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I had this random idea and within seconds it blew up into a mini adventure idea. So i thought id post it.
Do you have a pc that you played in yester-year, a pc that died to fast, or one that you felt like you didnt give it justice?
Well dust it off, cuts its time to play "PC ressurection", the game where you give these pcs another opportunity at life, or death.
How do i join? You ask.
i will tell you. Simply submit your pc and what happened with it. Died in opening sequence? Rolled a 1 on breathing? Or, my favorite, "these stats suck, so ill lead the charge with my 8 str barbarian."
Yes its that easy.
No level requirments. If enough people apply that are close enough in level, then the level will be their average.
Well I did have a level 16 fighter that I was quite fond of. I think a lot of people would feel some kind of fondness for a character you level that high. I mean there's a lot of guys I see the same way when they level a marital from 3 to 16. Essentially the rest of the party was so incompetent that I went away for one session and the entire campaign world was irrevocably damaged. He completed the campaign (basically soloed it because of either flakey or outright malicious PCs), but it just felt like, it wasn't even really an ending worth fighting for. He saved the half of the country his hometown was in. The equivalent of a nuke went off in the country's capital. The end was a kind of 'this is what winning feels like?' moment. I just wrote off that the guy marched off into the sunset. I thought maybe it'd be nice to use that character again either as himself or perhaps make him an element of another pcs story.
I also made a level 11 happy-go-lucky crane monk from the North Korea/Communist China nation of Bachaun. I played him for about a half hour. I think he left an impression nevertheless.
That may be a bit high. I may want to look for something lower level for these forums.
Either way, I dig this idea. I'll definitely be following along whatever happens.
I dig the 'old-fogies last hurrah' kind of idea. Sounds like fun!
I have a Pc that did not die in pathfinder but died in 5th edition at 3rd level if that is allowed. All I would have to do is convert him to a pathfinder character.
Here goes, me and the party had a fight against 2 displacer beasts and after blooding the beasts badly they ran. We were in a mysterious forest. And as an optional quest, we were given the opportunity to chase after these beasts and follow them into the cave. As one of the displacer beasts intentionally showed us his tracks so we can follow him. We could not finish the beasts off with ranged attack after they ran, because we could not see far into the forest as it was covered with mist. After the mist cleared up, we could clearly see where the beasts went by the intentional trail it left us. Nobody in the party wanted to finish them off except me. My character was not only a Barbarian who thought finishing them off was a good idea, but was also heading to the cave thinking he would find lots of good treasure. Not to mention his character flaw said, "no one can fool me better than I can fool others." meaning he thought he could outsmart 2 displacer beasts and kill them even if it meant going in alone. When he found the cave, he saw both displace beasts right away, they were eating a dead body they killed the day before (Npc) and I got a surprise round on them. Considering that the cave was only so wide, the character decided to stay at the entrance of the cave to shoot at them with the bow in the surprise round, but misses with the one attack he gets, since the beasts were large size, only 1 of them could be in melee with him at a time, as opposed to meeting them in the forest where 2 can be on him at once. Or move about freely. Yes the cave was narrow, narrow enough that if I stand at the entrance only one can see me at a time, but the ceiling was about 15 feet high. One of the diplacer beasts jumps over top of the other one and over my head during round 1, despite having rolled a 5 on the dice. Soon they were flanking me. And they took my character down to 1 HP and he had 1 rage left. He spends his last rage, switches to his melee weapon and actually hits the beast even with disadvantage on attack roll because of the displacement ability (in 5th addition, you roll twice for disadvantage and take the lower result). The first two attack from the first beast misses, but the next one gets two attack and hits me and I go down. And yes, there was treasure in that cave, that body had 400 gold on it, but he died trying to be brave, to finish off what he started, even though the party didn't want to go, he traveled all by himself confident he could take them on. And when I brought in a replacement character, the DM said I roleplayed my character so well, he gave me an inspiration point for my replacement character who was a ranger level 1 who leveled up to 2 at the end of the scenario, though the ranger appeared next to the party, not in the cave where he could get himself killed. This all happened at an organized play game called Tell Tree Tale
My first long term character was a halfling thief named Antroth, whom I played for roughly 4 years back in my early teens. First he was made as a straight 2nd edition thief, then we acquired some of the Complete books, he gained the "swashbuckler" kit, focused heavily on using scrolls to masquerade as a wizard, and later the DM added in a set of luck rules to match my playstyle as the ultimate risktaker. The character was pint-sized Porthos meets Indiana Jones, and was a constant source of misadventure and amusement for the party. Yet in the darkest moments, he always stepped out and saved the party. Sadly, I was playing with friends that were all a couple years older than me, and as they left for college, our gaming group disbanded before the conclusion of the campaign we were in. Prior to that time, my character had been acknowledged by the Crown, was running a 'noble' thieve's guild during a civil war, and basically was a land-based privateer hassling those who had betrayed our noble king. We talked about picking the game up some years later, but that never came to fruition.
