The Different Reactions to Character Deaths in Dungeons and Dragons
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1:48 "Viewers character death?" The hell is that supposed to-
Wait...
No...!
*NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!* D:
I do the soft wheeze followed by silent fud death with new tables.
If you can make your eyes glaze over like I can you might get them to ring an ambulance like I have.
My low blood pressure & faint heart beet helps sell it.
my health is awful!:)
YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!
No "the Character lich Death" ?
“I died but at least it was funny!”
-Me, failing to hide the pain.
sir are you reporting for duty?
@@afishyfishh What are your thoughts on sea food?
yeah my warforged got nuked by a dinosaur holding like 40 oil vials during my 3rd session ever in my experience of playing dnd
luckily my other partymates had extra parts
@@memes4life26 as a local freshwater fish, seafood is pretty good. those ocean fuckers deserve it
Sounds like my friend when he tried to ride a beholder and got lasered and turned to dust in the process
The Cleric dies.
Cleric: I am finally free of you fools.
The rest of the party: We are doomed.
Artificier (or any caster with similar spell):*cast revivify* no I don't think you are.
This is gonna be me soon hah-
Then the rest of the party cart his corpse over to someone with the right abilities, fork over 500G in diamonds, and get him back to life seconds before the 10 day mark hits, and permanent freedom is snatched away from him/her.
@@hyko8355 That would be a very evil character to constantly kill and revive someone as torture XD Makes me wonder what classes are capable of it. I think there are only 3: Cleric, whatever the spellcasting combat version with twice the magic ofa cleric is, and paladins(not sure if that would be fun though because they already have a canon evil version XD )
Paladin: Revivify
*Cleric dies*
Cleric player: "Welp..."
The party: "Great, the healer died, we're screwed."
The DM: "Finally I can actually kill the Barbarian."
then there comes the rogue which robbed the apothecary of their entire healing inventory XD
The Barbarian with a death wish: At last they'll finally let me die in glorious battle.
That literally happened last session. Thank the fucking gods the sorcerer had a rivivify scroll.
The Paladin with lay on hands and several spell slots for cure wounds, as well as the feat that gives him a medkit: Allow me to introduce myself.
You made me spit out my drink
you forgot the, "Half the party knows how to bring me back" death. where you start to have a moment to accept or bemoan your character's passing, only to have everyone start yelling "revivify!" "I raise dead" and
"I cast true ressurection!"
That's because it never happens... Lol
@@BaronSengir1008 You must have had a lot of bad DMs and Party members then.
@@Victor-056 No, most of my groups didn't have more than 2 divine casters...
@@BaronSengir1008 ...Doesn't that mean you're missing the Healing classes capable of knowing ressurection spells?
Sounds like your parties were bad.
@@Victor-056 Also, a group with that many healers should have done something before the character failed their last death save...
My favorite was what I call "The Bard's Death"
"Did I at least die doing something cool?"
"Did everybody see that? Because I will *NOT* be doing that again."
"DOING SOMETHING..."
Dies while fucking, haha.
DM: “You died from a cocktail of 40 STD’s obtained at Burning Man.”
I remember one death in an rpg where the character was a jester, drunk in the middle of a battle with giants throwing boulders at the group, he died smashed by one.
The processing death one it's the barbarian realizing he did die after the last stunt he pulled, despite him believing otherwise.
When the rage runs out and you have 3 death saves failed from hits
@@proxy90909 "we did it!" **thud**
Me thinking my warforged barbarian could take some home brew eldritch cannon to the face 🤣. Went all I can’t take it and when the part looked at the crater he was bust ash🤣.
Barbarian: I'm too ANGRY to die!
(the moment rage ends)
Barbarian: Oh, there it is. *drops dead*
Or when you get one failed save, then 2 passed saves and you've told everybody to just let you sit for one more turn only to nat 1 your next Death Save.
Was hoping to see the “in denial” had that one so many times… people triple checking their saves, ac, up and skills. Desperately trying to reverse the fact that their character was alas dead.
Also no “wizards death” I took how much tickle damage ? 3 points ? But…
My characters have so far not been terribly close to death in a while.
... Well... Not their OWN death, anyway. They cause plenty of it, as PCs tend to do.
*ESPECIALLY THE WIZARD*.
I would flip the table!!!
I have had three PCs die in my games thus far. Though one got revivified. Two of them were totally the players fault. In CoS, the party Paladin decided he was going to solo melee Izak. NOPE. The party arrived, the paladin was downed however Izak had only knocked him unconscious and put him in manacles. He offered the party a deal, surrender their weapons and leave the city at dawn or he kills the paladin. They balked for some reason and the paladin took an axe to the back while at 0 hp. Fight ensues and the healer revives the Paldin but becomes Izak's new target. The Pally was still face down in the mud, with his hands in manacles behind his back. He wasn't doing much. Eventually Izak knocked down the healer and coup d'gras him. That character did die and they spent a lot of time trying to get to the Bishop and trying to get him to help their now very dead healer.
In LMoP the party on low health ran into a room full of goblins (they knew the goblins were in there) and the monk died. They were level 2 so nothing really could be done about this mess up.
