So I have only been playing Pathfinder for two and a half years. My stories are minimal. I have little to tell but recently in out S&S game I witnessed a very destructive PCs death, granted he had grown tired of the character. But this was horrifying.
The tale well we were in Bloodcove and most of the party was arrested. The captain, a Elf wizard/rouge. A human bard. And I, the noob, a Halfling Druid. The Captian went off on his own to do some recon on the prison and place explosives on a bridge. While the Bard and myself were to cause some commotion, a small riot, and hopefully get most of the city guards busy not being in the prison breakout. We started in the lower courter. And we did start a heated argument between to factions, I think they were Halflings and Half-Orcs. Very few guards came up to deal with the mass of unruly people. He and I decided to split up I would go closer to the prison and meet up with the caption who should be done placing his bombs. The Bard assured me he had this and I trusted him. Cause some trouble and start some fights I said. So I went to meet my caption and to watch the atrocity he committed.
So the Bard, Hedrick, had apparently given up on life and wanted to go out with a bang. He went to the rich district. Now Bloodcoves rich district is has a higher elevation and he went many levels up. It's apparently built into the edge of the jungle and has lots of rope bridges. Why does this matter you ask well read on.
So the Hedrick had this spell he wanted to use, Snapdragon Fireworks. He was looking for an Alchemy or Gunsmith shop. He finds a Alchemy shop and he shoots of his spell and BOOM! Dozens of Alchemical items when off. Fire is everywhere and falling to the lower levels. Panic has been enacted and Hedrick isn't done. He has like three of these spells ready to go. Now he has been identified by the guards and is being chased. To escape he tries to jump from one rope bridge to another. We assume it is over and he crits the reflex to catch the rope, he is safe. So armed with two more Snapdragon Firework spells to be used and a few moments before he is fleeing for his life again he sees a blacksmiths shop so boom. And the shop he was looking for originally, the Gunsmiths shop. That's right folks all the beautiful black powered meets lots of fire.
Bloodcove is now burning. I am horrified. The whole table is sitting in awe at this. We occasionally try to tell him no but he ignored the meta-gaming. The Guards have caught up to him so he charges them screaming. They remove his head after he actually damages some of them. This is the best he has ever rolled. The Horror of it all.
When it is all said and done he burned down a fifth or a quarter of Blookcove. We did liberate our party and the head of Hedrick is on some captains table. This is a death that will haunt the party for possibly the rest of the campaign. I don't know how in game it convince anyone that the group that escaped prison right when the city caught on fire isn't the group that burned down the city.
The DM has told us that his spirit is now in Hell. We joke that he could be a Demon summon later. I felt the need to share. Thank you for reading and if you would like to post your own bizarre PC death please do so.
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This is from 1st ed D&D:
Characters were about 40th level in a campaign that had lasted 4+ years. We were chasing down the main bad guy in a marathon all-night session. We tracked him across planes and finally corned him in the demiplane of oil.
Everything there was covered in oil and it rained oil from the sky. Lamp-type oil. The DM was very clear about that several times.
We had a tactic where the warrior types would get the opponents into melee and my wizard would cast fireballs on top of them. They had Rings of Fire Resistance so they would only take minimal damage. But here on the demiplane of oil, everything is flammable. We forgot about this and when I announced casting a fireball, the DM was surprised and reminded us about the oil raining from the sky. Sleep-deprived, we still didn't see a problem and insisted on doing it. The DM threw up his hands and said roll damage. So we did and then the DM multiplied the yield and area several times over. We destroyed everything. The whole plane. The bad guys and us all perished.
We decided to call it a win. End of the campaign.
A 1e game where the DM ruled that the party teleported into a herd of stampeding elk. The druid was overrun and killed before initiative could be rolled. Yeah, that DM could be a dick when it suited him.
