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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Herobizkit" data-source="post: 2554359" data-attributes="member: 36150">This thread reminds me of the unluckiest character I have ever DM'd, one Sylvas Sylvanus.Sylvas was a 2e Elven Mage/Bard with the Loremaster kit (I think, or the one that lets you cast spells through your instrument; it was an Elven-only mulitclass option)The character was designed to be a historian who loved to study books and ancient cultures.  Keeping the flavour of the character in mind, I gave the player a list of spells that best helped his profession -- divination, alteration, and abjuration spells.  "I mean," said I to the PC, "why would your character ever learn attack spells?"Little did I know that the other players had made meat-grinders for PC's: a Paladin and a Ftr/Mag/Thf geared towards a dual-wield build.I ran them through an old module where the PCs descend into a network of caverns and discover a lost civilization of humans in a vaguely Aztec-like temple complex; the humans have lived for so long without light that they have naturally developed darkvision and are all pasty white.  "Great Mystra!" exclains Sylvas. "What a trove of knowlege to discover!"And thus begins a chain of numerous deaths which include:*  Death by crushing - the PCs advance on a hill and set off a boulder trap.  Boulders do 10d6 crushing damage to anyone failing a DEX check.  The F/M/T makes an easy check off his 18 dex.  The clumsy paladin makes his check off a 12 DEX.  Sylvas, with a 19 DEX, manages to roll a natural 20.  *splat**  Death by dismemberment - Sylvas manages to find some ancinet scrolls protected by rot grubs.  They invade his body, and I decide to allow the PC's to chop off his arm to prevent the grubs from entering his heart and killing him.  They do so, but Sylvas botches his System Shock roll to survive the operation.*  Death by falling - the PC's encounter a roc.  The roc grabs Sylvas, takes to the air, and sends him plunging to his death, as his warrior PC's fail to strike it time and again to prevent this from happenng.*  Death by mercy - Sylvas dies and is reincarnated as an orc.  The F/M/T, a fellow elf, feels that Sylvas could not stand the shame of being reincarnated as a racial enemy and bumps him off.It is important to note that in that campaign, raise dead and resurrection spells did not exist but reincarnate did.Also a funny bit of trivia:  Sylvas, even with his +1 racial modifier, did not once roll higher than 7 for any attack he made with a longsword.  We all knew it was an act of desperation when he ran out of spells and drew that longsword...</blockquote>

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