Worst Death Ever.
Nawen (Male Human Wizard) got his family jailed and some of us were given the option to either help him find an item or die. So there we are trotting in a dungeon and he and my character (Muagwa Female Dwarven Warrior) get into an argument. Then this idiot decides to try to cast "sleep" on me mid argument..... I resisted.... I get royally ticked and decide that I'm going to teach this little brat a lession he won't soon forget.
Since I'm about the right hight to him I call for a "punch to the 'Jimmies'"....... I roll a 20.... I do quad damage with my fist.. he fails his dodge and I punch him for 24 points of damage against his total 15 Hitpoints.
he dies...... All of this happened in the first 15 minutes of the first session.
here is his "Tombstone"
what's your best death?
Tandom Eightfingers
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Backstab means never having to say you're sorry.
Assuming this is 3rd edition from the record sheet.
1) Punches (unless you are a monk or take a -4 to hit to convert) do subdual, not normal damage
2) Punches are x2 crits, like most natural weapons, so you should be doing x2, not x4
3) Most likely he would have slept himself and had to make a save as well since sleep is an area effect spell (unless he was good enough to place the range just far enough back to hit your character but not him, I would have made him roll to do so)
4) DM probably should have let you roll initiative against him as soon as you saw him casting unless it was a quickened spell (impossible at first level)...
Re: Hmmm...
I once played a modern vampire who died cause he got a wooden surfboard shoved so far up his ass it pierced his heart.
Kintire Registered User
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(3/27/02 12:51 am) Reply
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It wasn't actually me, but a friend of mine was playing a warrior in rolemaster. The only healer in the party was one of the sort who transfer wounds to themselves and then self heal. They were in a fairly routine orc fight when one of their opponents got a horrendous overroll followed by an awesome crit, and smashed the warrior in the joy department with a morningstar, shattering his pelvis and driving his balls up into his stomach.
With the orc dead he lay on the floor writhing in hideous agony. Up sprints the healer, takes a long look and says..
'ummmmm..... no.'
My friend was GM me next day. That was grim.
Turlo Registered User
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(3/27/02 4:48 am) Reply
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I was playing a gnome illusionist who was...well, annoying...to the group. Another party member had an intelligent sword that, unknown to him, he did NOT have under control. It had a purpose to destroy wraiths. During an incident with the party, I was running away to let them cool their heads. I used wraithform to slide through the walls. The sword took control of the warrior, and pretty much annihilated me.
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Matheren Registered User
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(3/27/02 10:39 am) Reply
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I had a long-time shaman in shadowrun killed by the gm who didn't like the fact that I was playing the character. killed me with some rigger's sentry, he needed a 24 to hit me but only rolled his d6's once. blatant cheating
Math
Pearll Registered User
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(3/28/02 1:08 am) Reply
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In one of my Rifts sessions, my changling ninja killed an enemy by tripping and falling on the guy, sword facing downward.
Almost as much fun as the NPC faerie in our party that liked to play with the enemies' missiles
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I played in one campaign where the GM allowed for great criticals on a roll of 20 but horrible weapon mishaps on a roll of 1. In one case our main warrior rolled a 1, lost control of his weapon, and accidently chopped off our clerics head (I think we were all 1st and 2nd lvl at the time.)
Gees I miss the good ole days
-Aalex-
Kethaal Registered User
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(3/28/02 4:21 pm) Reply
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Playing SLA Industries I had a Sniper (the cat-like race, can't remember offhand) that was doing an awesome job providing cover fire for my gang when I get blasted in the back by a guy wielding an auto-shotgun. I was really pissed off after that. My next character was a close-combat specialist (same race) that I modeled after the character Vincent Wolfe from Pulp Fiction.
