Whats your shortest lived character?

[eris404]

The shortest lived character I have wittnessed happened to my friend, Terry. One hour into the first session, our first level characters get into combat with orcs. Terry's fighter engages an orc with a battleaxe (one we later realized had one level of barbarian), who fells the fighter in two blows.

The room got very quiet and the DM seemed very embarassed and uncomfortable. But Terry merely erased the name on the character sheet, wrote in a new one and said, "OK, just let me know when my new character shows up..."

 

[Latency]

My shortest lived character was in the City of the Spider Queen, Just last week. I was a 10th Level rouge that took me a couple of hours to create I died in the first 3 round of combat due to a missed save. Total Play time 8 mins. I don't feel to bad though the Party had a TPK Just 8 rounds in. It was a record for our group that has been gaming together since second edition. I also lost me next character the following playing session due to the pair of Bebilth's destroying my Armour and shield. Now I play and Archer Cleric and keep my distance.

 

[SJ]

this is really fun....

My very first D&D char, back in Basic days, was a dwarf named Gonad (hey, I was 13, sue me). The rest of the party had been playing for several months and invited me to join.

The party finds the dwarf alone, hiding on the Isle of Dread (yeah, you remember it, don't lie). I ask to join up with them as I don't know where I am or how I got here.

Moments later....about 15 mins game time...as I am reading the Basic rulebook to find out what the game is about...

Wizard flies over on the back of a Roc. The Fighter in the party fires a crossbow bolt at Wizard. Wizard retaliates with Lightning Bolt at dwarf, innocently holding extra crossbow. Gonad fails his save, dies instantly.

TTD (Time To Death) - 20 minutes.

So my next character.....

 

[nameless]

This just happened in d20 Modern 2 days ago. Not to me, but another PC.

Level 3 Strong/Fast Hero, who was a street racer. Game begins with him in a high-stakes race against two other hotshots. Off the line, he sputters a little and the other two fly ahead. First turn comes up, and all three botch their rolls. All three cars collide with each other and the environment. Damage is rolled to the cars. One explodes (with the help of some N2O), which blows up the other two. Poor Ian didn't have a snowball's chance on that one.

Total OOC time: About 45 seconds.
Total IC time: About 11 seconds.

 

[Voneth]

Hmmmm.

I just saw a "quick death" recently. I am playing a d20 version of Farscape. We had a teenager who begged to play, but wanted to borrow an old PC sheet from my stack former PCs (the game is run at a game store and we have a lot of on one-hit wonders). So I let him have a PC sheet.

The kid tries to pull juvenille pranks (such as trying to use the starship's P.A. system to frame another PC for assualt.) After half an hour, the crew sedates him and spaces him out of the airlock. The kid looked at me stunned as if I was going to protect him from the other players.

Next week, he came back and asked to make up his own PC.

My own shortest death was a PC who never got played. Basicly I rolled the stats and chose the class, suddenly the GM was giving me my background, relatives I knew, etc. Hey I like the more storytelling style of gaming, but not a script. I bowed out of the game.

 

[Wikidogre]

new game for 4 players, 3rd level starting.

I decided to make a nice new fighter, with hopes of becoming a weapon master with sword and shield.

anyways, it took me 17 mins to create the character just before the game started, we started off on seperate single adventures, the DM decided to mine first, in order to get us to the starting village.

Well i then make my way to a bridge over a river with a waterfall about 40ft from the bridge.....well i do the typical fighter thing and check the bridge for creatures under it, nothing so i start across, to then have a large rock thrown at me from an Ogre sitting in a nearby tree, well the DM rolled a nat. 20 and then his die decided to explode and roll another nat 20, sending my character over the side of the bridge into the rive, failing my swim check, and sending me straight over the side of the waterfall for a glorious 300ft drop to the rocks below...

Total playing time, 13 minutes.

 

[dpdx]

Barron the druid lasted a whole three rounds of combat. He dropped from an overhead hole in to a cavern surrounded by 20-30 orcs. Shillelagh dropped one of them, before they converged on him and tore him limb from limb.

 

[Labmonkey-XL]

Ok i'm breaking my own rules, but I had to tell this story of a Call of Cthulhu d20 game I GMed a few months back:

The players woke up with complete amnesia in a mental asylum that was rioting. They left their cells to join the commotion and came to standoff down one of the halls.

A group of like 6 or so asylum guards were blocking an exit, one had a shotgun and the other 5 had nightsticks, so the mental patients didnt rush them.

One of the players who got caught up in the moment tried to rally the patients into rushing them, and he charged into the guard with the shotgun, biting his ankles hoping the other would follow.

Due to his low HP he was bludgeoned to death by the 5 guards in one round.

This was about 5 minutes into the game, so he worked on another character while the game was still going.

About a half an hour later, his character "woke" up in a cell and was found by the other 3 PCs, and joined them in searching the asylum for clues on their identity and why they were their.

Inside an operating room they stumbled across was a Mi-Go dissecting a mental patient. Sanity loss all around, one of the players had a critical failure and went ape and unloaded his entire pistol on the escaping Mi-Go, and accidentally missed and hit the newly created PC who was right next to it.

Once again he had low HP so he died due to blood loss... their was medical facilities but the player who had the Heal skill rolled a natural 1. So he bled to death.

He made sure his 3rd character had a higher CON.

 

[mmu1]

Does walking out of the first game of a campaign after 30 minutes because we were a 1st level party fighting a Hill Giant and winning count?

If not, I guess that'd be my first 2nd ed. character, an Elven Fighter, killed by a red dragon at level 2.

 

[Labmonkey-XL]

Walking out doesnt count, but it does count as a valid reason to walk out of a game.