D&D 4E Alas, poor Raknor - List your character deaths in 4e so far!

[Gort]

Today the group I DM for lost their first character - Raknor De Pomp, level 3 human rogue and dashing cad.

He died to a group of oozes - a gelatinous cube and two ochre oozes, which the party fought in a particularly unsavoury dining hall. The best part was the number of players who realised they could have saved him if they'd remembered to move towards him in their turn or to use powers. ("Damn, if I'd used my lifedrinker power I could've stayed up long enough to lay on hands him!", for example) Just a little reminder about the fragility of life in the cruel, harsh world of 4e.

So, what characters have died in your campaigns so far?

 

[Mouseferatu]

Tobias Gault, rogue, 9th-level. Torn in half (pretty much literally) by a hook horror.

 

[PHGraves]

The same encounter saw two of my players lose characters:

Medrash, Dragonborn Paladin died when he took an encounter on by himself (2x Guard Drakes, 2x Hyenas, 5x Kruthik Hatchlings).
Reaver, Tiefling Warlock died when the rest of the group tried to save him.

 

[blargney the second]

In our second encounter ever, both of the PCs I was playing were killed. The dungeon rooms were very close together and we ended up pulling three encounters worth of monsters in a single fight.

Hammer, minotaur fighter, died at the axe of an orc brute.
Tongs, eladrin warlord, died at the axe of an orc leader.

(They got better... the other player's PC survived and took their bodies to a halfling mobster connection who paid to have them raised.)

 

[JDillard]

Rune, Dwarven Warlock got killed by a couple of Ettercaps. He let them flank him, wanting his armor of agathys to do some extra damage. It did. They also did more damage than he expected. He went from alive with a few HP to negative bloodied HP. Insta death.

In my other game, the dragonborn warlord and shadar-kai rogue (whose names escape me right now) both got killed by a group of baby slaad. Those tadpoles are nasty!

 

[hairy stinkeye]

Dr. Jupiter Funkenstein, DDS. My level 4 Warlock was turned inside out by a faulty teleportation circle. Of course, I did this to him myself when I shifted from player to DM and I needed a convenient way to ditch my character.

 

[James McMurray]

Erevan, Eladrin Warlord 1. She died trying to save a fellow warlord from some spectres, because she ran back to grab him knowing there was almost no chance she'd get out alive.

Overall our group has had a ton of deaths. Iron-whatsits in Keep on the Shadowfell killed 3 and knocked out two. A couple have died (but been raised) in our paragon game. And the previously mentioned warlord also died to the spectres.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Due mostly to ridiculous luck on my (the DM) part, I killed two PCs in the gnome encounter in KotS.

The two guard drakes simply refused to roll anything but maximum damage (and were always near each other, so 19 damage in total per hit). The one time I didn't roll max damage was because I got a crit so didn't need to roll damage.

The already-bloodied cleric was ripped apart, and something similar happened to the warlord (I think he's the one who got critted). Both did not just fall unconscious, both flat-out died. I was stunned. The rest of the encounter was a cake walk. (The PCs had assumed this wouldn't be hard -- and I hadn't -- they started dishing out dailies like Sleep at that point.)

Since then, we've had a warlord, but not a cleric. (Too bad, they're going to fight the end boss next week.)

 

[chaotix42]

Here's a link to my thread on the same subject - since this topic isn't quite a Rules discussion maybe we could get the threads merged?

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?t=238280

 

[1of3]

Prof. Quin of Morgave University (Rogue 1)
Died when the words "Needle-tooth Drakes are really nasty!" fell on deaf ears.