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<blockquote data-quote="arlem" data-source="post: 6857082" data-attributes="member: 6835741">Ive been playing D&amp;D since the blue box off and on. (I completely missed 3rd and 3.5) I remember losing an entire party (yeah we had one player and one DM most of the time so if we did modules we played groups of characters) to the Tomb of Horrors. The wizard, Ancalagon the Black was the last man standing. He made it all the way to the demi-lich and was soul-devoured in the first round.That wasn't the last I saw of him though. He was made into the surprise end-villain of a small one-off, one piece of graph paper labyrinth-tomb that my best friend ran me through later.As a DM, I can't recall killing anyone in the old days, but in the past month, I have experienced my first 2 PC deaths.1. In my Pathfinder game that I am running, my players were facing a mummy who was also a monk. Nerash the tiefling magus smacked the mummy for a good 1/3 of their hp. The mummy responded with a flurry of blows, 2 natural 20s and a normal hit. Both crits confirmed and poor Nerash&nbsp; was already well past his negative Con score, so the final blow pulped his skull. The player rolled a new character as raise dead was beyond the party's or the local temple's capabilities.2. In my current 5e game (trying to avoid spoilers) our female tiefling wizard got in the way of a fleeing vampire spawn who grappled and bit her. Max hit points reduced to 0 (much scarier than energy drain) and that was the end of Ariagoria. The paladin, lumbering and slow, split the spawn in half with his next blow. Again, raising the dead was beyond the party's capabilities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="arlem, post: 6857082, member: 6835741"] Ive been playing D&D since the blue box off and on. (I completely missed 3rd and 3.5) I remember losing an entire party (yeah we had one player and one DM most of the time so if we did modules we played groups of characters) to the Tomb of Horrors. The wizard, Ancalagon the Black was the last man standing. He made it all the way to the demi-lich and was soul-devoured in the first round. That wasn't the last I saw of him though. He was made into the surprise end-villain of a small one-off, one piece of graph paper labyrinth-tomb that my best friend ran me through later. As a DM, I can't recall killing anyone in the old days, but in the past month, I have experienced my first 2 PC deaths. 1. In my Pathfinder game that I am running, my players were facing a mummy who was also a monk. Nerash the tiefling magus smacked the mummy for a good 1/3 of their hp. The mummy responded with a flurry of blows, 2 natural 20s and a normal hit. Both crits confirmed and poor Nerash was already well past his negative Con score, so the final blow pulped his skull. The player rolled a new character as raise dead was beyond the party's or the local temple's capabilities. 2. In my current 5e game (trying to avoid spoilers) our female tiefling wizard got in the way of a fleeing vampire spawn who grappled and bit her. Max hit points reduced to 0 (much scarier than energy drain) and that was the end of Ariagoria. The paladin, lumbering and slow, split the spawn in half with his next blow. Again, raising the dead was beyond the party's capabilities. [/QUOTE]

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