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orcslayer 08-16-04, 06:21 PM	1. A wizard uses the wish spell to turn a PC into a chicken and then takes it to the butcher. 2.The PCs is impaled with a 15 foot staff made of cheese. 3.The enemy who killed the PC is a necrophiliac...well you know the rest.
Hero of Sshamath 08-16-04, 07:37 PM	4. Flog a bound fighter to death with a rotting fish 5. Have the PC's mother beat them to death with a shoe...their shoe
Chaos_Blade 08-16-04, 09:53 PM	6: Gored centaur by appearing between the charging gnoll ranger with a shoulder horn from a rhino and the drow we were attacking. so much damage/humiliation "it hurts and stings":bigeyes:
Sphendule 08-16-04, 10:07 PM	7. A wizard casts Fly on himself and his party to get over a wide crevice when they know that the Sorceror BBEG is standing there, taunting them to come over to fight him (I think we all know what will happen now... Can anybody say "Dispel Magic"?). And the PCs know that the BBEG is indeed a Sorceror. :sad:
Thanqol 08-16-04, 10:14 PM	8: Bad mathematical skills result in death. In this example: DM: You see seven cubelike shapes shuffling towards you. Dwarf: I throw a rock at one. DM: It sinks into the cube and dissoves before your eyes. Fighter: Crimmny! Acid cube things! Attack! Breif combat. DM: Allright, six of the cubes are dead. Wizard: Phew. That was close. Ok, I walk over to the door. DM: As there were seven cubes, you have walked into the seventh cube. You go directly into it. You feel yourself dissolving. Fighter: I pull the wizard out! DM: Str check. Fighter: 1... DM: Ok, you're in the cube too. Dwarf: Erm... erm... I'll pull them out! DM: Str check. Dwarf: 3... DM: You're in the cube, too. Elf: I run away! DM: Ok, you three are dead. The elf runs back into that room with the magic circle trap, roll reflex save, elf. Elf: 1... DM: You're dead too. *Chuckles evily* New characters? And those cubes were 2 CR levels lower than them:rolleyes:
KelanenPrinceofSwords 08-17-04, 12:57 AM	These are true game events: Party is camping, mostly asleep except for a guard. A banshee comes along and wails. Half of party wakes up in fright and keels over. Cocky elven fighter saunters into the court of the Viscount of Verbobonc, sits at the Viscount's dining table while the Viscount ids having dinner, props his dirty, booted feet up on the table. Viscount angrily demands to know what the elf is doing, and warns him that he'd better have something important to say, to which the cocky elf replies, "Just dropping by to see what's for dinner." Viscount orders his guards to sieze the insolent elf and throw him in the dungeon, but the elf draws steel and fights, killing a few guards before realizing he won't last long. Elf flees into wilderness (using invisibility and fly potions), but the Viscount's wizard advisor tracks him down with scrying, and teleports to his location with a few hard-hitters. Cocky elf learns the hard way to respect rulers in their own courts. Cocky paladin and his henchmen (a cleric and a wizard) decide to attack a great red wyrm in its lair. Upon entering and attacking the dragon, it casts antimagic shell from a scroll, rendering the wizard into an old man with a staff, and the cleric into a faithful but useless chump. Dragon opens a can of whoop-a** and generously doles it out. In a rather un-paladinly moment of desperation, the paladin tries to flee the dragons lair, but must climb down a sheer embackment (previously circumvented via fly spells cast by wizard henchman). Dragon first rips the spellcasters to shreds, then dismisses antimagic shell and toasts the helpless paladin while he climbed down the rocky cliff. This episode resulted in the famed "crumple and throw" treatment (referring to the angry player's treatment of his character sheet). A hapless PC is captured by orcs, who restrain him, sodomize him, and then kill him.
Mike the DM 08-17-04, 01:41 AM	Anyone else notice the irony in Thanqol citing players' bad math skills while simultaneously misnumbering his post? ;) And KelanenPrinceofSwords, please keep stories of sodomizing your player characters to yourself, or post them on the (Im)Mature Content boards if you can't. :nonono: 9. Death by pixies. 10. Drowning...in an oasis...in a vast desert. 11. Nicking oneself with one's own poisoned blade. 12. Asking a red dragon for a light.
SnowbearK 08-17-04, 01:53 AM	Super-powered game (I know :rolleyes: but I was sick of DMing at the time) had a 2nd edition Paladin with the Barbarian kit, 15th level, with nothing less than a 20 in every score (again...:rolleyes: I know) couldn't be stopped: Ran of out spears, started throwing dead enemies at their former comrades. Bungee'd off a thousand foot cliff to grab the falling cleric. Wrestled stone golems to the ground without a scratch. Beat a high-level wizard to death with his own right arm. Survived a near-point blank retributive strike from a staff of the magi. Flew a great wyrm blue dragon like a kite (using a lasso). Beat back a battalion of high-level snipers (ooooh yeah...with longbows +5 and unlimited Arrows of Human slaying! :rolleyes: ) So how does this Godly machine of Goodness finally bite the dust? By rolling a catastrophic failure on a jump check. Yep. Tried to jump onto a swinging, and apparently rusty, pendulum across a pit that went straight to the bottom of the cliff. By catastrophically failing the Jump check, he nailed the pendulum with his head and fell all the way down -- AND SURVIVED! Had a grand total of 4 hp left though. Then the pendulum fell on him. :nonono: I blocked that moment out of my memory for years until recently.
Loren Pechtel 08-17-04, 01:53 AM	Well, it wasn't a death: They really upset a wizard *FAR* beyond their level. (Hint: When you have a magic item that you don't fully understand and which has exhibited some random properties, don't demo it in the wizard's shop. Just because most of the spells that came out of it were cure light wounds doesn't mean that's all that could. Reverse gravity in his shop will make one *VERY* upset wizard.) He polymorphed the offending character into a living chamber pot.
