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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3094535" data-attributes="member: 22882">Until I listed it out this way, I never realized quite what a litany of carnage my last few campaigns have been... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> Lost Island (active, I'm an occasional player):Human Warlock 5Gnome Illusionist 5Human Scout 4Dwarf Warblade 4Human Vow of Poverty Soulborn 4Jungle Troll Ranger 2/Nanala 1 (your humble author, who wanted a character with a logical reason to join or leave the party at any time)Human Rogue 3 (deceased)Human Barbarian 3 (deceased)Human Cleric of St. Cuthbert (deceased)I suspect the scout may have died in the last session, since he seemed to have gotten himself in an untenable position when last I played...Spelljammer (on hold/cancelled, I was the GM):Human Barbarian 5Raptorean Cleric 1/Druid 3Half-Giant Psychic Warrior 3Human Scout 4Elf Cleric 4Gnome Wizard (illusionist) 3Feral Minotaur of Krynn Vow of Poverty Monk Raised By Bears (deceased after one session, thankfully <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=":)" /> )Dwarf Fighter 3 (deceased after mindlessly joining a finished PVP)Human Rogue 3 (started and was finished in the above PVP)Human Incarnate 3 (only sane PC, killed by the party's own snowball storm <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> )Feral Pixie (deceased after flying invisibly into an area the party was throwing detonations of fireball into every round)Feral Elf Barbarian 3 (deceased after almost killing the party while trying to stop them from empowering an evil magic sword so they could escape the planet they were stuck on)Kobold Sorcerer 3 (deceased in the same 'encounter' as the feral elf)Warforged Scout (the race) Wizard 3 (self-deactivated in disgust after the above 'encounter')I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but these are the only ones I can recall offhand.  All the surviving characters were Chaotic Neutral, except the raptorean, who was True Neutral and had his animal companion, an axebeak, fight while he found hiding places. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />  They had a LE Inspired Courtier 1/Charismatic Hero 1/Wilder 1 with TWO attack flaws and a Str of 6 with them for a while, and the human barbarian, who was the party leader, had a CE magic sword.Ivalice (finished, I was the GM):The Survivors:Human Paladin/Scout/Shadowbane Inquisitor/Knight of the Left HandHuman Rogue/AssassinHuman WarlockHuman Paladin/Monk/AssassinHuman MonkEDIT: I somehow forgot perhaps the BEST PC, although calling him a survivor is dubious.  Eleti (Singular 'Eletus'?  Skeletal undead race from DragonStar) Akashic.  Who had Disguise and Hide checks in the 60s with a good roll, before action points.  And made great use of them.The Fallen:Human Genius (wasn't; deceased because of it)Human Genius (see above)Moogle Monk (deceased)Moogle Ranger/Rifleman (deceased in campaign finale, died well unlike most of this lot)Minotaur (using the 'of Krynn' rules) Barbarian (deceased, also died well)Goblin Druid (deceased, played by the same player as the two above and manifestly did NOT die well)Human Gunmage (deceased)Feral Minotaur ('of Krynn') Barbarian (deceased)Human Paladin (deceased at the hands of above; mind control was involved)Human Paladin/Marshal/War Chief (became a blackguard, deceased)Elan Psion (deceased)Human Scout (deceased)Human Rogue/Wizard/Arcane Trickster (deceased)Human Soulknife (deceased)Human Samurai (deceased because, when told to 'drop his weapons' - fifteen flasks of alchemists fire on his belt - literally did so)Again, I'm probably forgetting some of the fallen.Denver Dumb Friends League (HERO System Champions, I was a player):A telekinetic squirrelA white werewolf, beloved of the populace; also a rock starA French arms contractor who, frustrated by lack of sales, piloted his own (insane Evangelion style) mecha as a superhero (one of my PCs)An all-around superhero with glacially slow flight speedA high-tech mercenary supersoldier who was actually a double agent (killed by his own side after making a supervillain extremely mad)A medieval knight turned into a gargoyle (captured by the enemy, used for decoration)A Victorian alchemist who created a magical clock that could stop time (driven mad when his embodied-space-time-anomaly 'daughter' died, became a villain, one of my PCs)A lizard man from the Amazon Rainforest (deceased in an elevator 'accident' he caused)An immortal Victorian teen girl who was actually an embodied space-time anomaly (deceased in the same elevator incident, a sidekick of one of my PCs)An angel in the form of a flying nun (left the party after the elevator incident, for obvious reasons)A super-contortionist with the flaws Code Against Killing (total, will stop others from killing by any means necessary) and Psychological Limitation (smart a$$) (knocked out for months by the party)A cyborg ninja with a dark magic sword (turned over to the super-inquisition by the party for using dark magic)An extremely lucky Southern gentleman thief (had his luck stolen by a leprechaun and was no longer a super, one of my PCs)A spaz desolid speedster (possibly became a zombie; killed by the party because, why take the risk?)A cybernetic anime-style young female military officer (killed by a building collapsed by the party)An all-around superhero who was a medical examiner in his public life (killed by a giant cybernetic sabertooth tiger; see, at least one PC was killed by his actual enemies!)Iron Kingdoms (I was a player):Dwarf Fighter/Ranger/Soldier/Deepwood Sniper/Fast Hero (your humble author)Elf Paladin-Rogue-ish class (actually custom class for Iosan Mage Hunters, DMPC)Thri-Kreen Psychic WarriorHuman ClericHuman Sorceress/Shadow Adept (DMPC, often kidnapped so rarely with the party and thus survived)Human Vow of Poverty Monk (survived by leaving the party)Human Fighter/Barbarian (survived by leaving the party)Undead Dwarf Fighter/Marshal/Knight Protector (no longer UNdead)Human Psion (deceased in inexplicable disintegrate trap suicide)Human Cleric/Rogue (deceased in a near-TPK)Human Druid (almost survived the entire campaign... but didn't)Gobber Rogue (turned to stone, rescued at great cost, failed fort save to survive being returned to flesh; deceased)Warforged Warmain/Warforged Juggernaut (cohort, could have been a Warforged Warmain/Warblade/Warlock/Warforged Juggernaut/Warcaster if he'd been played a few years later!  Also, deactivated.)Half-Ogre Barbarian/War Hulk (deceased and turned into a shadow, used against the PCs)Half-Elf Ranger (deceased after getting fed up with the GM)Human Bard (deceased in the next fight after a tearful farewell to his naga-esque bride)Half-Ogre Samurai (deceased in an Iron Kingdoms dragon's trapped mountain)Nezumi Barbarian/Psychic Warrior (deceased when he charged waaaay too far ahead with his insanely high movement)Elf Shugenja (deceased in a near-TPK)And in this one, I'm forgetting literally at least a DOZEN dead, many of whom lasted no more than a session... <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:" /></blockquote>

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