Maltheria decided that she should take the fight to him, chasing him into the briars, at which point he cast Flame Blade and took her head off.

Name of PC: Thorn
Class/Level: Druid (6)
Adventure: The Hook Mountain Massacre
Catalyst: Muck Graul
Story: Down several players, the party chose to challenge the Graul homestead, and were doing rather well, though running low on spells. Upon entering Muck Graul's room, they failed Perception checks to notice he was more than a mass of mold, and Thorn got too close. Muck grabbed Thorn, and the following round ate him, at which point the party closed the doors and ran.

In all three cases we were using the Pathfinder Beta rules, and I had a party of 6 players. We have had a Ranger, Sorceress, Rogue, Monk, Cleric, and either a Druid or Wizard the rest of the time. Also, I give 2d6+6 for stats, and you get three columns. My players hate me some days. >_>

Name of PC: Ron Corval
Class/Level: Monk (3)
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: The Howling Hole
Story: A very pious, almost overly so, monk, Corval gave most of his wealth to the poor, and had several disagreements with Jack, the halfling rogue who was a money-grubber. Corval couldn't reach the fight that was going on between the Armeth the ranger and several goblin dogs, so, to tease Jack, he dangled a pouch of gold over the Howling Hole and called out, "Hey Jack!" At this point the remaining Birdcruncher goblins came around the corner and saw him there, and promptly piled on to shove him down the Howling Hole, and Corval was promptly eaten by the bunyip therin.

Name of PC: Maltheria
Class/Level: Druid (3)
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Gorkmurt the goblin Druid
Story: Maltheria and the others were fighting Gorkmurt, who was making proper hit and run tactics through the briars, and Maltheria decided that she should take the fight to him, chasing him into the briars, at which point he cast Flame Blade and took her head off.

Name of PC: Thorn
Class/Level: Druid (6)
Adventure: The Hook Mountain Massacre
Catalyst: Muck Graul
Story: Down several players, the party chose to challenge the Graul homestead, and were doing rather well, though running low on spells. Upon entering Muck Graul's room, they failed Perception checks to notice he was more than a mass of mold, and Thorn got too close. Muck grabbed Thorn, and the following round ate him, at which point the party closed the doors and ran.

In all three cases we were using the Pathfinder Beta rules, and I had a party of 6 players. We have had a Ranger, Sorceress, Rogue, Monk, Cleric, and either a Druid or Wizard the rest of the time. Also, I give 2d6+6 for stats, and you get three columns. My players hate me some days. >_>

Very true. ^_^

in the vein of the Savage Tide and Age of Worms Obituaries threads, where and how have my fellow DMs Killed PCs? I personally get to start it in one week and hope to have something to add.

please try to include
Name of PC: Morgul
Class/Level: Druid 11
Adventure: Sins of the Saviors
Catalyst: General of Stone Giants
Story:

Morguls Demise and Times 4 Multiplier tell all.

YEAH!

Ta'Laesh

Rogue/2

Burnt Offerings

Fighting Gogmurt in the thicket by the hole. One death, one near miss due to a good streak of dice rolls.

The player was thinking he could lure Gogmurt closer to the hole, so he moved around the hole along the edge of it during the combat. As he was running on the edge of the hole, I had him make an Acrobatics check. Even with his Acrobatics modifier of +7, he failed his check. I gave him the second chance of a reflex check to grab hole of the edge and again he failed, falling down the shaft, and dropping his HP total to -12. The party cleric, who had been rolling poorly the last two sessions, charged the druid and managed to hit him. Several more rounds of combat ensued, with the druid fleeing into the overgrowth.

The PCs decided to try to rescue the now partially consumed rogue from the bunyip lair. Before they could lower the paladin down the hole, the druid had released the goblin dogs, sparking several more rounds of combat. They ultimately subdued the druid, and lowered the paladin.

The bunyip, finding its meal interrupted by a dangling paladin, let loose a howl. The paladin failed her save, as did the pony to which the rope she was hanging by was attached. The paladin flew up 20 feet before the fighter and cleric stopped the pony and proceeded to roll several amazing climb checks to scramble out of the hole just as the fear effect ended.

Name: Kasm Blackfrost, Dwarven Sorcerer
Module: Spires of Xin-Shalast
Location of Death: Vekker's Haunted Cabin
Cause of Death: Eaten alive by Hungry Ghosts
Chasm, upon inspecting the chewed-up remains of the dwarves in the Cold Storage, realized that the bones resembled his own. Ten hungry bites later by the ravenous spirits in the cabin left nothing left of Kasm but a bloody skeleton and his gear. One of the most shocking and bloody PC deaths I think I've seen in years. What made it even better was that another PC, a dwarven brother of the deceased, is basically watching a complete re-inactment of the horrot visited upon the cabin in a very personal sense. Even now, Krags Blackfrost has contracted Wendigo Fever from the creature's dream haunting ability... Sometimes its good to be an evil DM!