Then again, in 2nd Edition I had a 58th level warrior / cleric that I played three days a week for half a year that survived re-entry onto a planet from a spaceship. I think he prayed the whole way down. lol
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A couple that've happeend to friends:
The party was deep in a keep that was a pseudo dungeon. They were pretty battered, and on their wits end after many encounters with wraithes, ghasts, etc... So a new player is joining the group at the start of this session, and he's playing a psionisist. He decides he wants to impress the group so for his "grand entrance" he makes himself glow, and floats down through the ceiling of the room the group is in.
Needless to say, the party -- thinking he another wraith, make short work of him.
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Group had split up to explore an old estate house that had been overrun by baddies. The fighter/mage was exploring upstairs when he came into a dark room. He looked around and saw another door at the far end of it, so he creeps over and opens it up.
He see some movement in the room and decides that a pre-emptive strike is his best option. So he blasts a fireball into what just a mirror at the back of a small closet.
Always have a lightsource!
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Waaaay back when I was just starting Glip (who's now 14/15th level gnome illusionist/thief) my adventuring partner was my friend Jansan, a necromancer. Neither of us had many hit points, so we had to be careful with fights. We always tried to win without actually having to get out our weapons.
We'd just hit second level, I believe when we came across an arqubus (which, as well as any form of primitive firearm, have since been banned from our games).
When we came into possession of it, we were on our way to rid a small town of a kobold camp outside its boundries. Using my only illusion spells plus my disguise skill I was able to make myself appear to be a kobold, and Jansan, my human friend was my "prisoner" who said he had a gift for the kobold chief.
His "gift" was a magic viewing tube (the arqubus) which "could predict the future to anyone who looked into it."
Now, I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with the rules for arqubuses, so I'll explain them real quick. If you roll a critical fumble with them, you take the damage. Damage is 1d10 and if you roll a 10, you can roll again and make it cumulative.
So naturally, Jansan crit fumbles and blows himself up -- right infront of a bewildered kobold chief and me, who is now in a rather tough spot.
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(3/29/02 5:14 pm) Reply
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I can't even justify writing about any of my deaths, because as stupid as they can be, every time I think of one I remember one of my friends who tends to get witch-hunted and slain through cheating (kinda frequently.. ). And no normal death story can compete with those drawn out "I'll pull stuff out of my ass until you are dead, damnit!" fiascos.
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Not a death as I survived...but it hurt.
My Friend wrote his own adventure for us to go in. It was a Town he called Sanctuary which was out in the wilds (frontier style) and we were sent in by the governor of the region cos nothing had been heard from the town.
The GM had a Mage that he would normaly play as an npc and go in with us (we took turns gming and the gms character would be played as an npc) but I should have known it was gonna be a bad time when he siad his mage was just teleporting us in and we we could take our followers and henchman.
I was the lowest member of the party and I was a 17th Halfling Rogue( yeah I know Im predictable...he is my highest and longest played dnd character) their were 5 of us all with at least 3 henchman each of around 8th to 10th.
I wont bore you with the whole story and all the details of WHY I WAS THE ONLY SURVIVOR!
But I got out alone and down to 3hps! and at 14th level!
Man I never got over that! I havnt played him much since as whilst that group occasionally see other now we rarley play dnd together anymore (this was at 6th form ie 16-18 UK college and Im 33 now)
Qutsemnie Registered User
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(4/8/02 4:01 am) Reply
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i had my hobbit rogue hurled at a bull elephant once.... if i told you why it wouldnt help. so there is the big brawny human warrior spinning around with my legs in his hands and he flings me skyward towards the bull elephant. turns out thats a good way for a hobbit rogue to die.
Kintire Registered User
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(4/8/02 4:39 am) Reply
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That is so cool! another perfect use for halflings! I gotta try that...
Kehvrynne Registered User
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(4/9/02 3:46 am) Reply
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Hobbit tossing: the favorite sport at every Midsummer Faire!
"Step right up, folks! Two coppers, see if you can hit the elephant with the halfling! Winner every time!"
Kehvrynne Quickblade, Professional Damsel of Distress No matter how subtle the wizard, a dirk between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.
