Have you ever killed a player by mistake?

[Jonny Nexus]

Preferably including yourself, just in case you oversaw something ;-)

Well I guess the assumption here is that you can trust yourself to not blab about it afterward. But since this entire thread began with an invitation to anyone who'd ever "offed" - either deliberately or otherwise - a fellow roleplayer, asking them to come forward and tell us about it...

...well I guess that might be a dodgy assumption.

 

[Silver Moon]

No, but we once had this power player in the group who we were all tempted to.

 

[Telperion]

While I'm aware it's unlikely, if any of you have accidentally (or deliberately) killed a player, we'd all love to hear about it.

Go on.

You're amongst friends...

Yes, it happens occasionally. I tend to drag them, kicking and screaming, out of the abyss they have gotten themselves into, afterwards.

Seriously speaking: I use the Instant Death (3 natural 20's in a row on an attack roll) variant, and that has led to a couple of unintentional character deaths. It usually happens about once per' campaign, so I can live with it and keep the players dreaming about the day they are going to Instant Kill an old wyrm of a dragon .

 

[Jonny Nexus]

No, but we once had this power player in the group who we were all tempted to.

I want to say that when it comes to wanting to kill problem players, I know the feeling - but I can't help thinking that it is in fact the rest of my gaming group who "know the feeling".

 

[Eosin the Red]

The party cleric ALWAYS had protection from elements - fire and was for all purposes immune to fire. In the midst of a hairy adventure he happened to be standing in the middle of four other players essentially at the mid point of a square.

I had 2 creatures who had a nasty fire breath in a line [Lightining bolt with Energy substution or something] and a fairly powerful wizard who was dropping a nice juicy fireball on the PCs.

This was gonna hurt everyone at least a little but I had two rogues who more than likely were going to save for no damage two fighter types with insane hitpoints and the cleric who was immune to fire - So being the DM that I am, I busted a move on the PCs, moved into position and got everyone with 2 or the 3 attacks except for the Cleric who got all three attacks.

Ummm....He had just finished telling the party [while I was snacking] that he had decided to stop with the insane levels of fire protection, in fact he did not even have ANY resistance to fire up.

Wow, failed one of the saves...OK, total is 117 points of damage.

ME: I bet even a few of that got through your resistance?
Cleric Player: Yep, some of it did.
Table: snicker....snicker....snicker....
ME: What?
Cleric Player: I am at -29 hit points.
ME: How in the world are you that low?

Explanations follow.....
ME: "Gee, sorry. You want to use my d6s for the new character?"

Accidental death....it can happen.


EDIT:

Whooooooopssss. That was killed a player, not killed a character....Sorry.
Nope, I haven't been killing players lately.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Well I guess the assumption here is that you can trust yourself to not blab about it afterward. But since this entire thread began with an invitation to anyone who'd ever "offed" - either deliberately or otherwise - a fellow roleplayer, asking them to come forward and tell us about it...

...well I guess that might be a dodgy assumption.

Yup. Haven't you read Poe's The Imp of the Perverse and The Tell-Tale Heart?

EDIT: added smiley, just in case

 

[Darklone]

I nearly killed one player character by mistake. Last battle in a 14 hour session, last round he failed a save by 1 point .... next day I told the story to another RPG buddy and when I listed what had happened I remember that this char had a Prot from Evil cast upon him at the beginning of the battle... So at the beginning of the next session the char was "still" alive.

 

[Jonny Nexus]

I nearly killed one player character

THREADJACK!!!

 

[diaglo]

at one introductory session i went to for a new campaign...

the boyfriend of a player came to watch. after a while she got up to talk to her boyfriend outside of the room. the DM kept the rest of us going.

later she came back. and something bad happened to her character in session, (i don't remember exactly) the boyfriend attacked the DM with a set of fangs.

i thot people were going to die then.

i never went back to that group. it weirded me out.

 

[Altalazar]

I had a character die due to a DM mistake - he forgot about my SHIELD spell and left it out of the AC calculation - he needed a 20 to hit me - so he hit me when he shouldn't have, it was a ghoul, I failed the save, and actually this cascaded into the entire group being wiped out.

We still give the DM trouble about that one. That ended the campaign. We didn't ask about the shield spell until later.