Post/Author/DateTime	Post
rbrt_Spade 03-19-05, 12:41 PM	Post how many of yours of died- prevent this make them a lich
Sarella Starshine 03-19-05, 01:17 PM	i have yet to have any of my characters i played die. i have left games and effectively have my characters retire several times though :)
Xaktsaroth 03-19-05, 02:41 PM	Every character I've ever had. Not that I'm a crappy player, but because my DM runs a DM vs. PC kind of campaign. :P
Mnky 03-19-05, 03:22 PM	6. 4 died the first time the party ran into an encounter invloving trolls. 2 the second time they encountered trolls. Since then they haven't run into any more trolls.
SOKAR 03-19-05, 03:35 PM	My ranger died just last night... Sniff... but we were right out side a REALY big city, so maybe we can find a cleric... or someone who knows where to find a cleric.
Aricandor 03-19-05, 03:52 PM	Hmm.. I have only lost one PC, and it was like... Forever ago... Since then I've only been DM and managed to kill 43 player characters so far, in little over a year. Yep, I'm proud. :D
Begle1 03-19-05, 04:06 PM	It is a bad sign when you keep track... My group always plays like a SWAT team. Scout before hand, boost yourself up as much as possible, put wounded guys in the rear, heal as soon as possible, search every room we enter as soon as possible, heavy use of illusionary magic in order to avoid combat as much as possible. We have very few PC deaths, and we aren't exactly unchallenged either. We're just sneaky little gnomes that use the heck out of ambushes and illusions and always try to fight on on our own terms...
Worguron 03-19-05, 04:22 PM	1. Poor little Warlock, smashed under the club of an angry Hill Giant while trying to protect the unconscious party Sorceror. Funnily enough, I have had a total of 1 character thus far.
Mirikon 03-19-05, 04:33 PM	5. 1. Wizard who, at low levels, going between Luskan and Silverymoon with a ranger, ran across a group of Winter Wolves in a random encounter. Very dead. 2. Wizard who, in mid levels, decided to solo against a pair of giants. Poor guy got crushed by a rock. 3. Sorcerer, got knocked down into negatives, stabilized at -7, was being flown away by the half-fey, when half-fey got knocked down to 0, dropped the sorcerer, and sorcerer took 2d6 falling from 20 ft up. 4. Wizard who made the mistake of getting into melee. Went from full to -28 in one round. 5. Warlock, fighting kobold sorcerer at low levels. Crit Scorching Ray to the face.
BloodGod 03-19-05, 06:26 PM	One. Cleric of Pelor. Met up with 6 Death Knights. Critically failed his fortitude. That group was very DM vs PC. Considering that my cleric got killed, I made a healer, and got it petrified. All in one session. I got de-petrified, though. -BG
Chandaroon 03-19-05, 09:15 PM	I've had characters vindictively killed by mean spirited DM's. And I've had characters die through my own stupid play. As a DM Iv'e never intentionally killed a PC. To me, that's not why I play D&D. I'm not power tripping over my players. I was taught this lesson the hard way. I had a 9th level Fighter/Paladin 2nd Edition. He had gone on a very lucrative and long adventure. He met his wife, rescued his friend's brother, killed the Lich (with help) and took his share of the treasure built a keep and retired. I dusted him off to play in a 3rd Edition game that a friend was starting that needed to have higher level PC's. 2 days into gaming our party was jumped by 3 - 14th level black knights. My character was singled out for execution. Since I was the Paladin of the group, the Black Knights ganged up on me first, taking hits from the other members of my party While they only swung on me. I was killed. I realized at that moment, because my feelings were hurt, that I would never go after anybody's PC due to out of game crap. So I just DM'ed for a while. As the other DM killed people off they came to play in my game. If you die in my campaign it is because you chose to do something stupid like stand and fight the Lich in his own home. Sometimes it is aparent that you are supposed to run away. Don't blame the DM for your own mistakes. That's my Character death story. I've had others, but that was the one that affected me the most. Death of a PC is something that everyone should endure at one time or another. It'll make you a better player. :)
Pyriel 03-19-05, 09:55 PM	first campaign i was ever really involved in, i lost my epic druid...yes my first campaign was an epic one, not the best choice. we finally got to the main battle after a bunch of skirmishes, we ended up fighting an army of 10k against our measly 2k...we were dominating the troops with my earthquakes and of course we had some serious wizard NPC's that the dm decided to through in for his amusement, one of which being Bigsby himself, and the BBEG went after me when i was off casting spells from afar. I escaped and went and found our troll hero being burned to death i saved him and turned into a dragon and flew off with him trying to escape the BBEG that was flying after me, he was an infernal, and he did something and i ended up trying to throw our troll to get him somewhere safe so he could hide and escape...and i ended up crashes through a bunch of trees while i only hade like 10 hp left and took a lot more from that falling through the trees flying at full speed. i felt really bad afterwards becuz i started really getting used to my character and was learning some cool tricks...turns out, now the BBEG is now a diety and its becuz we got our $#!% rocked.