One of my players started crying while she sacrificed her character and it was the most beautiful moment in that campaign so far. The drama, the raw emotion, it was the best compliment to my story I could have gotten.
My gunslinger's last words: "take all my shit, it's expensive."
Then it turned out I had intrigued a god prior to my death, and was sent back down as a mortal herald a few in-game days later. Second character sheet went back into the some-day folder. At least they hadn't had the time to pawn off my gear yet :D
As for other deaths I've witnessed, party member in a different campaign was obliterated by a group of 5 level one orphans he started antagonizing while wandering town alone. He was level 12. And entirely homebrew, min-maxed for tanking. In Pathfinder. How he managed to get destroyed like that is beyond me, but he did, and it was oddly beautiful.
It appears that not only goblins but also orphans get Fury of the Small.
Seems appropriate.
Eat the tall, become the tall!
Considering people void their bowels upon death, this is open to interpretation.
@@Merilirem it would be, if his body didn't disintegrate while he was still conscious, since he was finished off hy a Colour out of Space with a mutual finishing blow. 😂
The worst death at my table was a drowning death that never should have happened. The DC wasn't even that high. 5 failed saves rolling the exact same total value every time despite the DM giving as many circumstance bonuses as he would come up with. The dice just really wanted that character dead.
I had a white Dragonborn who killed the BBEG at the expense of his life since their wasn’t any way to do it without in if his getting killed. After he got impaled with a sword his last words were “Well shit-“ before he died. Pretty sad actually since he was one of the two characters who was there form level 1 to level 15 (when we ended) and there was a big funeral and one of the players actually cried.
Sounds epic.
That sounds legendary
Rest in Peace Dragonborn. Your sacrifice was noble and you shall be missed.
Dang only one of you cried? You got some real jaded people in your group.
@Google Google Well that aint good. - Buster Scruggs.
Reminds me of an interaction between a player of mine playing a Warforged and the rest of the party. His whole purpose was to discover what it means to "live" and the party decided "we have druid reincarnation, we could just kill you and bring you back as something that lives." Everyone rolled along with it, they brutally murdered him in the middle of nowhere and brought him back as a female halfling.
Good times.
Lol.
Beautiful 🥲
First death I had in D&D was a humorous death:
After returning from a succubus' dungeon, my rogue was given the chance to take cards from the Deck of Many and, being cunning, stripped to his skivvies first. (Our DM had mentioned that one card steals your stuff). As luck would have it, the rogue pulled out the skull card and proceeded to run across town in his underwear calling out to the party for a dagger and for his mistress to save him while being chased down by an Avatar of Death.
@Dillon Howington yes, from a book, but he added a rest town, then gave us a Deck of Many to kind of take a break.
@Dillon Howington I would really like to know myself. I found the group late and was unable to finish the campaign due to health issues.
However, I do know that it involved 4 cults of four different elements and that the leader of the fire temple happened to be a female teifling.
@Dillon Howington sure. Let me know the results.
@Dillon Howington but I realized that my short hand was a bit confusing. The succubus was a worker at a tavern my character tried to get info from (thinking all Evil characters were in cahoots, cause first time) and she ended up seducing me and taking me back to her dungeon. So I doubt that part was part of the game.
@Dillon Howington I've only played 5e
The "Aw he died..Anyway!" line gave me Castlevania Death vibes when Death mocked Trevor for falling down during their battle "Aww..he fell down."
"Are you dictating your obituary to me Belmont?"
Me in a curse of strahd campaign when my cleric kills me for the 3rd time using spirit guardians
That was like after 20 times until I got one to 60 and then i lost it to the BBEG
Reminded me of the "Oh no!... anyway" meme
My first character death was interesting. My dwarf fighter died trying to beat down some skeletons with an empty mug, due to losing both of his axes. It did stun me, but also felt relief that I could start over again with the guidance of how to actual fight.
That actually sounds pretty epic. Depending if he lost the axes mid-battle, that would be so cool that even when faced with death, that bastard refused to die until he dragged his enemies with him, using a mug if he had too
my first death was getting a weapon rack knocked over on me and the party not being able to lift it back up
my first one was my friend deciding to shank me with a harmonica 3 minutes into the entire campaign. lasting hysteria.
@@laumotan8862 so what did it play as you got shanked?
My first character death and first TPK are one and the same- my elf ranger failed his navigation check, walked off the side of a cliff, and the party followed.
The "Been Waiting For This Moment Death" was every single person in my party, I swear. One person even discussed with the DM they wanted him to kill their character so he could wheel out the new guy, so the DM beefed up the BBEG just a tad pushing the fight from difficult to 'someone is going to die'. Ends up the BBEG took a couple of characters with him that day, and everybody was happy.
Wholesome for the group, not for the larty
I never had a character Die on me, but there's a few close calls though.
1: I almost died to Wolves, on a Session ZERO
2: I got swallowed by a giant purple worm, but I flew out using wings of Flying.
