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Sareld 02-21-07, 02:43 PM	Sometimes, PCs die. Thats is a part of the game. But sometimes PCs brings unnessecary amounts of pain on themselves. This is what happened to my party the other day: The party, at first level, had decided to explore a system of subterrain caves, rumored to be the home of a huge dragon. I kept on dropping warnings of the impending danger in front of them, but as the players figured that I would never let a first level party encounter a dragon, they kept on searching the caves. I knew that there had to be a dragon around somewhere near the caves (for later in the storyline), but above all I felt encouraged by the players metagaming, so I gave in and had the players encounter an adult red dragon deep inside the cave system. Of course I wouldnt have the dragon attack the PCs, so this is what happened: Dragon: "BOO!" - Party: *Frozen in fear* - Dragon: "Ah, mortal trespassers, how amusing! Have you got any last words before I cremate you?" - Party: "...!" - Dragon: "Ah, the looks of your fragile faces are just priceless. You truly remind me how frightening awesome I am.. and I love to be reminded of just that. Now listen, I might be persuaded to let you live, but only if you can make yourselves of some use to me. A band of normadic orcs have camped half a days travel to the north, and they are beginning to drain my personal food supplies. I really cant be bothered to remove them, but if you do it for me, I will spare your lives... have we got a deal?" - Paladin: "F*** YOU, DRAGON!" - Rest of the party: "HES NOT WITH US!" - Dragon: *eats the paladin* "Now, will there be any more desertions before you get on with your task?" - Party: "No master..." Priceless. Now, have any of you had any funny PC kills lately? Please share them, you know you want to :D
tharivol266 02-21-07, 04:04 PM	well it wasnt funny but it was deff unneccissary. the party was in a cave system level 1 or 2 and in one cave there was a roper at a tunnel were they were supposed to return to later in the campaign. they attacked. the first one to get there i unloaded i full attack all subdual like and knocked him out. the roper slid the character towards the rest of the party. guess what i heard "we can kill it. Joe wouldnt throw something at us that we couldnt kill" that character got the first real hit on it and got eaten. and then from the player "good job on the pk" me: "i didnt force you to attack it and i gave you a show of its strength."
etraikov 02-21-07, 05:57 PM	Once, my party was participating in a war, and they happened to have a bank account in Sigil. They knew that the only portal to Sigil was deep in enemy territory (As in, right outside the fortress of the near invincible, Uber Artifact Toting BBEG), and that the enemy would clearly be able to detect them teleporting to the portal. The cleric even cast Divination with the question "will we be attacked if we go to the portal?", to which i responded "Yes!". So they of course, went anyways, for no other reason to "check their bank balance". Two of them died, and I thought it was really pointless.
FrostHammer 02-21-07, 07:14 PM	Dragon: "Ah, the looks of your fragile faces are just priceless. You truly remind me how frightening awesome I am.. and I love to be reminded of just that. Now listen, I might be persuaded to let you live, but only if you can make yourselves of some use to me. A band of normadic orcs have camped half a days travel to the north, and they are beginning to drain my personal food supplies. I really cant be bothered to remove them, but if you do it for me, I will spare your lives... have we got a deal?" - Paladin: "F*** YOU, DRAGON!" - Rest of the party: "HES NOT WITH US!" - Dragon: *eats the paladin* "Now, will there be any more desertions before you get on with your task?" - Party: "No master..." Priceless. I can't stop laughing at this!
Pallin Rahl 02-21-07, 07:31 PM	Not the game I'm DMing at the moment... this happened last session in the game I'm currently playing (as a PC)... This, thankfully, didn't end in an actual character death... but due to some horrible rolling on our part, it very nearly did (so I figured it's fair game to mention). We were fighting a few Achaierai (4-legged bird creatures from the MM1). They have a special attack appropriately called Black Cloud - an area-effecting damage + Insanity kinda thing. Out of curiosity, I asked our DM specifically where this "Black Cloud" emminates from. As the MM didn't specifically state where they fire it from... the DM ruled that it emminates from ...well (you guessed it) ...its "hindquarters", shall we say. (hey, why not :P ...it's good for a chuckle ;)) Thing is... between the failed saves and repeated area-effect damage... coupled with our horrible attack and damage rolls... these things were tearing us apart. We finally finished-off the final one with myself being the only PC standing and sane. Though almost dead, I was far better-off than my now-insane partner sitting in the negative hp zone. Luckily my Binder goodness paid off when I bound Buer and set to getting the party back on their feet. Though we survived... it did not go unnoticed that we nearly experienced a TPK as the direct result of what ammounted to giant-four-legged-chicken farts. ;) Note: This fits in the "unnecessary" column, as it was merely a random encounter while travelling (while we were camped for the night) and it should not have been that difficult a fight for our characters... had our rolling not been so atrocious.
