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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6895756" data-attributes="member: 6701872">Let's see... it's been a while since a character died at my table. In fact, the most recent character death at my table was actually me getting to play for the first time in a handful of years, so I'll give a double answer and describe that death and the one most recent from a campaign I was DM of:The party was a small group of near strangers that had met during a festival in a nearby town. That festival was interrupted by goblins attacking the town, and this small group of people made up of the PCs wanted to track down the goblins that gotten away to make sure they weren't regrouping for another attack on the town - you know, heroics.That led us to a patch of woods heavy with briar undergrowth, where we found some kind of goblin spellcaster and it's pet leopard. For a moment it seemed our newly established team was working well together, as we had moved in and nearly surrounded our pair of foes... but then the goblin put some distance between us for his advantage, and the entire party followed after him, leaving my character (a sorcerer I didn't think was so frail) face to face with the cat. His death was swift.Long before that... like 5 years probably, I was running a 4th edition game that had managed to rise to mid-paragon tier. The party felt indestructible with their combination of all the healing a cleric can muster and stout dwarven fighter loaded with abilities to surround himself with monsters to beat on while the cleric funnels most of that healing into making that not suicide.But the snow was deep, and the winter wolves were hungry. Before the fighter had a chance to make himself the focal point of their attacks, they'd already surrounded the cleric and drawn blood. And when the cleric fell, the entire party nearly joined her because they wouldn't let the wolves take their tasty meal and leave without further exchange of violence.It was an awesome moment that shines through a campaign which we were all basically done with at that point (it ended in a "let's just not play this anymore" majority vote a month or so later), and it was also the first (and only) time I've seen the player of that cleric not react poorly to a character death - so I gave him a digital painting of the character's tomb to memorialize the event.</blockquote>

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