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<blockquote data-quote="BlueBlackRed" data-source="post: 1968850" data-attributes="member: 24239">Ok, there were some interesting response to the &quot;What's the cleverest thing you've done...&quot; thread. But now I want to hear the opposite.I want to hear some gaming Darwin Award winning characters:The rules are simple: A PC must have died in a spectacular way. (Yes I know the Darwin Awards only require removal from the gene-pool, but I don't want to hear about your stories that don't end with -10hp or less).And when I say &quot;died in a spectacular way&quot; I mean has to be an unintentional death from a single stupid action or series of stupid actions that would be spoken about for years to come in your gaming group.Right now, a guy I knew had a record of 7 deaths in a single evening from a guy I played with. (He just renamed the same character over and over again.)Another situation: This happened with me as the DM. The party has no rope, 1/2 the party fallen 15' into a room that is now filling with water. The group finds a nice stash of treasure, but they realize that in order to swim once the water starts getting deep, they'll have to dump some of their heavier gear. So one poor soul decides to toss his short sword up to the the rest of the group. I ask how he throws it. &quot;Straight up&quot;, he replies. Now no one at the top tried to catch a sharp sword for fear of losing a hand. So the sword comes straight back down.I had the player roll a to hit on himself. A natural 20. The crit confirmation roll was 19. He was a level 1 ranger with some combat damage &amp; falling damage already. He rolled near max crit damage.We still don't let him live that down.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BlueBlackRed, post: 1968850, member: 24239"] Ok, there were some interesting response to the "What's the cleverest thing you've done..." thread. But now I want to hear the opposite. I want to hear some gaming Darwin Award winning characters: The rules are simple: A PC must have died in a spectacular way. (Yes I know the Darwin Awards only require removal from the gene-pool, but I don't want to hear about your stories that don't end with -10hp or less). And when I say "died in a spectacular way" I mean has to be an unintentional death from a single stupid action or series of stupid actions that would be spoken about for years to come in your gaming group. Right now, a guy I knew had a record of 7 deaths in a single evening from a guy I played with. (He just renamed the same character over and over again.) Another situation: This happened with me as the DM. The party has no rope, 1/2 the party fallen 15' into a room that is now filling with water. The group finds a nice stash of treasure, but they realize that in order to swim once the water starts getting deep, they'll have to dump some of their heavier gear. So one poor soul decides to toss his short sword up to the the rest of the group. I ask how he throws it. "Straight up", he replies. Now no one at the top tried to catch a sharp sword for fear of losing a hand. So the sword comes [U]straight[/U] back down. I had the player roll a to hit on himself. A natural 20. The crit confirmation roll was 19. He was a level 1 ranger with some combat damage & falling damage already. He rolled near max crit damage. We still don't let him live that down. [/QUOTE]

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