Number of characters killed in one night

[arwink]

I think the record is watching someone go through five characters in a first level game.

Of course, this was in the youthful days of twelve to fifteen hour game sessions, and people came with backups.

More recently, I've seen one player loose two characters in one night, but it's a rare occurance.

 

[Zappo]

I've gone through four characters in one Stormbringer session once. It was about the same session where I decided I was fed up with the game, IIRC. Then again, it could have been the adventure... an unavoidable fight between the party and six NPCs with similar or better stats and way better equipment isn't what I call a good scenario.

 

[Balgus]

I had an idiot of a player once. When the group was doublecrossed by a rich merchant, and not paid their money (low level), they kidnapped his son to get it back (I know kidnap again...). The player decide he wanted to torture the guy before his dad got there. He slashed him and prodded him while he was tied downa nd blindfolded. the other players kept tellong him to stop, but he wouldn't so during ascuffle, his blindfold came off and he saw the guy with a bloody knife. He was later set free cause his dad came through with the money. He then sent out a bounty hunter for the guy that was poking him. The others he did not care for because he understood that his dad was a greedy bastard and should have paid.

I let him roll up another char.

He decided to go Rogue/fighter. At level three- you have like 15 HP. Well, they wandered into the forest where they fought off little doggs. Then I alluded to huge thumping noises and mini earthquakes. It was aT Rex. Instead of fleeing like any normal people would, he decided to take the thing head on- and without the help of the other players. He was swallowed.

And lastly, on the next adv- he saw a shining thing at the bottom of a lake that he knew was inhabited by sealions, but he jumped in anyways. In Heavy armor- he sunk like a baby (and fighters dont have that many skills to put on swim). After being torn to shreds by the sealions, he flowated belly up to the surface...

 

[Sanackranib]

character death

I ran a game about 10 years ago where a new player was introduced to ny game, some of the pther players knew him though I had never gamed with him. At the start of the 1st game I set a 3 character cap. meaning if you go through 3 characters you are out of the game. This was the only guy who did. heres what happened.

1) Fighter - Character seemed pissed off at the world. wound up getting arrested with the other characters and had to spend the night in jail (wrong place at the wrong time) when he got out the first thing he did was to rob the house of the local lords mother. He distroyed most of it in the process. when the characters found out whose house it was they turned him over for justice - afraid that they would be blamed for his actions. he was tried, not only did he show no remorse, he told the Noble to F' off. so he was hung. I told him you feel the rope around your neck, then a quick jerk and the world fades to black . . . right up to the end I don't think he thought I would kill his character or that the party would some how save him. After I tore up his sheet he rolled up #2.

2) Fighter - he learned from the last one and didn't run him a a CE jerk. un fortuneatly for him he was captured in a large battle with some goblins and taken prisoner. Once the party caught up with those that captured him the goblins tried to negociate for their lives (there were 2 goblins hiding behind this guy 1 had a dagger to hus throat the other had a dagger to his spleen) The elven ranger said I don't make deals with goblin scum and fired 2 arrows. due to the cover provided by the other character he just missed the goblins, however he rolled JUST high enough to hit the cover/prisoner. I felt bad for him at this point because his death was not his fault and was really the result of a series of bad rolls - enter character #3

3) fighter - now as this was his 3rd and final character and I didn't want a repeat of the 2nd one (and the bad blood between him and the guy playing the ranger) I introduced him as a henchman/bodyguard of a more powerfull NPC fighter/rogue who was traveling with them. This was ok because the party would leave him alone and he might last the night. anyway they were in a tomb and found some treasure (the rogue was holding party treasure until it was divided up - don't ask me why . . .)when this guys character saw a gem that no one else had noticed. he took it, the rogue saw him and told him to put it in party treasure, he said "what gem?" the rogue replied the one I saw you put into your right vest pocket. Reply -what are you talking about I didn't take any gem. At this point the rogue draws his sword makes a called shot and plases it aginst this guys neck (rolled a 20) and said " I will not permit those in my imploy to lie to me, produce the gem or I will cut your throat. Once again what gem I don't know what you are talking about. Rogue says "then Die" and procedes to kill him. this resulted in 1/2 the party turning on the rogue and rather then the whole party fight eachother the priest told him to just go, so he went outside, saw the claustrophobic ranger and said nothing personal but I can't have you track me for them and shot and almost killed him (the partys other rogue was right behind him and managed to stabalize the ranger.

bare in mind that this all happened in 1 session it was . . . unbelieveable

 

[darklight]

Well, I'm pretty sure my friend Allan holds the record. Some years ago we were playing in sort of a rpg club, with two DM's and many different players. Anyway, in one marathon session (4 days IIRC) Allan managed to play 26 characters!!! Don't ask me how thats possible, most of the time he played with the other DM, so I don't know what happened.
In the entire campaign I played only one character, in part due to favoritism by the DM, plus I played a rather coldhearted, selfish bastard, who on the very first adventure killed the entire party in their sleep, for lack of food He did later suffer from total amnesia, and a drastic change in personality

Anyways, I seriously hope that noone else has suffered 'loss of character' in quite the same scope as Allan. If that was a common thing, I think gaming would be a lot less fun.

darklight
Edit: spelling

 

[Mulkhoran]

My pain can finally be told..............

This is long, but it pays off in the end.


Last year, I made up an elven barbarian character for a setting my friend was running. It was sort of a frontier/Last of the Mohicans type thing, and the elves were sort of like the indians.

So this character had a long and detailed background, which involved his father being exiled from the village due to the evil politics of the other men, and his mother being ostracized. He left this village to find his father, and returned after several years to find his mother and baby brothers gone, under extremely suspicious circumstances. I had this line in there about how his best friend, who had offered to stay with them and protect them, couldn't look him in the eye after that.

Essentially, this led to him slaughtering the entire village, and going out into the world. The campaign opened with a combat, and I ended up fighting this orc shaman alongside the other characters, just having come upon the scene, looking for a fight.

The orc shaman killed me in like 2 rounds after I rushed him. So the fight proceeds, and I make up another character. They beat the shaman, and go to free the prisoners. I'm introduced as one of the prisoners they free.

While this is happening, the party "priest" is praying over the bodies of the fallen. Unbeknownst to the rest of us, he's a priest of Cyric, and his goal is to attempt to send the spirits of the fallen off to Cyric. The DM was giving him a 10% chance (01-10) to do it. Over the body of the barbarian, he rolls a 00, meaning some bizarre backlash effect occurs.

It's about this time the DM asks me who I'm playing. I mention, that since I didn't want the long history I wrote up to "go to waste", that I'm playing the longtime friend of the dead barbarian, the only one to escape his slaughter of the village, and the one most likely responsible for his family's death.

He goes into shock momentarily, and leaves for a bit with my barb's character sheet.

Just as I'm being introduced, my barbarian rises. As a revenant.

The new character was a finesse fighter. He was eviscerated in the first round, before anyone could act. Well, not before the rogue could act, but once he saw the revenant was just going for ME, he jumped aside and let it maul me.

2 in one night. That's my record so far.

 

[Ravellion]

Just as I'm being introduced, my barbarian rises. As a revenant.

The new character was a finesse fighter. He was eviscerated in the first round, before anyone could act. Well, not before the rogue could act, but once he saw the revenant was just going for ME, he jumped aside and let it maul me.

2 in one night. That's my record so far.

OUCH! I usually don't cycle in new player character within the same session, so I don't have these experiences.

Rav