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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3953777" data-attributes="member: 19675">I can't say I actually like it...but I'm willing to share the pain.  Usually when one of my PCs dies, its because of a monumental foulup.I had one last year who burst through a door which (unbeknownst to him) opened onto the ledge of an underground chasm...he rolled a 2 on his Dex check to grab a handhold.However, the first of two I'll remember forever (or up until Aldsheimer claims my brain) was a 2Ed dwarf Ftr/Wild Talent Psi with a 19 Con who:1) Charged an MU.2) Failed to shrug off the mage's spell targeted upon him (rolled a 1).3) Failed his saving throw against the resultant poisonous cloud the summoned (rolled a 1), causing him to stand around retching.4) Failed to shrug off the mage's next spell targeted upon him (rolled a 1).5) Failed his saving throw against the resultant polymorph and became a frog (rolled a 1).6) Was thus forced to make a System Shock %ile roll, for which he had a 99% chance of success...and rolled a 1, thus dying instantly.7) The dead frog was then ground zero for a fireball, becoming ash.Said ashes were subsequently used as spell components.The second was my first ever D&D PC.  A human fighter with a 2Hd sword, he was one of the last 2 of his party to make it to the dungeon's mist-shrouded pentultimate room.  The other PC was a wizard.Halfway across the room, a Purple Worm reared up to face him and the wizard.  We attempted fighting in retrograde to reach the door through which we entered.  A few choice blows were landed and the mage was soon out of spells, but the Worm lived.  My fighter had a dry spell, and next thing you know, the wiz was engulfed on a natural 20.A few more strikes, and both the Worm and the Fighter were reduced to 4 HP.  Initiative was simultaneous.  I missed, he hit.  End of fight.Even though he died, everyone at the table cheered because it was simply so classically epic.</blockquote>

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