In one of the campaigns I play in, my wizard died in the last session. His death came during a very deadly battle that claimed the lives of 5 characters in our group of 8, but I think my wizard died in a particularly strange manner:
The party was on a mound that we had to camp on until Sun appears at which point something beneficial was supposed to happen that would put us out of danger. We had to hold the mound with an altar on top against attacking monsters until that time Sunshine broke throught the clouds, which we knew was expected some time that day, but did not know when. The mound was in a valley surrounded by cliffs on four sides with four wide passages between them. On the cliffs, there were enemy archers positioned in an inaccessible and well protected location. There were numerous archers in each fortification in the cliff but only one could shoot from each cliff at a time (a total of 4 archers could shoot at any one time, but if any of them was killed he would be replaced by his companion the next round). The damage from the archers, though by no means negligible to the weaker characters, was not the main problem - the arrows they were shooting required us to make a will save or be blinded and that was the killer. Lower on the ground we were under assault of 5 strange creatures that seemed to be some kind of cross between trolls and umber hulks. They regenerated and had the ability to cause confusion. Unfortunately, acid or fire or electricity did not seem to effect their ability to regenerate. Later on in the battle some kind of griffin-like creature that could call down fire joined in the assault against us. In any case, the battle went on for ages and eventually my wizard despite being protected by improved invisibility was blinded down to 6 hit points at which point he surreptitiously retired from the battle to the edge of the cliff. He had already discovered that the troll/umber hulk creatures have tremor sense and can track him invisible, but he successfully eluded them this time (I think through the use of flying). Unfortunately, this did not help against the archers, who it appears also could see through his invisibility protection, since one of them shot him causing him to fall and drop to -6 hit points. He bled out to death because none of the party members could find him, since he had improved invisibility cast on him!
Do you have other strange or funny death stories?
The party was on a mound that we had to camp on until Sun appears at which point something beneficial was supposed to happen that would put us out of danger. We had to hold the mound with an altar on top against attacking monsters until that time Sunshine broke throught the clouds, which we knew was expected some time that day, but did not know when. The mound was in a valley surrounded by cliffs on four sides with four wide passages between them. On the cliffs, there were enemy archers positioned in an inaccessible and well protected location. There were numerous archers in each fortification in the cliff but only one could shoot from each cliff at a time (a total of 4 archers could shoot at any one time, but if any of them was killed he would be replaced by his companion the next round). The damage from the archers, though by no means negligible to the weaker characters, was not the main problem - the arrows they were shooting required us to make a will save or be blinded and that was the killer. Lower on the ground we were under assault of 5 strange creatures that seemed to be some kind of cross between trolls and umber hulks. They regenerated and had the ability to cause confusion. Unfortunately, acid or fire or electricity did not seem to effect their ability to regenerate. Later on in the battle some kind of griffin-like creature that could call down fire joined in the assault against us. In any case, the battle went on for ages and eventually my wizard despite being protected by improved invisibility was blinded down to 6 hit points at which point he surreptitiously retired from the battle to the edge of the cliff. He had already discovered that the troll/umber hulk creatures have tremor sense and can track him invisible, but he successfully eluded them this time (I think through the use of flying). Unfortunately, this did not help against the archers, who it appears also could see through his invisibility protection, since one of them shot him causing him to fall and drop to -6 hit points. He bled out to death because none of the party members could find him, since he had improved invisibility cast on him!
Do you have other strange or funny death stories?
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