In all my 22 years of gaming...
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Ambrus
Explorer
Heh. In the first campaign I played in college my cleric was killed in the first twenty minutes of the first session as follows:
DM: You see a ruined tower.
Me: I go inside.
DM: There's a staircase leading down.
Me: I walk dowstairs.
DM: As you turn the corner at the bottom of the stairs a huge rat leaps out of the shadows onto your chest, tears into your flesh, burrows up your throat and bursts out of your face. You're dead!
As if I needed that last part clarified.
Me: Uh... Aren't you supposed to roll dice or something first?
DM: No. You're just dead.
Me: I'm pretty sure you're supposed to roll something... you know, initiative, an attack roll, a damage roll... something.
DM: *picks up a handful of dice, drops them onto the table without looking at them* You're just dead.
Me: *meekly* I had chain mail
DM: *shrugs*
Me: Oookay... Later everyone.
Sufice it to say I never played with him again. I Chalk it up as a learning experience.
Even a decade later though "You're just dead" has become a running joke of sorts in our group whenever any PCs dies unexpectedly from lots of damage, a trap, ect.
DM: You see a ruined tower.
Me: I go inside.
DM: There's a staircase leading down.
Me: I walk dowstairs.
DM: As you turn the corner at the bottom of the stairs a huge rat leaps out of the shadows onto your chest, tears into your flesh, burrows up your throat and bursts out of your face. You're dead!
As if I needed that last part clarified.
Me: Uh... Aren't you supposed to roll dice or something first?
DM: No. You're just dead.
Me: I'm pretty sure you're supposed to roll something... you know, initiative, an attack roll, a damage roll... something.
DM: *picks up a handful of dice, drops them onto the table without looking at them* You're just dead.
Me: *meekly* I had chain mail
DM: *shrugs*
Me: Oookay... Later everyone.
Sufice it to say I never played with him again. I Chalk it up as a learning experience.
Even a decade later though "You're just dead" has become a running joke of sorts in our group whenever any PCs dies unexpectedly from lots of damage, a trap, ect.
skinnydwarf
Explorer
Mouseferatu said:
I think I've had PCs die in the first game of the campaign twice. If it wasn't the first game, it was the first adventure.
Once my brother was playing a female ninja who managed to get thrown in jail (I think because she failed to escape some guards when she ran off into town to loot instead of helping put out a large fire... it was a good plan, but she had bad luck). Anyway, during her escape the prison guard rolled a natural 20 on his attack, and this was 2e so a natural 20 was a crit. 1st level characters who are already wounded don't usually surive crits, and neither did she.
The other time my players pulled a KODT on me, so it wasn't really my fault. One who was (I think) a half-giant left the party to build a sand castle and then swam into the middle of a lake to drown himself. The game ended shortly after that, and I foreswore D&D for the hundredth time. It didn't last.
rogueattorney
Adventurer
To any who are afraid that a newbie losing his first pc in the first combat of his first adventure will frighten said newbie off, let me be testament...
My very first thief died at the hands of the ogre in the Caves of Chaos twenty-three years ago. I've been hooked ever since.
...and remember, DM's don't kill PC's. Monsters and traps (and sometimes other PC's) kill pc's!!
R.A.
My very first thief died at the hands of the ogre in the Caves of Chaos twenty-three years ago. I've been hooked ever since.
...and remember, DM's don't kill PC's. Monsters and traps (and sometimes other PC's) kill pc's!!
R.A.
Rel
Liquid Awesome
Ambrus said:Me: Uh... Aren't you supposed to roll dice or something first?
DM: No. You're just dead.
Me: I'm pretty sure you're supposed to roll something... you know, initiative, an attack roll, a damage roll... something.
DM: *picks up a handful of dice, drops them onto the table without looking at them* You're just dead.
Me: *meekly* I had chain mail
DM: *shrugs*
Me: Oookay... Later everyone.
You obviously didn't appreciate the DM's efforts to speed of combat.
Desdichado
Hero
Same here. Of course, you do what you can to avoid it, but I've seen it plenty. The game simply isn't very fun, IMO, if the looming spectre of potential PC death is ubiquitous.diaglo said:
In all my 25 years of gaming...
My first time I killed a 1st level character was using a Crypt Ape (see pic below) from Grenadier's Monster Manuscript. He was a dwarf who went on to play and be raised 4 times from the dead.
We finished the Giant series with that character still alive and he became a king of a new dwarven land.
Later,
Greg Volz
Natural Twenty Gaming
www.naturaltwenty.com
My first time I killed a 1st level character was using a Crypt Ape (see pic below) from Grenadier's Monster Manuscript. He was a dwarf who went on to play and be raised 4 times from the dead.
We finished the Giant series with that character still alive and he became a king of a new dwarven land.
Later,
Greg Volz
Natural Twenty Gaming
www.naturaltwenty.com
Rystil Arden
First Post
Chalk it up to my players. When I described a random stalactite in good detail in the middle of the dungeon with the goblins, the fighter removed his armour to climb up their and check it for secrets. Then while he was scuffling around, the goblins attacked and killed the psion during the surprise round...Rel said:
