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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 3044309" data-attributes="member: 198">In the three sessions of a game I'm in run by Rolzup, I've done three of the dumber things a PC of mine (human rogue/duskblade) has done. All with full awareness and intentionally, because that's what my PC would do at the time:1) The PCs (3rd lvl) are in an underground complex, surrounded by a bunch of creepy blind tunnel-dwellers, talking to their leader near a well. Suddenly, a song wafts up from the well and we have to make Will saves. I succeed, but two of the other PCs fail and head for the well. One jumps in before I can get there, but I grab the other right on the brink. And then one of a bunch of hidden enemies charges and bull-rushes us both in. We land in a spider-web, and some distance below us is the first PC who fell in, trying to fight off a huge half-woman half-spider. We're stuck in the web, with no way to climb out or get down and help the lone PC, who's way out of his league. So I pull out a wand, look at the other PC, and say, "Set the web on fire." He looks at me like I'm nuts. "No, really - set it on fire; it's the only way we can reach him."So, for the next two rounds, I fall through a burning web, taking damage all the way, firing a wand as I fall (and hitting every rd), until I land next to my ally with 4 out of my 21 hp left.2) We chase the spider-creature into a series of rooms, and then get ambushed by it as it hits us with some sonic damage, sticking its head around a curtained doorway. The dwarf fighter goes rushing in after it, and I follow. As I come through the door, the creature takes an attack on me, dropping me to 7 hit pts. I'm too close to use my ranseur and if I back out, draw an AoO. So, instead of using Combat Expertise and going defensive, I drop my ranseur, use a spell (Blade of Blood, PHB2), causing 3d6 extra dmg but doing 5 pts of damage to myself (taking me to 2 hp) and punch it in the face with a spiked gauntlet. And roll a 20 and an 18 for a 23 pt crit. Then it hit us with a sonic attack, I blew my save, dropped to -9 hp and was dragged away and healed in the nick of time. But it was worth it.3) Next session, we're in a fight where I and the party rogue have 5 enemies surrounding and attacking us (we're 3rd lvl, & four of them are 2nd and one 4th). I just got critted and would have been killed if it wasn't for the group using three of the swashbuckling cards we use. And the dwarf decides to cover our escape by throwing in two smokesticks. Which, he fails to calculate, leaves the two of us down to half speed, surrounded by enemies, in a smoke cloud, and unable to take 5 ft steps. I manage to barely make my way out of the smoke, to find that the other PCs are busy fighting new enemies. And, more importantly, that the rogue is stuck in there alone, with all the enemies. So I look at my character sheet, look at the DM, and say what I fully expect to be my PC's famous last words - "I have 7 hit pts. I'm going back in."I survived, the rogue survived, and so did everyone else. Fortune favors the brave and the really, really stupid.So there are three of my stupid PC acts, none of which got me killed. Didn't do any really stupid acts yesterday, but did get dropped to -5 twice in four rounds. I think I'm running through my nine lives fast.</blockquote>

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