RoughCoronet0
Dragon Lover
Really need an all of the above option. Played in enough campaigns and one shots over the years where every option has happened at least once for me at least.
D&D General Your Character Died! Who's Fault Was It?
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jdrakeh
Front Range Warlock
Most often, Fate (the dice). I don't build characters to game the system and I play them as if they were actual living, breathing, folk (I often even build intentionally flawed characters, because people are flawed). So I usually don't blame the DM or myself. I let situations play out as Fate dictates.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
Blue
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal
Last time I had a character die in a D&D-like game it was to not only not leaving an island but doing boat-work in the abandoned village where we knew there was an ancient red dragon and we were level 6 or something like that. TPK. Player hubris -- we didn't think it would notice us.
Which worked wonderfully since we were playing a Theros (Ancient Greek expy) game and the DM had planned at some point we'd have to visit the underworld as champions of the gods, he just shuffled things around so we went a bit more directly but were afforded a (divinely deniable) way to escape besides swimming through the river and becoming Returned without memories or personality. Though there was a permanent debuff that since we were in our underworld bodies and attuned to the underworld that raise dead and the rest wouldn't work on us ever again.
Which worked wonderfully since we were playing a Theros (Ancient Greek expy) game and the DM had planned at some point we'd have to visit the underworld as champions of the gods, he just shuffled things around so we went a bit more directly but were afforded a (divinely deniable) way to escape besides swimming through the river and becoming Returned without memories or personality. Though there was a permanent debuff that since we were in our underworld bodies and attuned to the underworld that raise dead and the rest wouldn't work on us ever again.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
The most recent time.
I guess in some cases what kills a PC might be the player's decision to sit at that table, with that GM.
Honestly, it isn't even worth talking about "killer GMs" because they are anomalies that make the game worse. I don't think it is productive to have discussions around the exceptions and extremes.
I've never played with a killer GM, but I think different people will have different ideas of just how anomalous killer GMs are, and how many PCs a given GM needs to have die in their game before that GM qualifies.
