D&D Players, Who was your first character death? And how did you react to it?
Vložit
- čas přidán 6. 05. 2024
- Please check it out and let them know who sent you!
kck.st/3JhrZaF
D&D Players, Who was your first character death? And how did you react to it?
Put your stories in the comments below they could be in our next video! If you have your own video ideas submit them to us on Reddit at r/MrRipper
Stay tuned for more awesome DnD content!
/ discord
Source
/ people_of_reddit_who_w...
www.brianvaughnva.com/
/ @mc_cheshire
Song Used: Riverways - Path of Exile
Stay tuned for more awesome DnD content!
*Please ignore YT God's feeding zone down below!
#mrripper #dungeons and dragons #dnd stories #reddit stories #please sub for nat 20s #how to play dnd #one dnd #one d&d #how to play dungeons and dragons #dnd character creation #dnd 5e #asmr #reddit stories compilation #reddit stories funny #dnd story #ask reddit videos #family friendly gaming #dungeons and dragons how to play #dungeon master screen #tabletop simulator d&d #player character #dnd encounters #dnd campaigns
DND players, what was your funniest “nat 20” moment? (r/askreddit)
What stunt did your D&D players pull that completely derailed the campaign?
DND players, what was your funniest “rolled a 1” moment? (r/askreddit)
DnD players: What is the most creative character you've seen someone play as?
DND players, what was your funniest “nat 20” moment? Part 2 (r/askreddit)
What’s the DUMBEST thing a player rolled for and Succeeded?
D&D players, what was the NAT20 that made your DM facepalm?
What's the funniest thing PC's latched onto? #1 (r/dndstories) - Zábava
Damn.... Graham went out in style... Hail to the fallen hero... Hail to Graham the Hero!
Hell, he didn't go down. He went was atomized on his feet like a badass. The BBEG tanking 1.8 Million Damage is a scary thing to know.
@lucielm yup, but his sacrifice enable the BBEG defeat without Graham going out that way they would all likely have fallen as well
It’s a little more than just a character for me. My first Character I had a feeling was coming back just how the DM played. (He didn’t like PC deaths.) so, not really a big deal.
My first DM character death however was a heart wrenching experience since it was actually a friendship that ended in a car accident. My whole table (7 at the time and party ally’s) all completely stopped. It was devastating. As I made a new campaign I always add a piece of lore from that campaign a ghost ratfolk that is usually at a tavern playing songs. He’s still alive the way I knew him in my stories, a funny, witty, helpful man. RIP, man, still miss you
thanks for sharing this, it's beautiful.
Damn Graham went out like a champ
Graham man that story gave me goosebumps
I was playing a Woodelf Open Hand-Monk (Level 4). Our barbarian adopted some wolf-cubs, but our warlock had something against them. He provoked them and got bitten by one of them. He killed the cub, that attacked him and made the barbarian rage (understandable). The barbarian hit the warlock, crit him and by that downed him in one attack. The warlocks demon-patron intervened and started attacking the party. Then the clerics god intervened by reviving and kinda possessing the killed cub and fighting the demon. In that fight, the demon threw a 7th level fireball and my character was caught in the crossfire. Insta-death. My DM would have let my character be ressurected by the clerics god, but as I was new and didn't really build my character all to well, so I let him die and rolled up a paladin (she survived and is now level 11 with more to come)
His name was Jorlan. It was my first time playing D&D (2008) and it was a 1on1 one-shot.
My DM used a heavily 2nd edition homebrew which allowed for a lot of RP moments.
Jorlan survived the woods without armor and weapons, a rescue mission in hostile territory and an entire war.
After the one-shot my DM asked me if I was curious what happened to Jorlan, obviously I said yes and we rolled a d100 (an actual d100).
Jorlan lived 2 years until the plague got him.
RIP Jorlan 🕊
I said a bad word, asked a few questions about the next characters' requirements, and rolled a new character. Back then, with the DM we had, characters blew like the wind. If you screwed up, you died. The life of an adventurer was dangerous.
Heletris was a Drow wizard/cleric I got to play to the end of a 3-14 homebrew campaign. That said, she kinda died for a little bit in the penultimate boss fight (a dragon shaped construct) where she was downed and, I don’t remember how, but the ceiling collapsed on me and the boss, turning her into a mangled corpse.
