So I just got done playing a character based off Assassin's creed, and the way this guy died was by trying to pull off a leap of faith, but I missed the hay bale.
this brings up a really annoying trend with recent players who thinks being annnoying to other players is something great to accomplish.
Not really a new trend, but I know the type you mean: "I'm just roleplaying my character. It's not my fault he's a total jerk to everyone!" :)
Your story reminds me of an adventure I ran for my nephew and a cousin. They were both 13-ish, and at that age when they thought playing evil characters would be super cool. I indulged them, and they created two Thieves (2nd edition) for use in my Waterdeep Campaign. The first thing they wanted to know was where was someone they could rob. I checked my sourcebook, and told them about a very rich old guy who was a philanthropist and very active in the church. Of course, he sounded like the perfect mark to them. They went to his house at night, broke in, and in the process of searching for something to steal, woke the guy's personal servant. A fight ensued, and the old man came out armed with a sword, and began to attack them. That's when they discovered that he was actually quite good with a sword. In fact, he was very good. One of them dropped, and the other one was forced to flee.
It wasn't common knowledge, but the old gentleman had earned all his money fighting as a mercenary in Tethyr where he had done some very bad things. His philanthropy and religiosity were an attempt to atone for his many misdeeds. :)
The character who ran from the fight eventually helped the other one escape from jail. They were then hired to kidnap a local noblewoman on behalf of a priest of Loviatar. They botched the job, though. The guards showed up, and when they tried to run they were captured by mage who cast Sleep on them. We went through the whole thing of them being tried, found guilty, and ending their careers by being hanged from the walls of the city as an example to others.
As the two players were dejectedly packing up their dice and books, one of them suddenly remembered: "Hey, wait a minute... We're elves! We're immune to Sleep!"
I got quite the laugh out of that. I told them it was their responsibility to remember their powers, not mine, and I let the ending stand. Of course, if they had been a good-aligned party, I would have replayed the fight for them at a later date, but evil PCs get evil DMs. :D
At any rate, that has to be high on their list of dumbest ways they died. :D
Once while I was on a Campaign in D&D 1st ed, my Human Fighter lvl 6 found a dwarven cave with some random dwarves refilling a barrel of Beer. Then our DM said:
Ohhh-Ohhhhh.... guys..... errrrrrrrr....... Roll a Dexterity saving throw....
We were 2 fighters ( me and a female Elf fighter ) plus 1 Dwarf Cleric lvl 5. Everyone but me rolled a nice saving throw.
Then, the DM announced this :
One of the dwarves has failed in a dexteriry check, so he made the barrel rolling down over the inclinated corridor that goes down to your direction. The Barrel is almost fullfilled, so that's gonna be an insta death for those who fails the saving throw......
Why, yes, it is not even classified necrotic. But he says its a necrotic enchantment in his campaign. Gotta problem? DM says youre hurting his feelings.
In Dragon of Icespire peak my friend's rogue was oneshotted by Gorthok the thunder boar when he shot 3,000 volts of electricity up his arm through his rapier. The cleric had revivify, but we didn't have enough money for the 300gp in diamonds cost. Everyone was looking at their sheets and adding it up but we were just a few short. RIP rogue.
tried to stop my fighter from committing mass genocide and he cut my arms off and then I died from blood loss.
How was that legal?
what had happened is that our fighter in our party had decided to kill an entire town and I wanted to knock him out by hitting him with the blunt side of my halberd. I rolled a one and accidentally stabbed him with the pointy end. he got angry and cut my arms off. I wanted to heal but our dm was a dick and said that we were poor and couldn't heal me. we had a lot of money from the town genocide. I ended up bleeding out and had to create a new character.
It was a 3.5 game. We were 4th level and were exploring a dungeon that we discovered had a Large Fire Elemental guarding the thing we needed to collect. So we rested, had all the spellcasters in the party prepare specifically for that encounter, and off we went. I was playing a Ranger and was one of the two melee characters in the party. Both I and the Fighter got Resistance to Fire cast on us, along with other buffs like Bull's Strength. We went in and started smacking the Elemental for all we were worth while the spellcasters stayed behind us and popped it with spells and the Cleric kept healing us, which was helping enough to keep us alive as we whittled away at its HP (it having DR 5/- and immunity to crits was making it hard to get decent hits in). And then cleric, who was unfortunately played by a fairly ditzy person, lost her train of thought.
Instead of healing me like she'd been doing (I knew she had plenty of spells left), she announced that she was going to charge, despite having no combat buffs on and not being a character who was much good at combat anyway. So she promptly got smacked by the elemental and to a lot of fire damage, while getting a single hit in that didn't even penetrate the creature's DR. It immediately focused its attacks on her and took her down in one round, then returned its attention to me and proceeded to kill my character because I was no longer receiving any sort of healing support. And that's why I died, because the healer had a blonde moment.