3: I was constantly getting hit by a tougher cult member, but luckily a charmed member if their group kept healing me
I had 1 who died to stirges, 1 was betrayed by "kobolds", turned into xenomorph, exploded by other party member, death by causing end of the world and my newest character almost drowned
In my first group on my first campaign we had a character death.
The way that group handled it, and the way I handle it forever onward, is that they burn the character sheet and salute, while staying completely in character.
That. Is. Amazing.
That's beautiful
As someone who only plays online normally, this sounds expensive!
@@pistollaw burning 3 sheets is expensive?
@@YAH93 the sheets are all stored on the computer 🙄
that instant laugh after the roleplay death is so accurate
And satisfactory 🤣
During my 10 years of play only three of my characters died, all three deaths were epic and each character died in a heroic manner saving party in the process. I was NEVER disappointed or unhappy with how I lost those guys!
chad xD
My 2 characters died in 1 module. In non DnD games I actually try not to die because farting the wrong way can cause death
I have only had two characters die so far, both due to trying not to metagame, both awesome in how stupid their death was XD... I love having stories be completed.
The "processing" death definitely reminds me of when my party was killed in their sleep, then revived later (for plot reasons) and they all met with their gods in the form of their "true selves".
When my paladin, who generally stands at 6'7", met her god, she was very confused as to why everything was so big; her "true self" is just a small, innocent human girl, which was essentially the 10-year-old version of herself. It didn't take her very long to put two and two together to realize she was dead, but even with having that knowledge, it still didn't fully click for her and she was more concerned for literally everyone else but herself.
I suppose her situation was a bit more of disbelief or shock rather than "processing"? Amazingly enough, despite her being the most emotional person in the party, the party member that got really emotional when they met with their god and realized they were dead was our quiet and antisocial monk. Everyone at the table was in tears over the monk coming to terms with their death (DM included), it was just so unexpected considering their character 😢 (theirs was probably the "dramatic" death?)
Like I said, the party was revived, but the experience for them was definitely a big turning point in the campaign, and for some, a turning point in their lives.
My character hasn’t died yet but that’s because I hid behind my pet goblin… poor Klork couldn’t handle the attack. We all held a funeral for him and his death inspired my character’s development into a decent gnome being.
Rest in piece, Klork
Rip Klork you shall be missed
R.I.P klork we will never forget you
@@Leah-fu3zy 1
It doesn't matter because everyone has a backup character!
I forgotten to make a backup character.
@@dragonjames4500 I am with you
Backup character sheet yeah, but I have very few fleshed out characters with stories.
My character, dies
Me: laughs with 200 sheets of new characters
Except when you don’t have a backup character.
My first death was out of combat and my fourth season. Don't go near bathtubs that you can't see the bottom of. DM waited 15 minutes before he said "Alberic starts breathing again" and thus I was back. I now always have a 2 back up characters ready to go
1:25 Yeah, that was basically me when my first character died. To be fair, I was, like, 8 years old. The DM (my uncle) was pretty cool about it. He agreed to me staying as a ghost if I rolled 90-something or higher on d%. I rolled 98.
And don't forget the "Playing your friends character but accidently killing them death". That happened a few too many times for me.
Thats scary. How did they react?
@@lindenbrock4102 Well, unfortunately it was me controlling their character. I made the paladin heroically intervene taunting the dragon away from the otherwise dead party and with 1 HP over, fell to the beast before the rest of us could finally defeat it. He seemed happy that he died in such a way, but also I could tell he was a little sad because he really liked the character.
@@madisonbrown1215 I see. From my point of view you made the character become a true hero and at least he got to go in the most glorious way possible, a moment of silence for the fallen character...
@@lindenbrock4102 I'm glad it can be seen that way, I was constantly checking with the party asking "Is this what x would really do" and everyone agreed.
@@madisonbrown1215 Yeah, it sucks to feel responsible for another PC's death, but at least they were mostly OK with it.
Just last week one of our party experiences his first character death... He died from the spell destruction rights on our Penultimate session of the first act...
Rest in peace Aelar savage sorcerer elf, you where loved.
my PC read about legends that died. and one was a savage sorcerer self. another was a tortle monk fighter named Squirtle. his cousin is oogway 😂
@@jeanlukvolker6647 I wanted to feel bad for OP story but the name of your characters made me burst out laughing Hahahaha
@@jeanlukvolker6647
That was really nice!
I telled to my friends we where smiling yesterday we had the first session of the second act he made a new character an ex mercenary who was a brodher in arm of Aelar we drink and toast for thr dead and the living one was for sir Jean Luk Volker and his party where his new character had the chance to eat some food and drink some good alcohol. They are alive in some place of the continent and we pray our God's to have them a safe travel for they mission.
Recently I thought my level 4 artificer was going to die, I had drawn the void card from a deck of many things due to a nat 1. after the session I Googled it and the normal effect is to immediately put the character in a coma to steal the soul from the target and stuff it in a random object of the DMs choosing anywhere in existence, and even the all powerful wish spell only points you in the direction of the item housing the soul instead of automatically fixing it. So my DM showing a twisted sense of mercy changed it so my coma changed my character into a random race, and now my runty Goliath genius has to live with being a furr- I mean Tabaxi
One of the major characters deaths I remember is when we decided to send the bard into the cave alone to use illusion magic to trick the ogres into falling for a trap we set. The bard got spotted and horribly murdered on the spot. So...yeah, that one was on us. Just kinda of a collective awkward 'oh' moment for the entire party.