She was revivified not too long after, but I lost my armor and spent a good bit in game repairing her glasses lol
My first character to quote unquote "die", was a catfolk bard by the name of Capper Dapperpaws. I had been playing him for months in a spelljammer campaign which had us traveling the planes to find these origin soul items. Basically the first souls of creatures who were the most powerful in certain aspects such as water, fire, beast, plants and so forth. We had already obtained at least one for each of us, two for some at that time, capper just had the one and was now housing the beast soul within himself while our sorcerer in the party had gotten into experimenting with them. Finding out that you could implant one within a person to gain powers, imbue it into a weapon or armor, or fuse two together to make a brand new one. Well nobody had tried fusing them yet, and capper put in his hat to get the new soul, at best, maybe turn into a dragon as a super power, at worst death or turning into a bird. He got the soul and as the experiment was a success, he crit successed his fortitude save and got really high on his will save, and capper dapperpaws ceased to exist. Turns out the fort save was to see if i just died or not, i passed and the will save was for whether my alignment went evil, it didnt turn evil. Just capper dapperpaws was erased from existance to be replaced with a dm controlled npc newborn demigod creature part wind and part beast. It felt a bit bad that capper didnt go out in some fantastic grandious way he had hoped for, but snuffed out like a candle because he chose an option he had no idea would cause tha, it was a death sentance as soon as he chose it and passing the checks only got him the worst ending. I still keep cappers mini in a place of honor and i miss him. We are redoing the campaign over but im chosing not to play him out of respect.
I think my first character death was a goblin shadow sorcerer named Oogichoogichoog. We used some optional flaw rules and his wisdom ended up being around 6. He had trouble with common sense and understanding other peoples reasoning quite a bit. Most notably he often fought with the Drider Psionic in the party about what was appropriate for the drider's daughter to play with (not typical goblin toys like acid, broken glass, or daggers). This culminated in an actual no holds barred battle between the two shortly before the oarty was ambushed. Having expended nearly all of our two characters' resources the party wasnt able to defend itself. Oohichoogichoog was the last party member standing with 1 enemy remaining, a red half-dragon. Burnt, bloodied, and barely breathing he refused to abandon his friends, his family. He lunged forward in a last valiant effort to slay his foe... and was incinerated by the half-dragons burning breath. He failed his dexterity save and took near maximum damage instantly killing him as his health dropped further negative than his maximum. The little drow girl in the party never knew what happened to her goblin friend, and her father never spoke ill of him after that.
I once ran an Arcane Trickster Rogue in a follow up campaign named Kyle.( We were doing an Isekai homebrew the that DM made). We had regular interactions with our previous characters from the last campaign that we did. My character made a deal with an evil entity to save one of the NPC's in the campaign. The deal was that The NPC would be saved, but that one person randomly in the world would come to kill me. And here "'I'm thinking yeah okay 1 person out of how many?" So I make the deal. Flash forward and we are fighting the big bad and who should step on the battle field but my previous character from the first campaign. At first I was elated as we were struggling to keep up but then I started to get attacked by my own previous character. This character was a level 12 Way of the astral self monk. It was around this time the DM was shooting me messages asking if he can "Kill off my character" so that he can set up the plotline of the next campaign. I ended up being knocked down and then chucked into the abyss. Fun times....
My character was a sort of dark wizard (true neutral) named Wulfric Wormius. He and the other PCs were in a dark cavern, where in the middle of it was a stone troll thing surrounded by hundreds of chests. We were trying to calm the troll down by feeding him giant chickens (that’s a long story), but it was futile. So my wizard had the dumb idea of grabbing all that he could get from the chests and run away. Long story short, that dumb decision killed all but one of the party members (almost a tpk!!!). Guess who didn’t survive to tell the tale of his dumbassery? Yours truly.
So this is technically not my first character but my first character death. Playing a Half Orc Echo Knight mercenary. His name is Gut Rock and he is on a quest for vengeance against his mother, own a magical bar, and eat a dragon.
The setting is the Under Dark and Halloween. We had just picked up a quest to deal with some sort of monster that was native to the region that had a legend surrounding it. It was the Headless Horseman. We eventually find it and get in a fight with it.
Things were going well until the horseman got to its turn and targeted me. The funny thing about Headless horsemen? They have Vorpal Weapons. And the DM rolled a nat 20 on attack.
My half orc was beheaded in a flash as he dropped to his knees and hit the ground. I didn't freak out about it unlike the rest of my party did. I told them calmly to finish the fight then worry about my dead body after.
They asked me what i wanted to do since my character was dead and i told them that they can decide what to do with the body as the dead can't decide. So they decided to reattach my head to my body and resurrect me. So now I'm playing as an Undead Half Orc Echo Knight. And it's been great so far.
The first one makes me question whether they ever discussed if it was OK. I mean, it's a cool idea, but it could go very wrong between players if somebody really didn't want to play something like that
Warren was a successful merchant who fancied himself a warrior.
