It's in the title. I was wondering what the dumbest way you died in d&d was. There are a LOT of dumb ways to die in d&d, so I wanted your stories. Leave the story below! Cheers!
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I GM. So I get to play all kinds of things. Had my lizard folk shaman cooking up the evening dish in the kitchen. Was fully into cooking. Happy for fresh human stew. He goes in to taste the wonderful stew and the rogue on the party sneaks up and cracks him. The other players end up with a surprise round. He dies still sipping on the stew and never got to react. Failing perception while cooking is dangerous.
This was't me dying but... My character was fighting a witch when she tries to polymorph into a hobgoblin for a strength check but the DM gets like 3 ones in a row so she instead tuns into a chicken and has sudden organ failure
I'm the DM so this was one of my characters; one of our players kept missing out on our sessions and he came back. I didn't get him any punishment 'cause there was no reason really, which our rogue player Axol didn't like. So Axol kept talking about how he was gonna kill this guy (Shadow). I didn't take him very seriously I guess, but the entire party reunited, and Axol said their previous challenges drove him crazy and led him to attacking Shadow. So he chased him through the woods and sliced his throat open with a dagger. It was dumb not even really funny.
I DM alot and double as a player, in one my of highschool campaigns my level 1 wizard was killed by a rabbit, granted its a dragon polymorphed into a rabbit, but a rabbit none the less. Where's a holy grenade when you it?
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" The Shadow Monarch is the ultimate expression of a "One Man Army" even in a team Setting his minions would act as meat shields for the allies while going on the Offensive, maybe in future version I will develop tactics and formations for the minions so the minions and party won't easily be decimated by random monsters or even the character's current enemies."
Oh yeah also my first ever character died because she tripped in the street, sliced her leg open on a broken can, and it got infected because the party was too poor to get it healed.
reminds my recent party's druid wenever he tries to run off ahead of the party, some serious bad luck happens and he is either knocked to 0 hp or he's badly banged up, crazy earth gensai.
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" The Shadow Monarch is the ultimate expression of a "One Man Army" even in a team Setting his minions would act as meat shields for the allies while going on the Offensive, maybe in future version I will develop tactics and formations for the minions so the minions and party won't easily be decimated by random monsters or even the character's current enemies."
This was't me dying but... My character was fighting a witch when she tries to polymorph into a hobgoblin for a strength check but the DM gets like 3 ones in a row so she instead tuns into a chicken and has sudden organ failure
Polymorph just works, you don't need to roll to see if it does. So this was just Deus Ex Machina by DM to end the fight for sake of ending the fight. Less dumb and more DM shenanigan-hand-waivey-nonsense. There is no roll for "sudden organ failure" in D&D, at least not in 3.5 or later.
I GM. So I get to play all kinds of things. Had my lizard folk shaman cooking up the evening dish in the kitchen. Was fully into cooking. Happy for fresh human stew. He goes in to taste the wonderful stew and the rogue on the party sneaks up and cracks him. The other players end up with a surprise round. He dies still sipping on the stew and never got to react. Failing perception while cooking is dangerous.
So, your character goes to cook and the party suddenly decides to kill him? What?
Oh yeah also my first ever character died because she tripped in the street, sliced her leg open on a broken can, and it got infected because the party was too poor to get it healed.
Your DM was a dick.
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All my character deaths have been due to battle except one which was when I wanted my character to exit so we (me and the DM, reactions from the unknowing party/players were priceless) had him fail a check when trying to jump across to another ship and fall down into the ocean, sucked under from the effects of demonic maelstroms, and drowned. He did eventually return and died again in battle. He had also died in his backstory so that was his 3rd death.
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Oh yeah also my first ever character died because she tripped in the street, sliced her leg open on a broken can, and it got infected because the party was too poor to get it healed.
Your DM was a dick.
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All my character deaths have been due to battle except one which was when I wanted my character to exit so we (me and the DM, reactions from the unknowing party/players were priceless) had him fail a check when trying to jump across to another ship and fall down into the ocean, sucked under from the effects of demonic maelstroms, and drowned. He did eventually return and died again in battle. He had also died in his backstory so that was his 3rd death.
dude it was my sister and i'm okay with it. none of us were invested i was still level 0 and i'm pretty sure she just brought me back
I did have a goblin inventor piss off a fire giant and got splatted with the base of his massive shield. It looked like a tomato was smeared on his shield.
