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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DragonXNIK" data-source="post: 5230196" data-attributes="member: 83026">First death in 4E I experienced was our Minotaur TWF Ranger. He refused to invest in heavy armor proficiency by the time he reached level 7, and his AC was something like 16 because of it. He was never missed by any monster attack, and his battle strategy always consisted of 'Get surrounded as much as possible' so he could use dire wolverine strike. However, I managed to keep him alive for most of our career as the party leader (Eladrin Taclord/MC Wizard). He went down in the very beginning of a DM forewarned 'extremely extended encounter', where no short rests were allowed between small encounters as we worked our way up a spiral where undead would be spawned every couple rounds. The first fight in this encounter was a number of weak skeletons along with a Dragon Skeleton (not a dracolich mind you). Mr. Ranger went down on the Dragon's turn, and the Dragon used fearful presence with an action point, stunning the other two party members. Since he went down earlier in the fight because of his asinine tactics against the weak skeletons, he had failed one death save, and he promptly flubbed the next two, his turn being right after the dragon's. Nothing me or the pally could do to help him. He actually ended up getting resurrected at the very end of this giant encounter by the Raven Queen, to end the life of the devil at the top of the stairs. He promptly wasted this second chance, by not resisting temptation in a roleplayed illusion triggered by the Devil's (temporary) defeat. That illusion actually killed our party rogue and two NPCs as well, burning them to cinders where they stood as they gave into temptation. Later, we could only raise the rogue, as the raven queen did not forgive Mr. Ranger, and the two NPCs were ready to pass on. These last deaths were not really 4E's fault by any stretch, all DM fiat, but it was very fair if their illusions were anything like mine.</blockquote>

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