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<blockquote data-quote="Wild Gazebo" data-source="post: 5462393" data-attributes="member: 24413">Only twice that I recall.&nbsp; The first was when I had a beloved NPC die quietly in his chair while the players were celebrating a victory in his home with his wife and adopted son (the son was a PC).&nbsp; The NPC was a cantankerous old man with a heart of gold that funded the PCs from a very early level...it was later revealed he was a powerful wizard.&nbsp; We proceeded to a funeral scene that didn't draw tears as the death scene did.The second was in the same campaign...much later (5-6 levels later).&nbsp; (In this world the wizards aging table was increased based on the level they achieved so that a high level wizard could live hundreds of years) The PC who was the son of the wizard (who was also a wizard) received a letter and gift from the wizard's wife.&nbsp; The gift was an amulet and the letter was a note about how much she loved the PCs and how she was tired and missed her husband so she was giving this amulet to him.&nbsp; The amulet was intended as a gift to the person you love so they may live the same length of time as an experienced wizard.The letter took a minute to sink in as the PCs realized that she had committed suicide to send the amulet to her adopted son.&nbsp; There wasn't a dry eye in the place.&nbsp; It was also at this time that they realized how old and powerful their old friend was as the leader of the wizard's guild told them that he was the apprentice of their beloved old wizard.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wild Gazebo, post: 5462393, member: 24413"] Only twice that I recall. The first was when I had a beloved NPC die quietly in his chair while the players were celebrating a victory in his home with his wife and adopted son (the son was a PC). The NPC was a cantankerous old man with a heart of gold that funded the PCs from a very early level...it was later revealed he was a powerful wizard. We proceeded to a funeral scene that didn't draw tears as the death scene did. The second was in the same campaign...much later (5-6 levels later). (In this world the wizards aging table was increased based on the level they achieved so that a high level wizard could live hundreds of years) The PC who was the son of the wizard (who was also a wizard) received a letter and gift from the wizard's wife. The gift was an amulet and the letter was a note about how much she loved the PCs and how she was tired and missed her husband so she was giving this amulet to him. The amulet was intended as a gift to the person you love so they may live the same length of time as an experienced wizard. The letter took a minute to sink in as the PCs realized that she had committed suicide to send the amulet to her adopted son. There wasn't a dry eye in the place. It was also at this time that they realized how old and powerful their old friend was as the leader of the wizard's guild told them that he was the apprentice of their beloved old wizard. [/QUOTE]

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