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(7/31/02 7:49 pm) Reply
Re: Worst Death Ever.
This guy diden't die but he might as well have. A druid in our party picked up a METAL mirror *the DM actually asked him repeatedly if he wanted to pick up the METAL mirror and he kept saying yes compleatly oblivious hehe* and lost his druidic abilities. So basically he has been walking around the entire quest with only a cloak on * I stole all his cloths =p* and has no powers.
The closest my character has come to death would be when I blew up a nice section of the town market. I pissed off the owner of a porcubomb shop *a creature that kinda got created by accident. It's a porcupine that has a highly unstable body chemestry and can expload (=* and he threw one at me and missed. He set off all the others =p. I dove out the window before it exploaded taking out that building and the ones around it. The guards came and actually paid me for it because I "got rid of that illegal porcubomb shop" =p.
Nothing is as funny as when I was trying to steal this wyrm hide armor that had a worth of a few million plat and was very uber and got caught so I tired to dive out a window *I was still hidden in shadows*. The window just happened to be reinforced =p. Basically, the image we all got was of a mysterious shadow like person, suddenly appearing from behind a counter, flying up into the window and bouncing off it into the ground =p. I cracked the glass and took about 3 damage hehe.
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(8/19/02 1:54 pm) Reply
Wish in one hand, crap in the other - which came true?
The worst death ever - our entire party of 5 (ranging from level 16-19) was in our DMs favorite dungeon - a wonderful place where no magic less than a full wish worked. Our rogue (who had a luckblade with 1 wish) gets greedy and goes for an obviously trapped chest, at which point a pit opens up, drops him into a deep, narrow pit which immediately begins filling with water.
In such a situation, I would have used a wish (incredibly rare in this campaign btw - only 2 ever given out, and this dungeon was meant specifically to use them up) to make myself more powerful. What does this joker do?
Did he wish he could fly at will? No. Did he wish to be out? No. Did he wish for a rope? No. So what did this "cunning" rogue wish for?
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(8/20/02 2:01 am) Reply
Re: Wish in one hand, crap in the other - which came true?
some DMs are nazi's when it comes to druids and say if they pick up anything metal, they lose their powers.
which is all fine and dandy, until you notice that the PHB says they can use *metal* scimitars, and other metal objects, just not wear metal armor.
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(9/1/02 7:45 pm) Reply
Re: Worst Death Ever.
Was playing my sorcerer/rogue (who finds if very entertaining to annoy the crap out of the local king). One of my party members was a gnome wizard. Everyone knows how sorcerers feel they are better than wizards because of our inborne talents. So we had quite the rivalry.
So there we are, in the Kings throne room about 70ft up from the ground. And the two of us start arguing. Untill the little football cast Silence on me. Now, King Issar had a VERY strick law prohibiting magic use in his throne room without his permission. So he summons one of his gaurds over, and orders the guard to throw the gnome out the window. We had not had a chance to rest after a large battle, so he had no spells left to cast. (Silence was the final spell he had memorized) Now, he is annoying, but he IS a party member, so i jump out the window just after him and try to catch him and use my featherfal. Only then to remember i couldnt cast featherfall while silenced.........
Edited by: Metaskie at: 9/1/02 9:47:35 pm
Re: Worst Death Ever.
my worst D&D death... playing a rogue in AD&D with 18 dex and 3 strength (yes, that's right. this was my first time ever playing D&D).
got knocked off the side of a cliff into a pit.
DM: Ok, roll dex to see if you catch the wall...
Me: got it.
DM: ok, strength check to see if you can hold on...
Me: ... nope
DM: ok, roll dex to see if you can catch another piece of wall..
(repeat ad nauseum. did i mention this was a BOTTOMLESS pit?)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Spicer Channal Not-Quite-Pointy-Ear'd Backstab Machine of the 26th Circle Korbyn Mighty Midget Arsekicker Dr00d of the 11th Circle
Strath Anklebiting-Wannabe-Uber-Evil GNOME! of the 11th Circle Tarew Marr Another Brick In The Fourth Wall ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Re: Worst Death Ever.
I had a particularly bad one rather recently wherein an orc ripped my limbs off and used me as a football-like projectile weapon against the group's cleric...
*cough* It rolled some insane damage against my little level 2 rogue/1 bard halfling...
Teannin Bramblefeet Level 55 Rogue of Bristlebane in the realm of Morell Thule Grandmaster Potter Proud member of Black Claws
Re: Worst Death Ever.
played a GURPS character once, was fighting someone, and an unseen person cast Tomb of Earth or something similar, and the ground literally rose and swallowed him.
Me: "Whoa... "
GM: "ok, so what do you do now?"
Me: "Do I need to do a fright check?"
GM: "... yeah, that's a good idea. fright check."
*rolls a 3*
Me: "hmm... not good"
GM: "Roll criticals"
*rolls an 18*
Me: "&@$^!"
GM: "You have a heart attack and die."
