A poor death for a warrior
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Khayman
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Choked by a flying lobster in a Stormbringer game. Yep, a demonic flying lobster.
The only thing more pathetic was my previous character who spent 3/4 of a game session haggling with a shopkeep to buy a fricken bronze sword, and then was killed in the first encounter by a wolf the size of a pony. (My character in the next session failed his demon summoning roll, killed the party except for himself and a sorcerer, who were paralyzed. The sorcerer paid me back after he recovered by force-feeding me brain moss, which only amplified the sensations of starving to death. Never ever go into the Forest of Troos.)
The only thing more pathetic was my previous character who spent 3/4 of a game session haggling with a shopkeep to buy a fricken bronze sword, and then was killed in the first encounter by a wolf the size of a pony. (My character in the next session failed his demon summoning roll, killed the party except for himself and a sorcerer, who were paralyzed. The sorcerer paid me back after he recovered by force-feeding me brain moss, which only amplified the sensations of starving to death. Never ever go into the Forest of Troos.)
VoiceOfReason?
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My most pointless PC death was probably the 14th level wizard who decided he didn't need greater teleport because he had the regular version. I rolled a botch on my percentile roll and fell for lethal damage while trying to teleport from the group's base of operations to a library a few towns over (a day trip by horse to get there, get my info, and get back.)
Darkness
Hand and Eye of Piratecat [Moderator]
The game wasn't D&D, but D&D-like...
A Wizard PC finds a magic cloak in a very low-magic world. Somehow, he manages to get it to work and it enables him to turn into a bird of prey and fly.
Some time later, he's scheduled to meet a powerful nobleman and his beautiful daughter at a nearby castle.
Wanting to make an impression, he decides to wait on top of the tower until they arrive. Then he jumps and, in mid-air, commands the cloak to turn him into a bird so he can majestically swoop down and land in front of the two. Cool enough, but...[sblock]It had only one charge and he used it up in the testing.
Splat.[/sblock]
A Wizard PC finds a magic cloak in a very low-magic world. Somehow, he manages to get it to work and it enables him to turn into a bird of prey and fly.
Some time later, he's scheduled to meet a powerful nobleman and his beautiful daughter at a nearby castle.
Wanting to make an impression, he decides to wait on top of the tower until they arrive. Then he jumps and, in mid-air, commands the cloak to turn him into a bird so he can majestically swoop down and land in front of the two. Cool enough, but...[sblock]It had only one charge and he used it up in the testing.
Splat.[/sblock]
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Siegfried Niemand
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One borring weeknight, couple of the guys and I decided to play a little D&D. As a lark, we thought we'd run their 20th-25th level characters through DUNGEON Magazine's Glacier Season (a 15th-level adventure).
Both the wizard and the fighter are surrounded by a wall of force and choked to death by an Evard's black tentacles, because neather of them had a way to dimension door, teleport, or otherwise escape.
A sad, sad end.
Both the wizard and the fighter are surrounded by a wall of force and choked to death by an Evard's black tentacles, because neather of them had a way to dimension door, teleport, or otherwise escape.
A sad, sad end.
Imret
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Teggi Brushstumper, 10th-level halfling ranger. Took himself and his ability to survive very seriously. Disdained flying over the thaw-engorged Icedrift as a weak approach. Stripped most of the way down, stuffed his goods into the wizard's bag of holding, and dove in.
Never seen again, thanks to a series of low single-digit rolls (I think my highest Swim check roll was a 6). I can still picture his tiny frozen body floating downstream.
Never seen again, thanks to a series of low single-digit rolls (I think my highest Swim check roll was a 6). I can still picture his tiny frozen body floating downstream.
Darkness
Hand and Eye of Piratecat [Moderator]
Got another...
Ok, the game for this one was Vampire.
The player characters had just murdered the prince of the vampires and were fleeing the city, the prince's henchmen hot in pursuit. (Well, two of them were fleeing, anyway - the third was still working on becoming the new prince. He was a setite and the other two were anarchs, IIRC.)
In a dark park in the suburbs, they suddenly hear a noise of movement.
One of them, the "tough guy" of the group, decides to fast-draw his desert eagle and try to shoot whoever might be there.
He botched the fast-draw check, the gun went off, hit him, and he rolled so much damage that he killed himself. (Technically, he of course was only in torpor but the other PC wasn't strong enough to carry him, nor could she stay enough to hide him. So the sun probably got him in the end.)
By the way, the noise they had heard was a homeless person...
Ok, the game for this one was Vampire.
The player characters had just murdered the prince of the vampires and were fleeing the city, the prince's henchmen hot in pursuit. (Well, two of them were fleeing, anyway - the third was still working on becoming the new prince. He was a setite and the other two were anarchs, IIRC.)
In a dark park in the suburbs, they suddenly hear a noise of movement.
One of them, the "tough guy" of the group, decides to fast-draw his desert eagle and try to shoot whoever might be there.
He botched the fast-draw check, the gun went off, hit him, and he rolled so much damage that he killed himself. (Technically, he of course was only in torpor but the other PC wasn't strong enough to carry him, nor could she stay enough to hide him. So the sun probably got him in the end.)
By the way, the noise they had heard was a homeless person...
Imperialus
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We had just found a ring that we figured might be a ring of protection but didn't have the resources to figure out right away. Well the party rogue puts it on and says "ok somebody hit me!" Really really stupid half orc fighter/barbarian who the rouge had been pissing off by conning him out of his shinies turns around and smacks him with his greatsword not realizing or not caring that the other player had ment he wanted someone to punch him or somthing. One critical hit later and we were mopping PC brains out of our clothing.
Imret
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On the subject of other games with ignoble deaths, there was a Cyberpunk fatality that will always stand out.
Having just conducted a fairly effective raid on a gang safehouse (mostly to steal drugs and money...I don't engage in Cyberpunk games to have heroes), the group steals a car and takes off at high speed with gangers in pursuit, trading fire between vehicles. In an effort to bring my own weapons to bear on them, I opened the back door, leaned out, and started firing...
...when the other PC in the back seat kicks me out into the road, where I'm promptly run over by the gang car.
He needed a four-way split to pay off his debts to Russian organized crime, and I gave him an opportunity to make that happen.
Teach me to forget my First Rule of Cyberpunk; "When you start playing the 'who can you trust' game, the answer is nobody."
Having just conducted a fairly effective raid on a gang safehouse (mostly to steal drugs and money...I don't engage in Cyberpunk games to have heroes), the group steals a car and takes off at high speed with gangers in pursuit, trading fire between vehicles. In an effort to bring my own weapons to bear on them, I opened the back door, leaned out, and started firing...
...when the other PC in the back seat kicks me out into the road, where I'm promptly run over by the gang car.
He needed a four-way split to pay off his debts to Russian organized crime, and I gave him an opportunity to make that happen.
Teach me to forget my First Rule of Cyberpunk; "When you start playing the 'who can you trust' game, the answer is nobody."
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