KelanenPrinceofSwords 08-17-04, 02:17 AM	And KelanenPrinceofSwords, please keep stories of sodomizing your player characters to yourself, or post them on the (Im)Mature Content boards if you can't. :nonono: Too close to home, Mike the DM? :smirk:
fruits and vegetables 08-17-04, 03:05 AM	i got one. Never happened but funny anyway. Player: You all go, i will stay here and give you time to escape! Group: NOooooo! Player: You must! We will all die if you do not go now! GO! ****group saddly and reluctantly flees**** Monster: Catches up with Player. *roar* (rolls initiative and wins) Crits, kills, barely pauses and proceeds. Chases down other party members and slays them in a most gruesome method. This reminds me. Has anyone got the D&D choose you adventure DVD? I like making the thief talk to that "spirit". It is obvious that it is a bad idea but i like the result if the thief somehow thinks she can just talk to her. :D
Monster 08-17-04, 03:10 AM	In the early days of D&D I lost at least one character to the infamous Hall of Random Bodily Functions. Some things are fine if you do them at a reasonable pace, but deadly if done to excess.
The_Cheat137 08-17-04, 03:22 AM	(not a DND game, but great nonetheless) Character ( a dwarven warrior) is shot , in the head, by an orcish arrow Luckily, character's immensely high skill and dwarven helm (and the terrible weaponry of the orc), stop the arrow in the helm Character now has an arrow sticking out of the front of his helm; decides it looks 'cool' and keeps it in his helm as a trophy of his toughness Then proceeds to continue fighting orcs Until he rolls a critical miss, and a rather bad one; managing to trip and fall while fighting, onto his head, neatly driving the arrow through it, killing him. At least, the rest of the party was able to finish off orcs disabled by laughter rather easily :P
Degobah 08-17-04, 03:28 AM	Death by chocolate. Death by elf swashbuckler. Being tied up for a bit of fun and "coup de graced" by a BBEG disguised as a woman with a hat of disguise. Being killed by an NPC Weapon Master armed with a spoon.
Carbon_Copy 08-17-04, 04:03 AM	I guess numbering isn't cool anymore. I'll start us again at, say, 20. 20: Killed by another PC played by the same player. I actually did this once, despite the fact that characters played by the same player in this campaign explicitly weren't allowed to interact with each other. I guess having one character accidentally level the city the other one was living in doesn't count as interaction, though (It's not like they talked to each other or anything :rolleyes: ) 21: "Ooh, a magic item. I put it on."
Qalyar 08-17-04, 05:34 AM	Heh, no numbering for me ... someone will post JUST before me if I do, making me look numerically-challenged. I am cursed to kill - badly - any ranger that I try to play. I like the class, I really do. But they all go stupidly, and I swear its not my fault. Changing alignment doesn't help. Ranger 1 (CN): Dies poisoning his own blades with amauranth. It deals 2d6 hp damage as its primary effect. Would be one of those "one bad roll" deaths ... but I had more than 12 hp. Cause of death? Trying again, and failing the second time as well. Ranger 2 (CG): Convinces the party to leave him alone in a room full of angry wolves, because he's a ranger, and can talk them down. Sadly, wild empathy is not so much an effective way to deal with werewolves. Ranger 3 (NG): After being the target of a party member's silence, scouts ahead, using pass without trace ... and bleeds to death after falling into a spiked pit trap. This is where we learn that only the caster of silence can dispel it at will, and that leaving no tracks of any kind isn't always in your best interests. (This one seriously wasn't just my fault ... all I needed was for one of them to make a Spot check to find the trap I fell in ... but, no, all of the Spot checks added together would have had trouble finding their collective hindquarters in the dark.) Ranger 4 (NE): Okay, okay, this one was entirely my fault. Died to the reduction in hit points caused by casting a Corrupt spell with a Constitution damage component. Yeah, yeah, I know. I've got one ranger (CN, again) going at the moment ... I'm sure when it goes the way of all things ranger, that I'll have another post to add to the pot.
Thanqol 08-17-04, 05:52 AM	Originally posted by Mike the DM Anyone else notice the irony in Thanqol citing players' bad math skills while simultaneously misnumbering his post? :P I guess I am an idiot after all. It looks like my horoscope, psycological examination, and maths teacher were right :D Edit: I'm going to sig that.
Theocracity 08-17-04, 10:27 AM	A weakling wizard trapped in an Anti-magic shell surrounded by a Wall of Force and subsequently grapple-damaged to death by an enemy doing the "Stop hitting yourself!" routine.
Phrennzy 08-17-04, 10:57 AM	Fighter/Wizard and Wizard ally encounter a room with three ice toads. F/W decides to fireball the Ice Toads. Me, DM: "Okay, well, the room is only 20'x20', and about 40' away - " F/W, interrupting: "Yeah, yeah, we'll be fine. I cast." Now, this was 2nd edition, back when a fireball would fill the area and spill out. And that's what happened. Crispy characters. I informed him of this, and got: F/W:"My character would have known!" Before I could open my mouth in response, the other character's player said, "Dude, he was trying to tell you." Another time, same player: This was a playtest for 3rd ed rules. This was the first time we had played with them, and I had made up a little dungeon with areas to Climb, Jump, and Swim, as well as monsters. The PCs had found a tunnel, and noticed (with the 'new' Spot checks) the Gelatinous Cube slowly moving down the tunnel. It was moving, I told them, at about 5' per round. The F/W player from the fireball death above was playing a sorcerer. On his turn, he walked up to the cube, and stood with a 5' gap between them, and cast burning hands. The flames did a little damage and then the Cube's initiative came up and it moved it's full 15' move, and engulfed the sorcerer. (The player thought this change in movement speed by the Cube was unfair. I declared that this was how the Cube hunted.) Another player tried to rescue the sorcerer by reaching into the cube to grab his arm. And of course failed his save. He was now paralyzed and being pulled into the cube. The rescuer was saved and the rest of the party fled, leaving the sorceror to be slowly digested. I love this death because he died due to his own arrogance and underestimation of the enemy, which was a near mindless blob.