Name: Gosta, Elvish sorcerer
Module: Burnt Offerings
Location: Hall Trap in Thisletop
Cause of Death: 4 hits from glaive wielding statues ... followed by a drop down a pit ... which really just got rid of the lifeless husk

Name: Sindri, Gnome sorcerer
Module: Burnt Offerings
Location: Entry room in lowest level of Thistletop
Cause of Death: the deadly jaws of a Yeth Hound ... after losing the first sorcerer, Nualia, Bruthazmus and the yeth hound attacked ... driving back the PCs and taking down the last sorcerer to 0 hp when the rest of the party decided to flee

Name of PC: Xandrak
Class/Level: Human Sorc 4
Adventure: Burnt Offerings, Thistletop
Catalyst: Shadows, Mr. M
Story: The party was doing quite well in Thistletop but after being reduced to STR 1 by the shadows then later cornered by Mr. M he really ran out of options except to die. It was a bite critical followed by a claw critical and a normal claw.

It was an honorable death, he brought Mr. M down to 1HP almost by himself.

Name: Chopper
Class/Level: Human Barbarian/8
Adventure: The Hook Mountain Massacre
Catalyst: Jaagrath Kreeg
Story:After smashing almost everything else in Fort Rannick, the party made it to the second level of the keep. Chopper tried to sneak up to the doors of the chamber where the Kreeg leader was working, and failed his Stealth check horribly. Jaagrath opened the doors before the rest of the party was upstairs, and promptly hammered Chopper. After the first round, his Human Bane was the difference in the battle, and a full attack with power attack was sufficient to kill the brave barbarian where he stood.

Our second death of the campaign was our druids Animal Companion again, and in almost the same fashion as the first one :)

Name of PC: CokeTwo
Class/Level: Animal Companion (Wolf) to Ammeretti the Druid
Burnt Offerings, Goblin Commando
Catalyst: A goblins horsechopper

During the raid on the top level of Thistletop, the group had literally smashed the front door down to the complex (the low-intelligence dwarf again) and the goblin commandos had alerted Ripnugget and company to the PC's presence. While the group were busy dealing with Shadowmist, the remaining goblins arranged an improved ambush. (Basically the same one in the book with with more hidden goblins)

However, the group headed a different way and stumbled across the hiding goblins. During the ensuing combat, two goblin commandos circled round behind the group and started to pepper them with arrows. CokeTwo was sent to hold off the commandos with assistance from the party sorceror.

Unfortunately for the wolf, a critical-hit arrow brought him to 0 hit points, leaving his helpless to a coup-de-gras from a horsechopper. CokeTwo failed the fortitude save.

Name of PC: Camlon Despris
Class/Level: Sorcerer 10
Adventure: Fortress of Stone Giants
Catalyst: Two angry dire bears
Story : Giants attacked Sandpoint and when PCs tried to save people from giants Camlon tried to annoy giants to follow him but then bears suddenly got him. First round and Camlon was lying on ground under one of the bears and on second round he was dead. He will be raised when PCs get to Magnimar but this costs them some time before going to Jorgenfist.

First dead character in my Pathfinder history!

Name of PC: Niero Brandt
Class/Level: Rogue 2
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: A yeth hound
Story: The party had an overly careful and indecisive approach to taking out Thistletop, punctuated by many trips back to Sandpoint to heal up and replenish consumables. This led to the inhabitants of Thistletop to trapping the hell out of everything and laying in ambush in wait for the PCs to return. A yeth hound charged and dropped poor Niero and in the face of the approaching enemy, the rest of the bloody and beaten party opted to flee and abandon their companion to a horrible end.

Jubilee

Sorcerer 2

Adventure: Burnt Offerings

Catalyst: Giant Hermit Crab

Story: Jubilee went to the water to check out this giant gold helmet. As she was prepping to go in, the helmet turned. She did not back up, as the party fighter did, and was grabbed in the first round. The party cleric fought a losing battle in the wound/heal contest as the crab tried to get a second victim in its other claw.

