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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8125947" data-attributes="member: 29398">Another humiliating way to go is to somehow manage to get killed twice, at different times, by the same opponent*.Over the years I've seen this happen to maybe four different characters.  One of them was mine: a mid-level Cleric who died against a massive great Red Dragon when, flying, I was somehow forced to land and then the damn thing - all 15 tons of it - crash-landed on me when we shot it down.Thinking the Dragon's dead, we scoop its loot and go about our careers (my Cleric was revived) until a few adventures later some old guy in a dungeon complex invites us to dinner and once we sit down polymorphs into this same bloody Dragon!  It opens with a breath weapon for a crazy amount of damage.  Failed save.  I died where I sat.Another was one I DMed.  Party meets a Beholder.  Its death ray hits a Dwarf PC who, needing only a natural 3 to save, rolled a 2.  Party book it out of there, use a scroll on the Dwarf to revive him, and sack out.  Next day, knowing better what they're up against, they buff up and go back in.  Sure enough they meet the same Beholder, and by sheer bad luck (i.e. I was random-rolling a) which eye-stalks it could bring to bear and b) which of those then went for which character) the death ray hits the Dwarf again.  This time he only needs a natural 2 to save...and out comes the 1.* - or ally: one poor unlucky schlub in our parties in days of old got killed twice, months if not years apart, by mis-aimed lightning bolts from the same caster. (I played neither the caster nor the victim here)</blockquote>

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