D&D General Most predictable character death

[W'rkncacnter]

She hits the car, flips over the hood, and goes under the back wheel, taking 20d6 damage while having 18 hp, and dies.

her (well, intended) maneuver was so awesome it literally broke physics. a valiant death. (20d6 for that seems laughably overkill, but then i don't think it would've mattered anyway, so you know.)

that said, i've got two contenders for this topic, both from the same campaign. the first is when the warlock followed (what he thought was) the bard (but was actually an illusion created by the bard as a joke) through a portal...into a plane that forced saves against exhaustion every minute. the second is when the wizard let the warlock's replacement character dominate the party's captive into revealing who told the bbeg where we were staying...which just so happened to be said wizard. the wizard's response was to throw a fireball in the paladin's (and, well, everyone else's) face.

both died horribly.

 

[corwyn77]

She was explicitly warned 3 times that trying to jump onto a fast-moving car would kill her if she missed, and that it would be hard. She was dead when the car hit her anyway, and this way it also helped us "succeed" so it wasn't in vain.

Everyone was laughing, and she got handed the high-level NPC gunslinger (our sort-of silent boss with the party) to play for the rest of the session.

I think the initial call by the DM was the bad call - apparently the only way to fail jumping on the car was lethally. She could have been too late, missing completely; less too late, hitting the side - painful but not necessarily lethal; landed on the roof but couldn't hold on, etc. After all, she only missed by 3.

 

[corwyn77]

Recently, in a game I'm in, a fighter - he was a real problem player but has recently improved quite a bit after a talk with the DM after the next death after this one - had made a deal with the devil and had an unholy weapon. He was arrested due to the actions he took while under it's influence. At the city we were escorting him to for trial, the locals were under attack. He joined us in helping out - his weapon could not be taken from him for reasons, but his armour was. It was short and bloody.