Were YOU ever Slain by an Elf?

[Ander00]

Had a rather silly TPK against drow in a low-level game (don't sacrifice yourself to cover the party's retreat when the party is being half-assed about retreating and is going to get itself killed anyway). Also, in a game I ran, a drow scout, who would've otherwise been rather inconsequential to the encounter, helped kill a PC with a boomerang crit once.

No deaths by non-drow, as far as I can remember.


cheers

 

[Verdande]

Not ever, no. Then again, elves are a little pansy-ish.

 

[ppaladin123]

As a GM, I've killed many PCs with elves simply because they dared to trespass into an elven domain. In such instances, the players in question are always stunned that they were ambushed and captured (after one or two PCs die) by these Neutral Good-Chaotic Good elves, and then we'd get into some sort of argument about the nature of alignment.

Player 1: "They'd present themselves to us and threaten us!"

Me: "Why? And give away the element of surprise? These elves are fewer in number compared to humans and dwarves, and you've made no effort to contact any of them. If there were an elf in your party they might've held their fire and done something that you ask."

Player 2: "But they're Good, and we're Good aligned."

Me: "Does that mean you're friends? No. They don't know you, or your intentions. For all they know you could be advance scouts for a pre-emptive invasion of their forest."

So, yes, I've had elves kill PCs. I've had a PC killed by an evil Wood Elf Ranger who was handy with a Sunbow.

That's a little harsh....were there signs/warnings posted to mark elven territory? Attacking and killing people with no warning who have happened to wander into your territory by mistake is not chaotic good, it is murder. I can't imagine a "good" being attacking other sentient life forms with lethal force without at least giving them a chance to explain themselves. Sure, losing the element of surprise is not expedient...but doing whatever is expedient whatever the cost to others is the description of a different alignment.

On the other hand, I don't see why all elves have to be chaotic good. There could certainly be aggressive, xenophobic crazy elven communities that shoot trespassers on sight.

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

Probably...I really can't remember.

 

[El Mahdi]

Nope, but did lose a hand to a PC Drow Psionicist (AD&D 2E - used a detonate power on a magic ring my Gnome Beastrider was wearing - but, in the Drows defense, I had stolen it from him by trickery). However, he was a sullen and moody Drow. I was just trying to get him to lighten up.

 

[El Mahdi]

As a GM, I've killed many PCs with elves simply because they dared to trespass into an elven domain. In such instances, the players in question are always stunned that they were ambushed and captured (after one or two PCs die) by these Neutral Good-Chaotic Good elves, and then we'd get into some sort of argument about the nature of alignment.

Player 1: "They'd present themselves to us and threaten us!"

Me: "Why? And give away the element of surprise? These elves are fewer in number compared to humans and dwarves, and you've made no effort to contact any of them. If there were an elf in your party they might've held their fire and done something that you ask."

Player 2: "But they're Good, and we're Good aligned."

Me: "Does that mean you're friends? No. They don't know you, or your intentions. For all they know you could be advance scouts for a pre-emptive invasion of their forest."

So, yes, I've had elves kill PCs. I've had a PC killed by an evil Wood Elf Ranger who was handy with a Sunbow.

Seems fair to me. All's fair in War and D&D, especially if the DM says it's fair.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Drow for the TPK!

(Or, alternately, Greyhawk Valley Elves or FR Eldreth Veluuthra Nazi elves.)

 

[Henry]

No, but I came damned close; one friend of mine, however, DID have his PC slain by an Elf - regular High Elf, to boot, none of this "Drow" cop-out business!

Surrounded by a force of 100 elven bowmen and flying wizards, each one 5th level or higher, we had a choice to
(A) Surrender to them
(B) Fight them and be cut down
(C) Jump off of the 300 foot cliff were were adjacent to.


We chose (C); most of us actually survived the fall; he lost init abd got hit with about 15 arrows before he jumped. Technically, the fall killed himi, but he would have survived if it had not been for the arrows, so...

 

[Relique Hunter]

Nope; if I had been I wouldn't be alive to vote on this poll.

I have had two characters fall prey toan elven blackguard and a half-black dragon elf warlock though.

 

[drothgery]

I don't really remember exactly what's killed most of my PCs (though I didn't lose any pre-3.5). It wasn't elves, though.