Tony Vargas
Legend
The first Next Playtest death at my table has kinda eclipsed the many subsequent ones: A player had lovingly created this noble, had names for her three followers and everything, spent hours on it, was very excited. She was a noble thief so she had good initiative. A little roleplaying, a plot hook, and it's all aboard the module. First combat is a sudden-but-inevitable-betrayal. Initiative is rolled, bad guy wins, noble thief comes in 2nd (yay! will get to SA some of the mooks). An attack, a maximum damage roll, and the thief is reduced into negatives, 1 hp away from death, in fact. On her turn, before anyone can help her, she fails her death save, and, under the then-current playtest rules, takes that 1 hp, and dies.So give me your tales of your first 5E PC deaths.
Hours to build, moments to die.