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I did not see this, but it is a story told at my table; a very powerful rogue, who despite low HP, managed to be quite fast and deadly in combat. So, after the rogue and his invisible wizard buddy infiltrate the castle, steal some valuable documents, and assassinate a few guards they are forced to run for it.
The wizard casts invisibility, and the rogue heads for the fifth story window, then charges and leaps out (great acrobatics to gain maximum distance). The rogue then asks for feather fall from the Wizard... who did not prepare it for that day...
Long story short, crit fails to land (even with a reroll), and a hand full of alchemists fire make for an unhappy rogue player and a Wizard that never failed to prepare feather fall again.
Moral of the story, rogues should wear snapleafs, and wizards should always have feather fall prepared.
Lots of wow.
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In an evil campaign we played years ago, there was a bard who kept trying to poison party members. During one battle on the abyss, we were near a bottomless pit. The bard got hit with something and had to make a simple check to avoid falling in. He was teetering on the edge but passed his check. Another party member asked if he could "help" him fail the check, and fall. GM said yes. He even passed a bluff check to make it look like he had tried to help him.
Which is why evil PCs should still be loyal to each other. We have one who if we knew the stuff he did in game we would kill. Sadly my group refuses to play an evil game since some people might get too butt hurt.
Brutus3933 that is freaking awesome!
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Two years ago, me and my buddys played Rappen Athuk. Through out the year we played, I i have died more times than the entire rest of the party:
Death Note:
Kissed a Statue that I was inlove with in my back story, turns out the statue was cursed by a god.I got turned into dust, no save.
Super optimized Zen archer, Rolled a 6 against a insanity effect, went insane, got break enchanted by teammate, goes to open a door, rolled a 6 on my initiative, and then rolled a 6 to a flesh to stone. got turned into a statue. turns out a wizard was f!+#ing reading an action to "disintegrate" a statue. so I got comboed...
An old tactical human fighter in his retirement, walks into the room with the other two fighter, the two other fighters failed a trap of lust, and "violated" him, and then suicides because of pride.
Strength Drunken monk looking for the "best" alcohol in the world, got sent 10,000year in the past and met the first ever group of mountain-man that discovered wine....um.. died of old age.
An optimized stealth Ninja, first time showed up to the party, decided to roll play a ninja, party evil wizard had scent.(i didn't know the feat that blocks scent at this time), found me, and fireballed for no reason; refused to heal me after we met, So i started our first real encounter with only 1/3 of my HP, died to splash damage.
Optimized Life oracle with blackend cursed worshiping an Fire god, went into an volcano, and didn't want to cast first resist on himself, because it goes against his believes, also he gets healed when ever he take fire damage. The whole dungeon was dark, so with dark vision everything is black and white, the floors of the dungeon was glass, and beneath it is some "black liquid" GM described as acidic. we activated a trap and i feel into it with a cursed stone of heavyload..turns out its lava.. lol I returned to my god.
Murfolk archer, opening an door that we knew the boos is behind, forgot about it because there was a puzzel on the door. opened the door and then went: "wait a minute, isn't there's a "blah-blah" behind the door?" Died in the surprised round.
Optimized CN gunslinger, picked up an Choatic Demon Artifact sword, that had spell turning against spells casted from an lawful caster that we didn't know of. I was dieing to the guardian and our Lawful N witch tried to save me by casting teleport on my, my sword turned it back on my, left me there to die.
Optimized Stealther, went into the boss room, failed the constant aoe paralyze, and then got pulled underground by the ground!? died.
Optimized Natural attacker alchmist that does about 15 bleed damage a round along with good real damage, first encounter: 6 creatures that are immune to bleed.. ... party wizard didn't roll a knowledge check and just casts lightning bolt at those thing. Those things gets hasted and also gains temp from the electricity spell.... He died
Joe Lai that was all you from one game? If so damn that is an impressive list. I am on my third character for RotRL and I thought that was a lot.
And Brutus3933 that was probably a wise idea. I would love to mess with a deck of many things but the group I play with have years and decades on me and refuse.