Raumz 02-21-07, 07:50 PM	Well, a series of events led to a "assassin" rogue in a solo adventure I was DMing to be thrown in a jail cell, this series of events also left him pantsless(he failed miserably to assassinate a noble). So he was sitting in a cell and got an idea on how to get out. He taunted a guard untill he came up to the cell to threaten the rogue close up, the rogue grabbed him and attempted to slam him against the cell, the rogue won the roll, a nat 18 vs a nat 4. So the rogue slammed the guard senseless... Grabbing the keys he got out of the cell and took the guards sword. So at this point he is running through the dungeons below the city...still pantless. So he was able to kill a few guards using move silently. Then a series of events led to him assaulting a housewife and gimping her son. So he eventualy got out onto the street, where he was about to enter a pub (still pantless) when he saw a beggar sifting through trash in the alley. He killed the beggar and took his pants before proceeding into the bar. Sitting down at the bar he ordered an ale and started to drink. A few minutes later a large half-orc guard with a large hammer walked into the bar and walked up to the chair next to the player. He drapped his tabard over the back of the chair and sat down saying, "Wow, today was really busy...so many criminals to smash..." The player turned to him and said, "You think your day was busy? Well I'll tell you about my day, I failed to assassinate a noble who I felt like killing. I was thronw in jail without my pants. I escaped killing 4 guards on my way, assaulted a house wife and severly cut her sons legs. Then I had to kill a bum to get these pants. I think my day was worse." Needless to say the half-orc with the huge hammer was less than thrilled...
Pallin Rahl 02-21-07, 07:59 PM	... :rofl:
Fencerboy 02-21-07, 08:24 PM	This happened a good while back, when I was fairly new and inexperienced. Playing a level 15 (I had brought him up from 1st level actually...) Elf Ranger warlord. Anyhow, I was targeted by some assasins, and left (fortunately) unconcious(sp?) in the street. A Thayan slave trader icked me up, and I ended up in a prison cart headed across Faerun. Fortunately, (maybe), a hungry ogre took on the trader and somehow won. Then he somehow broke the cart. (Lucky me!!) I ended up in a worse situation, spelling from the fact that the DM was a stickler for being realistic, I took a crapload of subdual from the cart flying across a two-lane trail. It wasn't so easy to get away from the ogre... No death, but I thought it was pretty funny...
PHDrillSergeant 02-21-07, 11:56 PM	I've seen some crazy character deaths, but that's just because my game is terribly insane. For example: DM: The white dragon appears to be asleep. Party leader: We can sneak by it probably. Thief: But we might wake it up. Mage: I know! We'll cast Cone of Silence around the dragon and then walk right by! Party: OK! DM: OK, guys, before I do this, let me tell you why. Imagine you're a dragon. You're asleep and surrounded by the noise of the caves. Suddenly, ALL NOISE STOPS. What happens? Party: Uh-oh. This encounter ended with half the party being eaten. - I'm still here.
Myree 02-22-07, 02:28 AM	I've mentioned this in other posts, but hopefully no one will mind. Back in the City-State of the Invincible Overlord, the party paladin decided it was VERY unlawful for someone to be making a living in slave trade. So, he "corrected" the situation, freeing the slaves in the process, donating the ill-gotten gain to the poor, etc, before converting his business into a safe-house. It seems, though, that he just wouldn't take the hints I had kept offering, so I really had little choice left. Ya see, while slave trade WAS considered "unlawful" to him, it was NOT "unlawful" according to the Invincible Overlord. "Murdering" a tax-paying citizen, on the other hand, well, the Watch kinda frowns on that. Come on, I couldn't exactly let him get AWAY with that, could I? But if it helps, any, the long discussion he had with his diety on the other side helped him to ground his beliefs a little before someone brought him back -- using reincarnate, so he ended up the first orc paladin, if I remember right.
KurenaiYami 02-22-07, 02:47 AM	Two Psions in the woods of a crazy Wizard who created Dire animals for fun. One of the Psions has 4 hp left. Uninjured Psion: "Maybe we should rest." Injured Psion: "Nah, we don't need to rest, let's keep going." You can see where this is going.
