Hi,
just wondering, how did your characters died? was it hubris, bad luck or simply stupidity that brought you down?
Please tell your story, so that we may remember you!
Here I go:
1)
3.5
Fist PC ever, elf Wizard5 named Turiel, died grappled by a giant crab during a giant crab hunting competition.
There was this shore where the farthest you went the bigger crabs you found. I and my group went a bit too far (there was a time limit so we had to take our chances) and found one a bit too strong for us.
After that the other PCs buried me into the pincer of the crab (which they eventually killed): as a noble elf I could have really hoped for something a bit more proper.
2)
3.5
Half-elf duskblade8 named Rendir.
During a tough fight against a barbarian harmed with an anchor (yeah, a large pick I guess, pretty cool if you ask me) I was kind of low on health. I decided to put an end to the fight and kill the guy with a quickened true strike and an all-out power attack (3.5 with really high strength, it had to do the job!!). Well, I rolled 1 on the attack and missed. The guy attacked me and rolled a nat 20 followed by something like 18-19. You can guess what happened.
The barbarian was eventually killed by the other guys but brought back by a necromancer a bit later (and this time killed by my druid).
3)
3.5
Human fire sorcerer11 (maybe 12, dunno) named Dar-es: I was playing the PC from like 3 years (every week) and the second PC I've had played (different group from the wizard and duskblade above).
We were up against something like a red-dragon. It seemed powerful but I was well protected (immunity to fire as from protection from energy on top of my energy resistance, almost full hp, an object that let you burn a spell and grant 2*spell level DR/- for one round), outside his reach and while the other PCs took cover from its fire breath I was standing boldly and blasting its ass.
I didn't even thought to roll a knowledge check and was quite surprised when I was hit by a disintegrating breath, which I failed on a rolled 16 or so. Turned out to be some crazy dragon from an obscure manual. Now I roll knowledge check even for goblins.
Even if the DM was against resurrection I managed to annoy him enough with a munchkin gish to convince him to let the other PCs to bring Dar-es back to life.
4)
PF
Human sword&board fighter8 named Azan (different name at the beginning but the other players continued to forget it so I choose a simpler one. I complained a lot at their lack of memory: funny that I can't remember it now).
One of the other PCs, a rogue, managed to get poisoned and unconscious (con damage, only one round before he died with his fort save) because of some stupid idea while fighting a mix of dragon and vyvern. I moved in to give him a potion of neutralize poison (the other PCs were too wounded to do it) and got downed by a critical hit + con damage (I took the chance because the monster needed a 18 or so to hit me). The other 2 players got killed immediately after in the first TPK of my life.
Well, that's all: not so bad if you consider a total of about 15 PCs played till retirement.
Now you go!
Playing a 3.5 barbarian, I got Phantasmal Killer'd.
Despite a +14 fort save, a natural one is still death.
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I have yet to have a character die.
I have seen a fighter get one-shotted by a double scorching ray to the face. I have seen a raging barbarian without Raging Vitality get critted while at moderately low HP, taking him into negs and causing his rage to end and reduce his CON/HP back to normal levels, killing him on the spot. I've seen a level 1 monk get critted by a heavy pick - no one survives that at level 1. I've heard of a local monk at level... was it 2?... get critted by a x2 weapon and die in one hit because he built his melee monk with 8 CON.
But personally, I'm a defense whore, so my PCs don't die. ;)
Lvl 15 Ezekial, Shadar-Kai Rogue. He was CE and more or less despised by the party. Although as the game continued he became less evil and the party began to like him. Sadly it was a little to late for Ezekial. After a seductress lured him into his own pocket plane(that existed for 8hrs at a time/once a day, for resting) He was naked, alone, and fighting unarmed, but eventually knocked her out.
