I was a 2nd level barbarian combing through a dungeon with my party when I saw a group of cultist ahead. I charged into the room raging, and got nailed by a hold person spell from the evil wizard in the back of the room that I didn't see until it was too late. The cultist started to chop away at my HP while my party backed away. I failed all of my saves vs. the spell, and was in the process of permanently dying (I also failed 2 of my death saves), when the rest of the party managed to drag me away and give me a healing potion)
After that, I was the most cautious Barbarian in the history of D&D :)
I died on a railroad back in AD&D. The DM used methods akin to invisible walls and killboxes to force the players to do things as his story intended. I was the first die to a 2nd-story jump that somehow changed to the 4th story when the DM described how the 1st story of a standard inn was 3 stories high, a tidbit that was never revealed prior but should have been obvious. After lame excuse after lame excuse for certain invisible walls - invisible wall meaning not allowing the players to do things that made sense to the characters, the other players lost interest in the railroad and the campaign never finished.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Doing a one shot our DM decided to see if 8 level 4's could kill a CR13 Adolescent white dragon. My druid never got out of the cave, got breath weaponed to unco in one shot. My beautiful 37 hp's! We did kill it, but only because of OP rogue mechanics combined with some lucky dice rolls on our fighters.
3.5, killed myself with an arrow I tried to fire. Had a house rule where a 1 was a horrendous mishap for whatever you were rolling for, it made the game crazy interesting and allowed for wild stuff to happen often. So, my Ranger rolled a 1 when trying to attack an orc with a bow while we were ambushed in a forest. I had low hp and thought it would be a good idea with some space I had tried to create. DM then rolled a D8 publicly as a "which way does the arrow go off?" and rolled so it came back towards me, to which he made me roll to see if it hit me. I rolled a 19 and got hit near point blank for around 6 damage, which killed me. I was so mad that I wasn't even mad, if that makes sense. The circumstances were so stupid I couldn't help but just be shocked. I haven't played a Ranger since then (around eleven years now).
Had a house rule where a 1 was a horrendous mishap for whatever you were rolling for, it made the game crazy interesting and allowed for wild stuff to happen often.
I had my level 3 Rogue killed by a rock. I had been previously dropped to 0 HP, and crit-failed on my initial death save (counts as two failed saves) and there was this Goblin, this teeny, tiny, practically useless Goblin in the cave, and it used their sling to attack me while I was incapacitated.
Goblin rolls a crit.
My character died.
Literally died because of a rock and to this day I'm still not sure how I feel about that. I really liked that character T_T
Oh yeah, it made it more interesting when everything has a chance of going horribly wrong and adds some really solid weight to any decisions. Like "Is stealth the best plan of action when if I mess up I can fall down the stairs and alert every guard in the building?"
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Crushed by an armoire. Adventure is over. Looting the castle. I miss a trap and large and apparently heavy armoire falls on top of me. I was down to about 4 hp after the the final battle, and that was all she wrote. My older brother was our DM. Never lived that down.
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This was a time i let someone fight as my character when i left before the boss fight began against a large man bat. pathfinder was the rules we followed i was a lvl 5 bloodrager kitsune bloodline and one of my crew was a kinetcist. later told the fight was won but he needlessly sacraficed my character who was paralyzed and on the ground. He decided to mind throw me at the boss to be used as a distraction for no real reason. My DM told me it was just so he could run away as everyone else killed the boss. It was the first boss and the begining of journey when our characters meet. first group acctivity and he had me drained alive at the mercy of a cursed Lord of the land. Not a good day
It wasn't a death, but the only time we've had a party member in our current campaign lose consciousness was due to another party member's damage. Early on, maybe 2nd level, we were sent into the nearby forest to deal with what was being described as a red dragon that was scaring off all of the lumberers. We found and attacked the "dragon", which turned out to be a faerie dragon projecting an illusion of a much larger dragon. Our sorcerer's attacks kept passing through the dragon illusion and hitting our cleric. Literally the only time we almost had a party member die and 100% of the damage dealt to her was from one of our own lol.