warlock_of_the_blue_order 03-19-05, 10:31 PM	i have had one character die, but it was my own fault. lets just say i pulled a stupid.
Koofoo95 03-19-05, 10:47 PM	about three, but most due to the DM trying to kill, for instance my last characters death was from an iceberg landing on him....
75RD Drum Clip 03-19-05, 11:04 PM	In my 17 years of gaming I cant even remember them all. It has to be a couple hundred or so.
Dartanel 03-19-05, 11:21 PM	19 yrs of gaming: 3 died outright. One jumped on his evil wizard father just as he fired a wand of lightning. One was in a mechwarrior campaign where an enemy mech jumped behind him. One was bitten in half by a half-sized terrasque. 1 sorta died when the dimension collapsed on him at the end of a tournament adventure. 2 died and got over it. One had a habit of heroically throwing his life away, and his party had a habit of tossing +6 items or selling their souls into eternal servitude to solars to get him true ressurected. One was brought to - hit points and was using die hard to keep himself up to heal when a Marilith appeared out of nowhere and full attacked him before his turn came up. Back up next round thanks to psionic revivify.
Rhomdruil 03-20-05, 03:26 AM	17 years of gaming and I have lost soooo many characters it becomes hard to count. Most are for worthy causes, others blind stupidity...occasionally evil DMs. This current campaign alone I think my body count is 9...the rest of the party is level 8. Words to live (or die) by, "Don't fear character creation!" Rhomdruil
Aricandor 03-20-05, 04:41 AM	It is a bad sign when you keep track... I know. It was at the player's request really. Then they want some kind of bonus if they get to be number 50.. :nonono:
Kalanth 03-20-05, 04:55 AM	Lets see. . . . I believe that the number would be 4. Not many compared to the number that I have played, but that has a lot to do with the fact that I like to play the thinking man style of combat.
Callista 03-20-05, 06:49 AM	None. *sigh* My DMs are entirely too easy on me. Half the problem? Every single PC in our campaign is overpowered. The worst one, a level 10 ranger, recently did 105 damage in a single round. Even my character (see below) is actually ECL 13 thanks to a Gold Dragon bloodline (10 character levels, +3 ECL from Gold Dragon) the DM assigned me and did not make me pay for (in bloodline levels). Then there's the two fighters with 30+ AC, one of them with a +2 Keen Mercurial Greatsword, that the DM keeps on having his monsters attack despite the fact that 90% of the time they don't hit, and there's usually a nice lightly-armored target nearby. Even the two of us who don't powergame, and the one who powergames badly, are overpowered thanks to those bloodlines. That and people who specialize in crafting items out of monster skins--since when did slippers made out of shadow mastiff hide give you a +4 to Move Silently? And since when is there no XP penalty associated with creating a magical item because you made it out of a magical creature? And what is a 10th level character doing (yes, the Ranger again) with a Dexterity of 26 and no other stat below 14? The DM has yet to actually have monsters use the same brutal tactics we use. We go for the spellcasters first (well, actually, the two rogues do, since we can tumble to the back to get at them); and our own spellcasters can count on one hand how many times they've been targeted, even by extremely intelligent enemies. If you have low HP, you're pretty much safe from my DM, whether you're a fighter who's been hit a couple of times, or a rogue or spellcaster who has low HP to start with. We have not yet been hit with rogues who will tumble and flank like our two rogues do. And if I've seen a dragon played with an INT anywhere over 12, despite what its actual stat is, I'll eat my +1 Holy Rapier. Oh, yeah... did I mention our character wealth is something like three times the recommended for the level? *sigh* Now, I don't object to high powered campaigns where you need all that "uber" stuff to get by... but when it gets so ridiculous--large party, overly wealthy, overly powerful--that you walk all over the monsters... and when your DM refuses to go for the jugular, ever... and when your real party ECL is something like a 14 and you're fighting CR 10s, and all the DM has given them is more HP... it gets a little annoying. That Ranger I mentioned? Half the time, he just rolls to see if he critically fails. Everything else hits. My Rogue only gets to do that when she's used up a turn to UMD a scroll of True Strike... I like feeling like I'm in danger... because it means what I do matters. If I have to die a couple of times, so what?
