A player in my part BEGGED for his character to die so he could bring in a much better backup character. Eventually the DM says fine and his old character is killed. On his first session with a new character, the party is dealing with a young red dragon. Negotiations are going well, and it gives the party some sweet sweet GP from its hoard (the DM was being wayyyy nice). Suddenly, the player AT LEVEL 4 charges at the dragon and rolls initiative. Everyone else in the party says something like "We don't know him". The player is obliterated in one hit. After 5 minutes of play. I mean, he brought it upon his self.
Well, his first character was an elf wizard who contributed nothing, and druid replacement had two 18s. The DM wasn't going to let him retire his character after he asked me "please finish off my character" (As the rest of the party was in a moderate-level random encounter, keep in mind). After his druid he brought in a warforged, which may have been a druid as well. He played one or two sessions after that, then quit the party. In all cases, I feel like he felt that he was the "Background character" and was underappreciated, which makes sense. Even my half-orc rogue (in an all-combat-no-dungeon module I must add!) was racking up a bunch of damage through the assasinate ability, while he missed half the sessions and rarely was effective in combat.
PS the character I mentioned was Ortan Fang himself. seriously, half-orc assassain is underappreciated
PPS by "left the party", I mean he missed 5 sessions in a row, so the rest of us kicked him out of the group chat and he never asked to be brought back in.
A barbarian in our party charged into a rock wall, fell unconscious, got stabbed to death by a goblin and then proceeded to fail every single death save.
The Darwin Award is for someone who does something so incredibly stupid that, because of their own actions, they are no longer able to procreate (which almost always because of death).
Unfortunately, all the idiotic things I've seen have somehow managed to work, only solidifying the idea that the idiotic ideas are the best ones. I expect I'll have something more to add to this thread if this keeps up.
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Im running a game and one of my players who is a Dwarf beats the head wizard of an evil dark tower, after killing him they search the room until the dwarf finds a vial of a strange white liquid, the dwarf automatically says "I drink it!"..... my other players freak out and begin frantically telling him not to drink it, they bicker back and forth with the dwarf until they all, at the same exact time, turn and look at me (The DM) and a uncontrollable smirk on my face appears... I simply say "You do what you want"... the players sensing the pure evil in my voice turn to the dwarf and start telling him to drink the potion... the dwarf doesn't want to drink the potion now but the power of peer pressure was to great and he drinks the universal glue and I fall down dying from laughter... that dwarf.... deserves more then a Darwin Award
We had a gnome wizard with an 8 strength who insisted on doing athletic things without the skill.
We were in a boat and he tried to jump to an overhead branch and failed...falling into the water. There were underwater trolls down there. We threw him a rope but were forced to row for our lives when six trolls surfaced. so one guy was trying to reel in our gnome, while the others were rowing as fast as they could.
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.
This made me actually laugh out loud.
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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.
Barbarian climbed on a dragon's back and fought it midair. As he hacked away at it, it continued to rise. He celebrated as the dragon died...then fell 300 feet to his death.
A sorcerer in one of my campaigns was fighting a blue dragon, which had just breathed lighting on her. She then tried to electrocute the dragon by throwing a canteen of water in its mouth, not realizing that the creature that breathed lightning was immune to lightning damage. Luckily, the bard was on hand to heal her.
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In an OotA campaign I just finished, an imp attacked a CR 31 version of Demogorgon, although I don't know if that counts as stupidity, since the imp did about 150 points to Demogorgon with two fifth level inflict wounds spells.
On one Darwin award I read, somebody who's surname was Yuan commented right before a person who's last name was Ti. I think that adventurer's get Darwin awards through suggestion spells cast by purebloods and are therefore ineligible, as they were magically compelled to be stupid.
More like just stupid as ****
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A player in my part BEGGED for his character to die so he could bring in a much better backup character. Eventually the DM says fine and his old character is killed. On his first session with a new character, the party is dealing with a young red dragon. Negotiations are going well, and it gives the party some sweet sweet GP from its hoard (the DM was being wayyyy nice). Suddenly, the player AT LEVEL 4 charges at the dragon and rolls initiative. Everyone else in the party says something like "We don't know him". The player is obliterated in one hit. After 5 minutes of play. I mean, he brought it upon his self.
