My own: Level 8 Tempest Cleric had discovered the town the party was in was under the control of mind flayers. He rallied the party to get out of the proverbial Dodge and get some help for the towns folk. As the party is leaving town, they head to the nearby stables to get horses and make a run for it. I discover that the boy at the stables is being abused by the owner and attempt to save him. My party who is in a rightful panic, tries to drag me away, and start to leave. I go back to take care of the stable owner with some inflict wounds justice, only to be ambushed by minions of the flayers. Better still, the kid was an illusion cooked up specifically to get me to stay, and was a straight up assassination of my character.
Person at table: Our one player who has gone through the most characters has several, but the saddest one for me was one I was DM'ing. His character was doing really well, good nimbly monk, and was pretty much the star of the show at that point in time. They are in an old dwarf fort over run by orcs, and have to cross a rope bridge. As his character holds the line on the bridge they find a secret door to go around the rope bridge. (Dungeon had a lot of choke points that the party or my orcs could use, but usually had secret dwarf paths for the party could discover and exploit) So the monk decides to cut the ropes of the bridge. 4 ropes - dex(acro) check of 8,3 - dc of 10, 2 - dc of 12, 1 - dc of 14. The monk should have had it in the bag. His girlfriend calls, and needs him home right away and hands his character off to one of the other players to finish the fight, and we'd probably stop at the end of the encounter. The very next roll for the monk as he heads back to finish cutting the ropes, misses the roll by 1. Slips and falls, and I had a oh **** roll set up for the bridge for a player to catch themselves, next roll, rolls a 1, and again misses. No amount of slow fall was going to save that monk. A knock on the door, the monk's player had forgotten his dice.
Saddest death I've ever experienced, easily Faen, the elven rangers first death. Cause resurrection is a thing but God this was the first campaign death and it stung like hell
Setting the scene, we just finished up a battle and had sent the villians into retreat, when the opposing warlock, seeking revenge for an ally of his we had slain. Turned to our party and ranger, and used the cheapest kill spell in the book, power world kill. Before just leaving via a dragon. My characters instant response is, better use a health potion, only for it to not work at the reality to kick in that... Our ranger friend had really just... Died. What made it sadder was actually bringing them back, because we where using Mr.mercers rivival rules we had to appese the spirit sort of, which for us meant really digging deep into why Faen was so important for us. Which lead to some of my favorite and probably most sad role play moments
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Marvarax andSora (Dragonborn) The retired fighter and WIP scholar - Glory
Brythel(Dwarf), The dwarf with a gun - survival at sea
Jaylin(Human), Paladin of Lathander's Ancient ways - The Seven Saints (Azura Claw)
Urselles(Goblin), Cleric of Eldath- The Wizard's challenge
Viclas Tyrin(Half Elf), Student of the Elven arts- Indrafatmoko's Defiance in Phlan
When I was in 7th grade my friends and I were in a campaign that took us into the desert. After we used up all of our water we were panicking. The next day BOTH clerics didn't prepare Create Water. Then we had a while in between sessions and BOTH the clerics again forgot to prepare Create Water and the whole party died from having no water in a desert.
when you make a character’s first breath, prepare for their last.
share sad stories of your’s or table member’s of character death.
My own: Level 8 Tempest Cleric had discovered the town the party was in was under the control of mind flayers. He rallied the party to get out of the proverbial Dodge and get some help for the towns folk. As the party is leaving town, they head to the nearby stables to get horses and make a run for it. I discover that the boy at the stables is being abused by the owner and attempt to save him. My party who is in a rightful panic, tries to drag me away, and start to leave. I go back to take care of the stable owner with some inflict wounds justice, only to be ambushed by minions of the flayers. Better still, the kid was an illusion cooked up specifically to get me to stay, and was a straight up assassination of my character.
Person at table: Our one player who has gone through the most characters has several, but the saddest one for me was one I was DM'ing. His character was doing really well, good nimbly monk, and was pretty much the star of the show at that point in time. They are in an old dwarf fort over run by orcs, and have to cross a rope bridge. As his character holds the line on the bridge they find a secret door to go around the rope bridge. (Dungeon had a lot of choke points that the party or my orcs could use, but usually had secret dwarf paths for the party could discover and exploit) So the monk decides to cut the ropes of the bridge. 4 ropes - dex(acro) check of 8,3 - dc of 10, 2 - dc of 12, 1 - dc of 14. The monk should have had it in the bag. His girlfriend calls, and needs him home right away and hands his character off to one of the other players to finish the fight, and we'd probably stop at the end of the encounter. The very next roll for the monk as he heads back to finish cutting the ropes, misses the roll by 1. Slips and falls, and I had a oh **** roll set up for the bridge for a player to catch themselves, next roll, rolls a 1, and again misses. No amount of slow fall was going to save that monk. A knock on the door, the monk's player had forgotten his dice.
Oh, that was sad. Thanks for sharing!
Saddest death I've ever experienced, easily Faen, the elven rangers first death. Cause resurrection is a thing but God this was the first campaign death and it stung like hell
Setting the scene, we just finished up a battle and had sent the villians into retreat, when the opposing warlock, seeking revenge for an ally of his we had slain. Turned to our party and ranger, and used the cheapest kill spell in the book, power world kill. Before just leaving via a dragon. My characters instant response is, better use a health potion, only for it to not work at the reality to kick in that... Our ranger friend had really just... Died. What made it sadder was actually bringing them back, because we where using Mr.mercers rivival rules we had to appese the spirit sort of, which for us meant really digging deep into why Faen was so important for us. Which lead to some of my favorite and probably most sad role play moments
Marvarax and Sora (Dragonborn) The retired fighter and WIP scholar - Glory
Brythel(Dwarf), The dwarf with a gun - survival at sea
Jaylin(Human), Paladin of Lathander's Ancient ways - The Seven Saints (Azura Claw)
Urselles(Goblin), Cleric of Eldath- The Wizard's challenge
Viclas Tyrin(Half Elf), Student of the Elven arts- Indrafatmoko's Defiance in Phlan
May I ask what level the party was at the time?
Around level 9-10
Marvarax and Sora (Dragonborn) The retired fighter and WIP scholar - Glory
Brythel(Dwarf), The dwarf with a gun - survival at sea
Jaylin(Human), Paladin of Lathander's Ancient ways - The Seven Saints (Azura Claw)
Urselles(Goblin), Cleric of Eldath- The Wizard's challenge
Viclas Tyrin(Half Elf), Student of the Elven arts- Indrafatmoko's Defiance in Phlan
Alright thank you
When I was in 7th grade my friends and I were in a campaign that took us into the desert. After we used up all of our water we were panicking. The next day BOTH clerics didn't prepare Create Water. Then we had a while in between sessions and BOTH the clerics again forgot to prepare Create Water and the whole party died from having no water in a desert.
Oof