Mike the DM 08-17-04, 11:15 AM	Originally posted by KelanenPrinceofSwords Too close to home, Mike the DM? :smirk: First, it's a CoC violation. Second...what I want to tell you to do with your comment would also be a CoC violation, so I'll let it go at that.
Orcy The Green Wonder 08-17-04, 01:11 PM	Orcy always uses this one when these threads come up, but hey... he likes it. The party comes across the lich they were hunting. They go into the room which looks like its just a big focus for magic energies. The ranger tells the party "dont worry guys, undead are my favored enemy" then rushes in. Within the first round, the very same ranger is a pile of dust from the lich's disintigration (or however thats spelled... dunno if Orcy is right here..) Let see... then there was the time the corpse of a purple worm fell on Orcy when he was unconcious but stable... squished Orcy anybody?
TeenageGodDM 08-17-04, 01:27 PM	Bad Mapping causes the PC's to fall in the same spike trap several times in a row. Funny part is, each time they fell in they commented, "Hey, someone's been here recently. Look at these blood marks." A wizard tries to intimidate an unarmed kobold with a flask of acid. The kobold, scared out of its wits, attacks him, shatering the acid and slaying the wizard. The PC's decide it might be helpful to buy a pack of guard dogs. They attempt to completely control them immediately, and the pack turns on them when food begins running low. The PC's begin annoying the DM to no end, and when tempers run too high, magical piano's fall on each player several times.
Phrennzy 08-17-04, 04:48 PM	Most humiliating death in my campaign. Player ticked me off to the point of kicking him out of the game. His character then suddenly developed a terminal case of explosive diarrhea. The gods are vengeful.
Dakkon 08-17-04, 05:15 PM	A Mid-Level Barbarian/Fighter attempts to wrestle a old man, who happens to be a ferryman off of his ferry boat. A few terrible rolls later on behalf of the Player, and a few excellent rolls on behalf of myself, and the Barbarian/Fighter is in the water and drowns while the Druid, Bard, and Ferryman laugh their kesters off.
Evandar_TAybara 08-17-04, 07:00 PM	Playing "Egg of the Phoenix", converted to 3rd ed. The group has climbed up the inside of a mountain and found themselves within a black forest. When I say black, I mean black. The trees and black, the grass is black, everything is black except for the 20 ft wide path of pure platinum that winds through the trees. Sticking sensibly to the path, they make their way through the forest. Unfortunately, they get attacked by a roper and discover that each round off the path they must make a fort save or gain a negative energy level. Retreating from the roper they continue along the path.... DM - "The path ends at the foot of the wide steps leading to an immense black stone cube, easily 40 feet on a side. Two grey steps lead up to a 10 foot wide black stone door, on which there is a large bronze handle." Elf Cleric - "Cool! I'll touch the building." DM - "What?" EC - "I touch the building!" DM - "What? The black building?" EC - "Yes." DM - "The imposing black building?" EC - "Yes." DM - "The imposing black building that's the same colour as the icky black forest?" EC - "Yes." DM - "The imposing black building that's the same colour as the icky black forest and radiates necromantic evil magic?" EC - "Yes." DM - "You mean the bronze handle right?" EC - "No." DM - "The actual black wall of the evil black building?" EC - "Yes." DM - "Ok..... Make me a fortitude save, and don't forget the -9 penalty for negative levels." EC - "Oh, crap...."
magic wyrm 08-17-04, 09:15 PM	PC is attacked by a smal white rabbit with big, pointy teeth, while another PC attempts to save him by shooting the rabbit which has latched itself onto the face of the first PC, the arrow goes through the rabbit, pinning the rabbit to the PCs face and killing him....happened to me.....i was the second guy....:D
SnowbearK 08-17-04, 11:40 PM	Originally posted by TeenageGodDM Bad Mapping... A wizard tries... The PC's decide it might be helpful to buy a pack of guard dogs.... The PC's begin annoying the DM to no end... Jolly would be so pleased... :smirk:
hitorijun 08-18-04, 01:35 AM	The party reaches a room that seems to be ungaurded. The room is about 30'x30'x20' with a door on one side and three treasure chests on the other. The elven bard wats to be cool so he uses his new immovable rods and travels to the other side of the room without touching the floor. He is the first one to reach the chests. He places them in the air and hangs down from them. He opens the first chest which triggers a trap and electricuts the floor. Everytime sometakes a step the floor zaps them again. The dwarf and halfing die trying to get out. The elf laughs so hard that he falls and suffers the same fate.
Thanqol 08-18-04, 05:19 AM	The characters attack the BBEG and cripple him. Following his escape plan, he jumps out the window onto his horse and starts riding off. The soceror casts mass fly on the party, and they begin chasing him. The BBEG turns around and starts to fight the party. He killed them all, and he was on 1/8 hp.
MarkB 08-18-04, 06:13 AM	At our local gaming convention we've instituted the Golden Badger Award for the most embarrassing character death (named for a foraging ranger who got himself nibbled to death by a badger). This year, I was the winner, for an incident in a convention session. It was an ultra-evil game featuring a bunch of villainous spellcasters attempting to recover an artifact from a good guys' temple. We had an exit strategy planned which involved teleporting out to a local safe house (my character - the Necromancer leading the party - had an item keyed to that location, whilst the Sorcerer and Wizard each had Teleport spells), and it had all gone reasonably well up until the last corridor before the vault containing our objective, when the Wizard and his apprentice turned on the rest of us and battle ensued. My character and the Sorcerer slipped into the vault, the Sorcerer sealing the entrance with a Wall of Force, leaving my remaining bodyguard on the other side, then sent an Arcane Eye to check out the central altar containing the artifact - which promptly triggered an explosive trap that destroyed the artifact. With nothing left to recover, and now paranoid about my remaining companion (the Wizard had claimed she was working for an opposing Order), I cast Dimensional Anchor on the Sorcerer and prepared to utter the command phrase that would teleport me out to the safe house. The Sorcerer had time for one action before I left. She cast Confusion. "Oh :censored:," I thought as I failed my save - but fortunately, my random mindset for that first round was "act normally". Uttering the command phrase "teflontoni", I teleported out to safety, ran up the stairs towards the exit - and then got confused and stopped. I was still there a short while later, when the traitorous Wizard, who had observed the destruction of the altar, teleported himself and his apprentice out to the safe house. Seeing me standing there, he Webbed me to the wall for safety's sake, drew his dagger and then slowly and carefully administered the coup de grace. My only consolation was observing, even as he did so, his apprentice sneaking up behind him with dagger drawn.