In a game I'm playing, we had a good-aligned necromancer who liked to deck out his undead with armor and swords. Well, our party was ambushed by a Succubus, who managed to charm the Necromancer and, being a squishy wizard, he sent his zombies to do the fighting. We knocked him out, but it turns out he needed to be conscious to order is undead to stop attacking. By the end of the session, my sorceror, the druid and the necromancer himself ended up dying. We all got resurrected in time, but it was still a real WTF way to die.
Not a true death, but as a Circle of the Moon druid wild shaped as an Elk I tripped an ice trap, took massive damage but survived. Stunned for one turn, on next I moved but didn't see the goblin hiding in the rafters. It dropped on me, killing my elk form and itself. Thankfully it was just my elk form, which for my character is like the death of a friend.
Played a rogue/merchant once. After determining from the dungeon master that a tavern goer was drunk out of his mind and the tavern keep was no longer willing to serve the man drinks, I sold him several bottles which were watered down. Should have known he was important by the detail the dungeon master put in to describing him. The next day it's revealed that he was a level 5 fighter, and he knows exactly what I did to get a few extra coins. My character is killed, and a DMPC joins the party.
Played a rogue/merchant once. After determining from the dungeon master that a tavern goer was drunk out of his mind and the tavern keep was no longer willing to serve the man drinks, I sold him several bottles which were watered down. Should have known he was important by the detail the dungeon master put in to describing him. The next day it's revealed that he was a level 5 fighter, and he knows exactly what I did to get a few extra coins. My character is killed, and a DMPC joins the party.
Never played a rogue again after that.
Sounds to me like you have a dick DM and your party accepting into their group the guy who killed their ally is suspicious and bizarre even by D&D standards.
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I was standing within blast range of a wild magic sorcerer. He blew up.
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I was a 2nd level barbarian combing through a dungeon with my party when I saw a group of cultist ahead. I charged into the room raging, and got nailed by a hold person spell from the evil wizard in the back of the room that I didn't see until it was too late. The cultist started to chop away at my HP while my party backed away. I failed all of my saves vs. the spell, and was in the process of permanently dying (I also failed 2 of my death saves), when the rest of the party managed to drag me away and give me a healing potion)
After that, I was the most cautious Barbarian in the history of D&D :)
I died on a railroad back in AD&D. The DM used methods akin to invisible walls and killboxes to force the players to do things as his story intended. I was the first die to a 2nd-story jump that somehow changed to the 4th story when the DM described how the 1st story of a standard inn was 3 stories high, a tidbit that was never revealed prior but should have been obvious. After lame excuse after lame excuse for certain invisible walls - invisible wall meaning not allowing the players to do things that made sense to the characters, the other players lost interest in the railroad and the campaign never finished.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
Found out the hard way, that a Level 2 Bard should run like hell from a Shambling Mound.
Doing a one shot our DM decided to see if 8 level 4's could kill a CR13 Adolescent white dragon. My druid never got out of the cave, got breath weaponed to unco in one shot. My beautiful 37 hp's! We did kill it, but only because of OP rogue mechanics combined with some lucky dice rolls on our fighters.
3.5, killed myself with an arrow I tried to fire.
Had a house rule where a 1 was a horrendous mishap for whatever you were rolling for, it made the game crazy interesting and allowed for wild stuff to happen often. So, my Ranger rolled a 1 when trying to attack an orc with a bow while we were ambushed in a forest. I had low hp and thought it would be a good idea with some space I had tried to create. DM then rolled a D8 publicly as a "which way does the arrow go off?" and rolled so it came back towards me, to which he made me roll to see if it hit me. I rolled a 19 and got hit near point blank for around 6 damage, which killed me. I was so mad that I wasn't even mad, if that makes sense. The circumstances were so stupid I couldn't help but just be shocked. I haven't played a Ranger since then (around eleven years now).