The NPC's death:
The entire party turning on the DM
The TPK death:
"Welp time to start that new campaign I've been working on"
The Red vs Blue death.
"Rogue! I'm not gonna make it. I have to tell you..."
"Yeah?"
"I always hated you the most."
"Yeah I know. Now hurry up so we can finish the session."
"Oh right. HURK! Bleh..."
Lol 😂
In the current campaign I was definitely an “I’ve been waiting for this moment death”, I went from playing a chaotic neutral grung rouge to a multi class Druid/Monk earth genasi
I feel quite personally attacked as my reactions are literally always the "Processing Death" immediately followed by the "Dramatic Death" because I get way too attached to my characters and the established party dynamics
"You got Revivify prepared, right?"
-Me, handing the Druid the diamond I literally bought last session.
My first death was moments after the campain's final BBEG fight actually. While stabilized but unconscious, I was dragged to a "safe" area at the foot of a large statue with gleaming gems for eyes. The warlock then convinced the barbarian to pry them free amongst the general post fight looting, causing the ceiling of the cave to collapse, killing me instantly. I dont think anyone said a word for a minute straight 😆
Let me guess: Lost Mines of Phandelver?
So they started looting before bringing you back? Lol.
@@davidparkes7741 Pretty sure the only ones with heals were a druid who was out of slots and myself, a Paladin to started the fight off getting smashed by everything, so ya. Everyone was assuming the credits were going to roll any second, that it was all a done deal. Dont feel too bad though, the Dragonborn Paladin was "resurrected" about a year and 2 campaigns later. He did come back into the body of Kobold as punishment, but a Southern Revival Baptist Paladin is just too much fun to play either way.
@@YAH93 You too?
@@liberalideas8224 Lmao, that "resurrection" sounds hilarious. Oh & that makes sense on the initial death.
"Looks like I won't be following you till the end of the line..." THIS IS THE BEST LINE EVER!!! INSPIRATIONAL the bard will be proud🤩❤❤❤
0:37 16 beers and 4 hours deep and realising I rolled a 1 on a Con save throw
That roleplay death is spot on lol. Especially the laughter after from knowing you nailed it.
“The First Time Death”… that hits hard man. Pethani did my even get a chance to say anything. He got turned into an extra crispy Goliath.
During a game we had a portion where we would narrate memories that came to us when we rolled death saves. Positive for successes and negative for failures. This worked perfectly when my fighter died during the final fight of the campaign and i narrated a little scene of my character showing our cleric what his family looked like and asking her to make sure that his mother would be informed about his fate if he were to die on the adventure. I'm pretty sure that it brought tears to some eyes, and didn't lose it's impact when he got revivified after the battle.
In another campaign, my wizard was given a choice to either go on and live their life but have their homeland be lost forever or sacrifice themself in order to rebuild the connection to their home. The nature of the choice was kept secret from the rest of the party, so it was after the final battle that my wizard made their choice and proceeded to the appropriate place, giving away their money, their magic items, and, after a talk with an npc explaining that their goal of returning to the home that banished them was a delusion, gave away their spellbook. I literally started crying at that point. It was the best death I could hope for.
1:55 jokes on you, im a forever dm
Death saves are the way to grieve your character, especially when you know there's no more healing or revive resources. Whereas being coup de graced feels like a gut punch. Having backup characters definitely helps though.
My girl's character in our first campaign drowned trying to swim out of an underground cave. With each failed save I described a bit more of a memory of being in her village, hearing her mom call out her name ready to teach her a new spell that day. When she died, everyone felt like her last moments were played out and she was at peace.
My dm hides all death saves now ups the tension.
@@matthewjames7504 my poor gut, it's been punched to oblivion
1st group I gamed with -
DM killed everyone except my character (cleric) and the guy who invited me (ranger). Then proceed to try to kill both on the second round. Cleric and ranger survived but never gamed with that group again.
2nd group -
My character (some caster) was eaten by a random alligator encounter...
3rd group -
Lost interest in the campaign and lacked time to dedicate to weekly sessions. Tried explaining to DM and rest of the party, they didn't want to hear it or try reignite interest. I lost interest cuz my war blade didn't get a chance to do anything during combat, never got to give input on plans and during RP moments, always got talked over or dialogue was ignored. So tried to get my war blade killed. He. Survived. Everytime. Nearly eaten by dragon. Jumping onto a hydra's back. Nearly eaten by a boneyard monster. Yeah, he survived everytime...
4th group -
First major campaign, my character died dealing a fatal blow to BBEG. Worth it. Enjoyed playing the next character.
And aside from 1 one shot, died in every one shot (usually last to die).
2nd major campaign, survived. But our paladin did not.
3rd major campaign, on going.
Sounds like they got better as you went on... Hope it continues getting better...