Lena

Paladin 3

Adventure: Burnt Offerings

Catalyst: Malfeshnekor

Story: The party opened the door to the seemingly empty room. The paladin and the fighter both stepped across the entryway and the paladin failed a perception check, losing her action for the surprise round. Additionally, she rolled a low initiative. So the barghest appeared, attacked, hit twice and blinked out. The fighter did make an attempt to hit the beast but failed and took his 5' step out of the room. The start of the next round, the barghest, still with highest initiative, popped in again, hit all three attacks against the paladin, reducing her HP to -28. The fighter freaked out that a beast could kill a paragon of strength so quickly and slammed the doors shut, locking the barghest back within its cell. The party has decided not to go back for that beast until they are more powerful (most likely after SM or HMM) ...

Name of PC: "Dee-Dee"
Class/Level: Female Dwarf Fighter (4)
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Story: Killed by Shadows of long dead architects. Strength draining touch bit deep to the core. (Crit and rolled 12 strength damage)

Name of PC: Taryn
Class/Level: Female Human Fighter(4)
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Story: Killed by the newly risen Shadow of her former companion "Dee-Dee" as she attempted to pull the dwarfs body to safety.

Two for one special!

Had a great TPK in Burnt Offerings when the party finally progressed to Nualia. I gave them a break with slow and progressive fighting - in spite of them barging along like true heroes: but ultimately they took on Nualia and her puppy and got decimated.

One unlucky dead: The fullplated (back then) cleric with 280hp healing to her name felt a little to brave facing down Nualia and was tripped from behind by the puppy and never managed to recover after that.

One traitor: The monk, who vowed himself to Nualia's service and proceeded to take on the fighter.

One outnumbered beheaded: Surrender and begging Nualia for mercy will not appease Lamashtu.

One survivor: The barbarian (who was panicked for 4 rounds due to the puppies scream).

...

The newly formed party (featuring the surviving barbarian and 3 new task members) re-attempted the Thistletop dungeons - finding them strangely deserted. But they didn't make too much of it and then found themselves surprised when they unleashed a great and rather insane barghest on the one side, and a triumphant Nualia on the other.

...to be fair, most of them escaped and I have a nice group of additional villains to play and harress the party with :)

We had our First kill saturday night but alas it was an NPC

Name of NPC: Vale Temros
Class/Level: 2nd Level Ranger 4th Level Fighter
Adventure: Hook Mountain Massacre
Catalyst: A 70 point critcal hit from Silas Kreeg
Story: The PCs had done a great job coming out of the secret passages attacking the Ogres they had just gotten into the 1st level of the Fort they were fighting Silas in the Infermary and Vale had just hit a 40 point critcal hit on Silas so he chose to retaliate and hit him back with a critical needless to say Silas cut Vale in Two and the rest of the party ended Silas life
They have been discussing if he shall be raised or not, it shall be seen

We had our First kill of the AP this Monday.

It took until half-way through but we had our first kill.

Name of NPC: Alyce
Class/Level: 2nd Level Ranger 8th Level Rogue (maybe 3/7)
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Catalyst: Annoying Longtooth while alone
Story: When the Giants began their assault on Sandpoint the PC's rushed to the North gate. The pary split up with the Barbarian and the cleric going after the giants at the gate while the rest ran back into town after the other giants they heard arrive. As Alyce lined up a shot on the giants capturing people Longtooth arrived. She drew Longtooth's attention by using her true strike to shoot him in the arse. The next round he charged over hitting her once. Next round, even though he had been blinded, Longtooth managed to land an improved vital strike hit, dropping Alyce into the -20s.
She'll probably be raised once they find her chewed, burnt and stepped on body.

I remember fighting Longtooth...

We had our second kill of the AP now on back to back weeks

Had our first real death of the campaign last week...
Name of PC: Dilbert
Class/Level: Dwarf 1st Barbarian / 2nd Dragon Shaman
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Falling in the fire pit in big M's room
Story: The group had done a stirling job clearing out Thistletop, and found their way to big M's room. Opening the doors, they could tell that 'something' invisible was in the room (M having heard the group and buffed up), and sent in the Druid's animal companion in an effort to sniff out the creature.

Big M jumped the mutt and knocked it senseless in a single round. The group charged in fight the beast. Dilbert took most of the flak, and the group got lucky with the odd critical and some fire and electrical attacks, but the beast was shugging off most of the damage.

The party cleric was doing all she could keeping Dilbert alive, but only just. He dropped once, and just as the cleric brought him round, the party sorceress managed to stun big M temporarily. Dilbert stood up and in a last ditch attempt to kill big M, grabbed him and tried to pull him onto the pit.

He grabbed him, toppled him over and failed to leap out of the way. Both Dilbert and Malfeshnekor cooked within seconds.

One more death and effective death from last night...

