Wasn't me but one of my players wouldn't let things go during an exchange with a celestial lich. Power word kill is one hell of a learning lesson.
Thankfully the rogue in the party had a luck blade and changed the situation having him leave with them instead of charging the npc. The rogue it's the only one, using the wish spell, that knows what actually happened.
This wasn't me but when I was DMing I had my players stuck in a city in a bottle. one of them escaped and found out that they were sent to torture chamber and along side the walls was heros who tried to overthrow the king in their own personalised hell within the bottle. So what did my player do to try and get his comrades out of the bottle? he grabbed a random bottle (Thank god the other players wasn't inside of that one) and he bit it.... his body and the room was crushed when the city took its regular size again..... the funniest way a player has died in one of my campaigns
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One of my characters decided to magic missile a raven statue. The swarm of Ravens that appeared then proceeded to kill him.
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Once one of my players got shot to unconsciousness, someone cast healing word, he was back up, one of the bandits shot him down again, this went on for 5 FULL TURN ROUNDS while the party was finishing the rest of the bandi. Eventually right as the party turned to help the party member YET AGAIN the bandit got a nat 20 and the poor man died
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Bardic Inspiration is just someone believing in you, and I believe in you
Another one was when the bard split off from the party, got attacked by 2 Stirges one rolled a natural 20 and he died right then in there (ah level 1 how squishy you make players)
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When I first started DMing, I was too hesitant to kill a player off, but they should have died this way:
The group was exploring an abandoned ghost ship in arctic waters, filled with traps and pitfalls and weak floorboards. One PC decided to go off on his own, completely unnecessarily. He fell far down into freezing water and failed a number of saves trying to climb out as well as CON saves, partially because he kept trying to retrieve a magic lantern he'd found. So his body gave out, and he drowned.
Or would have had I not been too scared to kill a PC like, 4-5 sessions into my first campaign. Instead I had some deep mysterious entity save him. But the campaign didn't last for many reasons (the other did, I was doing 2 at once my first go around - at least the other is still going strong 60 sessions in!). So I like to think he died that day, alone and freezing and stupid as could be.
Reminds me of when I died to blood hawks. After being exhausted playing Rambo watching Sahaguins that I noticed during my watch. So I stayed up all night to Gloomstalker watch them from in the lake.
party left without me. I went to catch up. Exhausted. Failed con save to maintain a pace through my favored terrain as I was tracking them.
with a “pulled hamstring” I decided to walk. I decided I was hungry. “What do I see” nature check. Trees, birds, bushes, berries.
i decide to try and climb a tree to get the bird eggs. Fail to climb. Fall on my butt. 2 damage.
cue the pissed off Blood hawks. Not wanting to meta blood hawks. “What can I tell or notice about these birds? Will running get them to stop attacking me?” Exhaustion strikes a 3rd time. “They’re red. Red usually means danger.” So I swing at the 1 blood hawk vs running, knock it down, and decide to try and eat that instead.
cue 8 more blood hawks attack me.....
pack tactics...
yep. Blood hawks. Doing a Chris Farley scene essentially.
Picture the scene, a large goliath monk, a small rocky outcrop, a balcony above a sheer drop beyond the face of the cliff, and a party member trapped behind a door beyond. The quickest route? a 15 foot jump with no safe ground to push off. The monk, only level 5 goes for it. Rolling a natural 1 on the athletics check she slips on the rocks as she makes the run up and finds herself plummetting 300 ft to the ground below. That was the dumbest way I died... but it gets better.
The party take a longer route to the trapped friend and on their return find the monk missing. It doesn't take them long to piece together what happened and then the cleric decides they need to make sure the monk's okay... they start climbing down the cliff face without any climbing gear... not even fifty feet down they loose their grip and fall to their death alongside the monk.
He thinks the “12-year old kid” was a player. Hasn’t realized it was an NPC. Many DMs forget to even mention children so players forget that child NPCs exist.
He thinks the “12-year old kid” was a player. Hasn’t realized it was an NPC. Many DMs forget to even mention children so players forget that child NPCs exist.
Okay, the 12 year old was the archmage.
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It also turned the party paladin to stone with prismatic spray. The only one in the party that wasn't affected by anything was the Halfling Rogue, who then had to get the rest of the party back.
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He thinks the “12-year old kid” was a player. Hasn’t realized it was an NPC. Many DMs forget to even mention children so players forget that child NPCs exist.
Lol! Guilty! Totally didn't mention that the store clerk was a 13yr old girl. The Bard decided to put a fear in her eyes so severe that she let the other players get stuff really cheap!
But that may not get the players killed. A little trouble and perhaps a fine. Will see how that plays out.
Welp. First time actually being a player my little level 1 cleric took 16hp of damage and was instantly down. Pretty strong mob for level 1s. Passed two death saves. Other players standing next to my body keep on fighting instead of using a potion to get me up to heal them.
They die one by one. Game over in under 30min with a tpk. I'll use that character again one day though I guess. Maybe last longer next time.
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Cervical neck fracture from being impacted with (not by, with, someone swing her by the ankles like a club) a very buxom tavern wench.
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Wasn't me but one of my players wouldn't let things go during an exchange with a celestial lich. Power word kill is one hell of a learning lesson.
Thankfully the rogue in the party had a luck blade and changed the situation having him leave with them instead of charging the npc. The rogue it's the only one, using the wish spell, that knows what actually happened.