@@BaronSengir1008 It won't. That's how life works.
@@eunhogarcia5293 you never know..
1:20
had me dying
2:07 I always go for this one
I usually have the Loki reaction:
"Yes, it's very sad. Anyway..."
My character “died” in a battle against 3 young dragons. Our DM revived me along with some others in the aftermath because the encounter was built around our party having 2 of our biggest healers/damage dealers in the room, and they got held behind for natural reasons (they genuinely thought the meeting would happen on a different date and paid recompense with soda in the next meeting).
2:00 jokes on you I don't play DND I simply enjoy your content
Shout-out to when my Ranger died instantly when a demon lord threw an ice-breaker at him. Luckily our druid had raise dead but the amount of reactions, skill checks from my party, and saving throws from me failed in that moment is like the stars aligned.
With my current character, I'm at the "Waiting for this moment" death. My Kobold has gotten KO'd multiple times now and has been revivified once and revived himself once with a reroll from an inspiration. That little bugger is sturdy as heck, and has lady luck on his side.
That's so my Aasimar as well lol, She got nailed by a Water Weird, barely survived, had to fight an entire Cult, barely survived, and then picked up an item and proceeded to explode. Problem is, the item is part of a quest where the ones who died from it revive after it's done, so she's going to live on yet again.
Dang it Duke! You forgot the favorite NPC death!
It's like the dramatic death but for all of the players
Pathfinder not D&D but I think I may have a record... Two character deaths in three sesions.
The first one was a rogue who died by a *surprise* a mimic, but was trying to cover a door, not to steal from it.
The second one was a gnome cavalier based on Don Quijote who died by a masive meat golem trying to distract it from the rest of the party. It was a confused death because I misunderstood how to die. My DM had to told me I was dead.
Now I'll be playing a magus. Hopefully will last more
I love how as a bard im the weakest of my party(literaly most of the party can one shot me)but i have so much charisma that most of my rolls have plus 8 to it and with bardic insparation i can add a d6 and so have up to a plus 14 on perception check or any charisma check
When my DM didn't realize I was dead and started to describe how the flames hit me
*Me handing him my character sheet*
"I'm covered in oil, remember?"
You forgot the "Out of Character death". Once your D&D group gets old enough, gotta watch-out for those as well
This was so much better than I thought
Nice layering there! 👍🏻
Then you’ve got the beautiful character deaths.
“Is it a nice view?”
“Best you’ve ever seen.”
Indeed. This comment surprised me and hit me right in the feels, just like the original tale did. Thank you for the reminder of that amazing moment in a game.
I dunno why, but the response made me imagine a Character taking off their hat and bowing their head with a sorrowful smile.
i am a (nearly) forever DM and wont meta game to save my life. only character i ever played was a lawful good banker spell blade rouge dwarf (yes your eyes aren't deceiving you.) While escorting a neighboring countries VIP, assassins attack the train we were on. Rukus (my dwarf boi) did not know that they were of the assassin class so i had to pretend i didnt know how terrible it would be to hesitate and take a dodge action for my turn giving the assassins the first strike bonus. i got instantly downed and 1 hp from death from that one single hit. that alone was bad enough but after getting myself back up i saw my paladin buddy trying to smite the end car off the train to separate us from the assassins. There were several high profile civilians in that cart. Knowing exactly how this was going to go Rukus went into the end cart and evacuated the civilians on his 1hp. They all got out just as the assassins locked the cart with Rukus inside. Small talk is as follows
Rukus: who are you after?
Assassin: You and the VIP.
Rukus: *Grabs onto hand rail
DM: what are you doing?
Rukus: casts mold earth to spear strike the damaged coupler
(the odds the DM gave me to land the spell were 1/100 due to the speed the train was going and i know he didnt fudge it because it was roled on the table for all to see)
The train was moving at bullet train speeds and tumbled at least 5 times. that alone would should have killed off Rukus but then the DM looked at the map and said "Oh God. Your right next to the river." This was a very old river. it had eroded deep into the ground causing there to be cliffs on either side. sure enough the cart tumbles off the cliff into the river. Rukus was a old fella. He outlived all his family and never had kids of his own. He died a death he would've been proud of. The rest of the party stopped the train and rushed over to where the cart fell over the cliff. Our paladin was a kenku, as Rukus was a grumpy old fart he never got along with the rest of the party but the paladin was the one he disliked the least. Kenkus cant speak, only mimic voices. This poor bird brain palidin just stood on the edge of the cliff looking from his hands to the train cart in the water and back again. After a minute or two the paladin realized what he had done and being unable to cry, made cooing sounds into the sky. The DM was not prepared for the plot hook character to die so that is where the campaign ended. I think that Rukus' death was a beautiful one. He died how he would've wanted; saving the lives of others as his family did before him.
@@oldgrognard7662 what the original tale?
