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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1757538" data-attributes="member: 172">I don't know if this is dying well, or pathetically, but it was certainly BRAVE of the players in question, if not too well informed...One of the bloodiest campaigns I ran was with the old "Role-aids" Lich-lordsmodules.  This was back with the 1st edition rules and below are 2 of the nastiest self-inflicted deaths I've witnessed in any of my campaigns.The first was a Druid/Mage who had a badger familiar from the happy huntinggrounds so it had some special abilities- the pertinent one here is that it had 35% magic resistance that it could share with its master much in the same way a psuedo-dragon does.The druid mage was confronting one of the lich lords who had a prismatic sphere up.  Disgusted that none of his magic would penetrate the sphere, he chanced trying to utilize his magic resistance to walk through the prismatic sphere.Now if anyone remembers the 1st edition MR rules, they will recall that for each level above 11th level of the caster, 5% is deducted from the MR.  If this player had stopped to ponder the fact that all liches (as well as anyone else who can cast a 9th level- e.g. Prismatic Sphere) is at least 18th level, there is a minimum modifier to the MR of -35% (11-18 = -7, times 5 = -35), he had an effective MR of 0%.As he walked into the sphere, not only did she instantly take enough damage to kill her, but also failed the poison and teleport to other plane saves.  So the party saw him walk into the sphere, get fried and dissapear- A sight that I described to them as not being unlike the effect of a bug zapper.The second character was a badass monk made by the oriental adventures rules- who used a weapons martial arts (and, of course, the speed manuever, which doubled his attacks) with enchanted bo sticks and all the attendant bonuses.He charged a lich, did an ungodly amount of damage, but failed to heed the warning I gave him about a sparkling sheild about the lich.  The lich had the "chill sheild" version of a fire sheild up.  In 1st edition, fire shield did DOUBLE the amount of damage to the attacker that the attacker did to the caster.Basically, I described to the party that he charged the lich, attacked, froze solid, and fell over, shattering into 1000 pieces.A third death occured in this module, but unlike the other two, it was a fairly mundane case of "failing every roll". A paladin with a holy avenger and a shield that deflects magic somehow managed to fail every roll against a slay living effect.</blockquote>

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