D&D General Poll: Have You Lost a Character to Ghouls.

[Ralif Redhammer]

Inspired by @Whizbang Dustyboots ruminating on the danger of ghouls, how many of you have lost a character to ghouls/ghasts and their paralysis?

RIP J'rrik Greysword, eaten by a pair of ghouls in 3e.

 

[CleverNickName]

I've lost many characters to liches, banshees, and vampires (and a skeleton once, because of a lucky shot). But never to a ghoul.

 

[lowkey13]

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[toucanbuzz]

Does this question apply to DMs as well? (Have you ever killed a character with a ghoul?)

EDIT: with that option, then yes, in Curse of Strahd. I saw no reason once a player was paralyzed that ghouls, as beings possessed of unending hunger, wouldn't tear into a meal. They began to eat the character alive.

 

[Jediking]

Not a player, but the player's animal companion and faithful Mastiff mount.
The Gnome wizard was unconscious at that point, it was tough fight and the bard was only able to save one...

Tito was a good boy, then he was a good meal.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Mmm, good point. Added a fourth option to the poll.

Does this question apply to DMs as well? (Have you ever killed a character with a ghoul?)

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Not to ghouls, but I did lose a character to a creature that uses paralysis: a cave fisher.

”Fast Eddie” Edylrith Clark, plucked untimely from the air over an underground chasm.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Dannyalcatraz]

“She”, but otherwise, yeah!

Although...my REAL “stopp'd before he could start” PC was Klor-Kon, a .5Orc Bounty-Hunter (Ranger) who busted down a door in a dungeon and...fell into an underground chasm.*

This was just after the first encounter.



* hmmm...I’m seeing a pattern.

 

[One Horse town]

No. Lost an ad&d cleric to a single kobold once though, but we don't talk about that...