Whats your shortest lived character?
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Geoff Watson
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I remember one game set in Undermountain seeral years ago. We had got into a huge messy fight with some drow, and a few PCs were killed; then the fight went slowly as both sides took cover and were totally defensive. The players of the dead PCs made up their new characters, and the DM decided that the new characters would turn up as reinforcments.
The drow shot at the new guys who came running in. PC dead. Total game time alive: One round.
Geoff.
The drow shot at the new guys who came running in. PC dead. Total game time alive: One round.
Geoff.
I used to game with someone who was always extremely unlucky with dice rolls. He had just had his (2e) bladesinger die, when he completely failed to parry an attack from a giant. So he decides to come back in with a (6th level) paladin. After spending some time rolling up this character he rolls almost straight 2's on his hit points - 24 with an ok CON, the DM decides that since the rest of the party is being knocked unconsious left right and center that the Paladin should come straight in...
So the noble paladin charges in on his faithful mount, straight at the largest giant still standing.
roll roll roll
1 - Fumbles his lance.
The Giant attackes as he passes.
20. The paladin was dead on his strength bonus alone...
So the noble paladin charges in on his faithful mount, straight at the largest giant still standing.
roll roll roll
1 - Fumbles his lance.
The Giant attackes as he passes.
20. The paladin was dead on his strength bonus alone...
Moe Ronalds
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My shortest lived character was probably Phil The Fruit Fly...
Henry
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megamania said:
I didn't start the thread, but this one has GOT to be the King of the Mountain. congratulations, megamania.
I have at home a whole notebook of lovingly prepared character sheets of every 1E and 2E character I ever played. All but TWO are above 5th level. Some aren't even above first, never having been PLAYED. Our group used to be prolific at playing one-shots. One guy would have a DM idea, and he would start the campaign - and something would happen, and that one was never played again. Since everybody used something slightly different for stats, even between games, the characters were never even re-used.
Oh, well. It's kind of my "D&D Scrapbook" now...
thundershot
Adventurer
One of my player's characters died, so he had another one ready for the next session. I even found a point for him to enter, and it was to assist the party in battling... something, can't remember what it was. But as the party was fighting, his character, all beefed up and ready to go, came in from the other side, and got critted by the monster, instantly taking him out. The characters didn't really notice him, and didn't care, because when the battle was over, they found a bunch of cure potions on the person of the mysterious stranger... The character didn't even get a speaking line! He was downed in less than 60 seconds!
Chris
Chris
Yellow Sign
Explorer
My gaming group just started City of the Spider Queen last weekend. I had built a 10th level human barbarian who had 129 hit points (149 while raging). The very first encounter we ran into a vampire and his vampire spawn. Well it didn't start well for our party. The vampire rose out of a knee deep fog with covered the crypt. (We later found out it was a Mind Fog spell which really put our Will saves in the trash) and he dominated our Cleric of Tempus. The cleric was buffed up to bear with spells to aid her in melee combat. Since my barbarian was next to her, the vampire told her to kill me. Then the vampire went invisible and started launching 10d6 lightning bolts at the party. Well needless to say, my barbarian took about 80 points from lightning bolts and another 80 or so point from our dominated cleric. Dead Dead Dead. Thats the quickest I have ever lost a character.
Gez
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A sidhe (from Changeling: the Dreaming).
The DM, erm, GM, erm, ST, told us to create "human" adolescent characters, and he would decide then what we become (among changeling, mage, and werebeast), during that character's inroduction. He asked us to write lots of background, detail the character's tastes, motivations, personality, family, etc.
I tried to orient the character toward becoming a mage, but only got an Eiluned Sidhe. Not so bad, since the GM considered Eiluned could become Hedge Wizard.
After the introduction was played, and before the campaign could begin, the GM just told us he had been too ambitious, that his campaign would be too hard to master, and that he was bored to death with the World of Darkness and especially the Storyteller System.
Shortest-lived character I made, although not dead.
The DM, erm, GM, erm, ST, told us to create "human" adolescent characters, and he would decide then what we become (among changeling, mage, and werebeast), during that character's inroduction. He asked us to write lots of background, detail the character's tastes, motivations, personality, family, etc.
I tried to orient the character toward becoming a mage, but only got an Eiluned Sidhe. Not so bad, since the GM considered Eiluned could become Hedge Wizard.
After the introduction was played, and before the campaign could begin, the GM just told us he had been too ambitious, that his campaign would be too hard to master, and that he was bored to death with the World of Darkness and especially the Storyteller System.
Shortest-lived character I made, although not dead.
Ooo, I've got some good ones:
1st edition D&D:
1st level Ranger, name unknown. DM starts with us chasing a thief - I use my crossbow to bring him down. I get arrested and hung without trial by the city guard for an assassination that happened the previous week by crossbow.
This kind of thing happened a lot when that DM was running things. I didn't play with him too much...
1st level Monk, name unknown. Joined a gaming group of VERY mixed levels - this was 1st edition, with Unearthed Arcana, and I remember some of the players tossing off chain lightning spells into each other's amassed armies.
Myself and one other player are walking along a road. The DM tells us to "save versus paralyzation." My friend gets turned to stone, I save. I go running for a ditch - anything that can turn a player to stone is WAY out of line for a L1 character. DM tells me to save again, I fail.
We spent the next 5 hours bored out of our minds listening to the epic battles of the other players, then let the DM know we were NOT happy with his style, and that he could stick his DMG, well, eric's grandma wouldn't approve of what we told him.
MERP:
Spent two hours making characters. Came across a path in the woods. Got eaten by a worg within 2 rounds of combat, in which neither of us could even touch him.
Never played MERP again.
1st edition D&D:
1st level Ranger, name unknown. DM starts with us chasing a thief - I use my crossbow to bring him down. I get arrested and hung without trial by the city guard for an assassination that happened the previous week by crossbow.
This kind of thing happened a lot when that DM was running things. I didn't play with him too much...
1st level Monk, name unknown. Joined a gaming group of VERY mixed levels - this was 1st edition, with Unearthed Arcana, and I remember some of the players tossing off chain lightning spells into each other's amassed armies.
Myself and one other player are walking along a road. The DM tells us to "save versus paralyzation." My friend gets turned to stone, I save. I go running for a ditch - anything that can turn a player to stone is WAY out of line for a L1 character. DM tells me to save again, I fail.
We spent the next 5 hours bored out of our minds listening to the epic battles of the other players, then let the DM know we were NOT happy with his style, and that he could stick his DMG, well, eric's grandma wouldn't approve of what we told him.
MERP:
Spent two hours making characters. Came across a path in the woods. Got eaten by a worg within 2 rounds of combat, in which neither of us could even touch him.
Never played MERP again.
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