He escaped, full of life, and joy, and ready to live a long and prosperous life. He was of course killed attempting to kill an evil purple dragon 3hrs later. The cleric also died in that fight. Having lived through the sexy assassin who would have thought a dragon would have done him in -_-
And to top things off his soul was trapped in the plane of the dead with a cleric who had hated him in life. Resurrection impossible. I'm sure the constant nagging of the cleric makes him wish he had landed in the Abyss. Poor Ezekial...
Hi,
just wondering, how did your characters died?
Double past-tense; internet meme reference or genuine typo?
Anyway, about dying characters I have a great many stories to tell, as I tend to get suicidal with my characters when I get bored of them (which is all the time)
Let's see here. My first DnD character:
3.0 Fire Genasi Rogue (lvl 4 I think, maybe 5): Our party met a circus troupe and their enigmatic leader offered us to draw cards from a deck of many things. My character's alignment got turned 180° (the party was evil, just like my own character who was of the chaotic variety), so he started to exact vengeance upon his companions for all the horrible things they did in a suicidal fit of guilt. The Barbarian who just seconds before was his best friend put the rogue down and then wanted to take vengeance on the mysterious circus ringmaster who just so happened to be a white dragon in disguise. The party's bard lost all her stuff and was killed by a troll with fighter levels and the wizard was the only one who survived, the only negative card he drew was the imprisonment card (other than that he got 2 or 3 levels worth of XP and another card I don't remember)
3.0 Human Fighter (lvl ~7, also not entirely sure): Got eviscerated by ghouls when I got tired of her and wanted her to make way for a catfolk rogue
3.0 Catfolk Rogue (lvl ~8): See a pattern? Yeah she also died just to make way for a new character. I don't remember how though, but it was not exactly dignified, and I didn't like the way she went. After that came am Earth Genasi Fighter with some really cool fluff quirks which i could see myself sticking with for quite a while, but the campaign got cut off, due to adult people schedules.
PFRPG Gnome Summoner (lvl 3): Died along with the rest of his party when falling for the most obvious trap in the world. The party was basically invited by their then opponent to switch sides, but it turned out they just got tricked and butchered. Which is sad, because I liked the character. Just like I liked my Fire Genasi rogue. What this event taught me, is that GMs should never kill off my first character in their campaign because it always triggers a chain, of me making new characters and throwing them away a few sessions later because I get bored of them, when i was perfectly happy with the original.
PFRPG Human Beastmaster Ranger (lvl 4): The GM was unhappy with me having several animal companions and at the same time I got bored of the character so we arranged for her to be replaced. Although the character didn't actually die, she was left behind fending off some sort of evil moose demon (and the GM didn't really seem like a JCVasquez fan to me) and later returned as a villain (being consumed by the cursed axe she used to fight the demon). I wasn't around for the finale of the campaign but I assume the party killed her.
PFRPG Kobold Barbarian (lvl 5): Now this was an awesome one. But it was just intended as a joke in the first place and only entered as a filler character until I figured out what it wanted to play next. I actually have a hard time remembering what happened to him too. I think he died when getting a little too reckless in a battle of some sort.
He was followed by a goblin samurai, that actually lived until I left the campaign (I only intended for it to be temporary, but I didn't get back into it before the campaign was finished).
If you're gonna die, die with your boots on. If you're gonna cry, just move along.
I haven't had any character die yet, emphasis on YET.
That said, the gnome cleric in our group has bit it 3 times so far in the campaign. Funny thing is, it's always due to fire damage. It's become a bit of a meme "Oh no, she's close to zero. Don't worry, no fire so she's safe."
My own RP system/rules
When playing a completely home brewed game with my girl and her sister. I was playing a Human bard/fighter as a DM. I didnt do much but try to heal or do some damage to enemies here and there as I was the DM and I didnt want to be the typical DM-PC IM THE BEST PLAYER EVAR character so I hung back. Eventually while fighting zombie/skeleton things on the dead planet. I am currently the only player to die in my own campaign, with my own setting and own rules. LOL
We have had several close calls however.
My favorite: Tackling a newly-ascended demi-god into a pool of anti-magic lava that had been created to contain the Terrasque, and then holding him, while burning to death, for three rounds, which was enough to kill us both.