He had very little time to regret that mistake; in the first round of his first battle, he rolled a nat 1 and tripped, which gave the plant monsters the party were up against a clear opening to finish him off before the second round.
This being DCC, we players each had a small herd of characters to start with, and it was expected that most of them wouldn't survive, but that kind of inauspicious start had me a smidge worried, not gonna lie. XD
My first character death was in 3.5e, I played as a human ranger named Laucian Silverleaf (classic ranger cliché with a wolf and two swords). My party was attacked by an army (yes an army we're level 17th at the time) of ibixian. The sorcerer went down pretty quickly due to brutal rolls from the DM and when the cleric was about to recive a killing blow I ask to the DM : "Can I interfer ? Interpose myself or tacle the shit out of him ? I don't care if I die, I will probably save the party doing so? Can I cliff dive with the Ibixian Chieftain ?" And my DM simply take my character sheet, put it in his binder and say :"Yes" just before narrate the scene. The cleric revive the sorcerer, who proceed to anihilate every goatfolk in his way. They finish the campaign and a statue of my character was build in is home town. The body was never found and till this day I regret nothing.
As of writing this, I’ve just built a character that was straight up boring but practical for a one shot that became the beginning for a homebrew campaign. By the time I finished making said character, I ended up making a Mountain Dwarf Path of the Ancestral Guardian Barbarian, who’s background is Sailor and is also proficient in using Cooking Utensils and Brewer’s Supplies, essentially making her the ship’s cook who practically sees ‘spirits’ even in her day job as well make decent alcoholic drinks. I’ve also confirmed it with the DM that I can use a Frying Pan as one of her weapons.
Caliborn and Caliope in a Wild Magic session. A magically enchanted fireball bullet got confused and came back.
That last story went hard
PANR has tuned in.
My first character death was my dwarf artificer alchemist. Hardar Alegrinder, a brewer who got stuck in the faewild for a while so his hair and beard were permanently colored hot pink, was helping the party attempt to find out who was trying to sabotage the city they were in. The town was basically a haven of scum and villainy, and the saboteur was another party consisting of a paladin, another artificer, and a bard. The paladin and artificer were hoping to help the people of the town redeem themselves… but the bard had decided that the town was beyond hope and had been casting a curse on the whole town. Yep, it was an evil campaign and we didn’t even know it because we were motivated by greed. Well the final session came around, where we could roll a whole bunch to save the town. Instead most of the party split up, looted, and then left the town to its fate of being obliterated by a spectral black dragon. Yeah that bard managed one heck of a curse, and Hardar wasn’t able to escape the town. He died when the spectral dragon crashed into the town, turning the whole town into a crater.
female human fighter.
an evil priest used an artifact to open a rift in the ground that swallowed an NPC cleric, and then he turned on the party cleric.
my character threw a dagger and knocked the artifact out of his hand. so, he pulled out Dust of Sneezing and Choking and threw that over the entire party, and I was the only one who failed, and died instantly.
Salazaar, my second character for our ongoing campaign (my first didn’t die). He was an android wizard that just got too powerful in support. This is a homebrew campaign and part of my races abilities is nano bots. Misinterpretations turned into homebrew and now my entire party has fast heal, higher ac, and other things so it just got harder on the DM. In an encounter with our main villains the serpents coil, salazaar had been captured (We talked it over) they used one of the macguffins to drain his energy and wipe him, as everyone felt the nanobots begin to shut down while looking for him, luckily after salazaar the mega support came violet, my second fav character who rose to godhood.. and then is currently sealed away in the same campaign.
A rabbit with knife and it's timed kill status conditions. Also technically a TPK. Fortunately, we're playing by Bofuri rules. My reaction was "That rabbit is gonna be a problem later."
First PC death, Arallios Siannodel, was a High Elf Ranger I rolled up for a 3.5 game that the DM advertised as a meat grinder, so I as the newest player declared he would be the first to die due to player incompetence in knowing how to make a character that can actually do the things it wants to do. It was the most hand-holdy game I'd seen, NPCs practically solved the conflicts themselves with the barest correction from a PC.