Dhar Sedai 03-20-05, 11:43 AM	Both my chars has died... The first was an asimaar (spelling?) sorc...While we were in a dungeon, we were chased by a big moster, we had little HP, and we were supposed to jump over a trapdoor...I rolled BAD and had -2 in strength modifier:'( He fell down and didn't get up again alive...When we were rescurectiong him, we found a cleric who could rez, but it could be as a new race...I became a tryglodyte...That was the last we saw of that sorc:P My other char was a female Psionic Elan. We were at a Drow camp. Our vampire had just gone into a trapped tent (infict light wounds) and gotten healed because he was undead. Our Goliath went after and lost 3 HP(and healed the vamp). The Dwarf went in and made Both Dwarf and Goliath lose 4. I went in (they told me not to). All lost HP. They were mad at me and the Goliath threw me out. I went in again, and all lost more hp...They were really mad at me, took me outside, and raped me (I wasn't popular at the party, 8cha:P). WHen I woke up afterwards, I went down a stairway because I was so sad and such, met a sceletal masticore or something and died. no one to rez me:'( Both was partly my fault, and I wont blame the DM...:P
Maerdash 03-20-05, 01:27 PM	in 13 years of playing ALOT, but strangely most have been like my favorite wizard of all time Storm 2nd level wiz/1st level ftr killed a 20th level mage through dumb luck then died the next game session when he pushed the dwarven barbarian out of a lightningbolts path to protect him he took the damage and hit like -26 hp in the process :D
MattHawk 03-20-05, 03:12 PM	1+ year of gaming, several months of that running multiple characters (all my friends seem to have decided they wanted to DM their own campaign after we played our first one together, and couldn't say no to any of them when they asked me to play), I've had one death - My druid got death attacked by an assassin polymorphed into a squirrel. Rolled a 3 on the save.
Lia Nightdemon 03-20-05, 03:21 PM	Most of my characters have died. When I first started The first two compaigns we lost (all PC's died) Then I won two in a row (Though in one of them my character died alone but then was an undead) Since I started Onlining alot of my characters only played in one game and most of the other players are crazy powergamers and theres quite often evil PC's that kill everyone. Most campaigns wouldn't last more then a few hours. Such as my sorcerer that was hit by a poisoned dart that did 10 Con damage and then anouther 9 after.
Alcari Ambaron 03-20-05, 03:41 PM	in 2,5 years of gaming 17 character deaths. ( i never throw away a character sheet :P) the most memorable were: level 7 paladin died while valiantly defending a breach in the city wall from a horde of horde of enemies while the population escaped. level 5 illusionist/ 3 rogue died valiantly running from a monster in a dungeon and fell in the pittrap we jumped across to get in there. level 13 ranger fell from an airship in a magic-induced blizzard....(over 1200 ft auch... equipment recoverd from a snowy crater) level 3 druid eaten by assasin vine. level 6 fighter died when leading a charge(riding) against some "unprotected" rabble, who then picked up their looooong spears from the high grass, all the knights died. (DM just saw Braveheart. GRRR) and as i DM i have never killed a character that could not be revived. (some chars have died, but due to their own lack of tactics/ lack of thinking/ stupidity/ cursed D20's/ misjudging size of Fireballs(4 deaths...)
rbrt_Spade 06-23-05, 05:23 PM	i have now brot this thread from the dead......
