Fighting an ice dragon and got hit with ice breath.

We won the encounter while I was on death saves.

No one else knew a healing spell and I died.

In my first campaign, a character tried to steal from the mayor and almost died at the merciless hands of the mayor.

I don't necessarily have the dumbest death for my characters, but on the campaign I am DMing, my first level players didn't trust the governor at this town they were saving. The final quest of the night, they had to go save a mill. The fight knocked unconscious 2 of the players (their beloved Kobold companion, and the bard) and the wizard wasn't happy. As they walked into the mill, they were ambushed, and the monk was knocked unconscious as soon as he walked in the room. The wizard, obviously annoyed, asked if the mill's walls were flammable. I told him not to fire bolt. The bard then said flour is combustible, and will explode. Wizard shot fire bolt, mill go boom, no more fight 😂 the monk was healed, and as soon as he woke up, he just saw the flames of the mill. The governor was not happy

I drank an unidentified potion.

I turned into an unidentifiable ooze amidst all my dropped gear.

Don't drink unidentified potions.

Ingested a strange fungus. Died at the hands of a crazy Duergar Farmer wielding a shotgun which turned me into quite literal ground beef(Was playing a minotaur). The last thing I heard was "Git off mah properteh!" Never thought I'd find Fuzzy Lumpkins the Duergar with his meat gun.

i was a air genasi and I killed a guy by turning into air and blowing him up then a other person intimidated all of the people into not fighting.

what

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i was a air genasi and I killed a guy by turning into air and blowing him up then a other person intimidated all of the people into not fighting.

 rain world fan spotted in the wild

rain world is cool

Sadly, I haven't had a character die. However, while DMing, one of our party members (the wizard, which is funny later) almost got killed by 5 awakened trees, then the mermicorn (don't ask) barkeeper who I specifically told them not to fight. Thankfully, the wizard survived. Later, the party's paladin german suplexed a strigoi for 22d8 damage (house rules, they got changed later to do 11d4)

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Twas my first — and only campaign, ran by a new DM. We were in a tavern, hearing rumors of a Tarasque emerging from the ground, when I, a level 1 ranger, said something that offended an orc behind me. They got up, threw a “punch” (the DM used a greataxe attack by accident), and I proceeded to explode in my booth. Campaign ends.

I didn’t even make it out of the tavern :’)

 Dude , you can make mistakes like that so easily. Hopefully your DM brings him back somehow. :'(

 

Unfortunately, we are no longer on speaking terms for reasons outside of D&D, so my first character rests in pieces.They will forever live in my heart, and in my D&D Beyond character sheets. 

o7

 Dude that sucks well hopefully that never happens again. 

TLDR: Dwarf wizard basically committed sewerside when the whole party had a clear path to retreat.

Got ambushed by a group of Sahuagin priestesses. Fight went very poorly. I (Wood elf Druid) cast Fog Cloud so we could all book it to safety with ease. Reborn Paladin was already gone and I had grabbed Half-elf Warlock on my way out. Mark of Warding Dwarf Wizard decided he wasn’t done yet, though. Chugged a vial of dragon’s blood (got a roll for Enlarged), ran the opposite way out of the fog cloud toward the sahuagin and got unalived within a round anyway. No heroic end: just a dude throwing himself out of the game when we already lost the fight as well as the caravan we were escorting.

To summarize, my party blew up a tavern, *nearly* killing 3 PCs.

Here's what went down. The players (there were 6) were in the home base village laying low in the tavern since the Cult of Monloth had overthrown the village. The guy in charge here was connected to a PC's Backstory (essentially rip-off Inigo Montoya from Princess Bride but with a 4 fingered man instead of a fingered one). Three of the PCs went to go take down the 4 fingered man while 1 slept (having just been YEETED by a Mummy Lord's Sand Storm but that's a different story) while the other two a Cleric and a brand new player as a Sorcerer were mainly mingling about the tavern. The thing with this sorcerer was he loved to get drunk so he went down into the cellar and opened a barrel of alcoholic drink and sat underneath the tap guzzling it. It spilled everywhere and when a loose Fireball hit the Tavern the Cleric started panicking ran into the cellar to grab the sorcerer (everyone had forgotten the sleeping barbarian since he was at his grandparents that weekend) The alcohol only started spilling out on the floor after the sorcerer was dragged away. The two PCs were just short of the door when KABOOM! The two PCs flew out the backdoor landing roughly 100ft away meanwhile I described our Pink Dragonborn Barbarian waking up and seeing a bird flying by, he waves and then Looney Toons style realizes what's going on and plummets to the ground. Thankfully (since I didn't want to have the awkward convo of "your character died while you were gone" with the player) he lands right on top of the 4 fingered man, breaking his fall.

The End

this was a npc i made that died but it was a sock puppet merchant (a sock puppet who sold stuff.) one of my players then destroyed the sock puppet for no reason. there is now a entire plot dedacated to the sock puppets child getting revenge on the party

My DM watches D&D Daily and killed us with a Druid/Rogue multiclass that does 24d6 damage at lvl 6 and only gets bigger as they get stronger. The combo was:

Scorching Ray+the old Assasin Rogue Assasinate+Conjure Minor Elementals+Bugbear Surprise Attack

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rain world is cool

 very accurate

thanks

You're welcome

Not me, but half the party died blowing up a tavern with multiple fireballs while one of the other characters killed the mayor.

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Not me, but half the party died blowing up a tavern with multiple fireballs while one of the other characters killed the mayor.

 So a normal D&D campaign?