Rolecall for the Dead - Bring out your dead!

[STARP_JVP]

Name lost to history: Turned to stone after opening the door on an angry Gorgon.
Caithlin Dar: Died of failure to follow geas spell. Chaotic to the end.
Name lost to history: Went insane after being punished by Greyhawk Thieves Guild for trying to sell off a giant golden Pelor holy symbol. Committed suicide.
Name lost to history: Killed when ambushed unarmoured by kobolds.
Name lost to history, nickname "Bill the Giant" (not actually a giant): Fell down a deep shaft, which is a euphemism for "I got sick of the character"

I DM much more than I play. Rarely do I lose a memorable character, as you will note from above.

 

[yennico]

Several PC wizards died by death attacks from assassins.

 

[diaglo]

Hmm, let's see if I can remember:

Timmay Scheppen, gnome sorcerer, killed by troglodytes and fed to a roper
Bartol Pinesheaf, mad barbarian, captured by drow, sold to slavers ...
Thane Torithim, druid/sorcerer extraordinaire, throat slit by drow
Thane's wolverine companion/familiar, smashed by a hill giant, then eaten
Ulfgar Ungart, priest of Moradin, fireballed by drow
Elwood Blues, bard of (little) renown captured by drow and fed to black dragon
Bernadette LeCroix, cat-loving wizard, captured by drow, sold to drow, died of starvation. Raised, and captured again ...
Amy, Bernie's cat familiar, eaten by ogre
Veridian Turnlover, electrocuted by blue dragon
Alya Silverleaf, shredded by a gorillon
Alya Silverleaf, smashed by a Maur
Arendel, rended by a shapechanged druid
Calrom Nathos, fell valiantly in melee
Harp, rat companion, dead in Firestorm
Red, fox familiar, dead in Firestorm


I'm still forgetting one or two.

you can read about these in the story hour in my sig.

Marcus of Tyr, human paladin,.. PC turned NPC...
and also Brian's character..Valgrim, human cleric of Lathander... another PC turned NPC... see Bodak in a Bag for details

and many other NPCs we lost... a whole party of Tyrians.. we raised their leader and saved him several times... but he still died a couple times.

 

[diaglo]

*chuckle* Was this a TPK? Looks like a hell of an encounter.

about half the party died in this encounter. the surviving members fled or carried lighter members to safety.

 

[DM-Rocco]

Rupert, cut in two by the demon barbarian while defending the town of Kalos

I know this is the one you thought was heroic, but come on, seriously, you know he would have tripped Zoe if he could have saved himself, just so happened that the barbarian had more movement than him.

Also, you should add:

Robillard, jumped in front of mob of human mercenaries and was stabbed by three of the as he drew off attacks from main party. He came back from -9 in a no magic world, while not a death, it was commendable, now that was heroic.

 

[DM-Rocco]

Rupert the assassin, died in a trap from the Tomb of Horror

Forgotten mage, followed a Ogre mage by himself and failed save from Ice Storm, mage on a stick anyone?

Nameless, monk imploded by Balor in the Tomb of Horrors

Sir Darian, Paladin died by touching evil alter in the Tomb of Horrors

Forgotten Rogue, turned to moldy ooze by having a slime drop on him in the Tomb of Horrors

Shump, barbarian/frienzed warrior who had his soul sucked from him and failed his save to have the soul stay in the gem from the Demi-lich in the Tomb of Horrors.

Andaria , torn to shreds in a tragic raking incedent from a Maralith

Khael, cleric of Pelor, died to a dread wraith.

 

[the Jester]

Gah... let's do the halfling party's body count. Unless otherwise noted, all are halflings:

Dogfish- barbarian, died by grappling
Coco- died by falling
Mama Flapjacks- killed by a critical hit from a wight
Brother He- died by falling
Achtung- urd fighter, died by, er, can't recall- I want to say grappling
Brickneck- dwarf monk, died by swarm
Timothy- died by grappling
Ezeekiel- died by grappling
Lundey- sacrificed to a dark god of the yuan ti (my first cdg vs. a pc!)
Sandy- forced to drink a lethal yuan ti potion

There are a couple of others too- a gnome whose name I can't recall, for instance. The trends seem to be grappling and climbing.

 

[Majoru Oakheart]

I have too many to count, I'll list some of them from my game and from my fellow players:

Samir Al'Farouk-paralyzed with eyes open in front of a Bodak
Javeed Al'Mullah-drained by wights(I think), came back to life as one and made party run away
Javeed Al'Mullah-killed by a blue dragon
Loramar-killed by a burning hands from his own party members while being grappled by an Ogre
Majoru Oakheart-killed by 2 drow clerics and some undead with flayed skin (along with everyone else in his party)
(can't remember his name)-killed by con drain due to a dread wraith summoned by deck of many things
Kokujin-killed by con drain due to a dread wraith summoned by deck of many things
Tiffany-killed by her own party members who were possessed by evil spirits
(another name escapes me)-soul sucked into an altar of Tharizdun
(?)-killed by a symbol of death while wandering a temple of Tharizdun

There are more, but since my name remembering skills are escaping me, I'll stop here

 

[6pakofdwarves]

In my Currently on hiatus for a couple months so I can freakin play instead of Dm campaign.

Six-Warforged Artificer, turned against party and was slain by Laska, shifter barbarian
Luke-Human Druid, slashed to death by elves with scimitars
Laska-Shifter barbarian,Turned to stone and partially eaten by madness tainted basilisks
Tar'Kier-also turned to stone but not eaten, buuuttt, then his stone body was stolen by the elves with scimitars and they smashed it too bits.

 

[DM-Rocco]

I listed ones from my new game, but here are a few back in the AD&D days:


A group of 13 of us went into the 9 hells to get Asmodeuos's staff (of course, that thing rocks) and as we were fighting our way out of the plane through Tiamat's lair, we jumped in a portal that lead to the next plane of hell, sadly, 5 of us got blasted full on with her five breath weapons at one time, my character made it to the other side just barely alive, 2 hit points left, right as the portal closed, whew.

Borin, the group rogue put the crown from the Tomb of horror on his head and touched the wrong end of the scepter to his head and was disentergrated.

Kilgrim died when an ogre mage polymorphed into a fly, went in his mouth and returned to normal form.

Witty (name that rhymes with Witty) (don't get me started on the name) was level drained to 0th level and promtly died when she tried to pick the pocket of as lich.

Bloogie, the cleric, died when he cast heal on himself while standing in a pit of fire. He forgot he was turned into an undead.

Grogg, son of Grogg, died when he touched the Demi-liches skull in the Tomb of Horrors.

Hammerfrin died when he was posioned by the Drow and thus paralized and left for dead on a shore bank. Then the tide came in and drowned him.

Kronn died by falling through the ice while playing a modified game of hockey during a barbarian festival.

Can't remember the name, but he died to a shade who came back to the party and killed them all and turned them all into shades

Lemme, died to a giant ant, then was reincarnated as a lizard man and then burned alive by a village that boardered a swamp that lizard men freaquently attacked.

Can't remember the name, but Thor attacked him as a wizard turned him into a gaint, ouch.

Falner was eaten whole by Jormungandr, the Midgard Serpent

Kith-Kiln tried to take on the Hunt by himself, needless to say...


Tons more, can't list them all though.