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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5375584" data-attributes="member: 18253">It's only somewhat related to the original (<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/296702-weak-deaths-5.html#post5375575" target="_blank">thread </a>) but it got me thinking that my most memorable moments are generally PC deaths, not PC successes in killing some bad guy. I can still remember years later the death of a loved PC yet can't recall how we dispatched the boss for that campaign. How about the rest of you? Looking back over the years (or decades for us old farts) what do you recall the most? Deaths or victories? I remember a beloved thief getting one-shotted in a tunnel. Ref thought we should have been more aware of folks coming up behind us. Oopsie. Or an infamous campaign start where the ref killed one of the PCs with "the Dwezilator" a pit fiend's huge mace jokingly intended for another PC named Dwezil. Or my mage's death when I tried to use a magic collar to control a demon poly'd as a human. Trouble was the demon detected us, turned into his normal 12' height and I popped the collar on to the nearest anatomical point, his knee. It was meant to go on the neck. The knee didn't work so well. I spent the battle flying around chained to his knee until he killed most of us with fireballs and such. That was the closest thing we've come to a party wipe in decades (4 of 6 dead and I can proudly claim my scew up as the cause.) Or once when I was ref'ing and I asked a friend's son (7 yrs old) to "pick something out of the cabinet of figures." He picked out a demon with a vorpal axe that promptly chopped the head off a PC. Of course, it didn't help that I was drunk at the time (bad ref <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" />). At least the player was forgiving. And yes, I learned a valuable lesson and never did that again. But we were breaking in these new goblets... and the wine was good...  We don't usually play with ressurrect so all of these were permanent deaths. We still talk about most of these deaths and more. When it's D&D, I'd say, death is good <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> I guess per the original thread, yeah it would suck to have my 18th level character die from failing some swim checks and drowning but I sure would remember that death and bring it up with a chuckle for decades.</blockquote>

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