I was playing a Fair Elf Thief in a rolemaster campaign and our party somehow ends up in the underdark. Well we are moving right along when the GM says to make a roll for hearing...well a couple of us hear something up ahead and determine that something is set to ambush us. Well I decide I'm gonna sneek up and take a look. Make my roll beautifully. The warrior in the group (not a bright individual to begin with) decides he is gonna sneek with me. Having already moved ahead I can't stop him and just kinda shake my head. Well miraculously he rolls out his ass and is sneeking well also. Phew! Then the Paladin (you know the one in the party who is REALLY suppose to have a head on his shoulder?) decides we might needs some light to see by so he sneek up behind us holding the latern in front of him. OH NO! Well ok...we SHOULD be able to see this light suddenly appearing behind us right? Well, both the warrior and myself fail our perception rolls and are oblivious to the light (but boy were we sneeking!) Did I mentioned we KNEW something was waiting to ambush us? Next (and last) thing my Thief sees is half a tree rushing toward his head as he rounds the corner....
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(12/28/02 11:48 pm) Reply
Re: Worst Death Ever.
My friend had this strange campaign... I was a human bard, boisterous by nature, a braggart, and we were mugged by pixies then forced to play hide and go seek. We were escourted into the pixie hive, and I start cracking open treasure chests screaming "Where's my lute!!!"... the damn pixies refused to give it to me, so I punched one, rolled a crit, killed the thing... *Thwack*... they all unload their tiny arrows on me bringing me down to negative 9 hps . Didn't die but I didn't get my lute back either
Re: Worst Death Ever.
Bah! You deserved it, going for the Lute before the mobs were all down.
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(12/31/02 2:06 pm) Reply
Re: Worst Death Ever.
'Nother story from playing a Ratling in Rokugan setting (3e rules, d20 of course).
Somehow my 19th level sorceror has pissed off someone in the Astral plane and I now have Gythyankee (however that is spelled) chasing me in the prime material. Well, this one happened to have a nice little weapon with improved crit and vorpal. Lets just say that 4 members of the party were without their heads and quite dead. So there is three of us left and the thing just starts wailing on me. One of the rolls he rolls a crit and lops my head of. Now imagine a 4ft tall ratling-humanoid. Now imagine said ratling holding his head in his left hand and still casting with the right =)
No one in the party knows that I have a spell out of Tomb and Blood (Hide Life) which makes you unkillable until they find that part of your body with the spell on it and dispell it. So I am taking partial actions casting huge spells at this thing while holding my head. Made a great night and lots of questions.
Re: Worst Death Ever.
This one happened to a friend of mine in a rolemaster game.
We're going through a desert, for whatever reason, on camels. We see the flying evil-looking monsters heading towards us, so we decide to dismount and get ready for battle. I roll like a 350+ on my check(With a bonus of like +6, mind you), giving everyone a bonus to their rolls for a few rounds. Then, my friend roles just about the opposite, falls off the camel, and breaks his neck, no damage, just instant death.
Re: Worst Death Ever.
I have to join in... well here is why I never play cyber punk any more, I have been tainted for years cuz of these experiences.
1st to a friend, it is his first tiem ever role playing, he walks out of a bar the gm roles the random encounter table, he is shot in the head and dies instantly.
2nd I am a fixer, go to 7-11 to get some snacks. A few gang members on bikes ride up and mug the owner. I hide and sneak up behind them, Shoot the leader square in the head. He turns around and shoots me with his mini gun, yes a mini gun. The gm didnt mention till I shot him that he was a cyber crazy with a chain saw in his forhead and a mini gun. Why he was holding up a 7-11 is eyond me but I died.
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(1/31/03 2:14 pm) Reply
One I accidentally caused
1st ed AD&D
This one was another players death I accidentally caused by trying to do him a favor.
The only player I ever GM'd for that died before he was done making his character. He had just finished rolling his stats & hadn't even bought his equipment yet.
While he was still working on his character I felt nice so I told him I would let him roll for 1 random magic item. No matter what he rolled he would get it. He rolled a Deck of Many Things! A way powerful item! I was amazed!
So I decided to roleplay it for him. I told him while he was still in training one day he found a hidden cave near an old wizards tower that had a deck of cards on a glowing pedestal.
He walked up & drew one card. The Void! His soul was sucked away, character dead.
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Another death was just silliness on a characters part. We were playing the game Top Secret. An old spy game based on James Bond type adventures. Well when we were buying equipment several of us rolled miserable on cash. We used every cent to purchase a handgun but one guy instead just bought some fancy gadgets & a switchblade.
Well later in the game we were on a ship with some Russian spies. The guy with the switchblade tailed one of them to a room & heard him talking to other agents on a radio. So what does he do?
Kicks open the door & throws his only weapon at the guy. He hit & did a little damage & was promptly shot.
His reply. I didn't know the guy would have a gun. Yeah, a lot of Russian agents on secret missions don't carry firearms.
Bloodshard Ogg
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'You see in this world there are two kinds of people my friend, those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.'-The Man with No Name
Re: Hmmm...
ummm this is of a friend but still funny as hell
2 of the party members(who didnt get along) were in an inn
and one (the warrior) went to the others room(the caster) so the caster is like oh crqap if he finds me im dead so he pollymorphed himself into a chair(adnd 2nd ed). so the warrior in rage decides to destroy the room and ends up throwing the chair out the 5th floor window killing the caster)
Poor Tiels, hope he gets better by the next time we play.
. Didn't die but I didn't get my lute back either 
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