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(4/15/02 5:08 pm) Reply
Re: Worst Death Ever.
Mind would have to be:
My group were all around lvl 15, and we had come to possess a fly castle. And it flew fast. I was a dwarf Mechanic(custom class my gm made, pretty much a tinkerer, but dwarf only) so i'm the only one who new how to fly it.
So the whole groups goes off on an adventure, but I decide to stay back and fix the castle, been running a bit sluggishly. I'm wondering around the castle basement looking for the problem when I come across the power crystal. I roll an INT check to see if I know whats wrong.
My character is dumb so I think it's pressing against the frame too closely. So I get up and jump on it to try to move it downwards. It does move downwards....hitting the dragon, that none of us knew about. The dragon was hidden in lower level as protection for the castle. Angered by this the dragon attacks the crystal. Which explodes in a broken wand like effect.
Party comes back later to find pieces of crystal everywhere, but that castle is no where to be found.
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I had a warrior... He survived EVERYTHING. Demon chewed his arm off? We patched him up and quested a magical arm. Dragon closed his jaws around the entire upper torso? Tis but a flesh wound! (and chronic gas due to intestinal injuries) I could list a dozen, he was the warrior that never died, and skill had NOTHING to do with it /grin
Mardoc's story reminded me of his death though. We were big dragonlance readers at the time, and flying citadels were all the rage Our campaign was nearing an end, and an epic battle was taking place. (For those unaware of gibberlings they are basically VERY low level critters that can be best described as a hairball with ALOT of teeth, and an attitude to match)
Our party led a mission into the flying citadel, which floated above the ranks of evil who were busy cutting the army of good to ribbons. We split up to find the control room. My warrior came across a cavernous room with gibberlings scattering about... looked like a good 10-20 of them. I cackled with glee and charged, slaughtering for the sheer joy of it. 5 down, 10 down, 20 down... 30... hmm still 30 to go... where are they all coming from...
Ah, the sick GM... gibberlings that had been cross bred with trolls... Every kill compunded my troubles. When I was found, only my armor, and a magical metallic arm remained, I had been eaten by gibberlings. /grin
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.... deep in a cave of goblins with our whole party (4 of us) backed into a hallway with 20 or so comming for us and we are all about half health. I ( lvl 5 sorc) turn and use a wand of fire..... bad enouh i got the fireball effect i had also chosen a target that placed me just inside the range of the effect. i made a good roll to avoid the damage but the wand did not... backlashing as it was destroyed by its own effect killing not only myself by the whole party with me. WOOHOOO!
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(4/28/02 11:10 am) Reply
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This isn't in D&D, but GURPS. My friend was Gm'ing a sort of Angles meets HK action movies sort of campgain, and it'd been going pretty well. Then, at teh crucial scene, some random Police officer mook shoots my character. He makes a roll, critical success. No Dodge roll, ow. He rolls location: Heart. Rolls on Crit Hit table: 3X Damage. Plus, getting hit to the heart is 3X damage. :P Pain. He rolls second Location: Brain. Rolls Crit Hit Table: 3X Damage agian. And Brain is 4X damage. (Note, this was with an Automatic Shotgun, firing Slugs :P) So, he rolls damage, and it comes to almost 300 damge. It woulda taken 75 to kill my character outright.
Was indeed Pain. Most damage i've EVER seen in Gurps in one shot.
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(5/2/02 9:32 am) Reply
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This one happened in my game last night.
Room, 30 feet across. Offset slightly from the middle is a ravine, unknown depth. On the far side is a 5 foot ledge with three door openings and a mural repeated 4 times (between each opening and the sidewalls.) Also on the far ledge are three peacocks. We have seen the peacocks twice before in the place and they did nothing.
I state "I move forward a bit so I can see how deep the ravine is." As I step forward to examine this, two of the peacocks turn and look at me. Nothing unusual, there is movement towards them, they are being defensive. Then they spread their plumage and the badness starts.
"I need you to make two will saves." says the GM. Well, being a Cleric/Sorceress this is my best save category. No problem, I think.
Rolls: 12 + 11= 23 and 5 + 11 = 16.
GM: "You are completely fascinated by the plumage of the middle bird and everything else fades out around you. All you want to do is get closer to the bird."
So, dazedly, I begin walking towards the birds...and the ravine of unknown depth. The party Warrior, quickly reacting to the danger, steps forward to pull me back...
"I need you to make two will saving throws." DOH! Rolls: 22 and 16. "You are fascinated and want to walk towards the birds..."
The party druid tries to stop both of us. He makes both of his saves, but only has a 10 strength and even the wimpy weakling cleric/sorceress manages to break away from his grip. Ranger tries, fails Will save. Wizard casts Fly spell on himself and tries...and fails HIS Will Save.
