DungeonmasterCal
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Piratecat said:
Looks around, nervously shuffles feet and clears throat. Sigh....both me and another paladin did the exact same thing. I miss that character.
Lamest character deaths ever!
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Looks around, nervously shuffles feet and clears throat. Sigh....both me and another paladin did the exact same thing. I miss that character.
dead_radish
Explorer
We had several memorable ones in my games. Sadly, most of them game from one player.
The most recent was my own, and it amused me to no end. We're playing an EQ game, and at 1st level, ran into a diseased rat. Apparently there's a disease template, adds 1 cr, highly dangerous. Made this lil' bugger amazingly strong. Between the 5 of us, we managed to slay the rat, but one character got infected with a disease that halves your Dex, lowers your Cha to 1, but gives you +4 str, +4 con, and dr 1/4 your HD. Not bad.
Course he was highly infectious, and caused people to want to kill him on sigt. We tried to get him healed, but eventually, being an evil party, I decided that 1. He had done perhaps 10 points of damage over the course of 3 levels, so wasn't much use and 2. It would cost more to heal him than he was worth. So I attacked him, when he had 6 hp left. My troll had 38 hp. I rolled a 2. He critted with his greatsword. Down to about 23 hp (high str). I rolled a 4. He critted. Max damage. Down and bleeding, he harm touches me, and I quietly expire.
First thing he'd killed all campaign, and it was me....
The rest of them all came from one player (a friend of a friend of a friend) who just wasn't too bright. His first death came when the party went on a scouting mission to investigate a band of orcs that was rushing the city at a high rate of speed, more than seemed possible. The party mounted the fastest scouting horses we could find. Except for his paladin, who mounted his heavy warhorse, in full barding. Predictably, we found the orcs, and they're fast (50' movement). Our horses run at 50'. His runs at 30'.
You can guess where it went from there.
He later died charging a palisade which contained approximately 200 orcs, armed with bows, who had setup spiked embankments. He actually managed to reach the top of the wall, by spending 2 hero points, where he found himself surrounded (surprisingly). I think he was probably tasty, though.
We were glad to see him leave the table....
The most recent was my own, and it amused me to no end. We're playing an EQ game, and at 1st level, ran into a diseased rat. Apparently there's a disease template, adds 1 cr, highly dangerous. Made this lil' bugger amazingly strong. Between the 5 of us, we managed to slay the rat, but one character got infected with a disease that halves your Dex, lowers your Cha to 1, but gives you +4 str, +4 con, and dr 1/4 your HD. Not bad.
Course he was highly infectious, and caused people to want to kill him on sigt. We tried to get him healed, but eventually, being an evil party, I decided that 1. He had done perhaps 10 points of damage over the course of 3 levels, so wasn't much use and 2. It would cost more to heal him than he was worth. So I attacked him, when he had 6 hp left. My troll had 38 hp. I rolled a 2. He critted with his greatsword. Down to about 23 hp (high str). I rolled a 4. He critted. Max damage. Down and bleeding, he harm touches me, and I quietly expire.First thing he'd killed all campaign, and it was me....
The rest of them all came from one player (a friend of a friend of a friend) who just wasn't too bright. His first death came when the party went on a scouting mission to investigate a band of orcs that was rushing the city at a high rate of speed, more than seemed possible. The party mounted the fastest scouting horses we could find. Except for his paladin, who mounted his heavy warhorse, in full barding. Predictably, we found the orcs, and they're fast (50' movement). Our horses run at 50'. His runs at 30'.
You can guess where it went from there.
He later died charging a palisade which contained approximately 200 orcs, armed with bows, who had setup spiked embankments. He actually managed to reach the top of the wall, by spending 2 hero points, where he found himself surrounded (surprisingly). I think he was probably tasty, though.
We were glad to see him leave the table....
Turanil
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This one was the kind of lame, extremely lame death resulting from a bad (I mean BAAAAD) DM:
This was a munchkin gaming session (back in 2e). Since I was new to this group, I just created a 13th level thief with a magical item of shapechanging among other things.
So, we investigate some deaths, which lead us to a castle. I decide to scout the place, so I shapechange into a bird, fly over the castle, and lands on top of a tower to get a look.