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He begged to have his first character killed rather than simply retiring him?
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.
why, just why
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Well, his first character was an elf wizard who contributed nothing, and druid replacement had two 18s. The DM wasn't going to let him retire his character after he asked me "please finish off my character" (As the rest of the party was in a moderate-level random encounter, keep in mind). After his druid he brought in a warforged, which may have been a druid as well. He played one or two sessions after that, then quit the party. In all cases, I feel like he felt that he was the "Background character" and was underappreciated, which makes sense. Even my half-orc rogue (in an all-combat-no-dungeon module I must add!) was racking up a bunch of damage through the assasinate ability, while he missed half the sessions and rarely was effective in combat.
PS the character I mentioned was Ortan Fang himself. seriously, half-orc assassain is underappreciated
PPS by "left the party", I mean he missed 5 sessions in a row, so the rest of us kicked him out of the group chat and he never asked to be brought back in.
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A barbarian in our party charged into a rock wall, fell unconscious, got stabbed to death by a goblin and then proceeded to fail every single death save.
I am not sure that is a Darwin Award so much as bad luck.
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The Darwin Award is for someone who does something so incredibly stupid that, because of their own actions, they are no longer able to procreate (which almost always because of death).
Unfortunately, all the idiotic things I've seen have somehow managed to work, only solidifying the idea that the idiotic ideas are the best ones. I expect I'll have something more to add to this thread if this keeps up.
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.
No one in my games...
Yet
I exist, and I guess so does this
Im running a game and one of my players who is a Dwarf beats the head wizard of an evil dark tower, after killing him they search the room until the dwarf finds a vial of a strange white liquid, the dwarf automatically says "I drink it!"..... my other players freak out and begin frantically telling him not to drink it, they bicker back and forth with the dwarf until they all, at the same exact time, turn and look at me (The DM) and a uncontrollable smirk on my face appears... I simply say "You do what you want"... the players sensing the pure evil in my voice turn to the dwarf and start telling him to drink the potion... the dwarf doesn't want to drink the potion now but the power of peer pressure was to great and he drinks the universal glue and I fall down dying from laughter... that dwarf.... deserves more then a Darwin Award
We had a gnome wizard with an 8 strength who insisted on doing athletic things without the skill.
We were in a boat and he tried to jump to an overhead branch and failed...falling into the water. There were underwater trolls down there. We threw him a rope but were forced to row for our lives when six trolls surfaced. so one guy was trying to reel in our gnome, while the others were rowing as fast as they could.
~~We were trolling for Trolls.
This made me actually laugh out loud.
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
Barbarian climbed on a dragon's back and fought it midair. As he hacked away at it, it continued to rise. He celebrated as the dragon died...then fell 300 feet to his death.
Wizard (Gandalf) of the Tolkien Club
Idiocy at its finest.
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Hmm... Lets see... I'll keep you updated
Enjoy my magic items, spells, monsters, my race, and a few feats. And GIVE ME FEEDBACK... or else.
Like what I say?
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A sorcerer in one of my campaigns was fighting a blue dragon, which had just breathed lighting on her. She then tried to electrocute the dragon by throwing a canteen of water in its mouth, not realizing that the creature that breathed lightning was immune to lightning damage. Luckily, the bard was on hand to heal her.
All stars fade. Some stars forever fall.
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If there was no light, people wouldn't fear the dark.
Good one!
Enjoy my magic items, spells, monsters, my race, and a few feats. And GIVE ME FEEDBACK... or else.
Like what I say?
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In an OotA campaign I just finished, an imp attacked a CR 31 version of Demogorgon, although I don't know if that counts as stupidity, since the imp did about 150 points to Demogorgon with two fifth level inflict wounds spells.
I have a weird sense of humor.
I also make maps.(That's a link)
On one Darwin award I read, somebody who's surname was Yuan commented right before a person who's last name was Ti. I think that adventurer's get Darwin awards through suggestion spells cast by purebloods and are therefore ineligible, as they were magically compelled to be stupid.
I have a weird sense of humor.
I also make maps.(That's a link)
Does casting fireball when I'm being shoved into an ogre's mouth count?