@@mediatorraptor3349 The original tale is on a couple of the D&D channels here on CZcams, popular channels but I can't recall the names of them to my embarrassment. I can't do the tale true justice but a summary would be that a barbarian sacrificed himself to slay a dragon. The group had been fighting a a major dragon adversary and it broke through the wall of the keep it was in at the end of the fight, in order to escape the party. The dragon flew out over the ocean at a great altitude, with the raging Barbarian on its back. Both The dragon and the Barbarian we're badly wounded. The party could communicate through magic earrings and the videos were about the in-character and table conversation/actions. The Barbarian knew he wasn't going to survive. One of the Barbarian's questions to the DM was "Is it a nice view?" (As Roary above said). The DM says, "Best you've ever seen". Barbarian's rage is ending in the next melee round. He says, "You don't need to hear this" and rips out his communication earring. Then lands the final blow on the dragon, killing the dragon and falling to his death. The original videos of the tale capture all the courage, sorrow, role playing, and beauty of how things can go in a D&D game. My summary here, in no way does the original any justice. I wish I could remember the name of the Channel that listed the video. Maybe one of the folks here in the comments knows the name I am forgetting.
Joke's on you, my party had a diamond and two people who can cast Revivify. (I actually did die a couple sessions ago, and it gave the party the big reveal that my character was a changeling all along)
Currently playing one with a group of friends, most of them rather new to DnD and they don't really know about the changeling ancestry as a thing to play, so my DM and I have so far managed to fool them thinking that all my shapechanging is due to a magic amulet that I'm wearing xD
Convinced them with a little show where I was casting Minor Illusion repeatedly while showing them "what the amulet can do". Really looking forward to the point where they find out ^^
@@Silesh Nice. My character's story was mother is a doppelganger disguised as a human, father is wind Djinn, so he disguises himself as an Air Genasi. Most of the party was fooled until his death, except for our Wizard, who realized someone's attempt at a Polymorph on me automatically failed.
I’ve only had one of my characters die (first session of the first campaign I ever played, the first-timer is very spot on xD), but in the many close calls I’ve had in the years since I definitely do tend to lean more proccessing. When my characters are doing death saves I go into “say no more than a sentence omly when the DM prompts me directly” mode haha.
1:06 - Three words: Spicy grave water
I remember one time that I worked on making a character with a role we never used before
worked hard on the character
...only to have him die in the first encounter, because the rest of the party kept failing their rolls to wake up, so I was fighting alone
Odd the DC to notice combat when asleep is like a 0-10 or nonexistent if the DM/Players have XGE which tells you "A sleeping creature wakes up if they take damage, if somebody uses an action to wake them by physical means, or if there is a sudden loud noise.
Your passive perception is not reduced for being asleep, and your passive perception determines how sleep-disruptive nearby sounds are (such as people talking or whispering)." You just auto-wake if the sounds of combat are heard so unless the party had silence on them or were under a sleep effect there is no reason they should have been asleep after you got a single turn in and just yelled for them to wake up or kicked the nearest party member awake.
If it wasn't 5e and was instead 3.5e or pathfinder 1e the check to notice the sound of combat (-10) is 0 modified by walls (+10/foot thick) or doors (+5) and distance after 10ft (+1 per 10 feet) so a little more believable that combat alone would not wake them if it was happening outside and you were 40 feet or so away and they had shit perception. Shouting to the party is like an additional -10 to the DC.
Sounds like you had an asshole or novice DM if they were asking for rolls for the party to wake up every turn and just let your character die.
0:20 Glad to see the evening drama classes paid off
That first-timer death reaction was PRICELESS! Had me rewinding that moment a few times just for how hilarious it was, and I am not the sort to do that kind of thing. Just tickled the right funny bone is all
The change in aspect ratio at the end was so beautiful
here was one death missing... Bargaining death. "wait, what if we cast this, do that, take the body hear!"
In a long campaign I had the only original character left. If I died the motivation to finish the quest would have just gone down to "coin, right tings to do I suppose...." so when I died (3 times) we used every trick to bring me back to keep the plot aliove, but never cheated, we just travveled with a body and spent a lot of dimonds
Sounds like players didn't come up with very good backstories as to why they were on the quest when they brought in new characters. I mean presumably the original characters had some reason to be there and/or were just roped into it and it became something more than just a "go kill some bandits." Why did the new characters decide to join you, the only one with original vested interest?
One of my personal favorites, the bargaining death. The players/party come up with any possible last-ditch effort or reaction to supercede the rules so that they don't die.
Which is fair enough. Realistically the DM's goal should never be to kill the players, it is to tell a good story and for everyone to have a good time doing so. I'd allow the player to make a straight d20 roll and have their character's last thoughts be a prayer to their god to not let them die like that and if the roll is whatever arbitrary number I decided based on their roleplay and how much I like the character in the first place they don't die and are merely severely wounded and unconscious, maybe even have some permanent negative like -10 max HP or if their god is evil their soul is now well and truly fucked so if they die again and don't have a damn good bargaining chip they will just lose their soul and not even be able to be brought back without wish or miracle. Because if I am just going to make shit up to save your character because your party can't figure it out, if you want to be alive NOW instead of waiting for a res, that is the price.
