A Cavern Hag ate my character

[arwink]

I try to have nothing but fun, memorable character deaths. It's usually a function of having a low wisdom score and a pachant for playing fighter-types who'se approach to the heroic approaches on idiotic.

The best is a cleric who attempted to body-slam a dragon in spiked armor while the rest of the party got away. We were on the elemental plane of air at the time, so falling was the viable method of getting around and a heavily armored creature free-falling as fast as they can do a lot of damage. I was toast, the dragon was wounded.

I've also been known to fall to my death when leaping at flying foes from rooftops, get my mangled corpses thrown out of darkened rooms by iron golems, have the obligatory three-eyeball shot from a beholder (survived one, but the flesh to stone got me. Thankfully, the party managed to find me for sale in a merchants gallery several levels later when another character died), get pummeled to death by ogres in my first combat round after the character joins the game, and getting hit by a wave of lava when fleeing down the side of an erupting volcano.

I don't get to play often, so I'm much more focused on the cool death than a cool life

 

[8XXX{0}====>]

I played the entirety of The Burning Plague surviving on my wits alone (being a rogue it was pretty hard when i only had 5hp (bad con), until the end when I got zapped by an invisible orc cleric with a charged inflict Serious

 

[8XXX{0}====>]

Oh, and I dive bombed a dragon a couple of times with my dwarven Barbarian Stimpy Vermincrusher. I would jump on to it, as a charge attack, which usually hit, then hold on to my axe (embedded in it somewhere). That owned, until it snatched me, and dropped me from a few hundred feet (when our archer shot it in the eye for max damage with a flaming arrow as it fled upwards, killing it dead).

 

[Moe Ronalds]

I've never had a character of my own die, but an NPC once did.

The characters were in a magial factory (know, they weren't going to get any of the nifty items) and picking random things off the conveyor belts. They didn't know what anything was, but unfortunately one of the characters had some experience.

Ranger draws necklace of fireballs. Wants to throw bead on the ground.

Barbarian says that's a bad idea.

Villain flies up to the ceiling.

Barbarian says: "Chuck the bead"

Villain explodes. Charred carcass falls into a vat of pure magical energy.
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Another time, one of the PCs got shot by BBEG's revolver (they were delving into a wild west-themed town, and came across a cowboy ogre.) PC had insane hitpoints. BBEG gets headshot. PC grunts and walks it off.

Next round: Another headshot. PC dead.

Later that round: Samurai screams and castrates badguy with katana.

Later, when returning into town:

Townspeople: but do you have any proof that you slew the beast?
Samurai: Yeah. *takes out wrapped parcel* Ladies, shield your eyes...

 

[TroyXavier]

In a recent game I was DMing, the party was having trouble with a demon(they were in the Abyss). The cleric had a good, if risky idea. He decided to use the Amulet of the Planes the party had to teleport him to a plane(I forget his intended plane), but failed the Knowledge check and was teleported to Mechanus. I decided there was a 10% chance a Fomorian Taskmaster would be nearby, and i rolled a 3. No matter, it's a DC 19 saving throw and he has a +17 will save. Yep, he rolled a 1. Not a death, but a really interesting end to a character....

 

[Nightfall]

Recently my former male gender troubled jagular catperson from mythic races go sacrificed to Cthulu...she's better now.

 

[BobROE]

Re: Re: A Cavern Hag ate my character

once i was playing in a post-apocalyptic game where the PCs found a nuclear weapon - and accidentally set it off (rolls to figure out the device were all critical failures)

they were at ground zero. they didn't feel a thing

I did something like this once. Can't really remember the particulars of the quest but it involved Limbo and Mechanus(sp?) colliding and doing nasty things to the multiverse. We were traveling through "Limbo" and we had a device that detected massive amounts of magically energy (one of which was supposed to be the source of the problem). So using this device we find a source which was a fountain in the middle of a town. Finding no means of activating/accessing this energy my dwarven fighter (or cleric) decides to hit the fountain with my weapon of choice. It breaks and this great beam of light shoots off into the sky. I took a mirror that my character had and a reflected the beam towards the horizon causing something (no idea what) explode. At this point the villagers were attacking us for breaking thier fountain. So I get the bright idea to use it as a weapon and blew up a few buildings as my companions killed/drove off the villagers off. Then I wondered what would happen if I reflected the beam straight down. As my party plane shifts away with a sword of the planes I finally got the angle right and BOOM myself and the planes of Limbo and Mechanus were destroyed. Ended that game quickly. So we played arenas for a day and a half.

 

[Angcuru]

Did the cavern hag use any condiments when she devoured your lifeless corpse? Tabasco sauce, perhaps?

 

[Pants]

I'm sure my Brooch of Shielding provided a spicy taste to my otherwise bland elven corpse

 

[Angcuru]

one should always have plenty of habenero peppers on hand just in case one is about to be devoured by something.