Dying monologues

[Dandu]

My dying words will be "Hastur Hastur Hastur".

 

[Li Shenron]

If you’re hit points are reduced to a point where you are killed, your wounds are so grievous that they can’t be healed by conventional “healing” spells. As you lay their slipping out of the mortal world you may depart your final words to the world before death.

It's never come up, but I would do something like this. When the PC/NPC is "dead" from a game's perspective, meaning that there's nothing the players can do something about it anymore and they know it, I would take the liberty of the speech or grant it to the player in case of a PC. I don't think it damages credibility too much.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Just make "dying monologue" an immediate action that is only available after a PC or NPC has taken enough damage to be -10 or worse (i.e. dead). The "dying monologue" action ends with the PC/NPC's death at its completion.

Olaf the Stout

 

[The Red King]

I have not had any PC request this kind of thing. They usually die in a very spectacular fashion, with little time for more than: "Arghhhhhhh!"