Lamest character deaths ever!

[Heinrich_Uberlich]

With all the character death threads going around (OK I read Ogre Mage's thread) I thought I'd start this one.
Bascially I'd like to read about the lamest character deaths (meaning death by pathetic monster or common everyday occurance) in any of your games.

The one that comes to mind for me was when a 4th level fighter trapped in a burning house, lept through a burning doorway, caught fire and failed the next 4 rounds of saving throws to put out the flames. He burnt to death.
A 4th level fighter with a Greatsword, killed by a common house fire.

 

[Ranger5]

Well our whole party got TPKed by the animated rug in The Forge of Fury. Up until that point we had always sent one PC in to scout any room before the whole party would go in. This time though, it was getting late and we (the players) were all getting a little tired. The DM described a room that looked like it was abandoned execept for a nice large (20x20) rug in the center and some chests on the far wall. So I say, "we all enter and move towards the chests" and of course no one thought to argue. Well the next thing we knew we were all being grappled by the rug and we all kept failing our grapple checks against it. Basically we all got smothered by a #$*!&@ rug.

 

[Thanee]

Well, the lamest certainly was the end of our party in the Necropolis campaign.

We were already doing completely pointless stuff for a while, because of the major annoyance that was this last part of the adventure (which was only topped off by the DM having us hit by Mordenkainen's Disjunctions in a completely random fashion, since he wanted us to not rely on our magic - worst thing he ever did so far, but well, it's excuseable, he isn't a bad DM otherwise ), like trying everything we found in the grave of Mr superevil half-god, altho we knew most (all?) of the stuff was pretty bad for us (unless we randomly hit the "right" solution with nothing that even resembles a clue about what to do), but well, we couldn't care less.

So, we ended up completely naked inside a room with a couple vampires and while the others were killed quickly, my character just sat down against a wall, shrugging while watching the vampires beat her to death, acting like there was nothing there, basically.

“So, what do you do now?”
“Nothing, why should I?”



Bye
Thanee

 

[The Forsaken One]

3rd level character falling to death while jumping over a 5ft, wide chasm.
5th level character falling from a first floor window 10ft up trying to jump down.
5th level character falling while trying to climb up a rainpipe 15 ft up.

This was the same player

And we had a player who has been killed by chickens, monkeys and flumphs.

 

[Ryltar]

An already wounded ftr4/brb1, who charged an enemy wizard in his study, tripped over a chair (he failed his jump AND balance check ... oww), fell facedown before the wizard, who then AoO'ed him with a quarterstaff, scoring a critical hit . It was hilarious.

 

[Thanee]

3rd level character falling to death while jumping over a 5ft, wide chasm.

I see, there was a lot of wind making this jump difficult, eh?

5th level character falling from a first floor window 10ft up.
5th level character falling while trying to climb up a rainpipe 15 ft up.

Uhm, how can you fall to death for 1d6 damage, unless you are already in the negatives!?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

Oh, I remember something else... in our first campaign the wizard had it rough when we were going up against a dracolich. First he died from some spell (failing the save on a 1), but was revived by the paladin to keep fighting (there's a spell that returns a dead ally for a couple minutes), so he casts Tenser's Transformation and charges the dracolich, who scores a crit on the AoO and deals over 50 damage... the wizard died again (twice in the same encounter) because he rolled another 1 on his save for massive damage.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Liolel]

Uhm, how can you fall to death for 1d6 damage, unless you are already in the negatives!

I not in the group of the player who posted this, but if I had to take a guess, the fall droped them to negatives, and they bled to death likely because they were away from the party. But this is entirely a guess so don't take much value in it.

 

[Gideon]

We had a TPK from a bunch of dire rats( i think they were dire and not just normal rats) And to add insult to injury, the sorc cast a sleep spell with my dwarven fighter right in the middle. So there I was asleep with about 6 or 7 gigantic rats.

To this day our party(new charachters, same players) fears nothing except for vermin. The vermin will get you everytime.

 

[iceifur]

I was DMing a 3.0 anthropomorphic animal campaign (don't ask), the party consisting of a camel druid, a viper druid (no clerics in this campaign), a rhino barbarian...and a gecko ranger. The PCs were reclaiming a cave from an infestation of apes, baboons, and scatload of monkeys (all just normal animals). Each member of the party had roughly 3-4 character levels.

Not too far into the fight, the gecko found himself surrounded by a horde of monkeys. Due to a particularly brutal house rule, a roll of 20 on an attack roll, followed by another 20, followed by a confirmed hit meant that the target was critically killed. Poor gecko ranger...he was at full HP, too.

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