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Name of PC: Darius/Human
Class/Level: Inquisitor/Cleric 8/2
Adventure:The Hook Mountain Massacre
Catalyst:Barl's Earth Breaker crit on an attack of op.
Story:

Party stepped in to fight Barl and the Stone Giant guard, the party handled the guard early but Barl's fireball, and touch spells had left the party pretty dinged up, even more so, since they got dinged up badly against Lamatar earlier. So when the guard dropped, the barbarian charged accross to meet Barl at his throne, and the two traded blows, and the barbarian got his lights knocked out. Dying but with no one else in melee at that moment, the Inquisitor rushed into Barl's range and willingly took the AoOp to cast Cure Moderate Wounds...and Barl critted the attack, and smashed the Inquisitor into pulp.

The rest of the party consisting of a Wiz/Ranger, Fighter, and Bard chipped Barl down to the point of surrender, and they still killed him in revenge.

Cheliax

Name of PC: Shalaye Elaciathina "Lace" Starjewel Omoroi
Class/Level: Sorcerer 6
Adventure: The Skinsaw Murders - Vorel's Laboratory
Catalyst: Skinsaw Man & Vorel's Legacy
Story, short version: After nearly being haunted to death at Misgivings the party finally reached Skinsaw Man in Vorel's Laboratory. Aldern's pleas for mercy were convincing . . . that is, until he snapped back into Skinsaw Man and drew his razor. Lace was quick to maneuver forward onto the table top to attempt to Shocking Grasp the foul Ghoul but this drew her too close to the source of all evil -- Vorel's Legacy. Suddenly she was overcome by Vorel's undead force and inexplicably began to consume the black mold and a single misguided touch electrocuted herself blowing off her little aasimar head!! Awesome way to go out!


Name of PC: Saren the Black
Class/Level: Monk 4
Adventure: Burnt Offerings (Thistletop Catacombs)
Catalyst: Main Antagonist
Story: Saren couldn't quite keep up toe-to-toe with the enemy and dropped. Later, an area effect ability dealt damage to an unconscious Saren and was enough to kill him.

Name of PC: Ravisus (1/2 elf)
Class/Level: Witch 5
Adventure: The Skinsaw Murders
Catalyst: Skaveling
Story: Unfortunate positioning places the witch adjacent to the skaveling. She attempted to cast a spell without casting defensively. And the skaveling crits on his AoO.
EDIT: Ravi also had both ghoul fever and Vorel's Phage, so the player is pretty convinced that it was a mercy for Ravi to die a violent death.

Name of PC: Oberyn (1/2 elf)
Class/Level: Cleric of Gorum 5
Adventure: The Skinsaw Murders
Catalyst: Ghouls
Story: I'm GMing two PF campaigns and this'll be the third PC I've killed with ghouls in the span of a couple months. You'd think a level 5 cleric could avoid paralysis, but both he and the front line fighter where immediately paralyzed. Fortunately for the fighter, the ranged party members took out one ghoul, but that left one to coup de grace poor Oberyn.


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Name of PCs: Old Man Scrimshaw
Class/Level: Evoker 9
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants (3.5)
Catalyst: Necklace of fireballs
Story: Found a kobold...

Spoiler:
After a harrowing trek through the red cap tunnels, the party was confronted by Engva, the Ratcatcher, a kobold barbarian. She ordered the party out of the cave and to drop their weapons. Old Man Scrimshaw, being fluent in Draconic translated for the party. He didn't count on Engva being able to speak Common, and made a jape at her expense. Her charge crit the poor old wizard, and he was quick to retaliate.
It should be pointed out that I run with the "players roll all the dice" option from Unearthed Arcana (adjusted for odds). And as Scrimshaw unleashed a blast of flame or some such 5th level fiery spell, Scrimshaw's player laughed with glee as he rolled a nat 20, an auto fail for Engva. Well, that meant some of her gear might have been damaged as well, and when I looked it up, I laughed with glee when I saw her Type IV necklace of fireballs.
Luckily, the cleric had a revivify on hand.