Fast forward, the DM ragequits from his own toxicity, another player takes over as DM, we convert to 5e, and several retcons have happened to have things make sense. We had gotten in good with the military and they ask us to raid a suspected spy hideout. DM asks us who we're bringing, since we've made A LOT of friends/allies and there's no challenge if we constantly swarm fights with a whole Level 12 D&D party and also 2-5 DMPCs of comparable level, so we leave the Bard home for once and focus on the core PCs and the Rogue for traps and such. We go in, there's lots of traps and tripwires, and we manage to smart our way past the most deadly obstacles. However, the Rogue ended up petrified immediately before the final combat with the wizard, so it was up to my DEX Ranger to fill in with impromptu lockpicking. Explosive Runes to the face brought him down to ~25 HP, but we got the box open. Rogue is petrified and the Monk set with carrying her doesn't want to risk carrying her across the illusion-covered acid pits and takes the long way around while Fighter and I make our way back to the main entrance.
There was one doorway we didn't go through. I, confident in my Perception and the Fighter nearby, asked to check the doorway for a trip wire as nearly every other doorway had had a trip wire to activate a trap of sorts. DM asks me to roll Investigation, and I don't want to fight him on the matter, so I get a big 2 + 2 INT for a 4, totally no trip wire. Well I'm no metagamer and I declare I'm crossing the threshold, but at the same time the Monk had slipped into a spike pit with the Rogue and was yelling for the Fighter to pull him out, so the Fighter leaves and I'm asked to reiterate what I said. As expected, a tripwire is triggered and portcullis slams shut over the entryway, locking my Ranger in a room with multiple chests. DM asks for initiative as the Mimics scoot forward. This was PHB Ranger as Xanathar's didn't exist yet, so the best option for damage I had available was Conjure Barrage which rolled a massive 2, 3, and 5 on the 3d8, and the Mimics make their saves because lmao MAD WIS investment with Ranger ASIs. Mimics get their turn, DM reveals these are homebrew mimics with not only a 1d8+3 piercing damage Bite, but the Bite also does an additional 3d6 acid damage so it could feasibly threaten a party of our level. Fighter gets everyone out of the pit and the Monk runs over to lift the portcullis so the Fighter can cleave the Mimics asunder, but it was too late. Arallios had fallen unconscious and was their only healer, so an auto-crit Bite and a failed death save put him away. So was the prophecy fulfilled, a TWF Hunter Ranger with a suboptimal race and a player that didn't want to fight a DM's call was the first (and in that campaign only) PC to die.
For a little bit! I was sitting there super calm about it, because again, I had been expecting this outcome since Session 0. Almost immediately though, Monk's player (best friend IRL) asks DM if the treasure chest I opened had a diamond in it, since he hadn't told us the loot. We roll for it on the DMG loot table for fairness, actually land on diamond, and so the body is recovered and the Monk uses a Scroll of Polymorph to Giant Eagle carry us out. The rest of the gang have a whole roleplay bit of the Bard (Ranger's GF) being incredibly distraught with the development, the other players' characters lauding his efforts, and REALLY hoping that Raise Dead actually works. He wakes up with all the debuffs, asks if they got the treasure out, and is subsequently made stir-crazy by the Bard smothering him with bedside manner while he wants to at least keep to his daily exercise routine. Even called in the Druid doctor to peer pressure him into recognizing that she's just trying to keep him safe while he recovers, which just shatters his self-esteem after he'd previously had character development about not comparing himself to his adventurer parents and to just take care of himself and be self-sufficient before worrying about how cool he is. He never really recovered either, sure the stat debuffs were gone, but he just failed every ability check and save from then on, to the point I actually said that I'm skipping the level up because he literally did not do anything to contribute for multiple sessions. The only fights where he had success in attack rolls were the ones that also had the friendly-NPC zerging we were trying to avoid. Even the Simulacrum the Bard made of him to try to help him feel needed "died" in the last fight against the not!Tarrasque; the character headspace at the end of the campaign was so unhealthy that the party had to peer pressure him/me into accepting a level-up after getting the finishing blow on aforementioned Tarrasque. Not gonna lie, fighting the personality bleed was the actual rough part for a long while.
My second and so far only other PC death was Kariza, a Ganondorf expy Fiendlock. Monk player was DMing Mad Mage (Spoilers for Mad Mage), but because Short Rest Fireball was messing with all of his style and ease, he had buffed the Lich version of the guy that's normally an Iron Golem into being allowed to cast any prepared spell as a legendary action. Surprise round has some sort of metal hound use a Stunning bark, on Lich's turn Action to cast Disintegrate, then Legendary Action Disintegrate. He was promptly pulped to death by the Barbarian (aforementioned replacement DM's character) that was hard crushing on her, but we had to call in basically every favor she had saved up to get the diamonds required for the True Resurrection to be performed by the Barbarian's interlude PC, the Wildfire Druid. A spell which was intercepted by Kariza's Pit Fiend patron, who kept her from reviving until she agreed to kill Halaster. Spoiler alert, she didn't kill Halaster, and the party had to fight the patron and his Hellfire Wyrm superior. Funnily enough, both she and her severely-wounded patron were portal'd out of the fight and into the Frozen North where they renegotiated her contract to being an independent entity that offers priority business, while the Hellfire Wyrm got pulped to death by the Barbarian, before the rest of the party had to evac as Asmodeus was approaching.