Have you ever played a wild magic sorcerer?... :)
I had my level 3 Rogue killed by a rock. I had been previously dropped to 0 HP, and crit-failed on my initial death save (counts as two failed saves) and there was this Goblin, this teeny, tiny, practically useless Goblin in the cave, and it used their sling to attack me while I was incapacitated.
Goblin rolls a crit.
My character died.
Literally died because of a rock and to this day I'm still not sure how I feel about that. I really liked that character T_T
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Oh yeah, it made it more interesting when everything has a chance of going horribly wrong and adds some really solid weight to any decisions. Like "Is stealth the best plan of action when if I mess up I can fall down the stairs and alert every guard in the building?"
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i shot a crossbow bolt attached to a wizard that was polymorph int a snail straight above me.at list i killed the wizard.
i really loved that rogue.
Crushed by an armoire. Adventure is over. Looting the castle. I miss a trap and large and apparently heavy armoire falls on top of me. I was down to about 4 hp after the the final battle, and that was all she wrote. My older brother was our DM. Never lived that down.
Chaotic Good- Doing the right thing even if that means killing everyone else in the process.
This was a time i let someone fight as my character when i left before the boss fight began against a large man bat. pathfinder was the rules we followed i was a lvl 5 bloodrager kitsune bloodline and one of my crew was a kinetcist. later told the fight was won but he needlessly sacraficed my character who was paralyzed and on the ground. He decided to mind throw me at the boss to be used as a distraction for no real reason. My DM told me it was just so he could run away as everyone else killed the boss. It was the first boss and the begining of journey when our characters meet. first group acctivity and he had me drained alive at the mercy of a cursed Lord of the land. Not a good day
Curse of Strahd Campaign, about half way through.
TPK'd when our Sorceror planted a magic bean and summoned a Mummy Lord.
That Mummy Lord was more powerful than Strahd, wiped us in a single round.
It wasn't a death, but the only time we've had a party member in our current campaign lose consciousness was due to another party member's damage. Early on, maybe 2nd level, we were sent into the nearby forest to deal with what was being described as a red dragon that was scaring off all of the lumberers. We found and attacked the "dragon", which turned out to be a faerie dragon projecting an illusion of a much larger dragon. Our sorcerer's attacks kept passing through the dragon illusion and hitting our cleric. Literally the only time we almost had a party member die and 100% of the damage dealt to her was from one of our own lol.
In a game I'm playing, we had a good-aligned necromancer who liked to deck out his undead with armor and swords. Well, our party was ambushed by a Succubus, who managed to charm the Necromancer and, being a squishy wizard, he sent his zombies to do the fighting. We knocked him out, but it turns out he needed to be conscious to order is undead to stop attacking. By the end of the session, my sorceror, the druid and the necromancer himself ended up dying. We all got resurrected in time, but it was still a real WTF way to die.
Death by undead friendly fire :(
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Not a true death, but as a Circle of the Moon druid wild shaped as an Elk I tripped an ice trap, took massive damage but survived. Stunned for one turn, on next I moved but didn't see the goblin hiding in the rafters. It dropped on me, killing my elk form and itself. Thankfully it was just my elk form, which for my character is like the death of a friend.
Played a rogue/merchant once. After determining from the dungeon master that a tavern goer was drunk out of his mind and the tavern keep was no longer willing to serve the man drinks, I sold him several bottles which were watered down. Should have known he was important by the detail the dungeon master put in to describing him. The next day it's revealed that he was a level 5 fighter, and he knows exactly what I did to get a few extra coins. My character is killed, and a DMPC joins the party.
Never played a rogue again after that.
Sounds to me like you have a dick DM and your party accepting into their group the guy who killed their ally is suspicious and bizarre even by D&D standards.
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I was standing within blast range of a wild magic sorcerer. He blew up.
Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest.
Tasha