Frostmarrow
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DungeonmasterCal said:
I can certainly see why. -56?
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Strangest (or the most funny) deaths
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I can certainly see why. -56?
In a one on one fight with gnomish thief, my 17th level 2nd ed character used her favourite tactic. Protection from fire on self, and fireball the litlle ****.
You know what? I got arrogant. I got stupid. I lost track of the damage I was taking from being within the blast radius, in underground chambers!!
Luckily for me the DM was keeping track for me, and was nice enough to point out the exact point where I killed myself. Of course the gnome had the decency to laugh at me after I died.
Problem being? My characters husband had a personnal spell that only took affect upon my death. His character was forcfully teleported to the location of my death, and all his remaining spell power exploded out (the same as breaking a staff of power). He ended up on another plabe of existance, I was still dead, and guess what, the Gnome found the whole thing very funny.
You know what? I got arrogant. I got stupid. I lost track of the damage I was taking from being within the blast radius, in underground chambers!!
Luckily for me the DM was keeping track for me, and was nice enough to point out the exact point where I killed myself. Of course the gnome had the decency to laugh at me after I died.
Problem being? My characters husband had a personnal spell that only took affect upon my death. His character was forcfully teleported to the location of my death, and all his remaining spell power exploded out (the same as breaking a staff of power). He ended up on another plabe of existance, I was still dead, and guess what, the Gnome found the whole thing very funny.
ShorelisNailo
First Post
Bad Bad Barbarian/Stupid Mage
Our frienzied berserker while we were trying to escape from a huge siege,got hit by an arrow...Rolled 1 on will and got into frenzy...with just the party near him ...
Init...we all get it as he rolls 2 ...except 1 ...our thief/illusionist gnome rolls 1 ....attack roll 20,confirm 20 ...critical ...x3 ...allready with some wounds ...SPLATS ....-30 ) ...poor poor gnome ....Bad Bad Barbarian...
Another time...2 twins,2 mages, in the same campaign... get teleported to the enemy and a Death Knight puts them in a cage...The one tried to make anything to live...and he made it...the other...started to threat the death knight and tried to kill him in a cage of antimagic with his bare hands ...2 rounds and the death knight came out...(The Death Knight concept was the enemy...not the 3rd edition statistics...Our DM has made them almost unbeateble....-i agree with him ...2nd edition feel 
) oh...in that session which took 38 hours the player who played the mage was already killed 3 other character ...WORLD RECORD 4 deaths with different PC's in 38 hours...BEAT THAT 
Our frienzied berserker while we were trying to escape from a huge siege,got hit by an arrow...Rolled 1 on will and got into frenzy...with just the party near him ...
Init...we all get it as he rolls 2 ...except 1 ...our thief/illusionist gnome rolls 1 ....attack roll 20,confirm 20 ...critical ...x3 ...allready with some wounds ...SPLATS ....-30 ) ...poor poor gnome ....Bad Bad Barbarian...Another time...2 twins,2 mages, in the same campaign... get teleported to the enemy and a Death Knight puts them in a cage...The one tried to make anything to live...and he made it...the other...started to threat the death knight and tried to kill him in a cage of antimagic with his bare hands
...2 rounds and the death knight came out...(The Death Knight concept was the enemy...not the 3rd edition statistics...Our DM has made them almost unbeateble....-i agree with him ...2nd edition feel ) oh...in that session which took 38 hours the player who played the mage was already killed 3 other character ...WORLD RECORD 4 deaths with different PC's in 38 hours...BEAT THAT
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demiurge1138
Inventor of Super-Toast
OK, I have several of these, really. But I shall regale upon the thread only a taste. At least, at first.
Thalias Darkshine was not a lucky rogue, but he was a cocky one. He thought of himself as a fighter more than as a rogue, and was often severely injured as a result. Once he put on a cursed ring that turned him into a cat-like humanoid, he got even cockier.
The party, trapped through assorted plot contrivances in Rokugan (this was a nominally FR game), was traveling through the Shadowlands to the Festering Pit, where they were to stop the dread specter of Iuchiban from raising Fu Leng back into the real world and beginning a new era of darkness. So, the party comes upon the pit, and sees the ghost casting a dread invocation; Fu Leng's horns are already beginning to emerge from the mire. Thalias has a plan.
"I want to pounce on the ghost", says Thalias' player.
A dreadful silence fills the air.
"I said, I want to pounce on the ghost. Is there a problem with that?"
After Thalias hit the ground and took his falling damage, Iuchiban was significantly distracted by having a cat-boy falling through him that he halted the invocation. And then he cast creeping doom, which promptly devoured the prone rogue.
Although he saved Rokugan, Thalias, both in and out of character, never lived it down.
Demiurge out.
Thalias Darkshine was not a lucky rogue, but he was a cocky one. He thought of himself as a fighter more than as a rogue, and was often severely injured as a result. Once he put on a cursed ring that turned him into a cat-like humanoid, he got even cockier.
