Dumbest/funniest deaths

A PC in one of my earlier games got squashed by an elephant. He was hunting and I rolled on a random encounter table, only to have him encounter an elephant. He thought he could take it.

He was wrong. It crushed him.

The story is somewhat of a legend in our group because time and time again you hear about people being squashed by elephants, but you don't believe it can happen until it happens to you...
 

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werk said:
My story happened I don't know how long ago and involves some friends whose names I don't recall...and a Gazebo!

Does it also involve a firework mortar? And a perfect freak shot down the hill right into the gazebo, which burned down?
 

A strong fighter wearing Demon Armor is fighting a giant fighter at the edge of a 200ft high cliff. Another Giant with psionic powers charges up a boulder and throws it. Crits. Since everyone had the same init, I allow the fighter his swing. He crits also.

So boom, Fighter kills the giant, fighter is struck with charged boulder. Reduced to -2 but falls. Fails a die roll and falls over the cliff, with the boulder....and a dead giants body.

Boom hits the fighter very dead.

Boom hits the boulder (again) just being sure he is dead.

Booms hits the Giant's body jelly in armor


then all we do is quote the line from Naked Gun about how an Uncle died this way.

We all nearly wet ourselves. (I'm sure the beer we were drinking had nothing to do with this)
 


The only one that comes to mind was in (IIRC) the Return to the Tomb of Horrors. In that adventure is a blackball (a creature that is basically an uncontrollable sphere of annihilation).

The wizard was determined to control the sphere, and despite several failed attempts (and me (as DM asking "are you sure" several times), wouldn't get out of the way.

All that was left of him were his magic boots (which were very quickly claimed by another party member...to everyone's amusement).
 

Three PCs touched a Sphere of Annihilation, one right after the other.

We thought it was a teleportation device.

In my defense, I was playing an INT 24 wizard who was the second to touch it (the half-orc barbarian being the first) and the DM didn't give me any kind of Spellcraft roll to recognize what it was or the disintegrate effect itself (since I had it on my spell list).
 

In the first game of Eberron I ever played in, a player achieved infamy.

A group of griffin-riders attacked the airship we were flying, trying to kidnap a VIP we had aboard. The druid, thinking fast, cast an Obscuring Mist. Unfortunately, it mostly covered the villains as they went below. (We thought they were hijacking us, not trying to kidnap someone.)

Not to be outdone by the villain's planning, the druid charged blindly into his own spell. He declared that he was going to bullrush the opponent he had seen just before the fog went up -- hopefully knocking the opponent off the ship.

His bull rush went through the wrong square; his opponent had moved. There was a griffon one square from the location he charged through -- the DM allowed him a check to see if he could hit the griffon instead. He missed.

The DM allowed a reflex save to stop before the railing. He failed. The DM allowed him a reflex save to avoid going OVER the rail. He failed. The DM decided -- being very nice, IMO -- to give one last reflex save to try and grab onto the rail. The druid failed.

So, from the point of view of all the characters, the druid cast a spell, charged into it, and was never seen again. I think most of us assumed (IC) that he had been working with the Sky Raiders.

"Bull Rush the Druid" has come to stand for any combat manuver of obvious stupidity in that campaign. :)
 

We had a guy in our group that almost no common sense. He was playing a halfling that died and was brought back as a drow. Of course, everyone knows about a drow's proceeding reputatin, deserved or not (especially since he was a halfling trapped in a drow's body!).

Well, the party (or the 3 PC's in the party) were in an area where drow raids were common, and the people tended to regard outsiders/foreigners with much disdain and distrust, and out and out threatened to kill the party if we didn't leave their property (we were near a fortified farmhouse, IIRC).

My character (1/2 Elf Cl/Th) and another character (1/2 elf Th/MU) both heard the warning (something along the lines of "There are 8 of us, all with bows or crossbows trained on you. Leave or you die!"), and responded with an "OK" and started our "strategic retreat" (or out and out running away). The other player, Chris, decided that he would stay. Heck, he was a drow (or so he looked) and he could intimidate them into helping us. We were informed that we heard a lot of bowstrings "twanging" and a thud. When we looked back, the "drow" was dead.

We had to go back, plead not to shoot ("We're only getting the body!"), and then ran.
 

mcrow said:
... and the result of the backfire was that my head blew off with flames spewing from the stump that was my neck. :D
Fantastic visual effect. I would love to see that system's fumble table.
 


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