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" The Shadow Monarch is the ultimate expression of a "One Man Army" even in a team Setting his minions would act as meat shields for the allies while going on the Offensive, maybe in future version I will develop tactics and formations for the minions so the minions and party won't easily be decimated by random monsters or even the character's current enemies."
I did have a goblin inventor piss off a fire giant and got splatted with the base of his massive shield. It looked like a tomato was smeared on his shield.
I did have a goblin inventor piss off a fire giant and got splatted with the base of his massive shield. It looked like a tomato was smeared on his shield.
You were a little fly to that man F
The Goblin's Name was Spitball, it was how he chose his projects for the month, he was be blindfolded shot spit balls scroll cases in his workshop lab. I'm thinking of bringing him back for my current campaign which is funny given their current location is in hell. (Evil Dead version of Limbo.)
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" The Shadow Monarch is the ultimate expression of a "One Man Army" even in a team Setting his minions would act as meat shields for the allies while going on the Offensive, maybe in future version I will develop tactics and formations for the minions so the minions and party won't easily be decimated by random monsters or even the character's current enemies."
This was't me dying but... My character was fighting a witch when she tries to polymorph into a hobgoblin for a strength check but the DM gets like 3 ones in a row so she instead tuns into a chicken and has sudden organ failure
Polymorph just works, you don't need to roll to see if it does. So this was just Deus Ex Machina by DM to end the fight for sake of ending the fight. Less dumb and more DM shenanigan-hand-waivey-nonsense. There is no roll for "sudden organ failure" in D&D, at least not in 3.5 or later.
All my character deaths have been due to battle except one which was when I wanted my character to exit so we (me and the DM, reactions from the unknowing party/players were priceless) had him fail a check when trying to jump across to another ship and fall down into the ocean, sucked under from the effects of demonic maelstroms, and drowned. He did eventually return and died again in battle. He had also died in his backstory so that was his 3rd death.
One of my more boring characters died after he screamed at the top of his lungs in the middle of a crowded marketplace. What apparently happened was that everyone was so confused and trying to run away from the nonexistent danger that they trampled my character, who was a gnome, to death.
I was told Strahd's one weakness was love so at 2nd level when he met the party outside the trail leading to his home, I embraced him in a hug and told him I loved him. He bit me.
I climbed to the very top of one of those 200 ft tall jungle trees on chult while my low level party was being chased by huge swarms of stirges. ("You know they can fly, right?" - DM). I lured the stirges up and belly flopped onto the whole swarm. The Suicide actually saved everyone.
This is a story where someone almost dies. So flash back to my party's first time playing d&d we had just made are characters and my dm decided we were going to get all the characters introduced and teach everyone combat at the same time. So all of are characters are in a bar when a 3 of bandits show up and try to mug everyone this what went down for are wizard: first she casts poison spray on 1 of the bandits they roll 20 on there saving throw next round she think that the bandit is unaffected by her magic so she runs over to the bandit and hits them with her quarter staff she misses and then on there turn they slug her and role a 20 on there attack role knocking her unconscious.
Everyone was fine and "the hit it with your quarter staff has became a running joke.
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The 6 most hated words in all of d&d history: make me a dex saving throw .
It happened in 2E. My group was doing the usual clean up after the boss battle, and for kicks I decided to jump up on the magic altar the boss had been using just before we killed him. Unbeknownst to me the giant activated the magic of the altar and it turned me to stone after I failed my - easy to make - saves. Also, to rub a little salt into the wound it was only my third session with the character.
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It's in the title. I was wondering what the dumbest way you died in d&d was. There are a LOT of dumb ways to die in d&d, so I wanted your stories. Leave the story below! Cheers!
I GM. So I get to play all kinds of things. Had my lizard folk shaman cooking up the evening dish in the kitchen. Was fully into cooking. Happy for fresh human stew. He goes in to taste the wonderful stew and the rogue on the party sneaks up and cracks him. The other players end up with a surprise round. He dies still sipping on the stew and never got to react. Failing perception while cooking is dangerous.
