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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacob Marley" data-source="post: 5745516" data-attributes="member: 89537">A few years ago I was playing a cleric of a deity of luck, fate, and chance in a 3.5 campaign. He had access to the luck domain and would frequently memorize the spell alter fortune - both of which allow for rerolls on the dice. I forget exactly what we were fighting at the time but I remember being hit with a save or die spell. The DC was fairly low and my modifier was pretty high meaning I could only fail on a roll of like three or lower. Of course, my first roll was a one so I used my free reroll from the luck domain which resulted in a two. I then cast alter fortune for my last reroll and the die came up one. And thus my cleric of luck passed into the great gambling hall in the sky - because he was unlucky!  ..... This next story is a combination of "don't split the party" and a series of bad rolls. The story begins with me bringing a new character into the party - a wizard. At the time my new character joined, the party had been split up into two groups.  The first party (our druid) was racing south to inform our benefactor of some important news. After he informed our benefactor of the news, he shapechanged (3.5 PHB II variant) into a puma and raced off back to the party. In the mean time, my new character was introduced to the second party who, at the time, were setting up camp in the wilderness a day's journey from town. While we were setting up camp, the DM rolled a random encounter with a large puma sneaking into camp to steal a bit of food. We ended up killing the puma and set up watch for the evening. On my watch I spotted a puma in the distance racing toward our camp site. I quickly woke up our cleric and then cast sleep targeting the puma. The puma failed it's save and fell over. The cleric and I quickly made our way over to the body. The cleric was about to coup de grace the puma when the DM had him make a wisdom check DC 5 - which he failed! He then performed the coup de grace for very low damage. The puma attempted his fortitude save and failed on that and died. At that moment he reverted back into druid form - we killed our own ally! Out of character, we all knew what was going on but our series of die rolls came up in such a way that we could not see any other logical course of action. Had the DM not rolled a random puma encounter OR had I not made my spot check OR had the druid made it's will save OR had the cleric made it's wisdom check OR had the druid made it's fortitude save THEN our druid would have lived. Alas, as it were, none of these rolls came out in our favor and we ended up executing our own party member. We have since declared this the greatest character death ever!</blockquote>

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