Just that, and the DM tells me: "You are dead!". As I was arguing about the idiocy of that death (no combat, no save, no roll of any sort), the bad DM finally declares that the vampire assassin well knows that no animal would ever come near his castle, so that (during the day of course) when one does, he uses his mirror of mental prowes to go though it, assassinate the intruder, then goes back (to his coffin I guess).
This DM probably never realized that a DM's purpose should be to have players have a good time playing, not killing PCs with lame explanations.
This was a munchkin gaming session (back in 2e). Since I was new to this group, I just created a 13th level thief with a magical item of shapechanging among other things.
So, we investigate some deaths, which lead us to a castle. I decide to scout the place, so I shapechange into a bird, fly over the castle, and lands on top of a tower to get a look.
Just that, and the DM tells me: "You are dead!". As I was arguing about the idiocy of that death (no combat, no save, no roll of any sort), the bad DM finally declares that the vampire assassin well knows that no animal would ever come near his castle, so that (during the day of course) when one does, he uses his mirror of mental prowes to go though it, assassinate the intruder, then goes back (to his coffin I guess).
This DM probably never realized that a DM's purpose should be to have players have a good time playing, not killing PCs with lame explanations.
Yig
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Mine was back in 2e.
I had a big 18/95 str fighter wielding a greatsword. The typical stupid goon
The party (1st level) was exploring an old house looking for a lost spellbook.
On the first level I spot a hole in the floor and I see 2 zombies.
So I'm thinking "2 zombies ? No problems !" and I jump down without waiting for the rest of the party.
Combat start and I manage to hit but not kill a zombie.
The DM roll for the first zombie and I get hit by a crit that bring me down to 50% Hp.
"Bah, they're just zombies !"
Then he roll the attack of the second zombie... Get another crit that does maximum damage.
Down I go...
I had a big 18/95 str fighter wielding a greatsword. The typical stupid goon
The party (1st level) was exploring an old house looking for a lost spellbook.
On the first level I spot a hole in the floor and I see 2 zombies.
So I'm thinking "2 zombies ? No problems !" and I jump down without waiting for the rest of the party.
Combat start and I manage to hit but not kill a zombie.
The DM roll for the first zombie and I get hit by a crit that bring me down to 50% Hp.
"Bah, they're just zombies !"
Then he roll the attack of the second zombie... Get another crit that does maximum damage.
Down I go...
CalrinAlshaw
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In the original Temple of Elemental Evil, on the WAY to the moat house, me and the other 2 party members were attacked by a giant frog. First round of combat (the DM rolled in view of players btw), the guy playing a rogue was attacked, and instantly swallowed. The frog ran off since it had it's meal. We laughed, especially when the Monstrous Compendium 2 came out with the Froghemoth, we teased the guy mercilessly. And since the death was so lame, the DM pressed the restart button (We were barely in the first session, heh)
Calrin Alshaw
Calrin Alshaw
dead_radish
Explorer
Cannibal_Kender said:
That's not lame, that's horribly horribly amusing.
Evilhalfling
Adventurer
2ed The party has two psionic halflings already. The ranger decides to go out in the wood to meditate for a chance at wild psionics - rolls terribly and looses 6 in, 5 wis and 3 chr - A new player shows up and tries to help him,
the ranger with his 3 int, whispers "kill me" - the new player does, and takes his stuff back to the rest of the party. They don't believe his story, and being evil they brutally kill him. The one psionist uses matter agitation and the others protest they dont know whats going on and distract him, before offering to heal him, (with an inflict wounds spell)
the ranger with his 3 int, whispers "kill me" - the new player does, and takes his stuff back to the rest of the party. They don't believe his story, and being evil they brutally kill him. The one psionist uses matter agitation and the others protest they dont know whats going on and distract him, before offering to heal him, (with an inflict wounds spell)
AngelTears
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Cuts in front of a wizard in queue to meet the king. Okay it didn't happen, but it was just a moment away from happening when I got the hint from the GM.
Brakkart
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Piratecat said:
Yup Greyhawk campaign I DM'ed a while back now, one of the players did just that in Lyzandreds Crypt I think it was. He thought it was the way out of that particular room and touched it, getting sucked in. Thankfully the rest of the party were smart enough not to follow suit