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It was a 3.5 game. We were 4th level and were exploring a dungeon that we discovered had a Large Fire Elemental guarding the thing we needed to collect. So we rested, had all the spellcasters in the party prepare specifically for that encounter, and off we went. I was playing a Ranger and was one of the two melee characters in the party. Both I and the Fighter got Resistance to Fire cast on us, along with other buffs like Bull's Strength. We went in and started smacking the Elemental for all we were worth while the spellcasters stayed behind us and popped it with spells and the Cleric kept healing us, which was helping enough to keep us alive as we whittled away at its HP (it having DR 5/- and immunity to crits was making it hard to get decent hits in). And then cleric, who was unfortunately played by a fairly ditzy person, lost her train of thought.
Instead of healing me like she'd been doing (I knew she had plenty of spells left), she announced that she was going to charge, despite having no combat buffs on and not being a character who was much good at combat anyway. So she promptly got smacked by the elemental and to a lot of fire damage, while getting a single hit in that didn't even penetrate the creature's DR. It immediately focused its attacks on her and took her down in one round, then returned its attention to me and proceeded to kill my character because I was no longer receiving any sort of healing support. And that's why I died, because the healer had a blonde moment.
or perhaps because the cleric had enough of just doing healing and only that while you guys have all the fun of actually fighting... the problem with dedicated healers is that their job is really really boring during combat times, hence why nobody wants the job to begin with.
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No, that was her forgetting what she was doing. She was a serious ditz and had actually forgotten what was happening because she'd stopped paying attention after her previous turn. It wasn't the first or last time she'd gone space cadet, but it was certainly the worst time.
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No, that was her forgetting what she was doing. She was a serious ditz and had actually forgotten what was happening because she'd stopped paying attention after her previous turn. It wasn't the first or last time she'd gone space cadet, but it was certainly the worst time.
People get distracted for many reasons. Im not judging... Just saying... Out of experience not much players who play dedicated healers likes it. Ttrpg arent video games... No use playing it like one.
I just dont like it when someone say they died a dumb way cause another player didnt play the way they wanted.
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No, that was her forgetting what she was doing. She was a serious ditz and had actually forgotten what was happening because she'd stopped paying attention after her previous turn. It wasn't the first or last time she'd gone space cadet, but it was certainly the worst time.
People get distracted for many reasons. Im not judging... Just saying... Out of experience not much players who play dedicated healers likes it. Ttrpg arent video games... No use playing it like one.
I just dont like it when someone say they died a dumb way cause another player didnt play the way they wanted.
You weren't at the table, you didn't know the player. She played healers. That was the kind of character she always built. After she died there, she was given the option of making a new character and she made another human cleric with the healing domain. That was what she wanted to play.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
No, that was her forgetting what she was doing. She was a serious ditz and had actually forgotten what was happening because she'd stopped paying attention after her previous turn. It wasn't the first or last time she'd gone space cadet, but it was certainly the worst time.
People get distracted for many reasons. Im not judging... Just saying... Out of experience not much players who play dedicated healers likes it. Ttrpg arent video games... No use playing it like one.
I just dont like it when someone say they died a dumb way cause another player didnt play the way they wanted.
You weren't at the table, you didn't know the player. She played healers. That was the kind of character she always built. After she died there, she was given the option of making a new character and she made another human cleric with the healing domain. That was what she wanted to play.
i've been a DM for years, i actuallylisten to my players. often ask them certain things... i don't need to be at the table to tell you, she had a reason to do that thing, it was probably not random. the number of players i have seen that do random things at the table... ammounts to about 0.0000000000000001% and even there their randomness often comes from them finding the game boring or just outright preferring to screw the game because its less boring that way. but you are right, i don't know that person, you are right i wasn't at the table... but i can guarantee that if you ask her, she would tell you the reason why she did it. and it probably wasn't as random as you think it was.
this is why communication at a table is important. i had players randomly (at least to other players) sacrifice in seemingly stupid behaviors. in reality they had talked to the dm about changing characters or changing their ways around. it could of been numerous reasons and often i have seen players unable to tell that to other players, they speak in private to the dm. again you are right i wasn't there, i might be entirely wrong there. but by my experience ont he matter, its never as random as people make it seem. and often players dont talk to other players so often the other players thinks the change is random out of the blue, but the player itself was probably speaking of this for weeks prior to it hapenning. or in rare occasion, like i got two session prior to this one. a player who just got in, make sure everyones hates him and then sacrifice himself stupidly, only to tell me about 15 minutes later that he already a new character ready to be added. because he ended up not liking his bard and the way he was playing him. but this scenario hapenned to me only once out of 30 years of d&d and that out of about 15 different group of 5 to 12 players. so its a really rare scenario.
anyway, i'm ranting again... i'm starting to feel my 40 years of existence... sorry for the wall of text. i let myself in when i type what's in my mind. go on people, really like reading these. sometimes gives me ideas for my groups. 8)
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We did ask her. She said "oh, I forgot." She was a really, really forgetful person, and no amount of second-guessing based on anecdotes that are being shared 16 years after the fact will change that. She forgot that the group was getting pizza one night and got a burger and fries from McDonald's. And she didn't "really" want McDonald's instead of pizza- once she got to the game she ate a few slices of pizza and ignored her burger and fries. That's the kind of person she was.