Didge 08-19-04, 08:59 PM	These happened back in 2e, and were in a homebrew game that had some weird, but fun rules. When a character died, you brought in a 1st level character until either the original party was dead, or they retired. Keep that in mind. 1) I had a Dwarven fighter at 1st level (itroduced that game and rolled while the others were exploring a forest near some mountains) meet up with the other 2 party members (a wizard and a rogue, both 5th-ish level). We had a random encounter of a couple of monsterous spiders, and we sought refuge in a big cave with a narrow 5 foot opening. My fighter (maxed out STR and CON, with a great AC and really good save stood in the front and did what normal fighters do...tank. I knew to poisition myself so only 1 spider could attack at once in the entrance of the cave, and played intelligently. The initiative comes up with me first, spiders next, mage, then rogue. The first round I miss, spider goes next *WACK* spider hits. DM: Need to make a poison save. Me: No problem, I'm a Dwarf with awesome saves vs. poison. *rolls....a 2* That's not going to save. Crud. Well I should be able to survive for a round or two before the onset time of the poison kills me, and the rogue can use his poison use on me in time right? DM: In theory, yes. The Mage is up next, what do you do. Mage: I cast fireball past him out into the area to encompase all the spiders, and get the one in front of the Dwarf. *makes a placement roll...a 3* That's not good. *Rolls random scatter roll* Hmm, still generally placed well..except.... Me: What? Why are you looking at me funny? Mage: Well at least you're not going to die to poison... -Yes just for your info the mage rolled damn near max damage, I think he rolled three 6's a 5 and a 4. *OUCH* 2) Had a halfling rogue that didn't know the local language (the DM was a stickler for everyone sharing a common language and common wasn't an option). He had a basic understanding of the language the group knew, but could only communicate with them through grunts and signing. He managed to gesture towards the basilisk that only he spotted, and of course fails his saving throw. He was turned into a fountain for some rich noble. *Sigh*
Naeron 08-20-04, 12:31 PM	Not exactly a humiliating death more a humiliating afterlife. One of my PC's was petrified by a Gorgon, and then used as a coatrack.
Khelvaster 08-20-04, 12:42 PM	TRUE STORY: There was an arena in a drow city. The PCs had to fight to get out. There were 4 level 10 PCs. I pitted them against 4 jovocs (CR 5), and one that had a level in cleric and a wand of cure moderate wounds (CR 6). Aura of retribution=PWNAGE. They didn't figure that out untill all but the two-weapon-fighter ranger were dead. The ranger then got cornered by a cured jovoc cleric, and then got clawed to death.
memberZ 08-20-04, 12:50 PM	Death by barmaid weilding a mug of beer. Between adventures a fellow party member(all his pc's where womanizing jerks) grabed the barmaids backside as she walked by. Barmaid retaliated by swinging mug at him to drench him with beer and slap him with the mug. Dm rolled 3 20's in a row (house rule that makes that an instakill) so death by 1st level commoner with improvised weapon. Took the group over an hour to get back to playing as we were all in hysterics.
Kiri Sittori 08-20-04, 01:08 PM	Got a few. -Party in Ravenloft: Paladin, Cleric, Elf Thief, and Nelkan Stormhammer (dwarf berserker.) The party needed to rest for a bit, and some evil orb zapped the Paladin. Paladin failed the save and became Chaotic Evil instantly. So did the Cleric. So the Cleric somehow successfully charmed the Elf; and as soon as Nelkan dropped into his rage to defend himself from the new "enemies," the Elf back-stabbed him. 52 damage. No problem... dwarf fighters have great Death saves, right? I rolled a 2. :P DWARF BERSERKER KILLED BY MASSIVE DAMAGE FROM CHARMED ELF THIEF. -Evil gnome polymorphs the Hammer of Thunderbolts-wielding Hoagie Siang II (half-elf Fighter/Mage, LN) into an Orc. Hoagie survives the System Shock. Hoagie's player asks me if he can still cast, and I say yes; Hoagie casts dispell, changing back to a half-elf... and died from a failed System Shock. KILLED BY DISPELL MAGIC. -Fighter gets dropped by a big honkin' skeleton's Critical Hit (complete with injury effects from Players Option.) Wild Mage casts Alternate Reality, and chooses the skeleton's attack roll (to try to negate the crit.) The DM still rolls the crit, and then *contra the spell description* re-determines the effects of the crit. Decapitation. KILLED BY DM'S MISUNDERSTANDING OF A SPELL. And, while this one is NOT a PC death, it bears note on its own merits. -Same adventure as the Wild Mage Incident. Party encounters Lord Soth... and I, being a bit of a metagamer (and not currently involved with the adventure) looked at the DM and said "You aren't gonna..." To which the DM said "What kinda sick, sadistic fellow do you take me for?" I went upstairs to add wisdom to the Throne, returned, and there was the DM, shaking a massive double-fistful of dice. "Behold the demise of the party!!" Two characters survived: the anime-ish cleric, and an autistic fighter named Dunno (as in, don't know.) The cleric usually used Frying Pans, but decided to throw the intelligent Greatsword at Soth. CRIT. Dunno decided that that was fun, and being somewhat near Soth, grabbed the sword (upon which Soth's left arm fell off,) stepped back, and THREW THE SWORD AGAIN. CRIT. Soth couldn't take much of this abuse, having taken some damage before the Nuke Ball... and died along with his domain. (This almost killed the characters anyway, because the DM was simply gonna rule that they disintegrated with Sithicus.) RAVENLOFT DARKLORD KILLED BY SILLY-CONCEPT CHARACTERS THROWING A GREATSWORD.
