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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8125861" data-attributes="member: 20564">Have two "I can't believe I died" stories.  Both from AD&D 2nd, and at very opposite ends of the spectrum.We had just gotten one of the new Skills and Powers books and were starting a new party (int he same setting, we had like half a dozen). I had this whole half-orc gladatorial mage. Really cool. Some RP, we head out of town. While traveling, we're ambushed by wolves. They beat me on initiative, and kill me before I even had a chance to act once in the entire campaign. Round 1 of combat 1.The other was with near epic level characters.  Now, one thing about AD&D is that saves were based on the target's level and that's IT.  A spell from a 1st level wizard and from a lich had the same save.  And when you were really high level those were pretty easy to make, especially with various rings of protection and other items to help.Anyway, a few players were latew (but we played 10+ hours on the weekend, it wasn't uncommon), so the two of us there teleport off to another city in another country to follow up a lead that was really an assassination attempt.  DM has this whole combat ready for us, but the attempt starts while we're meeting with our contact over a meal that's poisoned.  Rememebr we're like 18th level or something.  The other player is running Gerrian LoCasta, a cleric of Tymora (luck) and can only fail a poison save on a 1, and I'm playing The Lady Nikidaema Roaringhorn, paladin of Lathander (Dawn) and can only fail on a 1 or a 2.  So the poison was pretty much pro-forma.Gerrian rolled a 1, Nikadaema rolled a 2.  We both died immediately.In a foreign city, with none of the rest of the party there to know this happened or recover our bodies.  Wearing all our magic items.Inglorious.(If I recall, we had some sort of magical warning when one of us died, and was able to True Ressurect us which didn't need the bodies.  We geared up with backup (and much inferior) equipment and the whole team went in hard on our slayers.</blockquote>

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