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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 4862195" data-attributes="member: 60965">I just thought of a few more 4e deaths I've heard about from my buddy in California's FR game.  He started with 6 players and now has 13, of whom 8 attend regularly.He lost one character to drowning in a river.  No enemies, just a river and a bunch of failed Athletics checks.  If not for the water genesai, it could have been a TPK.Later, the infernal warlock got killed by the goblin mafia.  When he died, he was paid a visit by the Pit Fiend he had sold his soul to.  The Pit Fiend said he'd return the warlock to life and release his soul from their pact if he killed the party's cleric.  So, the warlock revives, gets the cleric alone and attacks him.The cleric, being a cleric if Illmater, merely opens his arms and lets himself by martyred.  Then the rest of the party shows up and puts the warlock down for good.In a mini-dungeon I made for them, he had three player deaths on the final fight against 30 goblin minions, a drow sniper, a mind-flayer, and a hobgoblin captain riding a war rhino.  They had about 7 players on-hand for the fight.The warlord charged ahead, was shot by the drow sniper, then critted and impaled, unconscious, to a tree by the hobgoblin captain.  Then the goblin's turn came up, making a wall of meat between the rest of the party and the warlord.  While the warlord was pinned there, the mind-flayer made his way over to the warlord, looking for a free brain snack.The cleric, taking a huge pile of OAs that bloodied him, charged through a gap in the goblin lines and attacked the mind flayer, who promptly tentacle-grabbed him and ate his brain.  The warlord soon bled out, since the rest of the party was too busy fighting off waves of goblins, trying to keep away from the TWF ranger that kept getting dominated by the mind-flayer, and trying to take down the rhino captain.Near the end of the fight, the bloodied PC hobgoblin fighter, the dominated TWF ranger, and the elven wizard with 3 hp were the only ones standing, versus the still-hidden, uninjured drow sniper and the bloodied and retreating mind-flayer.  The TWF ranger finally made her save, spotted the sniper, stunted, ran up the tree and cut off the brach the sniper was standing on, dropping them both to the ground.The PC fighter charged through the waterfall to the hidden tunnel the illithid had fled through, where he was promptly mind-blasted, dominated, and brain-snacked.  The TWF bloodied the sniper, then was dominated again by the returning illithid.The wizard managed to finish off the sniper as the TWF ranger charged across the clearing towards her.  The illithid used the opportunity to flee.  The ranger made her domination save, leaving her bloodied, staring at the wizard.  The wizard still had 3 hp and stood pointing a wand at her, ready to blast her if she so much as twitched.  Final tally: 3 dead PCs, 2 unconscious and stable PCs, 2 concious and bloodied PCs.</blockquote>

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