masterofmayhem 08-21-04, 12:24 AM	Originally posted by fruits and vegetables Player: You all go, i will stay here and give you time to escape! Group: NOooooo! Player: You must! We will all die if you do not go now! GO! ****group saddly and reluctantly flees**** Monster: Catches up with Player. *roar* (rolls initiative and wins) Crits, kills, barely pauses and proceeds. Chases down other party members and slays them in a most gruesome method. :D :heehee :rofl: :rofl: Heh, anyway, here's mine: A) my dwarven cleric/fighter tells our NPC mage to cast a spell at the BBEG. My DM rolls randomly for the spell. He casts Meteor Swarm. Half of the spell targets me; I get incinerated. B) My Dwarven Monk, with awesome saves, rolls a one on his first save against a bodak. The ranger made 35-something saves against them. Apparently my DM doesn't like dwarves. :rolleyes: C) The party comes across a dead (again) Lich. When a party member touches the Lich's glowing sword, two people pop out of it after a flash of light. The party's sorceror makes himself look like a lich with some spell and shouts, "Get away from my brother!" He was promptly slaughtered. :rolleyes. D) The fighter slipped. He walked into a room, slipped on a patch of water, fell off the cliff, and plummeted into the river and off the waterfall. The DM actually fudged for him and brought another person's character in just then with a rope of climbing. He still died. :D E) Two characters, one of which was brought in to the campaign about an hour before, die to the breath weapon of a random red dragon out in the mountains. I have to say, though, the most embarrasing thing that could happen would be death by a commoner . . . like what memberZ posted.
DeWayne 08-21-04, 12:45 AM	Sentenced to hang by the neck until dead. To this day I have no idea WHY that idiot tried to kill a nobleman. To add insult to injury, he was captured when the nobleman's butler smacked him over the head with a club while he was digging in his backpack for a healing potion (I guess he thought the butler would stop fighting and wait for him to finish healing up).
Dragonspirit 08-21-04, 04:42 AM	And KelanenPrinceofSwords, please keep stories of sodomizing your player characters to yourself I don' t think a mention of what happened is worthy of removal to the mature boards, so long as we don't get graphic discussions (ie No details please!) :) Anyhow... my dwarven cleric/fighter tells our NPC mage to cast a spell at the BBEG. My DM rolls randomly for the spell. He casts Meteor Swarm. Half of the spell targets me; I get incinerated. Best. Death. Ever. My Dwarven Monk, with awesome saves, rolls a one on his first save against a bodak. The ranger made 35-something saves against them. Apparently my DM doesn't like dwarves. Good times, good times. The fighter slipped. He walked into a room, slipped on a patch of water, fell off the cliff, and plummeted into the river and off the waterfall. The DM actually fudged for him and brought another person's character in just then with a rope of climbing. He still died. I regret that I gave him too many chances. Otherwise, still hillarious :) Two characters, one of which was brought in to the campaign about an hour before, die to the breath weapon of a random red dragon out in the mountains. The funniest part is the sorceress would have died if she didn't roll a 19 or 20 on the save, and busted a 19. I actually feel guilt over that one (it was in the module!). But YOU lined up the characters in one nice singular row - what did you think he was going to do? Oh, you thought he was an illusion? I think you thought wrong! :) Let's see... to add to these. 1. Party's hexblade attempt to drown my character in quicksand during a fight (he was offended at an offhand comment I had made). Party's barbarian picks him up and throws him as a weapon at an enemy, criticals on a natural 20, kills the enemy and knocks out the hexblade. We revive the Hexblade, and he later tries to escape. The thief kills him. 2. Party thief sees a weapon in some mold. Takes Con damage while trying to retrieve item, but manages to make it out. Tries again to retrieve it right afterward! And yes, dies. 3. Party ranger explores by self and finds a giant lizard chained up. Does not know about reach, nor the lizards extra range with tongue, so does things in front of the lizard (searches I think). Lizard snatches him and eats him. 4. Party sorcerer fails save on bodek, dies. Dropping three delayed fireballs, and killing the Cleric. This is when the dwarf of MoM opens his eyes, and dies. This was all following the death of the ranger. 5. Party HalfOrc Barbarian dies of old age. That is all. ::Considers #4 and #5 are rather recent, so it might be a bit early to joke about it:: ::Reconsiders that since I'm an... not an... THE evil DM, that it is my job to pour salt in that open wound!:: [In all truth, I don't like it when PCs die. But good campaigns are always evolving, and part of that is characters come and they go. So joking about it can take some of the edge off]
masterofmayhem 08-21-04, 01:03 PM	Originally posted by Dragonspirit Best. Death. Ever. Good times, good times. I regret that I gave him too many chances. Otherwise, still hillarious :) :mad: :nonono: Originally posted by Dragonspirit But YOU lined up the characters in one nice singular row - what did you think he was going to do? I asked where everyone wanted their characters, and everyone ignored me! Luckily for me, though, I was just out of range.:D Originally posted by Dragonspirit 5. Party HalfOrc Barbarian dies of old age. That is all. That was so cheap. My half-orc barbarian ruler of a city dies at the old age of 40. . . . . :nonono:
Lothian Claw 08-22-04, 06:06 AM	Back in the 2e.. I had made up a character called DC. He was a Fighter with some level's behind him. My brother, was a Elf ranger. The DM was playing some bad trick's on us. ( Ira, the elf ranger, had a family enemy, that was half elf, half Drow, sucker knew some illusion spell's too..) Well, While the elf ranger and the human fighter were in the middle of a kingdom battle, this half elf, half drow decided to show his face.. on the DC. While DC was having some down time in his tent, he was looking in the mirror for some off reason. Ira happened to walk by and glance in. He saw the enemy half elf, half drow in the reflection of the mirror. HE WENT APE HUNGRY!. He shot (Ira shot DC) point blank range, with a +1 arrow, I think, in the back of the head. :b: No save's, nothing. The next thing the DC knew.. he's playing some pocker in the heavon's with the DM's character.. waiting to be resurected.. Talk about some low stuff.. Ira, and DC fought nonstop from that point on. Ira and DC never really liked each other.. It all started while they were dungeon crawling.. DC started rambling off about nothing. Ira smacked DC in the head, and told him to shut up.. Dc didn't like that.. and that's where it all began. DC is now a Chaotic regular in most of all of our ( Mine, DM's, and sometime's my cousin's) session's. He is well known for being eratic. His best story is when he got into a gun fight, he won but felt it was an unfair fight.. while standing over the wounded opponent.. DC reloaded his gun, shot himself in the leg, limped back to where he was.. and asked that the duel start over.