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ghettowedge wrote:

Name of PCs: Old Man Scrimshaw

Class/Level: Evoker 9
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants (3.5)
Catalyst: Necklace of fireballs
Story: Found a kobold...
** spoiler omitted **

Oooh -- one of my favorites so far! Awesomeness!


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Name of PCs: Flame
Class/Level: Firepelt small cat animal companion for a Ranger 7
Adventure: The Skinsaw Murders.
Catalyst: A much-feared critical hit.
Background: The first time I looked at the Scarecrow's sheet I thought: "If he crits he kills". One shot of his Power Attack-enhanced scythe critical would take the party's paladin tank from full 68 HP to dead. So I was reticent about the fight.
Story: The PCs attacked the mill and spent the next couple days tangling with Magnimar's justice system. The ranger helped the Captain of the Guard Acacia Uriana to search the mill and they had arrived at the plan of releasing the ravens and following them next day (after the ranger would prepare speak with animals to obtain more information). So she was supposed to guard the mill, and as she got there, the Scarecrow ambushed her.
She ran with her animal companion to the mill, where she hid and managed an ambush (complete with a surprise round). Although the pair dealt a LOT of damage to the golem, its first attack in the fight was a natural 20 followed by an 18 and bam! Flame was dead. Noticing the danger, the ranger tumbled across the room, jumped into the river and swam for her life.

Name of PCs: Alec Sarti
Class/Level: Human Cleric 7 of Sarenrae
Adventure: The Skinsaw Murders.
Catalyst: Two spear crits in a row.
Story: The group faced Xanesha with a mind-controlled Orik in tow. During the fight the cleric was an all-star champion: healed everyone, threw down a Holy Smite which left the lamia blind and dispelled the charm person effect on Orik, netting them a powerful ally. A long battle of attrition followed, lasting a good 9 rounds. In the very end, Xanesha was running away invisible, followed by the ranger and cleric (while the rest of the group remained at different stages of unconsciousness or at the top of the tower). They attack the cornered lamia, and she goes all-out. The first attack - a natural 20 followed by a solid 17. 30-something damage, which was nothing to worry much since the cleric had taken almost no damage. Then the second attack - 19 followed by 18. Aaaand he's dead. The ranger managed to slay Xanesha, though, watched by a lot of curious if wary Underbridge inhabitants.
His death and the group's actions of rooting out corruption and evil in the city encouraged some clerics of Sarenrae (lead by his former mentor) to renew the ruined church at Underbridge. The group donated Alec's share of the treasure to the church, which used it to build a new clock tower and renovate the building, so Magnimar in my campaign now has a growing cult of Sarenrae working to spread their goddess' light to this shadowed place.

Taldor

Name of PCs: Solsar Hlaeghymn
Class/Level: Wizard 2 [Thassilon Sin Magic Specialisation: WRATH]
Adventure: Burnt Offerings (Glassworks/Catacombs of Wrath)
Catalyst: Sinspawn Crits
Story: The party after killing both Erylium and Khoruvus decided that they had finished exploring the catacombs, the party paladin believed that the Minor Runewell was an evil artifact and no-one should be messing with it, and managed to persuade the party in not messing around with it until they came back with B.Quink who could possibly know how to deal with this artifact.
The Wizard in his endless and insatiable hunt for knowledge started arguing with the group stating he must know that if any summoned sinspawn follows the summoner's commands... He very quickly found out the answer, since none of the languages the sinspawn spoke matched his chosen languages... After taking 2 rounds of attacks (without attempting to flee from the first round's damage, [First round: 8 damage from 2 claws] [2nd Round: Claw 1 crit [8 damage], Claw 2 crit [9 damage]. The poor wizard didn't stand a chance since he was already injured in previous encounters and hadn't been healed to full...
He went from his current total of 10 [of 18] leaving him on -15 (-1 below his con).

