Would you all be willing to read the rules of the DA site and tell me if they are eligible. The site is here

...I'm so using this now.

really. has anybody done anything Darwin-worthy?

 Our Celestial Warlock (who refuses to play any other class) has a tendency to not think about how he casts spells. His most recent blunder was using a spell to change the taste of his food while sitting down and eating dinner with a group known as the Inquisition who are very into burning witches.

His worst blunder, however, was when fighting a group of zombies. I was using Zee Bashew's zombies, which summon 1d4 more whenever there's a loud sound. The first time, he didn't know, and cast a spell with a loud verbal component. This summoned more zombies. The second round, he did the exact same thing again, summoning yet more zombies. No one died, but one player nearly got infected.

A player ran himself through with a curse breaking sword to...well break a curse. He went onto death saving throws expecting the cleric to jump in and save him, who also agreed to heal him. The only problem is she ran out of spell slots and the barbarian crit failed on his death saves.

Textbook example, comrades

Back when i played BG:DiA, we had a party member who made an athletics check to climb down into the pit to Hell, and succeeded. Since it was so deep, he was climbing for literally 20 minutes in and out of game. 

(he survived, but only because the DM forced him to come back up)

My party was highly dysfunctional that campaign, but he was the only Darwin-award-worthy person. 

Yes, the younger players are all eligible but the DM doesn't want to hand out any Darwin Awards.  The younger players on the team got tired of waiting while the rogue dealt with the next door in the dungeon so they started running through the corridors of the dungeon, rolling perception without asking the DM in order to check dead ends for secret doors and the like.  The DM never sprung a trap or wandering monster on them.

No one actually died, but one of my fellow players decided it would be a good idea to give some flowers to a pair of bears to “make friends with them”.

Then, as we ran in fear, they decided to dangle out meat in the hopes that it would somehow deter them. I think they thought it might somehow cause them to stop and the player would reward them with meat, but these are bears, not trained dogs.

in one of the games I'm in our party won a Darwin award by antagonizing a bunch of drow vampires. With a dracolich. We're in the Shadowfell now.

That does.... not sound like a good idea

a few games ago the  Lawful Stupid Goliath Fighter decided to show off by crushing what was literally called an Abyssal Anchor  (an orb that leaked negative and evil magic from the Abyss) with his bare hands. taking a crap ton of damage but now is cursed with the mark of Anubis and now can't be healed by magic and can only regain hitpoints by killing people ( Guilty or innocent it doesn't matter as long as the scale is balanced) or sleeping

Way back when, I was in a 3.0 game when the party was still first level.  A pair of new guys came in, wanted to play, with a wizard and a cleric as their characters.

We're in town for some downtime, and he goes into the roughest, nastiest bar the town has, then starts making arrogant proclamations about being forced to tolerate such riff-raff.  The cleric, meanwhile, has decided to sit under the table for no apparent reason.

Naturally, since this wizard was being really obnoxious and had dump-statted charisma, he wound up annoying one of the NPCs in the bar who confronted him.  Rather than trying to roleplay, the player immediately announced that he was going to cast Charm Person on the person.  Of course, this was third edition, so Attack of Opportunity.  Mr First Level Wizard is immediately knocked unconscious via ale stein to the head.  All the NPCs in the bar laugh at this, then go back to what they're doing, thinking things are done.  They're not.

The cleric's player immediately announces that he's going to attack the guy who attacked the wizard.  He hits him with his mace, knocking him out, and then every other NPC in the bar turns around and dogpiles him in retaliation.

Both characters are arrested, and they find the cleric's (un)holy symbol- for Vecna.  The characters are executed on the spot.

The party never even met them because nobody in the party was in that bar in the first place.

True Darwinism, that is!

Not in a D&D campaign but during a weekend of LARP loosely based on the Forgotten Realms setting of D&D. I wasn't present when it happened but everyone talked about it after the game. A group of PCs found a small treasure chest they suspected of being trapped. They called for a rogue to inspect and disarm it. The way how disarming works in that game is that you can spend any number of time inspecting a container if you have the required skill. If after opening the container you find a piece of red paper, it means it was trapped. You must read the details of the trap and the amount of time required to disarm it. If the time you spent disarming multiplied by your skill level exceeds the time on the paper, the trap was successfully disarmed, otherwise you read the effects and apply them. While the rogue was spending time trying to disarm the chest, a goblin mage became impatient, pushed the rogue aside and opened the chest. The rules indicate that the time spent disarming cannot be interrupted and that only the rogue may open it, so those two or so minutes the rogue spent went to waste. The chest was indeed trapped, so the goblin player read the trap's effect and... he exploded and died instantly. Had the rogue opened the chest himself at that very moment, the trap would have been disarmed.

I don't have actual D&D examples because in the two campaigns I played, the only time PCs died was during a TPK. The DM took an adventure from GoS and basically turned it into a TPK module by making the boss much stronger. Despite this, my party of four still managed to defeat him with one character surviving. Since the DM had secretly planned on causing a TPK, he made up something to narrate the death of the survivor. I also played two medieval fantasy but not D&D epics and no one died, at least not at my table. I hope to have more stories to tell once the pandemic is over and I can DM my first campaign. I was in the process of finding players when the quarantine hit us. I expect most of my players to be complete newbies, so I might have to punish a lot of stupidity.

This is proof that no matter what the setting is, people will always be dumba***s

Oh! I just got my 201th post!

My level 5 players were riding hippogriffs and giant vultures chasing a manticore down a canyon with a 500ft drop. Most of them were attacking with ranged weapons or spells. Goliath Paladin couldn't hit it with javelins so he rode up over it and jumped onto it succeeding an athletics check. Then he hits it twice and dumps smites into it. It died, they fell, he died. 

Should have thought that through a bit more.

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My level 5 players were riding hippogriffs and giant vultures chasing a manticore down a canyon with a 500ft drop. Most of them were attacking with ranged weapons or spells. Goliath Paladin couldn't hit it with javelins so he rode up over it and jumped onto it succeeding an athletics check. Then he hits it twice and dumps smites into it. It died, they fell, he died. 

 This is what I call heroically stupid.