D&D General Poll: Have You Lost a Character to Ghouls.

[pogre]

Yep.

And, this past summer my son TPKed us using Thouls in his old school campaign.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I picture it ending a bit like this:

How could he have known there were two, did they eat him alive?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

2nd ed wild surge fireball - triple area, triple damage. My PC was burned to a crisp, offending mage out of the area...

Ring of spell storing, level 21 Delayed Blast Fireball, max delay set, cast at max range. Problem was, the adventure was Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, and the targets were police robots...speed 96”.

They closed on us before we knew it, and the spell went off in something like the 3rd of 4th round of combat. Which means, even though it took THEM out, we were plenty roughed up when the BOOM happened.

 

[Tallifer]

Will o'wisps are deadly! Alas, Charleois the young and errant paladino.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

It's been a very long time since I've gotten a group of PCs with a Will'o'wisp, but they are classics.

Will o'wisps are deadly! Alas, Charleois the young and errant paladino.

 

[Sabathius42]

I voted no...but....as a 2e GM I had a ghoul paralyze a character who then fell into the liquid in the sewers and drowned.

I'd give the ghoul an assist.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I picture it ending a bit like this:

But with intestines instead of noodles.

 

[lowkey13]

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[atanakar]

Ghouls were my favorite monster during the B/X and 1e era.

I TPKed a 1e party with Ghouls. One player had a Ninja from the Dragon magazine. He was the last man standing. He kept missing the last standing ghoul but he always managed to evade the damage from the ghoul with his Ninja special ability. It was ridiculous. They traded blows for 8 rounds until the Ninja failed to evade the damage... very tragic.

 

[Dausuul]

They are not harmless in 5E. DC10 Con Save is something a lotof PCs can fail, even at high levels. I threw 8 ghouls at a higher level party as part of a larger encounter. The barbarian decided to take them all on while the rest of the party took on other issues. That barbarian had to be rescued. He was 17th level.

Huh. Did he have a poor Con? Or do you rule that a natural 1 always fails a save?

By the book, a level 17 barbarian with Con 16+ is effectively immune to ghoul paralysis.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

George Romero would approve!

But with intestines instead of noodles.

 

[Coroc]

But with intestines instead of noodles.

You obviously made the connection

 

[Lanefan]

Huh. Did he have a poor Con? Or do you rule that a natural 1 always fails a save?

By the book, a level 17 barbarian with Con 16+ is effectively immune to ghoul paralysis.

Not immune to ghoul damage, though, and unless that Barbarian's AC is mighty good 8-on-1 has trouble written all over it.

Death by a thousand cuts.

 

[Shadowdweller]

In previous editions yes. In 5e, no.

 

[mrpopstar]

No, and I hope I never do!

 

[Dausuul]

Not immune to ghoul damage, though, and unless that Barbarian's AC is mighty good 8-on-1 has trouble written all over it.

Death by a thousand cuts.

I guess if he wasn't raging, maybe...? The odds favor the barbarian by my math. A 17th-level barbarian has an insane number of hit points, which are effectively doubled by raging. He can soak several rounds of attacks even at 8-to-1 odds, and he will shorten those odds very rapidly.