AMusing character death

[kanithardm]

Ha.

Zob was a fighter in 1E. At first level, he had 18 Con.

By the time I moved to a different city and left that group, Zob was 9th level... with 10 Con.

At one point, the characters were each presented with a 'fitting gift'. Zob's was a Ring of Regeneration. And boy, did it get some use!

There was the time John had to go in to work for a couple of hours mid-game. "Look after Zob for me," he told us.

When he got back, he asked how things had gone.

"Um... you died."
"Oh."
"Um... twice."

Then there was the time the devil saw Zob use his Boots of Levitation. "Why don't we go fight up there?" the devil Suggested. Zob and his 5 Wisdom said "Sure!"

Melee attacks while levitating suck, so we figured we needed to help out. The magic-user cast lightning bolt. The dwarf launched a lightning bolt of his own from his magic hammer. The ranger fired a +4 arrow. All of them missed the devil. All of them hit Zob.

The weirdest thing was - Zob's ring got drained by a magic gem at one point. And as soon as that happened, Zob stopped dying...

-Hyp.

Guess this beats when my party wizard, the last one alive, set all the corpses on fire and threw them at the goblins. I feel bad for the one who wasn't actually dead.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Guess this beats when my party wizard, the last one alive, set all the corpses on fire and threw them at the goblins. I feel bad for the one who wasn't actually dead.

Well, there was the time that Zob was the last character still alive and unparalyzed with the mob of ghouls surrounding him. He shrugged, and broke a wand of fireballs. At that time, it detonated all remaining charges simultaneously...

Some hours later, Zob regenerated, and spent the next few days sifting the ashes for fingerbones that looked like PCs so he could regenerate them too...

-Hyp.

 

[MadMaxim]

In the first 3rd-edition adventure I ran with the group, the party's dwarven fighter (8th level) and human monk (7th level) went after a green dragon that had just attacked a village which they were passing through. The rest of the party stayed behind to build a ballista(!) to shoot the dragon down if it should attack again. On their way to the dragon's cave they were attacked by a tendriculous. The dwarf got eaten, tried to get out and was swallowed again. He only had a greataxe... Needless to say, the monk ran away screaming, and the player playing the dwarf never really recovered