It was his own choice to try this without the party nearby (splitting the party), until they heard the dying wizard's screams, the party then killed the spawn and looted the wizard, earning only a sigh of annoyance from the paladin, who then decides to bury the wizard, but hasn't yet decided where.


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Ah. Death by Stupidity. ^^;;


Name of PC: Achille
Class/Level: Wizard 7/Diabolist 10
Adventure: Spires of Xin-Shalast

Catalyst and Story (final battle spoilers):

Catalyst:A wizard in an antimagic field becomes a fragile monkey... but a dragon is still a dragon (and a rune giant with vital strike is still a rune giant with vital strike).
Story:
Achille teleported himself and his melee buddies to where they thought Karzoug would be waiting. When they saw Karzoug, the ranger popped an antimagic field (long story). This made the wizard a very tempting target to Karzoug's dragon and rune giant. The dragon got a full attack, and the rune giant dealt a massive vital strike, taking the wizard down to well below his negative constitution score. A breath of life in the next round saved him.

Name of PC: Raunkin
Class/Level: Wizard 17
Adventure: Spires of Xin-Shalast

Catalyst and Story (final battle spoilers):

Catalyst:Mage's Disjunction, Wail of the Banshee
Story:
Raunkin got disjoined in the first round of combat, eliminating his pre-combat buffs, which really made it hard for him to resist the wail of the banshee in the second round. He was brought back to life with a wish.


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Name of PC: Gnfr Bison
Class/Level: Fighter 10
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants (3.5)
Catalyst: Charm monster and dispel magic
Story: The sorcerer made some friends...

Spoiler:
The party sorceress used charm monster to befriend a pair of stone giants while disguised as Lucrecia. She fed them some lines of a treacherous plot against Mokmurian and put the two brutes to good use against a few other stone giants as well as against the charmed dragons. The lamia priestesses were a different story, they were canny enough to cast dispel magic. Gnfr, already wounded by a full attack by one of the Lamias under the effect of her strength boost, was trapped between enemies. And the sorceress, the target of the freed stone giants' rage, went invisible. Gnfr smashed remains were raised the next morning.


Name of PC: Hunter Thomas
Class/Level: Human Druid / 8
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Catalyst: Rocks falling on head
Story: the party had come face to face with the Jotunblood Hill giant Lokansir, after the parties barbarian found herself buried under ruble, the Druid shapeshifted into an earth elemental to try and dig her out ( not healing fomr first earthquake or the club upside the head he had taken) only to get crushed by the next Earthquake spell, Alas poor hunter was not long for this world, and

Name of PC: Thrall( yea I know)
Class/Level: Half-Orc Fighter / 8
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Catalyst: A very big Club
Story: same encounter as above, Left with only 7 HP to his name and a 5' adjust from Lokansir, this 1/2 Orc thought it would be smarter to back away and pop a potion or 2, only to get taken out by a 35 point club attack.

Name of PC: Eddrick Mornay
Class/Level: Human Cavalier / 6
Adventure: Hook mountain Massacre
Catalyst: Large Rusty Hook
Story: after winning the heart of Shelelu this noble warrior started forming plans for his future with the woman he loved, they had recently captured the goblin fort of thistletop and was having it rennovated, and discovering that his beloved Shelelu was now pregnant, Eddrick decided that after he helped his freinds free Fort Rannick from the twisted Kreegs that he and Shalelu were going to retire and raise a family properly, however in the final battle with Jargaath, Eddrick was distracted about all these events in his life and failed to raise his shield in time to prevent the large rusty hook from driving thru his skull, and there his dreams and plans spilled on the floor at the hands of an inbred ogre.


Name of PC Wesh
Class/Level Fighter 2
Adventure Burnt Offerings
Catalyst A certain tiny witch ...

Story:
The party encountered Elyrium in her sanctum, and during the fight, Wesh was put to sleep. And then the nearby Sinspawn dropped a coup-de-grace on our poor fighter ...

