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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kalendraf" data-source="post: 1559275" data-attributes="member: 3433">Back in a 2e campaign, I played in a group that used rotating DMs.  The player taking over as DM would usually sideline their character for that session or use them as an NPC.  My character was a ranger who seemed to have a knack for losing levels to undead.  Across the span of about 5 adventures, he lost 4 levels to various forms of undead, and finally he had fallen so far behind on levels that he had become useless to the party.  Several party members had stated as much to his face.  I sidelined him during one of my DM-ing sessions.  In the night, he simply ran away during his watch.  He was accused of being a coward, but the party did little other investigation and moved on.  I started running a different character for upcoming sessions where I would play.Fast forward several sessions and several months of game time, and the entire party was up a few more levels.  They got a message from the ranger, inviting them to meet him at a nearby keep, and offering to explain why he'd left hastily that night.  He greeted them at the castle, and offered them a nice meal and warm comfortable rooms for the night.  He only left a few minor hints about what had happened, saying that there was someone they had to meet, who'd be arriving in the morning.Turns out that the ranger had gone insane from his level-drains.  Seeing his level drains as a sign from greater powers, he had decided to seek out the strongest undead he could find and become one of them.  He managed to find a vampire and became one.  Now he had lured the party, hoping to punish them for all the past ills that had befallen him.  During the night, the PCs were attacked by the vampires in their bedchambers.  No one died, but it was a harrowing fight.  The party battled the ranger and his two vampire companions eventually defeating all but the ranger.  The ranger/vampire managed to escape, and the party never found his coffin.He returned to harass them a few more times over the upcoming adventures, but they were never successful in defeating him.  They even tried to find a way to undo the vampirism, but were not successful.  Unfortunately, the campaign ended before they ever defeated him.</blockquote>

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