Name of PC: Ron Danesh
Class/Level: Human Monk/8
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Catalyst: Three Stone Giants at the north gate of Sandpoint
Story: After waking up in the morning, Ron Danesh ran ahead of the party to the north gate before the rest of the party was ready, thus reaching it a full five rounds before any other member could make it. When Grignack Darkhelm made it at last, she leapt the forty feet to give a flying kick into one of the giants. A moment later they all hit her with greatclubs, killing her instantly.

Name of PC: Grignack Darkhelm
Class/Level: Dwarf Fighter/9
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Catalyst: Three Stone Giants at the north gate of Sandpoint
Story: Running to aid Ron Danesh, Grignack went over the North wall to confront the three stone giants attacking it, and proceeded to give battle. Due to overconfidence, he challenged them beyond the point that he could hope to challenge them alone. Thus he was knocked unconscious, and then stabilized by the giants, who put him in a sack while to take back with them.

Meanwhile, the rest of the party was occupied, and nearly destroyed by, due to a lack of frontline warriors, a trio of dire bears and a pair of stone giants.

Had our first real death of the campaign last week...
Name of PC: Dilbert
Class/Level: Dwarf 1st Barbarian / 2nd Dragon Shaman
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Falling in the fire pit in big M's room
Story: The group had done a stirling job clearing out Thistletop, and found their way to big M's room. Opening the doors, they could tell that 'something' invisible was in the room (M having heard the group and buffed up), and sent in the Druid's animal companion in an effort to sniff out the creature.

Big M jumped the mutt and knocked it senseless in a single round. The group charged in fight the beast. Dilbert took most of the flak, and the group got lucky with the odd critical and some fire and electrical attacks, but the beast was shugging off most of the damage.

The party cleric was doing all she could keeping Dilbert alive, but only just. He dropped once, and just as the cleric brought him round, the party sorceress managed to stun big M temporarily. Dilbert stood up and in a last ditch attempt to kill big M, grabbed him and tried to pull him onto the pit.

He grabbed him, toppled him over and failed to leap out of the way. Both Dilbert and Malfeshnekor cooked within seconds.

Three cheers for Dilbert.

I hope my own players fare this well...

Name of PC: Valak
Class/Level: Monk 7
Adventure: The Hooksaw Massacre
Catalyst: Sneaking up on the Graul Barn well out in advance of the party.
Story: The party (Valak the monk, Voldemon the wizard, Dolgunn the ranger, and Lymka the bard) along with Kipp the bear and Shalelu followed Rukus' tracks back the Graul homestead. After taking a moment to study the ground, they decide to approach the barn first. Valak says he'll sneak out alone, sticking the edge of the woods, while the rest of the party (being heavy on ranged weapons) hangs back to shoot anything that reveals itself. Lymka offers to cast invisibility on the monk, but Valak waves the offer off, saying that being seen is part of the plan. Dolgunn opts to sneak after the monk, but being a dwarf, falls behind and opens a sizeable (30') gap between the two of them. The rest of the party is back about 110'.

Valak manages a 19 Stealth, which the hiding Crowfood is easily able to see through with his Perception. In turn, Crowfood's 21 Stealth defeats everyone except Dolgunn's perception check... so we go to a surprise round. Crowfood opts to charge out of the edge of the cornfield and reaches Valak with his 40' move ... Valak is caught flatfooted, and ends up taking a power attack two-handed ogre hook swing upside the head. The concealment miss check fails, so Valak takes all the damage. Dolgunn fires at Crowfood to little effect.

Round 1... and Valak blows his initiative roll, going after Crowfood. Crowfood promptly socks another power attack two-handed swing with the ogre hook that Valak can't avoid, and Valak drops having been dropped to -15 hp, below his 13 Con score.

Crowfood doesn't last long against the ranged firepower dropped on him in the next couple rounds, but the damage is done. The group continues exploring the barn (the Valak player taking the role of Shalelu), drops the three ogrekin by the still pretty quick with a fireball and then battle Biggin to save the Black Arrows. They opt to pull out, using Burning Hands to set Biggin's funnel web on fire (which I then ruled passed to the still, causing a Michael Bay cool explosion of the barn). The party pulled out at that point, taking Valak's body with them to Raise Dead on it.

Only the second death so far, but one marred by us later (that is a few days later) discovering a number of things done somewhat wrong (Valak hadn't added the Amulet of Natural Armor +1 he had into his flat-footed AC, which would have caused one of the ogre hook hits to miss, and I forgot that the concealment of the undergrowth prevents sneak attack damage). On the bright side, my players have a new appreciation for the danger they're facing and a strong desire to return to the Graul farm for some revenge.

said some cool stuff about a group of players motivated by the desire for blood-splattered revenge