The party, trapped through assorted plot contrivances in Rokugan (this was a nominally FR game), was traveling through the Shadowlands to the Festering Pit, where they were to stop the dread specter of Iuchiban from raising Fu Leng back into the real world and beginning a new era of darkness. So, the party comes upon the pit, and sees the ghost casting a dread invocation; Fu Leng's horns are already beginning to emerge from the mire. Thalias has a plan.
"I want to pounce on the ghost", says Thalias' player.
A dreadful silence fills the air.
"I said, I want to pounce on the ghost. Is there a problem with that?"
After Thalias hit the ground and took his falling damage, Iuchiban was significantly distracted by having a cat-boy falling through him that he halted the invocation. And then he cast creeping doom, which promptly devoured the prone rogue.
Although he saved Rokugan, Thalias, both in and out of character, never lived it down.
Demiurge out.
RithTheAwakener
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Also in the Forge of Fury... we let a player that wanted to DM actually DM, so we (the whole party) ran across this alchemist fire trap which supposedly did 45d4 damage. We were lvl 2. needless to say we were all incinerated horribly. the entire group believes he read it wrong but he'd never show us it, sooo he stopped dm'ing
hero4hire
Explorer
I've seen a player stick his head into a Sphere of Annihilation...That was a hoot!
I also remember DMing and rolling a wandering monster in OD&D and getting "Pyrolisk"
The characters were in a desert near starvation and heard clucking sounds. The saw these bird-like critters hanging out by a lava pit...they naturally decided to try to eat them. I goofed as a GM and didn't realize right away that a Pyrolisk's gaze was "Save or die" the whole party (7th level) failed thier saves. Needless to say my players weren't happy about killing them all with "fire-chickens"
I also remember DMing and rolling a wandering monster in OD&D and getting "Pyrolisk"
The characters were in a desert near starvation and heard clucking sounds. The saw these bird-like critters hanging out by a lava pit...they naturally decided to try to eat them. I goofed as a GM and didn't realize right away that a Pyrolisk's gaze was "Save or die" the whole party (7th level) failed thier saves. Needless to say my players weren't happy about killing them all with "fire-chickens"
Arc
First Post
Another massive overkill story, that also involves a frenzied berserker.
My character, a ratkin frenzied berserker, had a split personality. Normally, he was the ultimate pacifist, running from combat, hesitating to say mean things, and trying to keep his comrades from hurting anyone. Upon frenzying, he turned into the ultimate killing machine, eyes red with rage, muscles bulging, and indiscriminately slaughtering everything in his path. His name was Kyo/Kyoshiro, if anyone gets the reference. I must admit, I powergamed the heck out of this character, and the party was willing to let such a combat brute in, mostly because they were prepared to deal with his frenzy when it got out of hand, and needed the combat power (Demiurge was fond of throwing fairly hard encounters at us).
On one occasion, while riding an airship being sabotaged by a former party member (Demiurge likes taking my PC's and turning them against the party... why is that?), and under attack from air elementals, he managed to quasi-intentionally kill two party members. The sabateur and another PC were both holding onto a rope dangling from the bottom of the airship, and so the FB, seeing an enemy in sight, gladly cut it. An eye for an eye, and all that. After this fairly brutal murder of a fellow PC (though all in good fun, since we were able to rescue the falling PC), he walks above decks, where the rest of the party is fighting the air elemental invasion. Another PC, characterised for being fairly gullible, looks to him.
DM: Make a sense motive check
Other PC: Why?
DM: Poor visibility on a speeding airship and all that. You need to roll to see whether or not you think Kyo (my frenzied berserker) is frenzied
He rolls a natural 1... and 0 has ranks in sense motive. We use the 'roll down for 1's' rule: 18
DM: You think Kyo is not only fine, but is your best friend
Other PC: Ah, ok. I walk over to him and try to give him a hug
Me: Er... you do realize I have to attack you
Other PC: Ah, yeah. I do. My AC is 20something (exact number forgotten)
Me: Oh... my attack bonus is +33
We figured out that, assuming the same power attack that I had used before (-5), and with the two confirmed crits I made, the 5 hits that landed (FB + kensai = broken) did, upon absolute minimum damage, something like two and half times the other PC's maximum hit points
DM: Ok... [other PC] walks over to Kyo and tries to give him a hug. Kyo vaporizes him. A fine red mist coats the ship's deck.
Me: Sorry...
My character, a ratkin frenzied berserker, had a split personality. Normally, he was the ultimate pacifist, running from combat, hesitating to say mean things, and trying to keep his comrades from hurting anyone. Upon frenzying, he turned into the ultimate killing machine, eyes red with rage, muscles bulging, and indiscriminately slaughtering everything in his path. His name was Kyo/Kyoshiro, if anyone gets the reference. I must admit, I powergamed the heck out of this character, and the party was willing to let such a combat brute in, mostly because they were prepared to deal with his frenzy when it got out of hand, and needed the combat power (Demiurge was fond of throwing fairly hard encounters at us).
