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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pentius" data-source="post: 5600527" data-attributes="member: 6676736">I've always enjoyed Last Stand heroics, and will tend to do them should I have the opportunity.  I've had two to date.The first was in an Eberron 3.5 campaign.  Our party was defending a Karrnathi village from a horde of 'zombie' created by the Madstone.   We fought hard, and did pretty well, but eventually, they broke through our lines and we had to cover a retreat.  We managed to save a good number of civilians, hand just got a couple of children moving when the horde bore down on us.  Now we were encumbered by all the civilians, with some of party carrying the children, so these guys were gonna catch us.  My character, the shifter barbarian, stops and looks at the road.  "It's a fairly narrow road."  he said, "You guys go.  I'll catch up." and tosses them a wink before popping his last shift and rage of the day and charging in.  Everyone at the table just stared.  They asked if I was sure.  The DM reminded me that I really could die.  "We're doing this." I said.  I managed to hold them off until the group had gotten far enough away, then took out the front row of baddies and ran for it.  The second was in 4e.  We were fighting a bunch of mysteriously risen dead that had started pouring out of the Raven Queen's temple in the middle of town.  The DM had homebrewed a type of undead that, when hit with radiant energy, would gather it, amplify it, and hurl it back in a burst.  Not all of them had this ability, though.  Our cleric decided to take the gamble and used Sacred Flame on one.  Sure enough, it had the ability.  The energy bounced off that one, into the others, and it amplified until it hit us, at which point it dropped half the party, killing the cleric and one paladin(my character's brother) outright.  My character stepped into the doorway, bloodied, and told the others to carry the injured and dead away.  The Sorcerer ended up staying behind and using Sorcerous Sirocco to haul me out at the last moment.Oddly enough, I've had character deaths before, but never from deliberately sacrificing myself.  Somehow, I always survive that.</blockquote>

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