Lothian Claw 08-22-04, 06:09 AM	Back in the 2e.. I had made up a character called DC. He was a Fighter with some level's behind him. My brother,( Known as Tifvus on these boards) was a Elf ranger. The DM was playing some bad trick's on us. ( Ira, the elf ranger, had a family enemy, that was half elf, half Drow, sucker knew some illusion spell's too..) Well, While Ira and DC were in the middle of a kingdom battle, this half elf, half drow decided to show his face.. on DC. While DC was having some down time in his tent, he was looking in the mirror for some off reason. Ira happened to walk by and glance in. He saw the enemy half elf, half drow in the reflection of the mirror. HE WENT APE HUNGRY!.He shot (Ira shot DC) point blank range, with a +1 arrow, I think, in the back of the head. :b: No save's, nothing. The next thing the DC knew.. he's playing some pocker in the heavon's with the DM's character.. waiting to be resurected.. Talk about some low stuff.. Ira, and DC fought nonstop from that point on. Ira and DC never really liked each other.. It all started while they were dungeon crawling.. DC started rambling off about nothing. Ira smacked DC in the head, and told him to shut up.. Dc didn't like that.. and that's where it all began. DC is now a Chaotic regular in most of all of our ( Mine, Tifvus's, The DM's, and sometime's my cousin's) session's. He is well known for being eratic. His best story is when he got into a gun fight, he won but felt it was an unfair fight.. while standing over the wounded opponent.. DC reloaded his gun, shot himself in the leg, limped back to where he was.. and asked that the duel start over. ( I appologize.. My computer is on the fritz.. one second nothing is there.. the next.. 2 show up. *sigh* I hate lanline..)
Regwon 03-27-05, 06:23 PM	Gobbo the lvl3 Gobiln fighter was so heroic he could have been epic. he defeated hordes of halberd weilding guards, fourght off giant bats, beat up a Dijnni, was swallowed by a purple worm but managed to crawl back up its throat and summersault out of its mouth. dear gobbo did all of thid withough gaining exp or getting any items. how did this great character finally cop it? while fighting a 7 headed hydra gobbo was unconsious on the floor. the wizard of the group used a rod of wonder at the hyrda which summoned an elephant. the elephant (quite surprisingly) killed the hyrda and then proceded to sit down to rest...right on top of poor gobbo. and then theres this... the party were chained up and awaiting ritual execution by demon. the rogue escape at the last mnute and tries to tumble away from the demon. he gets a 1 for his roll and backflips right into the demons open maw.
Dotac 03-27-05, 06:40 PM	the party sets up camp for the night, they arrange themselves to sleep, rather close together (as is the norm) and set a watch. The watch fails a few spot and listen checks, (the dc's were pretty hi anyway) DM: "you here a very loud, almost squishy thud, as a body falls to the ground in the middle of your camp. Everyone make a fort save dc 15." The party rolls their saves, the sorceror fails. party: "what happened" DM: "you all take 20 d6 damage, fort saves for half" sorc: "oh god, i'm so dead" DM rolls damage, sorc is in fact dead. party: "what the heck happened" DM: "you walk over to the thing that fell out of the sky, you see what's left of a Jovoc, in flight goggles with a scarf. Terminal velocity damage in an aura of retribution sucks, don't it" :schemes:. "You should all be glad he didn't make his percent roll to summon another jovoc on the way down."
Meshakhad 03-27-05, 07:57 PM	My eye doctor told me about this one (I had brought in the MM for reading, and we started chatting). He was an epic cavelier. He was flying around on his griffon mount, when he meets a dragon. So, he fights the dragon. Dragon uses breath weapon on him. The good news was, he survived. The bad news was, his mount got fried. The REALLY bad news was that he was about a mile off the ground.
AramilWindwalker 03-27-05, 09:32 PM	We have an orc fighter who runs down an obviously fire trapped hallway because the necromancer offered him 10gp to do it. he does, and survives, although quite scorched. Then the swashbuckler runs down the hallway, the DM asks the Orc "do you want to stay there?" Yes he replied and we had Orc flambe, on the bright side the necromancer got his money back. Not a death but still funny. A truly unfortunate ninja we had had just climbed up a wall, then the necessity for a fort svae vs stinky troglodyte takes place. He fails and then fails the climbs check to stay on the wall. he falls down into a pool of his own vomit mixed with the floor slime. :D
The Voice of Sauron 03-27-05, 11:07 PM	Our group has had a number of humiliating deaths, most of which involved Wish spells... For example, the PCs are travelling across a desert. One day, while they're standing in a narrow canyon with a shallow stream at the bottom, one of them gets worried about their water supply. Out comes the Ring of Wishes; "I wish we had more water," the player says... DM: You hear a rumble in the distance. As you look upstream, you see a vast wall of water rushing down the canyon towards you. Get out new character sheets. If you think that's bad, six months later someone wished for more food. Enter a stampeding herd of bison. Another time, a player wished for a fortress. He was instantly killed when a castle literally fell out of the sky and landed on him.