Name of PC Meylom
Class/Level Wizard 2
Adventure Burnt Offerings
Catalyst A certain rickety bridge ...

Story:
The party dealt with the goblins in the thistles rather handily, and then they came to the bridge. After scoping it out, they decided the best course of action would be to charge across it in one go, so as to minimize exposure to any arrow fire from the keep.

Maybe I didn't describe it well enough, because no-one thought to search for traps, and sure enough they all go over, bridge collapses, and the only person to fail his save was the wizard.

A few rounds later, the poor guy drowned, despite his party members best efforts to dive in and save him ...

Cheliax

Name of PC: Pitch, lover of the Forest
Class/Level: Gnome Druid / 3
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Assumptions of the extent of Goblin Misogony
Story: When Chief Ripnugget beckoned him to come forwards and engage in parlay, the peace loving gnome gladly obliged. He was just the right amount of respectful and his speech contained enough non-sequiturs to even contain even Ripnugget's attention, but when the conversation turned to Nualia, things went sour. The Chief, infatuated, could not be convinced to turn on her, but when the Gnome offered to "buy" her, it was the last straw, and Ripnugget initiated combat, ordering his commando's to move in.
Pitch was accosted by one, slicing him, but nowhere near downing him. But Valiant Ripnugget, supported by steadfast Stickfoot charged him, and rolled a 20, as a result, the damage was multiplied by three and the peaceful Gnome met a grisly end.

Silver Crusade

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Name of PC: Elisa "Crow" Bloodgru
Class/Level: Half-Elf Gunslinger 4 Fighter 5 Rogue 1
Adventure: Hook Mountain
Catalyst: Letting Lucrecia run away the first time
Story: Lucrecia escaped via a dimension door the first time they fought her, so I gave her another level and had her sitting at Barl's feet in the Clanhold. As the fight began she began burning fourth level spells. She targeted the cleric with a Phantasmal Killer, but the fortitude save was made. Then she tried the same thing against "Crow" and the former pirate screamed in terror and dropped dead instantly.

The party had amassed a great deal of wealth and "Crow"'s cohort was going to use the money to bring her back.


Name of PC: Dirk Wilhelm
Class/Level: Human Paladin of Erastil 3
Adventure: Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: The Shadows
Story:

Spoiled for HUGE:
Being formerly been a Barbarian on a path of revenge, Dirk was converted by Father Zantus on the way to bring justice to the land of Varsia after saving Sandpoint. Upon days of reflection, he changed from his Barbarian ways and became a Paladin of Erastil to support his love of the family unit. After dispatching Nualia with ease(seriously. Evil Outsider vs a Paladin using Smite Evil. Not even REMOTELY fair), the group healed up what they could, and continued to explore the lower level of the ruins. After meeting(and running from) Malfeshnekor, healing at Sandpoint and getting enhanced weapons/armor, they went for another run at the lower level.
Instead of going immediately for him, they went for the path they hadn't been able to access previously, as the Alchemist and Monk who were left behind to make sure Malfy couldn't leave found the way to open the doors with the golden pillar. After entering the room slowly, the three Shadows attacked. Two grouped on the front-line Wilhelm, while the third hit the Ranger in the back.
Channeling Energy, he drew the ire of the two front Shadows while the Rogue attempted to assist from behind one. Without his Sneak Attack, they were unable to defeat the Shadows before a pair of deadly strikes(4 and 3) drained what remained of his strength. His allies gained swift vengeance, with the Monk, Ranger and Alchemist letting the Shadows fade from existence. The Paladin rose next round to attempt to kill his allies, but the Monk again Flurry'd him down, and let his soul rest in peace.
He is survived by Zephry the Kobold Rogue, who will be raising one of the Goblin babies from Thistletop as a Paladin in his name.

