Just checking... how many times have your players died?

[godawful]

An Int 2 monster isn't really a threat to an Int 12 Fighter, unless the whole encounter is based in brute force. Unless of course the GM is playing the Int 2 critter as having an Int 18 (I have seen that, which I consider fudging in a different fashion).QUOTE]

I probably play int 2 monsters better than anything

ME SMACK YOU GUUUUD!!!

 

[Harmon]

ME SMACK YOU GUUUUD!!!

Ya, you did.

PW- my apologies, there was no insult meant.

When I see how quickly some GMs kill off characters I get a rather disposable train of thought to my characters, instead of planning my next level, I start planning my next character.

My last character death was another Player's fault (she was sick, worked all week with a cold, and heard one thing when I said another), I wasn't mad, and she felt badly cause she knows how much I like the character. If I was a Player that lost a few to many characters there would have been no guilt from her and I would have shrugged it off, pulled out a blank character sheet and started planning the next character. Instead the character's body was saved heroicly and the character brought back.

 

[ForceUser]

Across three concurrent campaigns in the last 6 months, I've had

a 6th-level ranger/master of many forms die to a crit from a redcap's scythe
a 5th-level favored soul fall to a 6th-level NPC fighter
a 5th-level spirit shaman ripped to shreds by a scrag
a 4th-level fighter ripped to shreds by that same scrag
a 2nd-level warlock sucked dry by stirges
a 2nd-level scout oblierated by crossing a zone of forbiddance

And that's not taking into account the TPK or the deaths of NPC allies.

 

[shilsen]

I have a house rule which allows the use of three action pts to turn a killing blow/effect into one which reduces the PC to being stable at -9 hp. Without that, in my two campaigns, there would have been (a) 8 deaths in 21 sessions and (b) 3 deaths in 11 sessions.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Five weeks no deaths.

Big part of that is because I'm using the variant from Unearthed Arcana that requires a Fort Save to avoid death (disabled if you make it, dying if you miss, dead if you miss by 10+)

 

[Inconsequenti-AL]

In the one I'm playing in, somewhere over a dozen deaths and 1 retirement over 18 levels/2 years - for my PCs, not sure about anyone else...

In the game I'm running, came 'this close' a couple of weeks ago - Shadowrun, a mage decides that close combat with a hostile earth elemental would be a good idea. Fool! And it's not like he didn't know the other options available to him either. Ah well, luck and a quick thinking player saved him.

 

[devilbat]

I've killed off more PC's in the last three months, then I have in the previous five years, through a combination of being a Rat Bastard DM, and having players making huge mistakes.
We've had on TPK and another four solo deaths, for a toal of nine character deaths.

 

[Li Shenron]

I don't know how many sessions, but our 2 gaming groups have been playing since summer 2001, and so far I remember not more than 8 deaths, four of which in the same encounter (not a TPK, since one character survived).

All those dead from that near-TPK were brought back to life but it was a sort of compensation for the DM's fault in designing a too hard encounter. All other casualties were not fixed with a resurrection.

That's about our PnP games, which IMO are pretty low-death rate. Online games had a much higher death rate and resurrection rate as well

 

[Ethernaut]

Well, how many times would character have died if not for the spending Hero points?

Countless times.

And while it is hard to kill Buffy characters in general combat, we know there will be at least 1 death in the series... the Slayer is destined to die at some point in the next two seasons.

 

[Henry]

how does this stack up to your campaigns?

Players? None yet -- we're in our thirties, and generally safe people.

Characters? At least one per campaign, and one death per 6 to 10 sessions, on average.