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What monster killed your first PC?
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LondonReign
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Ah, yes, it is interesting when DMing 99% of the time. 25 years playing, 0 PC deaths.
Total time running a PC: about 7 sessions.
Total time DMing: about 1 billion sessions
Total time running a PC: about 7 sessions.
Total time DMing: about 1 billion sessions
wingsandsword
Legend
First PC fatality. . .Tonbo Insuri, a Dragonfly Clan Shugenja 7/Void Disciple 1 in a d20 Rokugan game. Killed by another PC (the party Scorpion Courtier/Ninja) with a contact poison, by handing him something coated in it when she was wearing gloves, during an adventure she just randomly pulled something out a random object and handed it to him. Not long thereafter, it was poison save time, and vs. a DC 25 fort save for a -/3d6 Con poison for a character with 12 Con and a +3 Fort save was pretty much death. The DM had my fatally poisoned and dying PC ascend to become the new Oracle of the Void at the time of death though.
Against an NPC . . . Devin O'Connell, a Bard/Dragon Disciple in a homebrew setting D&D game. Mauled to death by Dire Wolves in a random encounter gone horribly wrong. With no party cleric, all we had was a Druid casting a 3.0 Reincarnate. Of course, Devin came back as a Wolf! A Polymorph Other later and he was his normal half-elf self, more or less. He spent the rest of the campaign trying to get a Wish to be restored to his original race, which he finally got as his reward for saving the Kingdom at the end of the campaign.
Against an NPC . . . Devin O'Connell, a Bard/Dragon Disciple in a homebrew setting D&D game. Mauled to death by Dire Wolves in a random encounter gone horribly wrong. With no party cleric, all we had was a Druid casting a 3.0 Reincarnate. Of course, Devin came back as a Wolf! A Polymorph Other later and he was his normal half-elf self, more or less. He spent the rest of the campaign trying to get a Wish to be restored to his original race, which he finally got as his reward for saving the Kingdom at the end of the campaign.
Dog Moon
Adventurer
Man, I can't believe how many people remember their first deaths. Mine happened like 12 years ago near when I first started playing [I was about 10 at the time]. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the first, but it was close to it:
Pit trap caused another character to fall down a slide into another room. Everything seems good until the walls grew spikes and started towards the center of the room. My character was the only one with rope, but it was like 10 feet too short [That DM used everything we had or didn't have against us; was a pain, but still fun]. So we tried to work things out to save the character before the walls killed the character. I forget how, but my character ended up falling in and both our characters died. To be fair though, it was an dungeon designed to kill each character one at a time in interesting, different ways.
For some reason, Dungeons used to be so much more fun than they are now...even when everyone dies.
Pit trap caused another character to fall down a slide into another room. Everything seems good until the walls grew spikes and started towards the center of the room. My character was the only one with rope, but it was like 10 feet too short [That DM used everything we had or didn't have against us; was a pain, but still fun]. So we tried to work things out to save the character before the walls killed the character. I forget how, but my character ended up falling in and both our characters died. To be fair though, it was an dungeon designed to kill each character one at a time in interesting, different ways.
For some reason, Dungeons used to be so much more fun than they are now...even when everyone dies.
Someone
Adventurer
Some undead killed my dwarf fighter/psion in 2nd edition Darksun (the DM allowed me to play the now undead dwarf, but unfotunately the campaing ended there)
My fist PC killed as DM was a halfling rogue, he met the sharp end of a bastard sword with more speed than it´s healthy.
My fist PC killed as DM was a halfling rogue, he met the sharp end of a bastard sword with more speed than it´s healthy.
Bront
The man with the probe
How about the first PC you killed?LondonReign said:Ah, yes, it is interesting when DMing 99% of the time. 25 years playing, 0 PC deaths.
Total time running a PC: about 7 sessions.
Total time DMing: about 1 billion sessions
In my time as a DM, I've come close, but you can't kill someone in 7th seas (Well, not easily, though I was darn close to the optional rule kill), and the PbP game I ran I adjusted another PC's actions when I took the cleric down to -8 so he used a potion on him. I guess I didn't have to, but given the monster movement, the player I changed had a clear path to his companion (Well, one AoO, but he had mobility).
Teflon Billy
Explorer
Bugbear.
My friend Joel (who introduced em to the game with his brothers rulebooks and figs) ran a Dungeon he had created called "Bugbear Castle"
He had six bugbear lead figs and was, by god, going to use them
My friend Joel (who introduced em to the game with his brothers rulebooks and figs) ran a Dungeon he had created called "Bugbear Castle"
He had six bugbear lead figs and was, by god, going to use them
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