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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8122402" data-attributes="member: 29398">I've had this happen both as player and DM: a character dies either just before or in process of meeting the party.The as-player one was truly bizarre: the party were in a locked-away demiplane where there was no real way to get a new character in, and my previous PC was dead like doornail.&nbsp; However, the DM's chaos-loving wife had a birthday, so during that week's session as a surprise someone* blipped into the middle of the party brandishing a Deck of Many Things...and when this someone pulled the Deck out of a Bag of Holding she also pulled out my new character, clinging to the Deck with all her might! (yes, very Monty Python; that was how this session rolled)Fast-forward a few minutes and my new character - Anne, who still hasn't really had a chance to introduce herself due to all the shenanigans from others drawing cards - is allowed to draw cards if she wants.&nbsp; &quot;Gimme gimme gimme!&quot; she says - and the very first card is Death.&nbsp; She dies.* - the 'someone' was in fact another old character of mine from a different DM's game, who I'd have dearly loved to play, but she was just there for show and hasn't been seen since.This is the only time I've ever done the &quot;Bob II&quot; trick, where I came right back with the same character as the last one: as I never got a chance to play Anne I just pushed the ideas I had for her into her replacement. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 8122402, member: 29398"] I've had this happen both as player and DM: a character dies either just before or in process of meeting the party. The as-player one was truly bizarre: the party were in a locked-away demiplane where there was no real way to get a new character in, and my previous PC was dead like doornail. However, the DM's chaos-loving wife had a birthday, so during that week's session as a surprise someone* blipped into the middle of the party brandishing a Deck of Many Things...and when this someone pulled the Deck out of a Bag of Holding she also pulled out my new character, clinging to the Deck with all her might! (yes, very Monty Python; that was how this session rolled) Fast-forward a few minutes and my new character - Anne, who still hasn't really had a chance to introduce herself due to all the shenanigans from others drawing cards - is allowed to draw cards if she wants. "Gimme gimme gimme!" she says - and the very first card is Death. She dies. * - the 'someone' was in fact another old character of mine from a different DM's game, who I'd have dearly loved to play, but she was just there for show and hasn't been seen since. This is the only time I've ever done the "Bob II" trick, where I came right back with the same character as the last one: as I never got a chance to play Anne I just pushed the ideas I had for her into her replacement. :) [/QUOTE]

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