Deekin 03-28-05, 02:10 AM	I think the most humiltating char death in my group happend during my Arcanum game. FOr those of your that are not familar with Arcanum, it is sort of a steampunk/ high fantasy game. One of the most imprtant facts in Arcanum is the Magic+technoligy=BAD. One of the part members is a Inventor, (a homebrew class) and is all exicted becouse he just build wat is eqivelent of a rocket Laucher. He is all exited about blowing somthing up, however they happen to be hunting Will-o-the-wisps in a magic forest. He spots what he thinks to a wisp up ahead, amound some glowing trees. The encounters goes as follows Player 1: I heft out my Fire Launcher and sight it on the wisp. Player 2: arn't you going to check the aimbent Magic Levels, the tree are glowing. PLayer 1: Horribly missis knowlage: Nature Check: Nah, glowing trees are normal around here. Player 2: Ok, just be to be safe, i move 30 ft away from Player 1. Player 1: can I shoot the dam thing Alrady! Dm: Yes PLayer: I blast the dam thing! DM: The Fire Launcher Makes a bad noise, Make an Aura save( to see if his TEch aura can overcome the magic) Player 1: Crap, a 1. DM: :) The rocket explodes inside the barral, make a reflex Save PLayer 1: Rolls a 2 :OMG! DM: graps 5d6, rolls,: You take X damage and the Explosion from the rocket tringers the the other 4, make four more Reflex saves. PLayer 1: Passes 3, then rolls a one. Dm: Grabs 20d6, then asks player: How much Dynomite do you have in your backpack? PLayer 1: :tantrum: 20 sticks Dm: :smirk: The explosin from the Rocket Laucher sets Player 1 Backpack on fire, and that explodes also, Player 2 make a Ref Save Player 1: well, I am a cloud of ash. PLayer 2: Monk WIth evasion: Rolls a Twenty :) Dm: As Player Onbe becomes a 40ft wide smoking Crater, you narroly dive behind a tree. YOu See bits of scrap metal flying by like bullets. To this day, people still speak of the great explosion in the Glittering Forest
Alcari Ambaron 03-28-05, 08:11 AM	The party was fighting on an airship, battling a group of boarders. The fighter gets bullrushed by one of them and decides to back up, of the ship while falling he shouts up:"dont worry i have a ring of featherfall" out comes the rogue: "you mean this one?"
woozygremlin 03-28-05, 01:06 PM	Occured while I was DMing a solo adventure for a new player (his character was a 1st level wizard). DM: Ok as you're climbing the stairs... Player: Ummm shouldn't I make a climb check or something. DM: uhh sure go ahead. Player: (rolls natural 1). What happens? DM: You... fall down the stairs I guess, roll a six sider... No! thats an 8 roll the cube shaped one! Player: rolls 6. Thankfully, I was able to talk him into playing again, still a little wary of stairs though.
Witchblade 07-16-06, 11:48 AM	OK, time to get this thread back alive. :) Most Humiliating PC Death The party, consisting of an orc archer, a human barbarian, an elven bard, and a human favoured soul, was investigating an abandoned warehouse. They had been tipped that a band of thugs used the building as their command centre. They had searched the entire building except the basement... Rashnar, the party's macho orc, smashed the door leading to the completely dark basement. He then walked down the stairs ahead of the group, unaware of the slimy creature hanging above him. "What are you waiting for, pussies?" he said and at the same moment the slimy creature dropped on him, biting him in his shoulder. The 6,7ft tall orc's resilience proved ineffective against the poisonous attack of the slimy opponent and the orc froze. Before anyone could react, the slimy assailant jumped up to the orc's neck and decapitated him. The rest of the group, seeing that their strongest member had been slaughtered in less than 6 seconds, fled and ran off. The slimy creature was a dire maggot. The party was 7th level... --- What happened in game terms: - orc failed spot check, rolling a 3. - orc got hit and failed fortitude save against the paralyzing poison, rolling a 2. - orc got hit by a coup de grace and failed his fortitude save, rolling a 5.
Coven 07-16-06, 12:11 PM	Sunless Citidel: Coup de grace by the evil druid's frog animal companion at the end, everyone else survived but that one person. Forge of Fury: The players finally able to storm into the stronghold with a 100ft ravine with a rope bridge going across with orcs at the other side. During combat the orcs had cut one half of the rope bridge down and after combat everyone was crossing when 2 players rolled a 1 on their balance and slipped off the rope bridge into their deaths. They quickly learned the value of taking 10 since. There were other deaths in that adventure, such as the whole party feeding a nest of stirges, the stirges were fat by the end of that encounter and the players quickly agreed they do not like stirges. That adventure still ranks #1 in the amount of PCs I killed in a single adventure. Oh yeah the dragon killed everyone in the end. Speaker of Dreams: So, the party being half evil wants to loot the temple of Pelor after the mayor condemns them as criminals. After clearing the rest of the temple of evil beings they run across a tiefling cleric who wore Hextor's symbol on his breastplate. The most powerful fighter int he group being a woreshipper of Hextor stayed out of the fight and watched as the cleric started to drop the party one by one eventually it came down to just him and wizard who was out of spells and the wizard hits the cleric with his dagger finally taking him down. The fighter then calls out "Glory to Hextor!" and lays waste to the last of whats left of the party, takes one of his dead former ally's healing potions and cures the evil tiefling cleric. Interesting way to wrap up that adventure. Standing Stones: The party killed the surviving wild elves, killed the leaders of the village and left the villagers who don't know what to do to starve to death, found the remains of the ghost paladin but never though to put him to rest. I don't know if it counts but everyone but the PCs died in that adventure. Heart of Nightfang Spire: By the end I only had two players that night so I scaled the last encounters down to be more appropiate for them. But the rogue lasted about 6 seconds aginast the vampire sorceror at the end. Caste darkness the rogue runs out to where the vampire was waiting and kills the rogue with phantasmal killer, the fighter ran the opposite way and played a waiting game.. with an immortal vampire and they never figured out he had certain rooms keyed to a scrying mirror ("so thats what those carvings on the floor we keep seeing mean"). So he tries to leave the tower and go back to town to heal his wounds, so the vampire follows while invisible of course doing his wand of lightening thing all the while. The fighter gets tired of lightening bolts raining down from an invisible enemy and stands his ground waiting for the invisible spell to wear off, but by the time that happened he was pretty much dead. Deep Horizon: No PC deaths.... yet. Having that out of the way i really don't kill them as often as it sounds... really. The players have a good time.