Callista 06-23-05, 06:31 PM	One serious long-term PC, and a half-dozen or so that lasted less than a session, before I got the hang of their strategy. And the long-term one got rezzed, so no problem there :P So you propose lichdom for those who would avoid death, hmm? I wonder what my Pelor-worshipping Ranger with Favored Enemy: Undead would think of that! *EDIT* I was just looking at an earlier post on this thread, in which I'm annoyed that none of my PCs have yet died because my DMs are too easy on us... and, you know, I was right back then: D&D is much more exciting when death is a real possibility.
Halo_Light 06-24-05, 06:13 PM	ranger died and was brought back. then he was hit with finger of death and he didnt get back up after that. but i have retired 2 or 3 characters due to getting bored.
Chaotica Maxima 06-24-05, 06:36 PM	Well..... I'll just let my sig speak for itself. Thats my body count so far. Though I have retired two characters too, due to the campaigns ending.
snowlynx 06-24-05, 10:20 PM	Let's see... Had one character killed by an adult brown dragon. I think I was level 4 at the time. (The DM said the fight should be easy because we were all so well equipped. He didn't mean 'easy for the dragon' but that's just the way it was.) One character died in a duel. (Character knew he couldn't win it, but was honorbound to fight in it.) One character died in a fight with orcs. I didn't keep this character, as everyone decided 'rogue' equals 'thief', and it becomes hard to play a character when the other characters are fixated on the fact that you're a 'thief' and you haven't earned the title. One character died at character prelude, because it was part of the background story, but that doesn't count! Had one character killed by a vengeful DM, who was mad at me for killing off his DMPCs in-game. I don't think that counts either.
kam_Islash 06-24-05, 10:40 PM	Mine dies frequently. We're epic level so we can get true rez at our local drugstore nowadays. ///
solbergb 06-24-05, 11:09 PM	Hm, over all time? 1st edition D&D...illusionist L4 (vampire, is probably still a thrall of it to this day), paladin L5 (mind flayer brain-rip holding it off so party could escape), Dwarf L2 (smothered locked into airless cubicle to avoid army of skeletons..one of which used to live in the cubicle and had a +1 sword that I could have used for my long overdue L3 training...yes I am still bitter), Paladin L1 (attacked a mounted warrior), Fighter (with two 18's and a 15 rolled on 3d6! L1....sahaguin crossbow bolts...oldschool cuthroat D&D was risky in the low levels). None of those guys were brought back from the dead. Once we got out of the baby levels I don't remember any of mine needing a raise, but I only played 2 campaigns that went beyond level 6...I mostly DM'd. Top secret was rather hard on characters, I remember 3 deaths in about 5 characters. Gunshots each and every one. Champions/Hero system doesn't really kill characters unless they want to die Traveller, ditto. Medical emergencies in high tech environments mean you don't usually die unless your entire ship blows up. I had quite a few "slap him in cold sleep and transport him to a high tech planet" incidents though. Shadowrun - my friends died all around me. But all of my various characters survived. Feng Shui - like Champions, you have to really work at it to die. Amber - my one long-running character was first in war, second in strength and the guy who was first in strength died. I was also first in bad-stuff. But he did survive to work through some of it. White Wolf - neither my entropy mage nor my baby-vampire-assassin who works by blowing up the entire buildings protecting his rivals from sunlight died. But the latter was almost a one-shot. The former...had a long weird run. Ars Magica - I mostly was the GM. Some of my grogs died, and a companion died of old age, but none of the wizards quite died. D&D 1st ed reprise. The BBEG in Tomb of Horrors got my wizard, after managing to get through the whole thing without any party member deaths. We did recover the soul though, and made her a new body. My char in the other campaign did a "well, I'm at 1hp, about to be sacrificed but actually didn't get paralyzed by the hold person cast in the prison cell. The leadership has been killed by our thief before he was caught so these guys are second stringers...I wonder what will happen if I use my only spell left and do "Command -Feed" on the Troll? It will certainly be a more fun