I tried to fudge the roll at the end that brought him to -2, but the player was fine with the death. First one of the campaign, and first one since I've started GMing. I felt as bad as I did good about it.


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Name of PC:Farak Bararr
Class/Level: Dwarwen Cleric 3
Adventure:Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Nualia

Name of PC:Hurrg
Class/Level: Dwarwen Barbarian 3
Adventure:Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Nualia

Story: Both was taken prisoner after a party split. The 3 remaining adventurers tried to take Thistletop, but had to flee to survive.
Farak and Hurrg was beheaded by Nualia, and their bodies were consumed by Yeth hounds. A glorius sacrifice to Lamasthu!


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Asmo wrote:

Name of PC:Farak Bararr

Class/Level: Dwarwen Cleric 3
Adventure:Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Nualia

Name of PC:Hurrg
Class/Level: Dwarwen Barbarian 3
Adventure:Burnt Offerings
Catalyst: Nualia

Story: Both was taken prisoner after a party split. The 3 remaining adventurers tried to take Thistletop, but had to flee to survive.
Farak and Hurrg was beheaded by Nualia, and their bodies were consumed by Yeth hounds. A glorius sacrifice to Lamasthu!

What an awesome post 666! Nothing like a sacrifice to an evil demon goddess to make a poster proud!


I agree. This is awesome. Best 666 post ever. Lamashtu be praised for the offerings she was given!


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Name of PCs: Gnfr; Mrxyf
Class/Level: Fighter 10; Ranger 10
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants (3.5)
Catalyst: Jotun Blood Hill Giant
Story: Not much of one, other than just taking way too much damage.

Name of PCs: Ozvanna
Class/Level: Sor/Rog/Arcane Trickster
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants (3.5)
Catalyst: Disintegrate
Story: Mokmurian filled the hall with fog...

Spoiler:
and Ozvanna turned invisible and tried to fly over it, she wasn't anticipating the power-up suit including see invisibility. The disintegration ray reduced her to fine mist. The tension broke when Mokmurian next turned the ranger into a fluffy white bunny.


Name of PCs: Imaharu
Class/Level: Kitsune Barbarian 12
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Catalyst: Zaelsar
Story: Leeroy Jenkins into the lamia, went one on one while the party dealt with her sister. 3rd round in her Falchion went crit, crit, crit, and Imaharu fell over dead.

Name of PCs: Snips
Class/Level: Hippogrif animal companion to Zangar Dwarf Wiz 8/Ranger 4
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Catalyst: Lokansir
Story: Hill Giant brained it over and over again into fine paste

Name of PCs: Star Cutter
Class/Level: Roc animal companion to Galdirae Aasimar Druid 12
Adventure: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Catalyst: Ogre Fighters in Jorgenfist
Story: Roc took on the Ogres killed one, but one critted and made a mess of the poor bird.


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Name of PC: Yari
Class/Level: Lvl 7 Barbarian (grappling specialist)
Adventure: The Skinsaw Murder: Shadows of Time
Catalyst: The Scarecrow
Story: Honestly, I didn't think the Scarecrow would manage this, but against an over-sized party (there are 9 players in my group) but, attacking from hidden, the Scarecrow managed serious amounts of damage to a sorcerer and a cleric.

After the cleric and the sorcerer managed to fly out of the Scarecrows reach, it turned its attention to the next target, a monk (the replacement PC for the player that lost a wizard earlier in the campaign) and took the monk down to negative hit points (at which point, the PC expected a repeat of his wizard and started rolling a replacement character). But this wasn't to be the monks time.

Yari the barbarian, raging at the near death of his companion (or not - he'd probably be the first one to loot the body) charged and grappled the Scarecrow, and the cleric and paladin brought the monk back from the brink of death. But the Scarecrow managed to escape the grapple and with one might swing of it's scythe (nat 20 and confirmed crit) eviscerated the barbarian. The rest of the party panicked at the death of thier comrade escaped up the tower.

Four weeks to the next session and the big showdown.

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