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Strangest (or the most funny) deaths
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cignus_pfaccari
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In our 3.0 Birthright campaign, the priest's Warden Archon* cohort, Ochibel, known colloquially as Och the Werebear priest, had what was affectionately known as the "Ochwagon".
Whenever a PC died, he'd teleport back to the one priest we knew who knew Raise Dead, and have the character raised. Cool, right? We stuffed the corpse into a bag of holding, folding/spindling/mutilating it as necessary, before going.
Brad
Whenever a PC died, he'd teleport back to the one priest we knew who knew Raise Dead, and have the character raised. Cool, right? We stuffed the corpse into a bag of holding, folding/spindling/mutilating it as necessary, before going.
Brad
![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
For a long time, my group has tracked most spectacular PC death (mechanically, the furthest negative hp you can go in one round). Currently, that # is -45, at the jaws of a pack of winter wolves (yes, I know that it can get worse than that by far, but ever since we figured out exactly how deadly 3rd Ed can be, we've been much more careful about it). However, back in our 2e days, I held the record with -36.
So how exactly did I manage that in 2e? Well, atop a crumbling, 3 story stone tower, my PC ran afoul of some guardian beasts that clawed and gnawed their way into him, leaving him at 0 hitpoints and unconscious. One of my helpful comrades then proceeded to barrel in and toss my unconscious form onto what he believed was the soft turf and hay below, so as to separate me from the beasts that sought to rend my sleeping flesh. He missed, and falling damage resulted, bringing me well into the negatives but not quite to the magic 10.
That's when yet another of our helpful comrades blew his horn of blasting, collapsing the roof on the beasts, and weakening the tower enough to make it fall.onto the soft turf and hay below. Except it missed.
That's right. I died not from the beasts, not from the fall, but because a tower fell on me.
So how exactly did I manage that in 2e? Well, atop a crumbling, 3 story stone tower, my PC ran afoul of some guardian beasts that clawed and gnawed their way into him, leaving him at 0 hitpoints and unconscious. One of my helpful comrades then proceeded to barrel in and toss my unconscious form onto what he believed was the soft turf and hay below, so as to separate me from the beasts that sought to rend my sleeping flesh. He missed, and falling damage resulted, bringing me well into the negatives but not quite to the magic 10.
That's when yet another of our helpful comrades blew his horn of blasting, collapsing the roof on the beasts, and weakening the tower enough to make it fall.onto the soft turf and hay below. Except it missed.
That's right. I died not from the beasts, not from the fall, but because a tower fell on me.
Olaf the Stout
Hero
Altamont Ravenard in the "Luck Hates Monks" thread said the shortest-lived character he had ever seen was a monk that was mauled to death on the surprise round of his first combat by dire lions. I thought that was a pretty strange and/or funny death. The poor monk didn't even get an action before he was killed in his very first combat! 
Olaf the Stout
Olaf the Stout
DungeonmasterCal
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Not to one up anyone, but we had a guy end up -56 in a game I ran. We were shocked and appalled.
Patman21967
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One of my 2 favorites
My posts always start this way.
Excuse me if you do not know the game in which I am referring, RunequestII, but this was the coolest and worst all rolled into one
I was playing a character, Garth Dragonfriend, who was a scholar/philosophical sort of character. We met up with a creature, which is called a Broo, which in RQ is a creature of chaos, basically an evil baddy. but it was discovered that this Broo had undergone a change, called Illumination, which basically allows one to see the world as bigger than good and evil, so he was no longer Chaotic. There were many things that I could have learned from him about Illumination, Dragons, Magic, etc...but our big, badass fighter, Bardo, went ahead and killed him with noone trying to stop him but me. Well, needless to say, I (Garth) was infuriated, but I really couldn't do anything, because Bardo could kill me without a seconds worth of time....so I plotted my revenge...
One night, about 2 days later ( 2 seeions later ) we were floating down a river on a raft. Well, I weaseled my way onto watch with another character, who was really weak saving against mind-influencing spells. I hit him with Befuddle, which basically is like a confusion spell, then moved over to Bardo ( made my sneak roll ) and went to slit his throat. In RQII, I had a 94 percent chance to do this. Keep in mind, noone else, knew about this plan, Everyone around the table was laughing so hard they were in tears, and I could see Bardos player. still one of my good friends and still gaming together 15 years later, just about to crap his pants. So I sneak over, everyone is busting JB's nuts about his ultra-powerful fighter going down to a wimpy ass character....97 on the dice....he wakes up, throws me into the river and I drown....It still lives on to this day in our group, as the worst clutch roll in history
hope you all got a smile out of this one...it was really cool, even though I died. I had the most fun I ever had in that week, coming up with that plan, and springing it unknowingly on the whole group....
My posts always start this way.
Excuse me if you do not know the game in which I am referring, RunequestII, but this was the coolest and worst all rolled into one
I was playing a character, Garth Dragonfriend, who was a scholar/philosophical sort of character. We met up with a creature, which is called a Broo, which in RQ is a creature of chaos, basically an evil baddy. but it was discovered that this Broo had undergone a change, called Illumination, which basically allows one to see the world as bigger than good and evil, so he was no longer Chaotic. There were many things that I could have learned from him about Illumination, Dragons, Magic, etc...but our big, badass fighter, Bardo, went ahead and killed him with noone trying to stop him but me. Well, needless to say, I (Garth) was infuriated, but I really couldn't do anything, because Bardo could kill me without a seconds worth of time....so I plotted my revenge...
One night, about 2 days later ( 2 seeions later ) we were floating down a river on a raft. Well, I weaseled my way onto watch with another character, who was really weak saving against mind-influencing spells. I hit him with Befuddle, which basically is like a confusion spell, then moved over to Bardo ( made my sneak roll ) and went to slit his throat. In RQII, I had a 94 percent chance to do this. Keep in mind, noone else, knew about this plan, Everyone around the table was laughing so hard they were in tears, and I could see Bardos player. still one of my good friends and still gaming together 15 years later, just about to crap his pants. So I sneak over, everyone is busting JB's nuts about his ultra-powerful fighter going down to a wimpy ass character....97 on the dice....he wakes up, throws me into the river and I drown....It still lives on to this day in our group, as the worst clutch roll in history
hope you all got a smile out of this one...it was really cool, even though I died. I had the most fun I ever had in that week, coming up with that plan, and springing it unknowingly on the whole group....
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