How is he planning to get to the Abyss?  Is he going to try heading up the Styx?

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How is he planning to get to the Abyss?  Is he going to try heading up the Styx?

 That was the idea. Not sure *how* he'll go up the Styx yet.

Sounds like an adventure.

Update: He died. Chain Devil has claimed his remains. lol

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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. 

 probably thought tou were serguay reborn or something  

First hall in The Tomb of Horrors. I stupidly opened the damn trapped chest on the wall held by the 2 Jackal-headed bas-reliefs. Failed my Poison Saving Throw. Was NOT a happy camper...

I was a 3rd level paladin who was fighting a rogue and his demon friend and my sorcerer companion thought it was a good idea to "let the rogue talk" and put me to sleep.  Needless to say the rogue took the opportunity to kill me while I slept and then his demon friend killed the sorcerer. 

I sat there in shock and looked over to the player who was the sorcerer and he just said...."sorry".    

There are some points when someone at the table does something so profoundly stupid that you should be entitled to reload the game to the round before they did it.

Old school game, straight 3d6 stat roll generation, 1st level wizard, 2 hit points.
Horrifying kobolds with daggers! Run for life! Must escape down handy stairs!
Nuts. Kobolds have rope strung across top of stairs. Must make Dex check!
Nuts. Failed.
Tumble, roll, bounce. Fast forward to bottom of stairs: roll d4; take 3 points damage.
[End.]

Moral of story: in terms of character longevity, some of the 5e updates on hit points were a good idea.

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There are some points when someone at the table does something so profoundly stupid that you should be entitled to reload the game to the round before they did it.

 Its why I introduced things like Fate Points into my game as reward for good RP. You can burn them to save your ass from things like non-recoverable a potential death.....

Flaming defrosting freshly killed wolf carcass barrels down stairs at 25 miles per hour and gets Harold the Wizard to 0 hp.

Enough said.

This wasn’t a death; it was a way the campaign ended. I was playing a tortle cleric, and I was good friends with the half-orc barbarian. After the party split up, we retired to Chult to spend the rest of our life riding dinosaurs.

That's not dumb, that's awesome.

I had just created a half-orc that was really thought out, probably my favorite character yet.

Vampire bites my half-orc.

I lose 18 damage, but am not killed outright.

Forgot I had Relentless and should have dropped to 1, but instead my first session with Hyle goes wayside.

Thankfully, our Bard saved me, but that was a long night of thinking what could have hapenned...

Also Thunderwaved our bard into a wizard, also casting thunderwave...

It was a tremendously large group - 3 tables each working on separate parts of a finale of long running campaign.

My table held off the big bad so that everyone else had an easier time with their parts.  Table 2 completed their part.  Table 3 had killed the NPC who would've assisted them in completing their part due to previous transgression.  Since they couldn't complete their part, the world tree that was being reborn grew out of control and killed 20+ PCs.

The finale of a year long campaign was a TPK because one player convinced their team to kill the NPC they had a personal grievance with.

I had a bead of force in my mouth just in case things went sideways, so I crunched down on that rather than be crushed by the world tree.

I feel as though there might be some blame to pin on the GM(s) if success was tied to a particular NPC that the party had reasons to distrust.

In my opinion, Power word "kill" is the dumbest way to die..I would much rather die doing something stupid, then by a simple word. :P

One time, I joined a campaign where we were supposed to protect these baby dragon turtles. At one point near the beach we were fighting these crabs.

I was at full health…

But level 1 wizards tend to be squishy.

I crab critted me and dealt more damage than twice my max, insta-killeing my character. I didn’t even last one session!

My top 5....

1. Got ambushed by an Orc Barbarian... Greatsword max damage critical hit.... Raging of course. Character was just a 2nd level Ranger. - the dice can be cruel.

2. Kobolds set portable Hole pit trap... Guess who had the bag of holding?

3. Standing next to a Paladin who elects to Sunder the BBEG lich staff of power and set off the retribution strike within... TPK.

4. Jump off cliff intending to feather fall - counterspell is evil 

5. Killer DM campaign - characters survive adventure and head back to the inn, where we buy a nice safe suite for the night and get taken out by the local assassin's guild.... No die rolls involved.