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So our first combat encounter for the night in my RL group. 3 level 8's, a level 6 (or 7, I don't remember) cohort, against an Amphisbaene.
Shoulda been a pushover, the monk was going gung-ho at it with flurry of blows and had it down to 11 hit points, next hit from anyone and it probably would have died so I'm feeling pretty relaxed. This encounter I'm not tracking the players HP because I figure I probably don't need to for this one.
I hit with its first head, all good, he gets poisoned, fails teh save, con damage.
Second head, I crit.
While he clears the smoke and calculates his damage with the con and stuff I go and get a drink, I come back to the table to the announcement "Carl is dead."
Well oops.
Congrats! Now Carl knows that he isn't special. They'll pool their resources and get Carl alived again (I suggest making reincarnate the only option). The game will continue and the party will be a bit more cautious... for a little while.
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I suppose you meant Character/PC not Player.
Well if you just did it I would reccomand calling the police. If it was truely a accident at most you might get manslaughter. But if you try to cover it up it will look very badly for you....
Oh you meant the player's character.
There was no accident there....are not the GM suppose to be in part trying to kill the PCs? I mean that is where the challenge comes from after all.
It really does just happen sometimes, and everyone's sad, and then they move on, but they also now know PC death IS a reality. I imagine your players know it was not intentional.