way to go than just lying here." Yes, Serena spoke troll. She was a character who adventured late in life, and had actually learned some languages using 1st ed rules. And I will never know if the troll really failed his save. :) It was certainly a great excuse for it to rip the sacrificing priest in half...the Trolls weren't thrilled with their prior casualties nor with the leadership of the second-string. Not speaking troll, the rest of the bad guys had no idea why the troll went crazy, and a free-for-all erupted between the humans and their troll thugs. The trolls won. Sometimes being a priest of Rao, god of negotiation, peace reason and serenity has its moments. D&D 3.0 - my illusionist got killed in a long pursuit by a greataxe. She had been the only party member who escaped capture and was attempting a rescue, but botched it and didn't get quite far enough away to rest and get more spells, then failed the escape from her secure shelter. Weirdly, she got raised, mainly because our party diplomat won over most of her captors after a lot of effort. D&D 3.5 - my monk got killed doing his job at point as "lets spring the monster with Burke as bait". Usually he can get away, this time he got outgrappled. He was actually rescued but the party got into a major death spiral with the rescuers getting grabbed and needing rescuing. Burke could have escaped but saved the party cleric from certain death, and was thus standing there at 7hp for the last monster to crush him. The party did manage to keep it from swimming off with his body. We should have used our magic to scout, but we got sloppy at the end of a long day. That's it. My other guys have all managed to stay alive one way or another.
Quarterstaff 06-25-05, 11:34 AM	ive had 1 die recently Tattoed monk who crossed the church of Seric in a Faerun campain. he was attacked in his sleep by 5 fighters 3 rougues and Cleric. i killed all the rogues 2 of the fighters and the cleric before he died. that was awesome.
monkeywrench 06-25-05, 10:29 PM	We were playing a high level min/max campaign last summer... 15th level Sorcerer - came up against some grey Slaads....failed a save against Destruction. 15th level Druid - I stupidly tried to Melee against an advanced HD Elder Xorn. Got beaten down REAL bad. Most of the others I tried didn't die....but then we quit playing because nobody but one person could write up good encounters for it
Duvanok 06-26-05, 02:29 AM	10 years of gaming, also too many deaths to count. Some of my most memorable deaths: Cocky mid level paladin underestimating the rending ability of a troll. Evil Wiz/Acolyte of the skin, betrayed by the party sorcerer (PK). Mid level druid walks in to an assassin vine. :confused: Not sure what my DM was thinking on that one. Mid level wiz eaten by a giant moth. Mid level wiz "blinks" through a wall into the waiting claws of some kind of aberration. Mid level wiz critically fails tumble check, gets hit with AoO, critically fails conentration check to cast spell due to damage taken. Finds himself stuck in the line of sight of an enemy wiz, critically fails reflex save to avoid lightning bolt, falls unconscious. I didn't bother to stabalize. When you roll that bad sometimes characters just deserve to die.
alecthemad 06-26-05, 11:37 AM	In my 24 years of gaming I have had far too many characters die some where in the thirties. The deaths I remember best are: My very first character a D&D basic box thief. I tried to pick a lock (15% chance) failed and told the DM I walk away the way I came. I fell into a 10ft pit trap and died. My brothers kept playing for hours because they did not realize the cleric only got 1 cure light per day. We were playing Keep on the Borderlands (using Ad&D 1st ed rules now) with a killer DM, he ran every monster as super intelligent tactical masters of their domain. After many character deaths my paladin made it to 2nd level (woo). He led the new 1st level characters to a kobold lair. Fell into a pit trap, the rest of the party was chased off and the kobolds crossbowed me to death. 2nd ed now, I was playing a rogue with the swashbuckler kit. This DM was a killer buy somehow I managed to be the only one not to die so far. He was the captain of a ship. Another player was my half brother the idiot half elf. Well we were taking a longboat into an island when it struck a rock and got a leak. The boat sank and I had to swim. Another bad roll and I start drowning despite my good swim skill. So he drowns.