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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spider_minion" data-source="post: 1873221" data-attributes="member: 16096">I had a character die in a way that was not so much strange as it was spactacular . . .He was a halfling knight with a wizard cohort, and they both rode around on a phantom steed.  Earlier, while hunting vampires, we had come across several powerful magic items that were cursed.  One, a cloak of resistance +5, killed one of the players when he put it on.  The others were a amulet of natural armor +5 and a helm of brilliance.  I took the helm, but didn't use it.Later on we were in a huge battle, being attacked by (among other things) a huge dragon with an evil priest riding it.  They were really hammering the party.  The druid tried creating a tornado, but that didn't stop the dragon (it did annoy the flying mage, though   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).  My character realized there was only one way to save the party . . .With the phantom steed, my character navigated the tornade winds and got up next to the dragon.  The priest attacked him, lowering him to exactly 1 hp.  Next round my character, concentrating on fireballing himself, donned the helm.  As I suspected, it reversed his alignment (it still functioned normally).  However, I was still able to get off the fireball, and willingly failed my save against it.  The helm detonated, doing somewhere around 1,300 fire damage and blinding the party.  When they could see again, my character and the dragon where gone.The rest of the PCs were cracking up.  They knew what I was about to do, since I was tallying the expected damage on the calculator.  The DM was caught off-guard, though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> .It turns out that my PC was indeed vaporized, but either the priest or the dragon was immune to fire.  Whichever one survived was sent to another plane due to the massive explosion.  It still saved the party.</blockquote>

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