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He isn't dead yet, but my level 4 Zealot Barbarian modeled on Doomguy got dragged into Avernus by Dispater (for some reason the DM chose Dispater)... So now he's about to begin his crusade to the Abyss, and hopefully not die before he gets there.
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So I just got done playing a character based off Assassin's creed, and the way this guy died was by trying to pull off a leap of faith, but I missed the hay bale.
No one suspects a bush to hide in another bush
I want to do a Arcana check on the desk. 24
Dm: "You sense regular necrotic magic"
Me: "its necrotic, but Im a necromancer so it could really be anything.. I attempt to trigger the enchantment while my party stands back."
Dm: "power word kill, and since youre the only one with less than 100 health you die instantly."
Me: "wtf, you mean this desk was made for the pure sake of killing me and only me???"
Dm: "I told you it was enchanted with Necrotic magic."
Me: "Im ******* level 9."
Isn’t power word kill enchantment magic anywho?
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Not really a new trend, but I know the type you mean: "I'm just roleplaying my character. It's not my fault he's a total jerk to everyone!" :)
Your story reminds me of an adventure I ran for my nephew and a cousin. They were both 13-ish, and at that age when they thought playing evil characters would be super cool. I indulged them, and they created two Thieves (2nd edition) for use in my Waterdeep Campaign. The first thing they wanted to know was where was someone they could rob. I checked my sourcebook, and told them about a very rich old guy who was a philanthropist and very active in the church. Of course, he sounded like the perfect mark to them. They went to his house at night, broke in, and in the process of searching for something to steal, woke the guy's personal servant. A fight ensued, and the old man came out armed with a sword, and began to attack them. That's when they discovered that he was actually quite good with a sword. In fact, he was very good. One of them dropped, and the other one was forced to flee.
It wasn't common knowledge, but the old gentleman had earned all his money fighting as a mercenary in Tethyr where he had done some very bad things. His philanthropy and religiosity were an attempt to atone for his many misdeeds. :)
The character who ran from the fight eventually helped the other one escape from jail. They were then hired to kidnap a local noblewoman on behalf of a priest of Loviatar. They botched the job, though. The guards showed up, and when they tried to run they were captured by mage who cast Sleep on them. We went through the whole thing of them being tried, found guilty, and ending their careers by being hanged from the walls of the city as an example to others.
As the two players were dejectedly packing up their dice and books, one of them suddenly remembered: "Hey, wait a minute... We're elves! We're immune to Sleep!"
I got quite the laugh out of that. I told them it was their responsibility to remember their powers, not mine, and I let the ending stand. Of course, if they had been a good-aligned party, I would have replayed the fight for them at a later date, but evil PCs get evil DMs. :D
At any rate, that has to be high on their list of dumbest ways they died. :D
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Once while I was on a Campaign in D&D 1st ed, my Human Fighter lvl 6 found a dwarven cave with some random dwarves refilling a barrel of Beer. Then our DM said:
Ohhh-Ohhhhh.... guys..... errrrrrrrr....... Roll a Dexterity saving throw....
We were 2 fighters ( me and a female Elf fighter ) plus 1 Dwarf Cleric lvl 5. Everyone but me rolled a nice saving throw.
Then, the DM announced this :
One of the dwarves has failed in a dexteriry check, so he made the barrel rolling down over the inclinated corridor that goes down to your direction. The Barrel is almost fullfilled, so that's gonna be an insta death for those who fails the saving throw......
The rest is easy to guess................
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Why, yes, it is not even classified necrotic. But he says its a necrotic enchantment in his campaign. Gotta problem? DM says youre hurting his feelings.
Player: I pray to the god of evil and darkness for help.
DM: roll religion
Player: *5*
DM: you hear a voice in a language that you understand but do not recognise. It says "step into the pentacle"
Player: I step into the pentacle
Dm: take 2d6 necrotic
Player: screw you, god of death!
DM: 2d6
Player: I hate you and I will never worship you!
DM: 2d6
Player: I'm on death saves...