On one occasion, while riding an airship being sabotaged by a former party member (Demiurge likes taking my PC's and turning them against the party... why is that?), and under attack from air elementals, he managed to quasi-intentionally kill two party members. The sabateur and another PC were both holding onto a rope dangling from the bottom of the airship, and so the FB, seeing an enemy in sight, gladly cut it. An eye for an eye, and all that. After this fairly brutal murder of a fellow PC (though all in good fun, since we were able to rescue the falling PC), he walks above decks, where the rest of the party is fighting the air elemental invasion. Another PC, characterised for being fairly gullible, looks to him.
DM: Make a sense motive check
Other PC: Why?
DM: Poor visibility on a speeding airship and all that. You need to roll to see whether or not you think Kyo (my frenzied berserker) is frenzied
He rolls a natural 1... and 0 has ranks in sense motive. We use the 'roll down for 1's' rule: 18
DM: You think Kyo is not only fine, but is your best friend
Other PC: Ah, ok. I walk over to him and try to give him a hug
Me: Er... you do realize I have to attack you
Other PC: Ah, yeah. I do. My AC is 20something (exact number forgotten)
Me: Oh... my attack bonus is +33
We figured out that, assuming the same power attack that I had used before (-5), and with the two confirmed crits I made, the 5 hits that landed (FB + kensai = broken) did, upon absolute minimum damage, something like two and half times the other PC's maximum hit points
DM: Ok... [other PC] walks over to Kyo and tries to give him a hug. Kyo vaporizes him. A fine red mist coats the ship's deck.
Me: Sorry...
LostSoul
Adventurer
I made a character once that never got the chance to take a single action.
Sneaking through the woods, I come across some harpies. First thing that the DM says: "Will save." I failed.
Some dire lions pounce on me, and this gives me another save. I fail again. I don't make it through the next round.
Sneaking through the woods, I come across some harpies. First thing that the DM says: "Will save." I failed.
Some dire lions pounce on me, and this gives me another save. I fail again. I don't make it through the next round.
Chimera
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OD&D game, circa 1979.
Dave's group of characters (4 players rotating GM, each with our own 5 PCs) wandering through the infamous 10 x 10 block of 10'x10' rooms on the second or third level of Stan's dungeon. Wandering in circles because well....he's Dave.
Comes into this room, in which he's already been at least twice. Only now there is a fountain in the middle of the room. He sees something move in the water, but can't tell what it is. So his Cleric walks up and pours Holy Water into the fountain.
Water Wierd hits him, pulls him in and he drowns. Spectacular rolls.
We all just busted our guts. Why Holy Water? Dave couldn't answer that. I think it was just some sort of brain fart.
Twenty five years later and this is still the very first thing I think of when someone asks about this topic.
Dave's group of characters (4 players rotating GM, each with our own 5 PCs) wandering through the infamous 10 x 10 block of 10'x10' rooms on the second or third level of Stan's dungeon. Wandering in circles because well....he's Dave.
Comes into this room, in which he's already been at least twice. Only now there is a fountain in the middle of the room. He sees something move in the water, but can't tell what it is. So his Cleric walks up and pours Holy Water into the fountain.
Water Wierd hits him, pulls him in and he drowns. Spectacular rolls.
We all just busted our guts. Why Holy Water? Dave couldn't answer that. I think it was just some sort of brain fart.
Twenty five years later and this is still the very first thing I think of when someone asks about this topic.
robberbaron
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2 come to mind, 1 AD&D1, the other 2nd Ed.
1: Newly-formed party of old 8th/9th level characters. My monk did something really stupid - can't remember exactly what but it involved failing a save and taking a lot of damage - and my items had to save. I roll a 1 for my Iron Flask an the freed Pit Fiend took out the whole party!
2: We were 5th/6th level fighting a group of giant toads. My Dwarf Cleric fired off his Wand of Wonder at his opponent, doubling its size and allowing it to swallow him on its next attack.
Next round, unable to draw a weapon, I again fired off the Wand, opening a Gate. The rest of the party watched in horror as the huge toad exploded, revealing the Pit Fiend who had walked through the Gate, and who set about killing the rest of the party.
See the pattern?
1: Newly-formed party of old 8th/9th level characters. My monk did something really stupid - can't remember exactly what but it involved failing a save and taking a lot of damage - and my items had to save. I roll a 1 for my Iron Flask an the freed Pit Fiend took out the whole party!
2: We were 5th/6th level fighting a group of giant toads. My Dwarf Cleric fired off his Wand of Wonder at his opponent, doubling its size and allowing it to swallow him on its next attack.
Next round, unable to draw a weapon, I again fired off the Wand, opening a Gate. The rest of the party watched in horror as the huge toad exploded, revealing the Pit Fiend who had walked through the Gate, and who set about killing the rest of the party.
See the pattern?
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