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Given that this is a dangerous AP and you never stay dead long in it, I thought it would be fun to have an obituary page, in the same vein (heh) as Rise of the Rune lords and other APs.
Where and how have my fellow GMs killed PCs?
Please try to include
Name of PC:
Class/Level:
Adventure:
Catalyst:
Story:
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Name of PC: Mousey
Class/Level: Ranger 2
Adventure: Zombie Feast - Graydirge Bank
Catalyst: Scythe trap
Story: Not much to tell. With a +14 bonus to hit, the trap crits at a lot at level 2 (13 or over), and the damage is very swingy, it's easy to hit for huge damage. It hit for over 60 HP damage.
It happened twice as well technically, as one of her friends opened the other door. Elf with low HP.
The group is a bunch of kids, so I was soft and didn't auto-kill them, especially since they didn't even know about the rule. Instead I destroyed their light armor.
We just wrapped up our Blood Lords campaign with Book 3 due to scheduling issues. Here is the complete list of character obituaries from our 3 book campaign.
Name of PC: Sir Bartholomew Arkalot AKA Sir Barkalot
Class/Level: 2nd-level Thaumaturge
Ancestry/Undead: Ghost Shoony
Adventure: Zombie Feast - Graydirge Bank
Catalyst: Zombie Shambler Troop
Story: Good old Sir Barkalot was holding back the shambler troop door in an attempt to let our Reanimator (or w.e. that archetype was called) Sir Scapula attempt diplomacy with the mindless undead. It did not turn out well.
Name of PCs: Styx and Sif
Class/Level: 3rd-level Rogue and Magus
Ancestry/Undead: Living Goblin, Vampire Sprite Tiefling
Adventure: Zombie Feast - Final Boss
Catalyst: Final Boss Encounter
Story: The two got cooked by the cauldron before we were able to disable it.
Name of PC: Michael
Class/Level: 4th-level Sorcerer
Ancestry/Undead: Living Human(?)
Adventure: Graveclaw - Axan Woods
Catalyst: Cairn Wights
Story: The rest of the party being immune to the Cairn Wight's abilities made them focus-target the squishy melee-sorcerer. RIP Michael, we hardly knew ye (he was the replacement for the Goblin rogue)
Name of PCs: Bovar Hellhorn, Sherrashad al-Sairenia
Class/Level: 4th-level Champion and Sorcerer
Ancestry/Undead: Minotaur Skeleton and Elf Vampire
Adventure: Graveclaw - Iron Tavia's Hut
Catalyst: Iron Tavia's Hut
Story: After facing off against a pretty tough, but manageable encounter against Iron Tavia, her hut did immediately attempt to eat us. And eat us it did.
Name of PC: Henley Vitell
Class/Level: 5th-level Swashbuckler
Ancestry/Undead: Human(?) Dhampir
Adventure: Graveclaw - Sunken Urgathoa Temple
Catalyst: Sahni Bride-of-the-Sea
Story: I don't remember the details, but between the Axen Woods and Sallowshore a player left and we got another friend to join as a replacement, and after one-and-a-half session his Swashbuckler got killed in the fight against Sahni Bride-of-the-Sea.
Name of PC: Vashir
Class/Level: 7th-level Champion
Ancestry/Undead: Nagaji Ghoul
Adventure: Graveclaw - Yled
Catalyst: Geist and haunts
Story: During our battle in Nathelma's office Vashir the ghoul laid down his life for his creator (more on him right below) and pushed Naxxarus out of the room before being destroyed himself.
Name of PC: Naxxarus Nexxus
Class/Level: 7th-level Wizard
Ancestry/Undead: Living Elf
Adventure: Graveclaw - Yled
Catalyst: Wraith Guards
Story: So after having his creation valiantly sacrifice its life for his own, Naxxarus proceeded to eat s*%@ in the immediate next encounter. We knocked on the door to Nathelma's home, and a bunch of wraiths came out of the house and ganged up on the only living creature in the party (thus the only one they could actually hurt). He got better. Kinda.
Name of PCs: The Mummy With No Name, Pazuzu
Class/Level: 7th-level Gunslinger and Bard
Ancestry/Undead: Human Mummy, Living Fetchling(?) Bard
Adventure: Graveclaw - Yled
Catalyst: Fireball
Story: Bursting out of the cupboard like a Left 4 Dead respawn, the Mummy With No Name joined the gang in the fight against Nathelma. Sadly the fight went sideways and a retreat was called. As it was called Pazuzu the bard was knocked unconscious, and before the Mummy With No Name could leave Scander Mord (our Skeleton Sorcerer) threw a fireball back into the room with Pazuzu, the Mummy, Nathelma, and her apprentices. This fireball then downed the Mummy, killed Nathelma, and her remaining apprentices. But this was not discovered until after the party returned. At which point Pazuzu and the Mummy had failed all their death saving throws.
Name of PCs: Sir Scapula, Naxxarus Nexxus, Scander Mord, Thyandrai Zyandanna, Maia, Morrigan Lunaria
Class/Level: 9th-level Cleric, Wizard Necromancer, Sorcerer, Thamathurge, Rogue, and Barbarian
Ancestry/Undead: Compact Skeleton, Elf Wraith, Skeleton, Elf Dhampir, Fleshwarp Ghoul, Living Human Werewolf
Adventure: Field of Maidens - Field of Maidens
Catalyst: Ghast Outlaws
Story:
"It's just a sidequest, how hard can it be?"
-Fameous last words of a party about to TPK.
We fought a bunch of Ghast Outlaws in the Field of Maidens. Had them down to the wire when it turned out there was an entire 2nd wave of ghouls/ghasts ready to kill us immediately after. No one survived. A new party was rolled up. I want to particularly give a shout-out to Sir Scapula who had been with us since the start of the campaign.
Name of PC: Lanfirana Sairenia
Class/Level: 10th-level Necromancer
Ancestry/Undead: Vampire Nephilim
Adventure: Field of Maidens - Field of Maidens
Catalyst: Hungry, Hungry Bullette
Story: Our new party encountered a bunch of Bullettes with a taste for undead flesh. The reborn Pazuzu fled to the skies leaving one undead to be muched upon by the Bullettes. RIP Lanfirana
And that brings us to the end of our fallen comrades. We finished Book 3 today, and though we did not win we surprisingly did not have another death. One can argue that being mind-controlled by a undead mindpire is worse, but hey, we take our wins where we can get them.