In Dragon of Icespire peak my friend's rogue was oneshotted by Gorthok the thunder boar when he shot 3,000 volts of electricity up his arm through his rapier. The cleric had revivify, but we didn't have enough money for the 300gp in diamonds cost. Everyone was looking at their sheets and adding it up but we were just a few short. RIP rogue.
this post has about one ninth of all the replies of stories/lore, I think.
what had happened is that our fighter in our party had decided to kill an entire town and I wanted to knock him out by hitting him with the blunt side of my halberd. I rolled a one and accidentally stabbed him with the pointy end. he got angry and cut my arms off. I wanted to heal but our dm was a dick and said that we were poor and couldn't heal me. we had a lot of money from the town genocide. I ended up bleeding out and had to create a new character.
Dumbest way I've had a character die?
It was a 3.5 game. We were 4th level and were exploring a dungeon that we discovered had a Large Fire Elemental guarding the thing we needed to collect. So we rested, had all the spellcasters in the party prepare specifically for that encounter, and off we went. I was playing a Ranger and was one of the two melee characters in the party. Both I and the Fighter got Resistance to Fire cast on us, along with other buffs like Bull's Strength. We went in and started smacking the Elemental for all we were worth while the spellcasters stayed behind us and popped it with spells and the Cleric kept healing us, which was helping enough to keep us alive as we whittled away at its HP (it having DR 5/- and immunity to crits was making it hard to get decent hits in). And then cleric, who was unfortunately played by a fairly ditzy person, lost her train of thought.
Instead of healing me like she'd been doing (I knew she had plenty of spells left), she announced that she was going to charge, despite having no combat buffs on and not being a character who was much good at combat anyway. So she promptly got smacked by the elemental and to a lot of fire damage, while getting a single hit in that didn't even penetrate the creature's DR. It immediately focused its attacks on her and took her down in one round, then returned its attention to me and proceeded to kill my character because I was no longer receiving any sort of healing support. And that's why I died, because the healer had a blonde moment.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
or perhaps because the cleric had enough of just doing healing and only that while you guys have all the fun of actually fighting...
the problem with dedicated healers is that their job is really really boring during combat times, hence why nobody wants the job to begin with.
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No, that was her forgetting what she was doing. She was a serious ditz and had actually forgotten what was happening because she'd stopped paying attention after her previous turn. It wasn't the first or last time she'd gone space cadet, but it was certainly the worst time.
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So basically, our party was faced with 4 zombie girallions. It would be a tough fight, but...
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People get distracted for many reasons. Im not judging... Just saying... Out of experience not much players who play dedicated healers likes it. Ttrpg arent video games... No use playing it like one.
I just dont like it when someone say they died a dumb way cause another player didnt play the way they wanted.
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You weren't at the table, you didn't know the player. She played healers. That was the kind of character she always built. After she died there, she was given the option of making a new character and she made another human cleric with the healing domain. That was what she wanted to play.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
i've been a DM for years, i actuallylisten to my players. often ask them certain things... i don't need to be at the table to tell you, she had a reason to do that thing, it was probably not random. the number of players i have seen that do random things at the table... ammounts to about 0.0000000000000001% and even there their randomness often comes from them finding the game boring or just outright preferring to screw the game because its less boring that way. but you are right, i don't know that person, you are right i wasn't at the table... but i can guarantee that if you ask her, she would tell you the reason why she did it. and it probably wasn't as random as you think it was.
this is why communication at a table is important.
i had players randomly (at least to other players) sacrifice in seemingly stupid behaviors. in reality they had talked to the dm about changing characters or changing their ways around. it could of been numerous reasons and often i have seen players unable to tell that to other players, they speak in private to the dm. again you are right i wasn't there, i might be entirely wrong there. but by my experience ont he matter, its never as random as people make it seem. and often players dont talk to other players so often the other players thinks the change is random out of the blue, but the player itself was probably speaking of this for weeks prior to it hapenning. or in rare occasion, like i got two session prior to this one. a player who just got in, make sure everyones hates him and then sacrifice himself stupidly, only to tell me about 15 minutes later that he already a new character ready to be added. because he ended up not liking his bard and the way he was playing him. but this scenario hapenned to me only once out of 30 years of d&d and that out of about 15 different group of 5 to 12 players. so its a really rare scenario.
anyway, i'm ranting again... i'm starting to feel my 40 years of existence...
sorry for the wall of text. i let myself in when i type what's in my mind.
go on people, really like reading these. sometimes gives me ideas for my groups. 8)
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We did ask her. She said "oh, I forgot." She was a really, really forgetful person, and no amount of second-guessing based on anecdotes that are being shared 16 years after the fact will change that. She forgot that the group was getting pizza one night and got a burger and fries from McDonald's. And she didn't "really" want McDonald's instead of pizza- once she got to the game she ate a few slices of pizza and ignored her burger and fries. That's the kind of person she was.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
He isn't dead yet, but my level 4 Zealot Barbarian modeled on Doomguy got dragged into Avernus by Dispater (for some reason the DM chose Dispater)... So now he's about to begin his crusade to the Abyss, and hopefully not die before he gets there.
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