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We had the module from hell. The RPGA said it was for level 1-2, but the first thing we happen across is an Owlbear (wounded, but still, it HURTS at level 1), we lose 1 party member, as well as the farmer that the owlbear is harrassing.
We survive, bury the dead one, and carry another unconscious party member to the nearby farmhouse where we are then ambushed that night by orcs.
An orc shaman steps up in front of me, and without even breaking a sweat, slashes me so hard I (an elven rogue) pretty much come apart in the middle (was down to a -9), and spray blood across the entire room.
The funniest thing about this module though, is that we needed someone with a 'talk with animals' type spell... which isn't available till something like level 3 for druid/ranger types...I forget, as I hardly ever play anything but some sort of rogue. ;)
Needless to say, we scrapped this module as unplayable after trying to get through it some 3 times. We've also since decided not to update our RPGA memberships. :)
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Wouldnt call it the worst.. but here goes...
Rogues death:
My third level Rogue was on watch one night when I spot 2 bears coming into the camp ( We were after an evil bard that had pipes that charmed animals ). I call a warning to the group to wake up and go to climb the Tree next to me. The bears of course bore in on me now that I yelled out. Rolled my climb check for a 1. DM had me fall on my ass and looked up into jaws!! needless to say, I became fodder!!!
This lead me to roll a Ranger...
My Rangers death was more fun.. I was lvl 6 and had a wolf for a companion. Entire party moves into a room to attack an Evil mage. I Rolled the worst on Initative so I was not in the room yet, even tho my wolf was. THe Mage casts ICE STORM AE spell.. The mages Familiar Dies.. My wolf dies.. The mage goes unconscious ( we had been fighting Trolls before hand ). I am unaffected as I was not in the room.. The mage TEleports out and we fight some more trolls. We figure out that the Mage was escaping to a boat so me and the monk run off towards the exit, where we encounter more Trolls. Now my Ranger had Giants as his favored enemy, so I'm doing +2 damage to these guys. I had been kicking serious buttocks. I get 2 Trolls cornered and the Monk runs on after the mage so I go to kill some more Trolls. One lands 2 hits on me and I find out about their special ability. They bascially grab both your arms and tear you apart.. I had 30 someodd hp at the time and the GM starts to roll damage while I sat there waiting to hear if I was dead... He rolls his dice, looks up at me with a smirk and says this verbatim...
" err Zlater..You uh... "
He picks up the miniature I used for my wolf and puts it in the doorway of the room nearby.
" You see dead pet wolfy in an ethereal form enter the room and say.. Come into the light Zlater... "
If I wasnt laughing so hard, I might have been upset.
Anni D Registered User
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(4/9/02 12:42 pm) Reply
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I was playing an evil mage/thief, and my friend was playing a neutral warrior.
We had just finished our first adventure, and were talking to the mayor about our reward. I don't remember exactly what they mayor said, but I didnt like it and threw my dagger in his chest.
That was a really great move, until he shouted for help. Apparently town mayors have a good amount of guards. Thinking quickly, I ran across the room and jumped out the window, dashing away. The warrior tried to follow me, but broke his leg on the fall, and was sumarilly dismissed by the guards.
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Dading001 Registered User
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(4/11/02 8:33 pm) Reply
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playing heavy gear...
me and my friend needed cash to buy weapons... we went to a bar and a gay guy hit on me... i went to his house, tried to kill him... made noise, ganked his tv before the cops came... but was stuck in the house with neighbors at the door... jumped out the window... broke my leg... limped to the alley, cops found me and i hid in a trash can after i gave my friend the tv... they passed me by... but then came back... and asked what i was doing in the trash can... i told them the burgular beat me up and i was a bum... they didnt believe me so they beat me up more... i eventually went unconscious and woke up in a hospital with all my stuff gone
). And no normal death story can compete with those drawn out "I'll pull stuff out of my ass until you are dead, damnit!" fiascos.
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