Fend 02-22-07, 04:31 AM	Hehe this ones completely un - necessary but Killed my STAR player! Im talking someone who Walks into situations involving Volcanos and Red Dragons and doesnt Flinch to Jump down Mysterious Lava Tubes and comes out ALIVE... anyway. heres what happens. The Party discovers a Castle ruin, And searching it out find some Even more Ancient ruins bellow it. After clearing out the enitre Level They find a round room with 5 Doors all bareing Different Holy Symbols of Dwarven gods. They open a few - which are all trapped and locked - using knock and end up takeing on Squads of Dreadgaurds after realising most of the doors are Decoys... Eventually they Find the Door they couldnt knock open. Pull out an Adamantine Dagger - and Cut it Open to Reveal a Flooded Stairwell leading down bellow. Odder still, the water that floods from the open door contains Baby Leech like thingys with feelers they Dub "*****ers" The Abjuration Wizard Opts to go down. He can see in the dark. he has a Con of 20 and he can take on a Swim speed at Will - non Verbally... While everyone watches he Decends... Not to soon after scouting he Finds a Room with an Airpocket. But as he Swims for it, off 60 feet away in the Gloom he Spys 2 Aquatic Gricks Closing in on him. Takeing on his Swim Speed he Quickly Mer-dwarfs it out of there Hollering to the party about "*****ERS. BIIIIG *****ERS!" Curiosity Getting the best of him . While the Party debates weather its worth loosing anyone over a flooded dungeon - The Partys Halfling Beguiler , Rosco Pasqualli Tiddleskitch the 3rd - Dives down to take a look himself... He doesnt have the Swim speed, he has a Con of 13, and cant see in the dark... Suffice to say when he didnt return 10 minutes later, Shocked disbelife and even 2 Rescue Attempts Followed - Resulting in them baiting one of the *****ers out , killing it, and finding Bits of Rosco's kit in its Stomach contents...
FifteenthApostle 02-22-07, 04:35 AM	So my Paladin is fighting a group of Yugoloths, he gets surrounded and beaten to neg hp. DM: wow, i thought Fiend's would be the last thing that would take you down. A few sessions later, my Paladin gets shot to death by a trio of advanced Erinyes. DM: Seriously i thought Fiend's would be the last thing that would take you down. The very next session (after I got resurected). Party: okay it's decided we're going there then. DM: okay as you're walking down the road... Party: Walking? Wait why aren't we just teleporting, or wind walking like we always do whenever we travel more than two inches? DM:... you get attacked by a group of Devils. No prizes for guessing what happened.:nonono:
rubermavors 03-01-07, 03:08 PM	during the old Roots of Evil campaign our fighter decided to take the coins from the fountain in the middle of town. the statue of a knight in the fountain animates and cleaves down through his skull. the player immediately rolled a new char who decided to **** in the fountain at which time the statue took his head off with a nat 20. same player different game, decided to **** on a magic electrical wall. nuff said
MasonMurdoc 03-01-07, 03:22 PM	I can't stop laughing at this! Me neither :D
Galenraug 03-01-07, 06:19 PM	This was almost a killer, but I believe the unnecessary situation makes it worthwhile, even if it wasn't fatal; this was back when the char's in my epic campaign were middle of the road; we had an orc level 12 barb/frenzy berzerker, a nezumi level 10 wiz/blood magus, an elf level 15 ftr/rgr/ewm, and an elf 14 drd; we travel into the forest of Dymrak, upon learning that a mythol has been uncovered and is being exploited by a team of Dark Elves from Aengmar as a weapon; we assail the structure above, discover relatively little save for a large group of plant monsters that have reactively defended the forest. Now irradiated by the malfunctioning mythol, we're battling spell-warped wood woads, 3-head tendriculos', and all kinds of crazies. We make our way through the top level, clear out some giant spiders, some dark elves, and some gargoyles and harpies in the lower level, then discover a series of magical lifts and access tunnels leading down into what we discover is a dark elf settlement. We break up; the elven ftr/rgr/ewm and the elven drd go left, down into a utility storage for the access passages. The nezumi and the half-orc go right, into a series of personal quarters. The attacks on the surface and the lack of dark elves in most of the structure led us to believe the complex had been wiped clean, with only the mythol needing to be sealed up; we say (specifically to the magic-hungry nezumi and the below-averge int half -orc) "don't touch anything"; naturally, they begin going through everything; they open up personal chests, discover affects, digging tools, a useful ooze amulet for riding inside a gelatinous cube, and a curious trinket; it's a RED, fire-wave engrained locket that has the elven verse "the flame of my passion for you will be rekindled soon"; it's a pendant taken from one of the elves killed by an aengmar dark elf...and it opens from the top; so the orc overturns the locket before opening it, torch in hand; "that way the contents will be safely away from me"..:D ; a dozen small, red beads drop to the floor, passing through the torch fire; and the first thing the nezumi player says is "I get improved evasion because I have cover behind him, right?"