This wasn't me but when I was DMing I had my players stuck in a city in a bottle. one of them escaped and found out that they were sent to torture chamber and along side the walls was heros who tried to overthrow the king in their own personalised hell within the bottle. So what did my player do to try and get his comrades out of the bottle? he grabbed a random bottle (Thank god the other players wasn't inside of that one) and he bit it.... his body and the room was crushed when the city took its regular size again..... the funniest way a player has died in one of my campaigns
“Games give you a chance to excel, and if you're playing in good company you don't even mind if you lose because you had the enjoyment of the company during the course of the game.” ― Gary Gygax
One of my characters decided to magic missile a raven statue. The swarm of Ravens that appeared then proceeded to kill him.
All stars fade. Some stars forever fall.
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If there was no light, people wouldn't fear the dark.
Once one of my players got shot to unconsciousness, someone cast healing word, he was back up, one of the bandits shot him down again, this went on for 5 FULL TURN ROUNDS while the party was finishing the rest of the bandi. Eventually right as the party turned to help the party member YET AGAIN the bandit got a nat 20 and the poor man died
Bardic Inspiration is just someone believing in you, and I believe in you
Another one was when the bard split off from the party, got attacked by 2 Stirges one rolled a natural 20 and he died right then in there (ah level 1 how squishy you make players)
Bardic Inspiration is just someone believing in you, and I believe in you
When I first started DMing, I was too hesitant to kill a player off, but they should have died this way:
The group was exploring an abandoned ghost ship in arctic waters, filled with traps and pitfalls and weak floorboards. One PC decided to go off on his own, completely unnecessarily. He fell far down into freezing water and failed a number of saves trying to climb out as well as CON saves, partially because he kept trying to retrieve a magic lantern he'd found. So his body gave out, and he drowned.
Or would have had I not been too scared to kill a PC like, 4-5 sessions into my first campaign. Instead I had some deep mysterious entity save him. But the campaign didn't last for many reasons (the other did, I was doing 2 at once my first go around - at least the other is still going strong 60 sessions in!). So I like to think he died that day, alone and freezing and stupid as could be.
Reminds me of when I died to blood hawks. After being exhausted playing Rambo watching Sahaguins that I noticed during my watch. So I stayed up all night to Gloomstalker watch them from in the lake.
party left without me. I went to catch up. Exhausted. Failed con save to maintain a pace through my favored terrain as I was tracking them.
with a “pulled hamstring” I decided to walk. I decided I was hungry. “What do I see” nature check. Trees, birds, bushes, berries.
i decide to try and climb a tree to get the bird eggs. Fail to climb. Fall on my butt. 2 damage.
cue the pissed off Blood hawks. Not wanting to meta blood hawks. “What can I tell or notice about these birds? Will running get them to stop attacking me?” Exhaustion strikes a 3rd time. “They’re red. Red usually means danger.” So I swing at the 1 blood hawk vs running, knock it down, and decide to try and eat that instead.
cue 8 more blood hawks attack me.....
pack tactics...
yep. Blood hawks. Doing a Chris Farley scene essentially.
I haven't heard of a basic "trying to survive" situation actually killing a player, that's hilarious.
Disadvantage from
exhaustion is not to be underestimated.
nature roll 20... disadvantage... 3.
climbing tree 14 turns to 10
con save goes from pass to fail. Other nature roll was 12/18 so wasn’t bad.
yup. Sometimes the dice just doesn’t favor you. And exhaustion is not to be underestimated.
12 year old kid, who turned out to be an Archmage, power word killed our party's wizard, and banished our Artificer to Carceri with Prismatic Spray.
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Y tho. Just seems like an all-around terrible idea to trash your allies for seemingly no reason.
Huh?
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Picture the scene, a large goliath monk, a small rocky outcrop, a balcony above a sheer drop beyond the face of the cliff, and a party member trapped behind a door beyond. The quickest route? a 15 foot jump with no safe ground to push off. The monk, only level 5 goes for it. Rolling a natural 1 on the athletics check she slips on the rocks as she makes the run up and finds herself plummetting 300 ft to the ground below. That was the dumbest way I died... but it gets better.
The party take a longer route to the trapped friend and on their return find the monk missing. It doesn't take them long to piece together what happened and then the cleric decides they need to make sure the monk's okay... they start climbing down the cliff face without any climbing gear... not even fifty feet down they loose their grip and fall to their death alongside the monk.
I think the “kid” was an NPC.
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He thinks the “12-year old kid” was a player. Hasn’t realized it was an NPC. Many DMs forget to even mention children so players forget that child NPCs exist.
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Okay, the 12 year old was the archmage.
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It also turned the party paladin to stone with prismatic spray. The only one in the party that wasn't affected by anything was the Halfling Rogue, who then had to get the rest of the party back.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
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Lol! Guilty! Totally didn't mention that the store clerk was a 13yr old girl. The Bard decided to put a fear in her eyes so severe that she let the other players get stuff really cheap!
But that may not get the players killed. A little trouble and perhaps a fine. Will see how that plays out.
Welp. First time actually being a player my little level 1 cleric took 16hp of damage and was instantly down. Pretty strong mob for level 1s. Passed two death saves. Other players standing next to my body keep on fighting instead of using a potion to get me up to heal them.
They die one by one. Game over in under 30min with a tpk. I'll use that character again one day though I guess. Maybe last longer next time.