Oh lets see here....if I go with only the characters that I've played in 3.5 and Pathfinder... (I've been roleplaying since before many of you were born...)
Dar - Cleric of Strength (Known for making potions into sticks that required a Strength check to break and free the magical power. The higher the potion level...the higher the Strength check required to break.) - Shattered City - 3.5 - entire party captured by slavers, campaign ended. I didn't die. HA!
Thorn - Archivist - Age of Worms - 3.5 - a plant creature snuck up on us while we were sleeping. Whomever was on watch didn't realize it. The group got entangled. Being entangled while prone sucks moose dung. I couldn't break free with my 9 Strength and died from the creatures venomous thorns.
Ting-Tang Walla-Walla Bing-Bang - Lizardman Druid (sort of a combination of Rafiki from Lion King and the Lemur King from Madagascar) - Age of Worms - 3.5 - 75% of the party died in the Arena. Campaign Ended. I didn't Die. HA!
Tabor - Dwarven Drunken Monk - Second Darkness - Pathfinder - I'm not dead yet! I may have fallen afoul of aboleth slime, but we're still kicking! In another dimention and on temporary hiatus, but kicking!
My first, and only Epic level character. Whose name I have completely forgotten how to spell >> ( Dragonborn Cleric, Made it too...25 I believe ) Ended up sacrificing herself to implode a Planar breach to the Far Realm from the other side.
Making a final stand against his ancient enemies, the snakemen, when he managed to finally enter their bottom of the sea domed city. There were thousands of them, and a buddy chose to stay with me. We died, of course, but we killed more than a thousand of them before they brought in their mages.
Good times. Superheroes are fun.
Hi,
just wondering, how did your characters died?Double past-tense; internet meme reference or genuine typo?
nope, just a typo
Hm. My last two character deaths both involved suffocation... Maybe I should consider that ioun stone that makes it so you no longer require air more carefully...
Ahah, my catfolk ranger8 and another PC (sorcerer8) risked to suffer the same fate last session, paralyzed underwater against mere chuul. Got saved by the witch which trow us out of water using her prehensile hair.
The only encounter of the last two month below our level and yet maybe the most dangerous one: being underwater unprepared sucks.My favorite: Tackling a newly-ascended demi-god into a pool of anti-magic lava that had been created to contain the Terrasque, and then holding him, while burning to death, for three rounds, which was enough to kill us both.
man, that's cool!
Speaking of death: one of the most common way to die in my group is forgetting to take a 5ft step from the enemy while drinking a potion of cure wound. At least two if not more died this way, and many more were spared by the DM out of pity.
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Been a DM most of my 20+ years of gaming and I can honestly say, only one character I've played has ever died.
D&D 3.0 I can't recall his name, class or race because it was the first session and we had a TPK. The modules was The Shattered Circle (?) and our group of 1st level characters decided to
I have had the pleasure as a DM to witness a particular occurance - 1 character dying which results in the rest of the party joining him a round or two later
D&D 1.0 Egil Grimson, Cleric
Egil was wearing a Helm of Brilliance, fully charged. He and the party encountered some type of ghost. Egil won initiative, pulled out his rod of lightning bolts and fired a bolt at the ghost. Now this was back when lightning bolts bounced so it went through the ghost and bounced back hitting Egil. Egil rolled a 1 on his save, then rolled a 1 on the save for his Helm of Brilliance... I've never rolled so many d6s in one go in my entire life. lol
D&D 3.0 Legsnas, Elven Ranger Archer
Towards the end of the Forge of Fury adventured the party had to climb down a 200ft ravine to reach the black dragon. Legsnas went first, slipped and fell to his death. The rest of the party climbed down to confront the dragon who used flight, breath weapon and wand of magic missile attacks to TPK the party. How you ask? Well none of the party had missile weapons and no one thought to grab Legsnas' magic bow and arrows.
Reebo