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<blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 2944230" data-attributes="member: 9254">I had a player once destroy his own character by accident.&nbsp; He was a freaky little character, but fairly well integrated into the group.&nbsp; An illusionist that gave a different name every morning and was prone to &quot;wearing&quot; illusions.&nbsp; Was a big worshipper of one of the gods of illusion and theft, maybe Shar.&nbsp;&nbsp; He'd aquired an artifact mirror that had a chance of making any illusion cast into it become real (but only last as long as the original spell) but also had a chance of using a wild surge table.&nbsp; Well, one day he accidentally has the wild surge go off and he turns himself into a shadow for a while.&nbsp; Not a bad thing, since it made him mostly immune to attacks.&nbsp; The party gets in a pinch and he gets the idea of casting an illusion of the mirror into the mirror.&nbsp; I twitch and let him roll.&nbsp; He botches it.&nbsp; He rolls the wild surge.&nbsp; It comes up &quot;catastrophic.&quot;&nbsp; So the mirror reflects a mirror, which reflects a mirror into the first mirror, which etc, etc.&nbsp; I use the &quot;opposing spell turning&quot; table to decide the result, letting the player roll the dice: shift to other plane.&nbsp; He rolls the dice on a planar table.&nbsp; Boom!&nbsp; Right to the positive elemental plane.&nbsp; No big right?&nbsp; Wait, he's still a shadow!&nbsp; So he vanishes silently into the endless white.&nbsp; The other players say, no problem, I'll use a wish.&nbsp; Wait, that only works if you know the person's real name.&nbsp; Clerical bring 'em back?&nbsp; Need some body part.&nbsp; As a wraith there isn't even ash.&nbsp; So they decide to use some high level magics and petition his god for his soul.&nbsp; We pull out the original D&amp;Dg to look up the particular deity's personality.&nbsp; Hmmmm, it seems he is a selfish god who clutches the souls of the dead like the valuable riches they are and never allows them to be resurrected as he is particularly jealous of heroes' souls.&nbsp; (Note: the player picked this god out of the D&amp;Dg on their own)We scratched our heads.&nbsp; We hemmed, we hawwed.&nbsp; We could come up with no way to resurrect the character without breaking with internal consistency.&nbsp;&nbsp; He was dead, doobie-doobie, dead.&nbsp; The player laughed and laughed as he realized just how dead he was.&nbsp; He really wasn't upset, he was actually proud that he'd actually managed to become a great hero, save the world, etc, etc. and none of his companions knew his real name!&nbsp; That he'd become one of his god's most treasured possessions was just kind of icing on the cake.&nbsp; So while it isn't necessarily campaign ending, sometimes players will destroy their characters in unexpected fashion that a DM can't ret-con without taking out continuity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kigmatzomat, post: 2944230, member: 9254"] I had a player once destroy his own character by accident. He was a freaky little character, but fairly well integrated into the group. An illusionist that gave a different name every morning and was prone to "wearing" illusions. Was a big worshipper of one of the gods of illusion and theft, maybe Shar. He'd aquired an artifact mirror that had a chance of making any illusion cast into it become real (but only last as long as the original spell) but also had a chance of using a wild surge table. Well, one day he accidentally has the wild surge go off and he turns himself into a shadow for a while. Not a bad thing, since it made him mostly immune to attacks. The party gets in a pinch and he gets the idea of casting an illusion of the mirror into the mirror. I twitch and let him roll. He botches it. He rolls the wild surge. It comes up "catastrophic." So the mirror reflects a mirror, which reflects a mirror into the first mirror, which etc, etc. I use the "opposing spell turning" table to decide the result, letting the player roll the dice: shift to other plane. He rolls the dice on a planar table. Boom! Right to the positive elemental plane. No big right? Wait, he's still a shadow! So he vanishes silently into the endless white. The other players say, no problem, I'll use a wish. Wait, that only works if you know the person's real name. Clerical bring 'em back? Need some body part. As a wraith there isn't even ash. So they decide to use some high level magics and petition his god for his soul. We pull out the original D&Dg to look up the particular deity's personality. Hmmmm, it seems he is a selfish god who clutches the souls of the dead like the valuable riches they are and never allows them to be resurrected as he is particularly jealous of heroes' souls. (Note: the player picked this god out of the D&Dg on their own) We scratched our heads. We hemmed, we hawwed. We could come up with no way to resurrect the character without breaking with internal consistency. He was dead, doobie-doobie, dead. The player laughed and laughed as he realized just how dead he was. He really wasn't upset, he was actually [i]proud[/i] that he'd actually managed to become a great hero, save the world, etc, etc. and none of his companions knew his real name! That he'd become one of his god's most treasured possessions was just kind of icing on the cake. So while it isn't necessarily campaign ending, sometimes players will destroy their characters in unexpected fashion that a DM can't ret-con without taking out continuity. [/QUOTE]

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