Mix of humorous and been waiting for this here
The party scrambled down the spiral staircase. The haunted estate, Durst Manor, buckled and shook in a final desperate attempt to kill them. No longer a house, it had become a hungry predatory beast. Chairs grappled. Bricks shot out of the walls. Rugs wrapped around boots. The glass of windows became rotating scythe-like blenders. The stoves erupted in fire which burned the furnishings. Most of the visitors managed to stumble out the front door. Debris fell infront of the goblin druid. The front door little more than a porthole. In her arms she clutched the dog Lancelot, who whimpered. There wasn't enough room for both of them to squeeze out of the hole in time.
"Be good." Chartreuse says, trying to hold back tears. Tossing the dog out of the home as her last action. In a desperate attempt to survive she Wild Shapes into a Panther. The house collaps, crushing the poor druid under its weight slowly. From outside of Durst Manor everyone hears the shrill yowl of the Panther. That shriek maintaining its volume and note, morphing into the pained screaming of their friend. Then silence. "One must die."
Chartreuse held her eyes closed for a very long time. When she realized she could open them, she was greeted to the sight of her own body twisted and mangled. A horrific patchwork of green skin, red blood, white bone and black visera. Then she heard a cold and malicious voice speaking to her from the darkness.
"Such a waste of potential... Would you like to return to life, even if it costs what you love most?" It asks.
"Yes..." she answers in a trembling voice, knowing that agreeing to this went against the natural order.
The next thing she knew she was laying in a patch of grass. Staring up at the clouds, breathing slowly. Looking at her body there wasn't a scratch on her. A few minutes later the party found her. When they asked what had happened, she broke down, clutching one of them and weeps into their hip.
The DM brought out these parasite monsters that when they latch onto you and you fail a Dex save, your character automatically 'died' because the parasite took over their mind permanently.
The paladin wasn't happy.
I Fireballed the rest of them with a Wand of Fireball.
wouldn't that require a wis or int save for a mind take over even if it is a parasite?
would make more sense to me. Since they'd have to bury in. And actively take over those spots required.
And it doesn't take away they can be pulled off before they succeed. Adding a damage roll to it due to them trying to get in your head.
Just a thought.
@@lorenzojongste6766 I double checked with the DM. This homebrew monster can teleport into the head to devour the existing brain. We were all level 5, having an instant death creature seemed a bit much.
A single dex save or death at level 5? Sounds like a dm vs player mentality. Never liked playing at those tables.
@@BakudaSon Intellect devourer?
@@BakudaSon Those sound like intellect devourers? They go back to like 2nd edition. Not hard to kill, but they have one of the most dangerous save or sucks in the game. They can blast you, and if you fail an int save and a 3d6 roll is at least your intelligence, your intelligence goes to 1. Then on the next turn they can do an intelligence contest against you and if they win, they replace your brain. They don't even need to get close.
Yes, Confused Player, that absolutely does mean you got a Yahtzee…
My first character death was with my current group playing the last session of Phandelver. I was the Cleric, knocked myself out trying to jump across the stream near the boss room and failed my death saves while everyone else failed their strength checks to pull me out of the water. Considering some of the fights we'd done up to that point and the sheer timing of it, it was too funny to feel sad about.
0:14 My little brother when I hit him lightly
Those little brothers are so annoying.
2 weeks ago, our Paladin died at the hands of walking snakes (or something).
Our Cleric that is their sibling irl and their best friend in-game said 'Screw this!'.
So we completely stopped what we were doing and used 3 weeks in-game to resurrect them.
The funny part is that the Cleric yelled at us, not wanting to compromise, before knowing that we all wanted to do so.
We love our Paladin way too much to 'continue without them'.
The resurrection ritual and the result were actually so moving.
I didn't expect it, but i cried on the inside, while i was swooned by their bromance outside.
“Viewer’s character death”
Haha, I’m a forever DM, you cannot hurt me.
*laughs that morphs into crying*
The laugh after the Role-playing death was so wholesome
That was one hell of a ride
I'll admit, we *never* let death just be a joke in our games. We turn it into a beautiful scene of struggle and sacrifice that engages the players into the end to that character's story
This said, if you're going to be an idiot and have your character jump off the cliff for shoots and giggles, then all im going to describe is you being impaled on the rocks below :P
We are God's!
*turns into goldfish*
I hope you have seen Critical Role, if not, you described almost exactly how one of them died.
Jump off a cliff to the sharp rocks below? Who do you think you are, Kazuma?
@@shadowscall7758 I was just about to mention that. Most ridiculous death in the whole campaign.
What killed me was Matt tried to warn her multiple times that she was not guaranteed to make it into the water. I can still hear Sam screaming "You know fish aren't magnetically attracted to water right!?"
Last week the campaign I was in had its final session. My character got blasted by Power Word Kill (she had 91/108 HP). I was lucky the rest of the party was able to bring me back. I even managed to get the final blow on the boss after I came back :D
In other words, I was waiting for the Power Word Kill death in this skit. Still a funny skit as always
Playing a few days ago our DM had a Beholder-esque monster with 9 different rays one of them healed you and others were kind of mundane ranging from Slow to Charm to Disintegration and one of them was just straight up "Power Word Kill".
