I die. a lot.

[bob_the_bard]

My chars seem to die often. Sometimes out of heroic play (read: stupid). Sometimes sheer bad luck. Our DM likes to keep things a little on the dangerous side, which I appreciate. Fear of death and consequences makes it fun. Its why when you cheat at video games it suddenly gets so dull. I'm also one of the minority of players who don't whine when my chars eat it. If he's a fighter, he's going to take hits. If he is a rogue, he might not have the HPs to make any mistakes. Those are the tradeoffs. Don't fudge the dice, don't make an illogical center for an AoE spell, don't suddenly change targets just as my HP get to single digits, just play it straight. As a result, I die. And dammit, I'm kind of proud that I don't complain about it. Thank you for listening to my complaining ;-)

 

[Harlock]

I die a lot too. For stupid reasons mostly. Like playing bards. Sometimes for noble reasons, like trying to bail someone's tail out of the fire. Sometimes I die simply because I'm bored. Yeah. I coup de grace myself and fail my save voluntarily. Okay, so I don't die because I get bored... but the former two reasons are true. I think.

 

[Silver Moon]

We had a player like that during our very first module, a 40-game epic. The module was built around being a quest for his paladin. He was not only the first casualty, but he then failed resurrection. The second group casualty was his next character, but thankfully he made his resurrection roll. He lost two other playing characters during that module. And NONE of those were the result of bad playing, just the way the dice rolled. So, he feels your pain.

My luck actually didn't play out much better. In the next major module the DM decided he didn't like my PC and set up to have him killed. So I pulled him out and put in a new character as a relacement, who the DM then subsequently killed and made me play an NPC for the remainder of the module. When I finally got used to that character he then got killed too (in a random dice roll AFTER the module had pretty-much wrapped). So, I guess I feel your pain too.

 

[Nightfall]

Har,

Yeah and then there's the off chance that playing a cleric in my game might get you killed. But hey 50/50 chance its you or Zizany!

 

[Harlock]

It'll be Ziz. I promise.

 

[Cergorach]

The soul of the pc will learn through triel and error (that means you bob)...

I've had the same experience, i went through so many elvish fighter/mage/thieves in 2E one might start to wonder how they ever live past a hundred and that they might have adopted orcish breeding habits (a lot but stupid).

Jumping blindly into a big pit is bad, not because you don't know how deep it is, or there might be spikes at the bottom (a ring of feather fall does work miracles with that). But because there might be a huge scorpion down there that tears you to peaces...

I died so many times i really can't remember them all...

 

[d20Dwarf]

Haha, this reminds me of a non-rpg related story.

We used to play weekend-long epic Battletech games where teams of players would each split up a regiment of mechs (108!) and we'd lay out maps all over an entire room. Those were some fun games.

Well, my friend Fagan had a favorite painted mini, a blue and yellow camo Panther named Lord Yamamoto. Every time Lord Yamamoto died, Fagan would replace a surviving figure with Lord Yamamoto. In one round of combat, we destroyed Lord Yamamoto 5 times. Needless to say Fagan, dismayed and sighing, kept Lord Yamamoto out of the battle for the rest of the weekend. It was just too much psychological pain to see his favorite figure repeatedly beheaded, engine critted, and ammo exploded.

 

[Nightfall]

It'll be Ziz. I promise.

LOL

We'll have to wait and see, but okay.

Btw I had a stint where alot of my characters died. And now that I Dm they don't. Well not usually.

 

[XCorvis]

The three records for our group are:

1. Dying twice within 15 minutes of real time. Same character, ressurrected.

2. Dying 3 times in a single game. We just kept handing him our backup characters and he kept getting them killed. It was the last game of a hack'n'slash.

3. Dying twice IN ONE ROUND. This is a technicality, because his soul was trapped in a second body when both bodies were killed in an explosion.

Numbers two and three are the same player. He's got some bad luck.

 

[diaglo]

i get railroaded a lot and therefore try and kill my characters.

for some reason the DM would rather keep my characters alive.

edit: or i play with a total bunch of munchkin losers and try and kill my character so i can leave the group in a hurry without telling them what pathetic losers they are.