player killing?

[Forrester]

If you check out the Shinobi Killfist Story Hour . . .

that is to say, the Knight of Ill Fortune, you'll see why Morrow calls it the Knights of Ill Fortune.

Three TPKs in one session. Only three players, though, so ONLY nine character deaths.

I'm currently shopping for a therapist who can see me five nights a week.

 

[MerakSpielman]

As a DM, I try not to kill Players.

Characters, sometimes, but not players.

 

[The Forsaken One]

A couple of months ago one of the players in my just finished CoC campaign succeeded in rolling a 1 on a drive check. He succeeded in killing the whol party of 5 people in a car cash.

Talking about major bummer. We all felt so crappy after having everyone die is such a sucky way we refrained from gaming for a whole month to get motivated again to reroll characters and to get them back in the game. After playing characters a long while and see them go out this way... auw...

 

[jmucchiello]

My worst that I've seen in recent experience was last Sunday - the party of ~4th level characters rode into an ambush at the start of the evenings entertainment, and within the first three rounds one PC failed his saving throws against phantasmal killer. Dead.

Phantasmal Killer against a 4th level party? An ambush included a 7th level wizard or 8th level sorcerer plus other creatures? Sounds over the top.

 

[Nail]

Phantasmal Killer against a 4th level party? An ambush included a 7th level wizard or 8th level sorcerer plus other creatures? Sounds over the top.

Well, that's PS for you: Plain Slaughtering....<=kidding.

For me, the latest TPK happened last sunday.

Four 1st level PCs, charging, one after another, into the "pit of death". Unlike PS, I go for moderation: I used a 2nd lvl sorcerer. Of course, he had a Save or Die spell readied to cast on who ever came down the ladder. No initiative roll necessary....and 1st level PCs have just abysmal Will saves.

Fortunately, the PCs came down in ones and twos, with significant pauses inbetween. That way the sorcerer could ready another Save or Die spell for the next one down...

Wait, did I say "fortunately"?

 

[Vaxalon]

What save or die spell did a 2nd level sorceror have handy?

 

[MerakSpielman]

Sleep? Possibly Color Spray?

 

[diaglo]

my worst experience of character deaths was Tomb of Horrors.

all involved had played 10+ years. they brought their characters out of retirement for a chance at the final resting place of a long lost and forgotten wizard.

whole encounter took about 10 minutes to DM.

they went in and didn't come out.

so we reset. who said 1ed wasn't video game like.

and tried again. took the rest of the session but had the same result. they went in and not one of them came out.

they still have good memories/nightmares about that adventure.

i didn't tell them the name of it. until about 3 years ago. one of my old players asked me if it was Tomb of Horrors. and i finally told him the truth.

 

[Nail]

What save or die spell did a 2nd level sorceror have handy?

The players read these boards, so I'll heve to keep that under my hat for now. But really, it's no stroke of genius on my part, nor is it some wacky splat-book offering.....

The point is, I guess, that against low level parties, a low level spell-slinger (<3rd) can easily cause a TPK. Kinda scary, really.

 

[MerakSpielman]

Grease? And the ladder was over a pit?

C'mon, if it's not sleep or color spray then what is it?