5 people, 4 are "fascinated" and moving toward the ravine edge. I am the first to reach it and over the edge I go. Fortunately, I have an item that is Intelligent and ALSO has Feather Fall 1/day -- as I begin falling, it calls upon my Goddess and poof, I begin floating downward...
Big Fighter is the next over. He falls...and falls...and falls. 150' later, he hits bottom. "You take 64 points of damage. Make a Fortitude save, please." Roll: 18. "Ok, you don't die from sudden shock (death from Massive Damage rule) -- how are you on Hit Points?" Fighter "I have 13 hp left...I'm broken, but alive."
Next up, party Ranger. He falls 150' and takes 66 damage. "Yes! I have 5hp left!" GM: "Make a fortitude save for Massive Damage."
Player rolls a 13.
GM "By the amount of physical damage you took, you could probably have lived through it, but the amount of shock to your system is just too much."
The party wizard, with Flight on, flew over the Ravine and sat in front of the Peacock hovering for a while, then finally broke from of it's hold.
Poor Stogar. What a horrible way to die. But, it was damn funny.
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My best story is about an ex-boyfriend who was a sad, sad roleplayer, set in a world designed by the GM with rules designed by the GM.
Anyway... the group of us are frantically running down a switchback trail while the enemy is going down with this enormous open air lift system... or maybe it was the other way around. Anyway, this guy decides he's going to jump off because there's water down there.
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(5/2/02 12:12 pm) Reply
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Did I ever tell you about the one where I tried to asphyxiate a noisy poodle by having it's very large and voluptuous female owner roll over it in her sleep?
Luckily for the pooch, the featherbed was really quite soft, and the dog just kinda got a bit squished, but not too badly injured.
Wish I'd gotten to finish up that game, the GM was pulling it right off the top of her head and it was hilarious!! Her husband was playing this mage that only had to smile at women and they'd do his bidding, even my poor rogue had a hard time resisting him with those big, limpid blue pools looking at them and silently promising such pleasures as one could only dream of.... *drool*
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(5/7/02 3:29 pm) Reply
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The worst death I've caused was during a part of a campaign, our DM made us fight eachother tournament style. The ranger thought he was very clever and he ran around enervating people until they were llevel 4 or so and then killing them. The now-infamous, Snowflake, (slayer of dragons, savior of at least 2 party members, lover of the Dark Elven Queen, owner of the pearl tower, and first person to ever "teleport back for a quickie") was in the finals against the ranger, and it was my initiative. I put him in a sphere of force to give me some time to think. After a few minutes I had my solution. I cast 3 delayed blast fireballs and timed them to explode the same round, also the same round the sphere of force around him dropped. I placed them on top of the sphere, then cast another sphere of force around him. Then just sat back and watched the explosion.
"Do I get a reflex save?"
"You're inside a sphere which is a quarter of the blast radius...where are you going to go?"
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(5/12/02 3:33 pm) Reply
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Quote:
"You're inside a sphere which is a quarter of the blast radius...where are you going to go?"
Haha, I liked that story! Bravo, Krimzan!
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(5/18/02 11:51 pm) Reply
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We had a fighter in our party, which was pretty powerful (and evil) of a wizard/psionisist, cleric/psionicist, anti-paladin, a rogue, a spellsinger and two fighters. It started off in a corridor we had to go down, which I, the wizard noticed glyphs on the wall, which had a riddle on it.
I don't remember the riddle anymore, but I had correctly guessed the riddle, and was aware of the trap (or so I thought). So I came to an area that looked like the right area for the trap, so I recited the passage for the riddle and continued.
At a second area just like it, I hesitated, and decided that I was safe, since I already said the passage for the riddle. Too bad I said the whole answer, and not the three parts separately. Anyways, I barely survive, and we continue with the same results at the third area.
At the end(ish) of the third corridor, we come upon an efreet and a dozen salamanders. We start fighting, and the rogue decides he is going to run, and crosses the last trap area without saying the riddle. He fails his save, and is blasted to death with some magic I can't remember.
We get half the salamanders killed, and we are starting to hurt a bit, and the fight looks like we might make it out if we are lucky. One of the fighters (who wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer) got a ring that could open a portal to the elemental plane of fire that no one really wanted. He took the ring and summoned a portal, which of course opened the portal.
Unfortunately, the efreet laughed loudly and summoned a few elemental lords and the rest was history. I think the cleric and I escaped by becoming ethreal.
Afterwards, we asked him what in the world made him summon it, and he says "What?! I thought he might have wanted to go home!"
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(5/22/02 9:10 am) Reply
Re: death
Hehe, Ronix still has the winner so far.
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(6/23/02 11:39 pm) Reply
Re: Worst Death Ever.