Draconian220 07-16-06, 12:59 PM	I ran a game a few weeks ago were i had a player drown... in a little under 1 foot of water. :confused:
Verdauga 07-16-06, 06:28 PM	What is theBBEG, I'm sorry but I don't remember that term from DMing 1st Edition (and I looked for links in sigs but didn't see any) I have to guess Big Bad Evil Guy, but please enlighten me on this. (It's driving me mad, and you don't want me to kill players over this, do you? DO YOU?! :angel: )
Witchblade 07-16-06, 07:17 PM	What is theBBEG, I'm sorry but I don't remember that term from DMing 1st Edition (and I looked for links in sigs but didn't see any) I have to guess Big Bad Evil Guy, but please enlighten me on this. (It's driving me mad, and you don't want me to kill players over this, do you? DO YOU?! :angel: ) This is not the right place to ask this, but it means Big Bad Evil Guy as you guessed. OT: A friend of mine also had a humiliating PC death. A Wild Mage wanted to cast Detect Magic, but instead casted Fireball. He was in a 10x10ft room. :D
albinomonkeyking 07-17-06, 02:58 AM	The first one was a death the DM decided to take back, (he determined it was a joke gone too far, and he didn't want me to have any less fun) I made a Kensai with aspirations to be a king, and if possible, a god. The god bit came from his cohorts having insanity cast on him and thinking me a god, not his master. So my character got it into his head that he should never die, that would be fitting for a king and god. (True rez and such existed I just thought it would be fun to role-play) My brother brings up to the DM the idea of an epic commoner and how amusing it is. The DM and my brother head off to make this secret commoner named Herbery Levy. While traversing a labyrinth, a four day ordeal, we are attacked in the night by the now 50 year old epic commoner Herbert Levy, a wannabe adventurer who entered the maze some 30 years earlier and lost his friends, his way out, and eventually his sanity. While sleeping the DM rolls randomly for who he will attack, me. He fights with a scythe from the farmland he originally owned, and attempts a coup de grace. I roll a 2 (a 1-2 were the only way I could fail) and tell him, well, I'm dead. After getting over the initial laughter the DM graciously allows me a second roll, which I make. The second comes from a game I ran with a some-what friend of mine who is the worst cheater I have ever met. Not because he hides it poorly, because he criticals nearly every hit, makes every save, and does damage that just cannot be real (I meticulously check sheets beforehand to ensure everyone has not miscalculated) While entering the lair of a dragon they must first deal with his slaad minions, 6 blue slaads and a death slaad. The death slaad has a very interesting one time casting of implosion. Knowing this character cheats all the time, but finding it amusing should he not choose to cheat this one time, I cast it on him. (I normally do not use instant death spells) He actually allows the 3 he rolls, and I have to tell him through my laughter that he has just sucked into nothingness. He was pretty furious.
mlasater 07-17-06, 07:33 AM	The most humiliiating character deaths I have ever seen was in a Rolemaster game. We had a huge party (like 10 characters). We run into undead spell caster & minions. The spellcaster incapacitates the wizard in the second rank. No biggie, except she has a contingency fireball set to go off on himself if he is incapacitated. :uh-huh: Fireball goes off and takes out (among others) the fighter-mage in the front rank. Turns out he has contingency plasma cone set to go off on the person who incapacitates him. So it goes off and hits the entire party. Instant TPK. To add insult to it all, those players continued to insist their contingencies were good ideas - what were they thinking. :confused: The other isn't a character death, but still is funny. I was playing a high level pick up game on vacation (1st edition AD&D). We had been fighting through a dungeon and got to the BBEG and his minions (a high level Drow Cleric and a high level Drow Wizard among others). The fight is going along and I shoot the priestess with a poisoned crossbow bolt and another character runs up to the wizard and uses his scarab of insanity. Both bad guys roll 1s on their saving throws and are taken out. (No fudging, the DM rolled the dice on the table out in the open). After the players stopped laughing, the combat proceeded. Somewhere in there we got hit with an unholy word which left my character stunned, so I got to watch the rest of the battle in awe. Despite having lost his minions the lich was pounding the party into the ground (with spells). So the bard gets the bright idea to tackle the lich and hold him down (1st edition bard, so tons of hit points). He succceds and so tells the rest of the party, he's got him helpless so take him out. The remaining party proceeds to cast every area effect spell they have left - hitting the lich and the bard. Despite his "friends" best efforts the bard survived and the lich didn't but he have words with them afterwords. :nonono:
Tormsskull 07-17-06, 10:16 AM	PCs find a book of evil origin. An evil NPC is trying to get it from the party, and they discover it is a book of great power. If someone studies the book and learns its secrets, they can take levels in an evil PrC that is basically a spellcaster who can draw upon Darkmatter to power his spells (and add some special effects). Unfortunently reading the book requires a Will save. Failure deals Wisdom & Constitution damage, 1d6 points each. The party discovered the book in the hands of a skeleton, its pages open. It looked like the skeleton died reading it. One of the PCs decides he really wants the powers this book gives, and tries to read it. Fails the first save, tries again, fails, and then tries a third time (now with his Wisdom score terribly low he has virtually no chance) and fails again. With his con score now at -2, his body transforms into a skeleton holding the book.