"go ahead, i will stay and hold it off"

[alsih2o]

o.k., story sharing time again.

i would like to hear your best "p.c. sacrifices self for good of the party/town/deity/cute baby animal" story.


please.

 

[fett527]

I played a centaur character in 2e as we were trying to play some really different characters. We were in the catacombs of an infamous mage's tower and had come upon some wil-o-wisps. We were very low-level 1st or 2nd and we were booking it to get out. I was in the rear rushing everyone to get out and missed a dex check horribly and ended up breaking a leg (something along those lines). I yelled at everyone to keep going and held of the little buggers until everyone got out. Needless to say he was ripped apart by the wil-o-wisps. The most valiant death in a character I ever had.

 

[Thorntangle]

That time we were ambushed by 6 Nymphs. The sacrifices I make.

 

[fett527]

That time we were ambushed by 6 Nymphs. The sacrifices I make.

Damn. Beat mine.

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Unfortuantly in my group if i do something like that it always followed by everyone refusing to leave, generally to my detrement sence i usually have a plan to get me out alive, but not nessasarily the whole group.

 

[mmu1]

I was playing in a game once in which some party members fell into a watery pit, which then closed over them, while some others got stuck in a net trap - all with enemies approaching... Everyone was able to cut out of the net before combat was joined except for my character, who was stuck very deep in.

If the combat didn't end quickly, people in the pit were probably going to start drowning, so he let the enemies get close, yelled for everyone in the party to back away, and crunched a "blast globe" (essentially something like a sphere from a Necklace of Fireballs, except glass-like and doing sonic damage) into the chest of an adjacent enemy, killing him and two others and destroying the net.

The fact that he lived through it spoiled the "heroic sacrifce" aspect of it somewhat, but I wasn't going to complain.

 

[hong]

If the combat didn't end quickly, people in the pit were probably going to start drowning, so he let the enemies get close, yelled for everyone in the party to back away, and crunched a "blast globe" (essentially something like a sphere from a Necklace of Fireballs, except glass-like and doing sonic damage) into the chest of an adjacent enemy, killing him and two others and destroying the net.

The fact that he lived through it spoiled the "heroic sacrifce" aspect of it somewhat, but I wasn't going to complain.

D00d! The fact you survived just changes the tenor of the scene from "heroic sacrifice" to "behold my badass-osity". I mean, we're talking the ending scene in Predator here, where Arnie survives what looks like a tac nuke going off in his face. How badass is that?

 

[heimdall]

I was playing a half-orc fighter. My friend was playing a high-elven ranger. I know, unusual duo. There were some role-playing reasons why these two always fought back-to-back.

Any case, we were a low-level party (3rd and 4th) and were confronting a purple worm. The whole party was down low on HP (as in single digits) so he and I told the rest to go and we'd buy some time... knowing that meant just a round or two. Somehow we ended up figuring a way out of it, only to be slain by a bunch of frost giants (12 total against a party of 5) two game sessions later. Yeah, frost giants.

If there was an argument for accurate CRs, this 2e campaign with this particular DM was it. Maybe if he had CRs we'd have fought monsters more reasonable for our levels. On second though, no, he was just plain sadistic. That would have brought him more joy. Scratch that.

 

[Darkness]

I once had my dwarven cleric set his cloak on fire and, chanting battle hymns, charge a small party of kobolds so the other PCs could escape.

The kobolds chose to run away...

 

[drnuncheon]

D00d! The fact you survived just changes the tenor of the scene from "heroic sacrifice" to "behold my badass-osity". I mean, we're talking the ending scene in Predator here, where Arnie survives what looks like a tac nuke going off in his face. How badass is that?

Well, he jumped, didn't he? You can survive any explosion if you're jumping - they only do damage if you're in contact with the ground.

J