In an ultra realistic homebrew game: Kicked by a goat that proceeded to roll ribs/lung for location and thanks to my character's low health and bad roll the kick broke my rib which punctured my lung.
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Close 2nd.
I had a character that was very rich and went into a small town and spent alot of money on carousing and gambling. The constable came and arrested me. I didn't resist since I'd done nothing wrong. Once behind bars the constable informed me the town had gotten together and decided to let me starve to death in my new cell while they did some remodelling with my cash.
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Yet another:
I had another character that was very poor but had managed to acquire a magic gem during character creation that was useless to anyone but a wizard (which I was not).
So I went to the nearest town with a guild and found a wizard. I asked him for some cash for the item. He insisted that I simply give him the item. I refused and he called the guards on me, so I swallowed the gem. Apparently this wizard was pretty serious about getting the gem so his guards cut me open and extracted the gem.
I made a phenomenal health roll and survived the gutting. The guards left me in an alleyway. Unable to move I called for help several times. Finally a priest that worshipped the most compassionate deity in the game system came by and looked over my wounds. But he decided, much to my dismay that I was so likely to die that his time was better spent on someone that could be saved.
I tried to strangle the priest but he beat me to death with his bible.
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(6/28/02 11:37 pm) Reply
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Alright, we (about six of us, I was playing a Gnomish Rogue) come into this cavern with lava about 50 feet below us. The Fighter in the group decides that they should throw me over a 10-foot gorge to inspect the contents of an enormous treasure chest. So, I unlock the chest, open it up, climb up to get a better look, and *THUD!* the chest closes. Fortunately, I had a rope attached to my waist for retrieval. The Fighter and Barbarian both decide to put some muscle into reclaiming the newfound treasure and I. They thought nothing of the slow progress they were making because of weight. I reach the edge of the gorge. The DM looks at the two guys and says, "Make a Reflex save. One of them fails, meaning he forgot to let go of the rope and followed my plunder and I into a magma bath.
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(6/29/02 1:01 am) Reply
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Our party was hired/drafted (along with many other adventurers) by a small kingdom facing immenent invasion by a foreign army that, among other things, used war elephants.
One of our players was something of a history buff, and convinced the GM to allow him to use a tactic against these fantasy war elephants that was used historically by the Romans against Carthaginian war elephants. Specifically, his plan was to obtain a pig, slather it up in combustibles (pitch, naptha), point it at the elephants, and light it up. The plan was for the pig to run at the elephants, flaming and making a most horrific screaming sound, such that it would spook the elephants and make them unmanageable/of little worth in the battle.
When the time came to execute the plan, our warrior managed to fumble the pig attack so badly that he was trampled AND caught on fire by the pig.
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I begged my step-brother for weeks to teach me to play D&D, so finally he gives in and let's me play. He didn't want to wait as I rolled up a character so he gave me control over some halfling ranger he had.
He takes me on an adventure (I can't remember the name of it...) and the first Lizard Man I encounter crits and kills me. My step-brother never let me play with him again =/
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One time i was playing a Dwarf Wizard (lvl 16) in D&D named Ted Kazinski. He would make bombs and set them up around Cormyr targeting political institutions that favored devolping the woodlands. After a foolish embassy bombing where Ted lost his eye he was spotted and on the run. Using divination Ted knew there was no way out in his cabin in the woods, the kings men would arrive in about 1-2 hours. So i used an extended resist poison scroll and swalloed all my custom made fire bombs (very small about the size of pebbels) Ted's stomach swelled with there size and insited to walk back to Cormyr.. too much motion could upset them. So they take him to the town square where they beheaded him in front of a crowd. Before the guillatoine fell though i contracted my stomach.. detonating them and taking out the town square and all the high level mages.. the only ones who would have been able to control the ensuring fire caused by my explosion.
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(7/12/02 8:05 am) Reply
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I just thought of mine as I was writing up what I usually include in my theif's kit...
A flask of oil
A harmless flask of oil
We were traveling through an area that was densely vegetated, and we stepped onto some spongy grasslike tufts...they sent up tendrils to catch us...and my longsword wasn't doing much to help get us out of this predicament.
So, I managed to grab one of the flasks of oil out of a belt pouch and light it on fire...and drop it into the center of the grassy tuft...and just about instantly kill the thing...
Only problem was, it sent up a cloud of noxious fumes as it burned, and I wasn't able to hold my breath long enough, and inhaled, and died immediately...
(OOC: I actually forget what the darned veggies were called!! - was something out of the 2nd Ed. Monstrous Manual I think)
Our campaign was nearing an end, and an epic battle was taking place. (For those unaware of gibberlings they are basically VERY low level critters that can be best described as a hairball with ALOT of teeth, and an attitude to match)
Anyways, I barely survive, and we continue with the same results at the third area.
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