Guess which one got rolled 3 times in a row?
@@y2kafka472 PWK?
@@stormbreaker_101 Luckily no we had 5 total and the Cleric wasn't targeted (honestly just lucky he wasn't the closest) and after I got revivified we both revivified the other two. One of the Rouge's found a fun interaction with an sentient weapon that occurs when you die... though I feel like that was the DM pulling punches a tiny bit and saying "Sorry I cast 3 level 9 spells at you in a row. I kind of didn't expect that .1%." though I don't know for sure it could have been planned (was still a cool ability though and brought the item/NPC back into the spotlight.)
my friend is a "you cant die if you dont accept death" player, they just leave for like a few weeks and return to the dm with their old character who just shows up randomly in the story where we were at
My first death in Pathfinder was upsetting, but as I was playing organized play, there were rules to revive the character. Spending gold after the session represented the character's insurance kicking in. That character went on to die quite a few times during the course of his career, to the point that I joked that he had a summer home in The Boneyard (re: afterlife) and he spent his off time as a teacher for other Pathfinders, teaching them 'What Not to Do'.
During the last big convention adventure before 2E took over, I brought him out of retirement and he actually survived all the way through quite handily, but there was a mechanic to the adventure that I used (having informed my GM of my intention to do so at the start of the game) where he sacrificed himself for the rest of the party during the climactic escape. It was a fitting send off for my first ever character.
I was rather well known for my characters dying, usually because of my own stupidity, and it all started with him. Even better that it was often at that particular GM's table that it happened, so it was quite fitting that I was at his table for my character's last hurrah with a mechanic that allowed for a climactic sacrifice. It was almost a tradition every year at these conventions that if I brought this character he would die (so I stopped bringing him until this one) or if I was at this GM's table during the convention whatever character I was playing would die. The GM actually felt pretty bad about it, but I'm a good sport, and like I said, it was usually down to my own stupidity. I look forward to many more deaths when I'm able to get back to Organized Play.
Even dying is great with Duke. 🤣
"He exploded like a pimple." 🤣🤣
Or the "Those Spore pods you unnecessarily popped like Pinatas the other day were filled with toxic spores. You wake up finding two of your members dead the next morning, sprouting tiny shrooms from their body." - death.
Happened to my party last week. No one would have died if they didn't pop anymore pods after the first one and discovering it to be non-hostile.
You didn't even roll for Constitution saves? That's harsh dming man
Well, at least they weren't Popplers! Wouldn't want an alien race declaring war on us, would we?
@@shanedsouza189 agreed, that is an asshole dm if ever I heard of one. Poisons and diseases universally allow saves even if the save is to get a lesser effect and toxic plant spores fall squarely in the category of poisons.
asshole dm. i would've walked out of the room then and there lmfao
@@ShiningDarknes Yeah, no saves and no symptoms that might make the player seek medical attention? I would probably just have left with my character sheet even if my character was not the one dead.
Funnily enough, the closet thing any of my characters have ever come to death was being knocked out in the middle of a maze alone. As such, no one but the DM knew where my character was or if they were alive, so I played my backup character with my past character still being alive. I ditched the backup the minute we found my body
That last one brought a tear to my eye, it was.... beautiful
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Multiverse of Madness spoilers with no context
gotta say the veterans death was perfect, sums up my group
The hardest death for me so far has been the "first time killing a PC as the DM" death. That moment of the dice rolling, the player locking eyes with you, the realization on both your faces....
This was great it reminded me of a Tomska sketch
Technically my first character death was at the hands of a party member (Ranger/Rogue mix). But, I had gotten bored/was too dumb to keep playing, with said character and wanted a new one. Second character death tho.....different campaign. F-ing eels...
I once had a character die in the second session because he got one shot by a mid level necromancer. Necromancer rolled a nat 20, rolled near max damage which was then doubled, and I failed a constitution saving throw by 1 which resulted in me taking the damage again.
Suffice to say, we weren't supposed to be anywhere near that area yet and the rest of the party ran for the hills.
Your resurrected corpse watches them run away like, "Thanks guys..."
I wanna see more of that dancing dice at the end haha
And the “Someone please revive me” death
1:13 applies to MMORPG so well, hahahaha
Love the shreader!!!!
The Zealot Barbarian's death; "That's inconvenient... Anyways."
others reactions to the ranger dying: "oh.......that sucks..........(we had a ranger?)"
I don't know which I loved more: the Yahtzee moment (which I was waiting for the SECOND I saw d6s) or the dead on stare as you destroyed the viewers' character 😂🤣😂 WELL DONE AS ALWAYS SIR!
I was just eating my lunch and I almost choked from laughing when he said, “Does that mean I got a Yahtzee!”
I still remember, it was our first campaign and we had a NPC Cleric, he sacrificed himself and gave his soul to his god in order to heal us and boost us in order to defeat an Adult Black Dragon, we all cried so much that even the DM Cried and since we made him cry he rewarded us with a homebrew campaign where we revived him using the Wish spell after beating the shit out of a Djinn