This was't me dying but... My character was fighting a witch when she tries to polymorph into a hobgoblin for a strength check but the DM gets like 3 ones in a row so she instead tuns into a chicken and has sudden organ failure
I'm the DM so this was one of my characters; one of our players kept missing out on our sessions and he came back. I didn't get him any punishment 'cause there was no reason really, which our rogue player Axol didn't like. So Axol kept talking about how he was gonna kill this guy (Shadow). I didn't take him very seriously I guess, but the entire party reunited, and Axol said their previous challenges drove him crazy and led him to attacking Shadow. So he chased him through the woods and sliced his throat open with a dagger. It was dumb not even really funny.
I DM alot and double as a player, in one my of highschool campaigns my level 1 wizard was killed by a rabbit, granted its a dragon polymorphed into a rabbit, but a rabbit none the less. Where's a holy grenade when you it?
Oh yeah also my first ever character died because she tripped in the street, sliced her leg open on a broken can, and it got infected because the party was too poor to get it healed.
reminds my recent party's druid wenever he tries to run off ahead of the party, some serious bad luck happens and he is either knocked to 0 hp or he's badly banged up, crazy earth gensai.
Polymorph just works, you don't need to roll to see if it does. So this was just Deus Ex Machina by DM to end the fight for sake of ending the fight. Less dumb and more DM shenanigan-hand-waivey-nonsense. There is no roll for "sudden organ failure" in D&D, at least not in 3.5 or later.
So, your character goes to cook and the party suddenly decides to kill him? What?
Your DM was a dick.
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All my character deaths have been due to battle except one which was when I wanted my character to exit so we (me and the DM, reactions from the unknowing party/players were priceless) had him fail a check when trying to jump across to another ship and fall down into the ocean, sucked under from the effects of demonic maelstroms, and drowned. He did eventually return and died again in battle. He had also died in his backstory so that was his 3rd death.
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dude it was my sister and i'm okay with it. none of us were invested i was still level 0 and i'm pretty sure she just brought me back
cool death for your guy though
I did have a goblin inventor piss off a fire giant and got splatted with the base of his massive shield. It looked like a tomato was smeared on his shield.
You were a little fly to that man F
The Goblin's Name was Spitball, it was how he chose his projects for the month, he was be blindfolded shot spit balls scroll cases in his workshop lab. I'm thinking of bringing him back for my current campaign which is funny given their current location is in hell. (Evil Dead version of Limbo.)
3rd time lucky.
One of my more boring characters died after he screamed at the top of his lungs in the middle of a crowded marketplace. What apparently happened was that everyone was so confused and trying to run away from the nonexistent danger that they trampled my character, who was a gnome, to death.
I was told Strahd's one weakness was love so at 2nd level when he met the party outside the trail leading to his home, I embraced him in a hug and told him I loved him. He bit me.
I climbed to the very top of one of those 200 ft tall jungle trees on chult while my low level party was being chased by huge swarms of stirges. ("You know they can fly, right?" - DM). I lured the stirges up and belly flopped onto the whole swarm. The Suicide actually saved everyone.
This Jojofinder campaign we all went playing with the True Stand Arrow... & I'm the one to fail their save... Now dying of stand sickness.
This is a story where someone almost dies. So flash back to my party's first time playing d&d we had just made are characters and my dm decided we were going to get all the characters introduced and teach everyone combat at the same time. So all of are characters are in a bar when a 3 of bandits show up and try to mug everyone this what went down for are wizard: first she casts poison spray on 1 of the bandits they roll 20 on there saving throw next round she think that the bandit is unaffected by her magic so she runs over to the bandit and hits them with her quarter staff she misses and then on there turn they slug her and role a 20 on there attack role knocking her unconscious.
Everyone was fine and "the hit it with your quarter staff has became a running joke.
The 6 most hated words in all of d&d history: make me a dex saving throw .
It happened in 2E. My group was doing the usual clean up after the boss battle, and for kicks I decided to jump up on the magic altar the boss had been using just before we killed him. Unbeknownst to me the giant activated the magic of the altar and it turned me to stone after I failed my - easy to make - saves. Also, to rub a little salt into the wound it was only my third session with the character.