I should note that I just recently found a copy of his character sheet at 7th level (this thing dates back to the late 90's), though Antroth was actually 9th level when the game ended.
Anyway, I would love to recreate Antroth as a Pathfinder character, and play him through another grand quest!
I would like to play. I died with in the first scene in another pathfinder campaign because the Gm thought i was cheating.
Stats are in the block
@rizzen, only 4 so far, but that would make a party...
I don't have many people that died in actual combat, more that the campaign died or fizzled.
I wish the best of luck to get the group going.
I give a +1 to the idea that a group of all venerable/old PC could be interesting, but a checks/balances would have to be done to prevent an all party of wizards.clerics/caster/druids :)
I'm with Gilthanis, I have a bunch of PCs that were in games that died out, fizzled or were just replaced with new ones.
If such a PC were allowed, I have plenty I could pick from.
Likewise, I have plenty of old PbP characters from fizzled games, and at a wide variety of levels besides...
I give a +1 to the idea that a group of all venerable/old PC could be interesting, but a checks/balances would have to be done to prevent an all party of wizards.clerics/caster/druids :)
Maybe just a simple ruling; no full caster classes.
Hmm. All the characters with memorable deaths I've had were 3.5e era ones. There's really something to say about playing your character all the way up there from level 1, wherever "all the way up there" happen to be. Hmm. I had an 8th level sorcerer who ended up dying from setting fire to a forest(I was young and stupid, my first character ever), and then my next memorable character was a 12th level duskblade who died fighting the good fight in the demonweb pits... I might try to ressurect that one, I'd like to take him on a good spin again.
I've mostly been GMing in pathfinder, playing online (those have a tendency of collapsing, or are slow-burn enough that I've yet to make it very far), or playing zombie modern or star wars d20 when other people GM. It's a bit sad, really. I suppose I could try bringing in my 5th level jedi padawan, but it wouldn't really be the same thing.
Well, I do have a chaotic evil e6 Bard/Ranger that I'm quite fond of. I don't think she's appropriate, though.
Duskblade it is. I think magus would be the appropriate conversion, but I might go with eldritch knight instead, if that turns out to fit better.
Or maybe magus/eldritch knight. It's a shame they can't use two-handed weapons; that guy strode into battle with his trusty greatsword and mithral full plate.
Like many others this character didn't die, the game died. Or maybe the GM died. I don't know. He stopped posting in recruitment. The truly disappointing thing was how much we all had to work to make a character only to have the DM disappear. He wanted like five level 6 gestalt characters. I went back and forth so many times to build the ideal I had in my head. And just when I thought I was happy the game ended. Now he floats in a void of unplayed characters all floating in my head and waiting for an outlet. Waiting for game to give them meaning and definition, even if it is only on a pbp board. He is one of my favorite characters because he is based off of one of my favorite characters.
@rizzenmagnus, so what do you think, enough interest to get this rolling?