D&D General I asked AI: "What's the Most Common Cause of Character Death?"

[The Firebird]

Perhaps someone with a lot more skill and confidence (and a paid subscription to an A.I. program) can generate more useful information?

I consider myself a skilled user and have a subscription so I decided to take you up on this. Rather than asking for an answer (poor practice) I asked it to look for reasonable sources. (Also good-- "tell me about the pros and cons" or "discuss some relevant factors").

It ended up giving the same response folks here did--there are no good data. It suggested a few options to look into (AL logs, for example) while discussing their limitations.

And it found a source I wasn't aware of, "FIREBALL", a dataset of text history from games that used the Avrae bot. It proposed looking through that for death instances and compiling them. I didn't go through the FIREBALL data at all to see if it includes enough information. It's an interesting idea.

 

[CleverNickName]

Definitely take judgement answers that require balancing factual evidence and reaching a decision with a pinch of salt.

Yep, agreed. I said as much in the conclusion of my original post.

 

[Rune]

The Ranger stood out as particularly odd to me. Who plays rangers with medium armor? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in 5e that wasn’t dex-based.

 

[Zardnaar]

The Ranger stood out as particularly odd to me. Who plays rangers with medium armor? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in 5e that wasn’t dex-based.

I seen 1. Current one. Players always saying he should be a fighter lol.

 

[ECMO3]

I don't know how YOU feel about A.I., but I think it's a glorified rumor mill, no more reliable than the local bartender who overhears much but verifies little (and is usually drunk.) So I guess this is what the Internet's local bartender thinks of D&D character weaknesses? We should probably take this all with a grain of salt.

Perhaps someone with a lot more skill and confidence (and a paid subscription to an A.I. program) can generate more useful information?

I don't know I think it is pretty good.

I will say the last character I had die was a Barbarian (the only one I ever played) that got disintegrated ..... which is right there at the top of the Barbarian list (Failed saving throw against spells). THis is the only character I had die above level 3 in many years.

Before that I lost a Paladin because we decided to take a rest with a "prisoner" we found and freed who was actually a plant. This was a TPK, when she turned on us she wiped 2 characters in 1 round. But it was "bad decisions and bad luck"

Third PC I lost was an Artificer. She sucommed to a trap and the other PCs were too scared to come in and save me. So it did not get this one.

Fourth most recent PC I lost was a Wizard, who was killed because of low hit points. She was basically 2-shot at level 3 by a Werewolf or some other Lycantherope.

So the AI got 3 out of 4 of my last 4 killed PCs. Not bad.

Also am I seeing something wrong or did it put the Ranger twice, once under Ranger and once under Sorcerer.

 

[ECMO3]

The Ranger stood out as particularly odd to me. Who plays rangers with medium armor? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in 5e that wasn’t dex-based.

My Rangers usually wear medium armor. Mostly because I am pushing Wisdom on a Ranger and Medium armor gives you a better AC than light Armor with a 16 Dex.

I will say I have never been emotionally devastated by the loss of a pet and I am often using them as a meat shield.

 

[Zardnaar]

My Rangers usually wear medium armor. Mostly because I am pushing Wisdom on a Ranger and Medium armor gives you a better AC than light Armor with a 16 Dex.

Yeah im looking at sonething similar on an Eldritch Knight.