Angel Tarragon
Dawn Dragon
They are actually still alive! The ritered many moons ago and are living as nobles in the Free City of Greyhawk.
What monster killed your first PC?
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cignus_pfaccari
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My first character death was when my rogue, who thought he was safe in the belly of a purple worm, was hit by a lightning bolt thrown by the party wizard. As the worm was already dead, and the wizard was acting out of turn, the DM ruled that the bolt affected those of us inside the worm, and I failed the save.
And thus was established the Aeric Miranys Memorial Wing at the nearby temple of Nesirie, complete with a room locked from the inside for incoming teleports.
Brad
And thus was established the Aeric Miranys Memorial Wing at the nearby temple of Nesirie, complete with a room locked from the inside for incoming teleports.
Brad
The DM killed my first PC, by reaching over the table, grabbing my character sheet, and ripping it up, because he had wanted to send me into a chamber of death, but I turned left, when I should've gone right. Apparently he wasn't aware of the fact that he drew the maps, and could've tranposed the rooms, and no one bu him would've been the wiser...
trancejeremy
Adventurer
Gravity.
My first ever character, a Paladin, tried to cross a ravine on a log. The DM ruled that since I was wearing banded mail (I think), he couldn't do it, and so, splat.
My first ever character, a Paladin, tried to cross a ravine on a log. The DM ruled that since I was wearing banded mail (I think), he couldn't do it, and so, splat.
AZNtrogdor
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my character was killed by a god in the temple of elemental evil after eating some of the god's evil fruit!
killed by a god, what a way to go!
killed by a god, what a way to go!
Star Wars: My Em'liy soldier/elite trooper distracted Darth Vader to let the Jedi guardian and the rest of the party escape. I distracted him with a critical hit from my blaster cannon. 
Then when he almost killed me, I took out a thermal detonator and thus, that was the end of Jai'zanos. Darth Vader lived, though. Damn him! 
Forgotten Realms: The party was going thorugh a puzzle-dungeon to win some money (like Mutamin's Challenge from Neverwinter Nights) and it was the VERY LAST PUZZLE, and it turned out to be a wail of the banshee trap. My aasimar cleric/eye of Horus-Re died (no one else did). Thanks a lot, party rogue, for not noticing the trap. My next character had a much better Fort save--and was immune to death effects (doomguide from Faiths and Pantheons).
Then when he almost killed me, I took out a thermal detonator and thus, that was the end of Jai'zanos. Darth Vader lived, though. Damn him! Forgotten Realms: The party was going thorugh a puzzle-dungeon to win some money (like Mutamin's Challenge from Neverwinter Nights) and it was the VERY LAST PUZZLE, and it turned out to be a wail of the banshee trap. My aasimar cleric/eye of Horus-Re died (no one else did). Thanks a lot, party rogue, for not noticing the trap. My next character had a much better Fort save--and was immune to death effects (doomguide from Faiths and Pantheons).
TheNovaLord
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Death By Tantrum. Yafnir the Beholder*, my 1st edition lawful good human cleric 3.
Citadel by the sea. I had previously been knocked unconcious and the partys CG ranger took my magic shield (only magic item i ever owned). On my revival he refused to give it back. Later he got reduced to less than 0 hp....
Question...
A. did i save his life and he give me the shield back, or
B. did i pick up my magic shield, leap around skipping and jumping around hugging it lovingly while the ranger bled to death, and then get severely xp penalised by the DM, loosing a level, and then ripped up my character sheet and sulked severely and didnt play again for a few years.....
20+ years on i still remember him with fondness and still have his original 1st level charcater sheet stored somehwere, didnt keep the scraps of his sheet at 3rd though!....
JohnD
Citadel by the sea. I had previously been knocked unconcious and the partys CG ranger took my magic shield (only magic item i ever owned). On my revival he refused to give it back. Later he got reduced to less than 0 hp....
Question...
A. did i save his life and he give me the shield back, or
B. did i pick up my magic shield, leap around skipping and jumping around hugging it lovingly while the ranger bled to death, and then get severely xp penalised by the DM, loosing a level, and then ripped up my character sheet and sulked severely and didnt play again for a few years.....
20+ years on i still remember him with fondness and still have his original 1st level charcater sheet stored somehwere, didnt keep the scraps of his sheet at 3rd though!....
JohnD
The Grackle
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Horde of Zombies. 3rd Level Ranger. 1984. AD&D.
Orius
Unrepentant DM Supremacist
Died in the first game I played. We were captured by a bunch of female elves who wanted to enslave us, and I was inspired by the Conan books I had recently been reading to refuse to submit. The queen knocked me out with a spell, and when one of my fellow PCs also defied her, she ordered two of her soldiers to stab their spears into my throat as an object lesson. That wasn't really my own character though, since I asked the DM to run a one shot game for me, and he used characters that were playing in the game he was running so we wouldn't have to bother rolling fresh ones up.
My first actual character was a gnome fighter/mage made with 2e rules (sort of, the other players cheated a lot, since they figured the DM was a killer). We fought some skeletal knight who was willing to talk, but had decided he was going to kill us one way or other. I think he was supposed to be really tough, but the PCs got some very good rolls and managed to win. I was the only one that died, but luckily they found a scroll in the skeleton's treasure that brought me back to life. Then a little bit later, my character was standing watch while the others were resting and the wind picked up. I tried using my Weather Sense proficiency to see if a storm was coming in, when the DM blindsided me with an invisible stalker.
The first PCs death I caused was actually part of a TPK. The players invaded a goblin lair, and because they'd had a string of easy victories, they were cocky and overconfident. Then the goblin cleric cast a hold person on the party fighter, and the goblin mooks nickled and dimed him nearly to death, with a lucky crit finishing him off just after the spell wore off. After he fell, it didn't take long for the other PCs to bite it.
My first actual character was a gnome fighter/mage made with 2e rules (sort of, the other players cheated a lot, since they figured the DM was a killer). We fought some skeletal knight who was willing to talk, but had decided he was going to kill us one way or other. I think he was supposed to be really tough, but the PCs got some very good rolls and managed to win. I was the only one that died, but luckily they found a scroll in the skeleton's treasure that brought me back to life. Then a little bit later, my character was standing watch while the others were resting and the wind picked up. I tried using my Weather Sense proficiency to see if a storm was coming in, when the DM blindsided me with an invisible stalker.
The first PCs death I caused was actually part of a TPK. The players invaded a goblin lair, and because they'd had a string of easy victories, they were cocky and overconfident. Then the goblin cleric cast a hold person on the party fighter, and the goblin mooks nickled and dimed him nearly to death, with a lucky crit finishing him off just after the spell wore off. After he fell, it didn't take long for the other PCs to bite it.
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