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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordVyreth" data-source="post: 1573723" data-attributes="member: 9626">This first one was another player's PC in a campaign I was in a few years ago.  The player was a ranger back in 2nd ed, when rangers had to be good.  At one point, we stayed the night in a "mobile" inn, which was basically hitched up to a team of horses.  However, we learned in the middle of the night that the inn was cursed, and we had to fight our way out of it.  On the way out, we discovered the inn's owner, who knew of the inn's nature but was forced to help it by the evil magic cursing it.  We first saw him quietly sobbing in the kitchen, and the ranger attacked the helpless sobbing man immediately.  It didn't kill him, but it cost the ranger his good alignment and thus turned him into a fighter.  We survived the inn, but he went out hunting the next day, and was promptly killed by a giant snake.  Maybe it wasn't the lamest death, but being killed by an animal right after losing one's ranger-hood ranks as one of the most ironic deaths ever.  We used it as a running joke for the rest of the campaign, as we often would spot a snake with a "ranger-shaped" lump in it.My character wasn't much better, though.  He died four times over the campaign, and they were all lame deaths.  The first time, he was knocked unconscious (for the hundredth time; it was a tough campaign for the party mage,) and one of the bad guys we were fighting decided to finish off a downed enemy instead of fighting the surviving party members.  Guess which party member was finished off?  And this was the first time a bad guy used this tactic in the entire game.The second time, I was killed by my own party, after being dominated by a devil.  They tried using nonlethal methods to stop me, but eventually the party sorceror gave up and just lightning bolted me.  The third time, I was invisible and flying, and fighting a large number of leveled frost giants in a fortress.  After one spell too many, their leader, who was in a tower, waited for me to cast a spell, and then leapt on top of me aftering seeing the spell's source.  I took something like 74 points of damage after hitting the ground, which was more than enough to kill me.  I still think the DM made it too easy for her to hit me.Finally, after detecting a source of magic above a gateway we have to pass under, I used mage hand (we had converted to 3rd ed midway through the campaign,) to levitate a mirror into the room, and then to look up at the magic.  It turned out to be a symbol of death, which killed me instantly.  Luckily, after the three earlier deaths, the party felt sorry for me and had me true resurrected that time!In my current campaign, which I am DMing, the worst death came from a ghaele eladrin that was going the Savage Species route.  After the group was mostly arrested (after being framed by a supposed ally,) he was able to stay free both because he's a celestial and because he was so new to the group that they didn't have anything on him yet.  He later went back to investigate the party's stronghold, which was being ransacked by some thieves in league with the framers.  They saw him coming and hid, then ambushed him.  One round of surprise sneak attacks, a really bad roll for initiative on the celestial, and another half-round of sneak attacks later, the celestial was killed.  He was later raised by the city for questioning, but by now the player was ready to move on to a new character anyway.</blockquote>

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