My first character death was last weekend and a result of terribly bad rolls by both party and a DM.
As mentioned it's our first DnD game (2 total newbies including me, one who played but had bad DM experience on the first game and one who tried to play but his game never went going after the character creation)
We were playing the mines module and entered the goblins cave in search of our employer.
Our first mistake is that (being the newbies) we didn't check around the dead horses we found before going to the town.
The second one was to go to the location of our first dungeon without buying any healing potions.
I was playing the black dragonborn paladin with a backstory where he was adopted by a lawful good paladin as a hatchling so he isn't evil as other chromatic dragonborn.
Others were the drunkard archer, tiefling with anime-like 8th grader syndrome (light variety) and our "main character" (in a good way) halfling sorcerer.
As a result of really bad rolls for us and good rolls for gm (which he was really frustrated about) our party got TPK'D.
Though this weekend GM decided to retcon some encounters and so our party is still alive.
Except for tiefling. He will stay dead. I don't know where the "save point" is yet, but i guess after the encounter where the tiefling died.
I was playing a eldarin (path of the beast) barbarian named daisy the disembowler and we were in an underwater area fighting an electrified shark. we were all pretty injured and the fight wasn't going the best, i had the bright idea of trying to force the sharks jaw open (WHILE I WAS IN ITS MOUTH) so it couldn't bite us anymore. the dm made us do contested strength rolls i had a +5 in strength so i was pretty confident, rolled a nat 1. the shark essentially ate me whole. it was in the campaign quite a large DND club at my school that had been running for several years and i was the first death. The fight ended pretty comically with the parties other barbarian rolling a crit to punch the shark on the nose. i was planning to make a new character anyway and it was pretty funny to see
Ever seen a bard get too into a performance, fail hard on a dexterity check, slip and fall off a cliff😂
I have yet to experience a character death.
I currently have 2 characters who may be about to die in the next session.
**nervous chuckle** I'm in danger!
Hey that's my Drow Cleric in EVERY SINGLE SESSION except for Session 3. If he doesn't go down to death saves he's not trying hard enough. Oh he's also keeping the party alive too. We're Playing Tomb of Anniliation as with NO revives possible. There has only been 1 PC death so far and the DM is trying to get us killed. So far my Cleric got koed by the boss of Fire Finger, Goblins, Zombies, Pirates, Once petrified by a Medusa, nearly killed by a thunder trap, fell off a path up to one of the cities, actually fell down a mine shaft taking the full fall damage, then proceeding to being koed twice by a red dragon, and last he fought the clay golems and got knocked down twice in the same fight.
The Party's only player death, a suicide to kill a boss dragon. Everyone else admitted they've been excited to play other characters but my cleric has kept them alive too well.
My first character was a half-elf paladin who had just the *WORST* luck ever. Like, we rolled for stats, 5d6 drop the lowest two, and she got a 3 for one of them which, yes, meant she rolled 5 nat 1's for that roll. She didn't have a single stat above a 14 even with racial bonuses. The GM had to manually step in and buff her just so she'd be viable. First combat was against a group of goblins on the road. Meant to be something simple since there were multiple newbies in the group (not just myself). We roll initative and my girl got a nat 1 while the goblins, appearently, got nat 20's. Being a paladin she was upfront cause high AC. The goblins proceeded to target her and critical her downing her before we even got to our first turn. Thankfully she survived due to healing, but this sort of pattern persisted for quite a while. She couldn't break a 10 to save her life. She wiffed basically every attack, blew every skill check she attempted even with a +4 to some of them, and when we finally leveled up, the GM insisted we roll for HP and, as expected, she rolled a 1.
Because of the constant bad luck I was getting I started to cheat. I barely knew how to play the game and my dice hated me. I wasn't having fun cause my average roll was, like, a 5. I am not proud of what I did, but at the same time, I want to stress this point. I was palming/bumping dice and the like... just so I could get a roll of 12+ on occasion. That's now *bad* my luck was. Despite the odds she actually lasted a few sessions, but so did her rotten luck and the GM *hated* the party on the whole. We, routinely, got thrown into fights beyond what we could handle and it didn't help that one of our party members seemed to have pissed off Fortuna and was next to useless. I think the only time I *got* a nat 20 was when throwing a snowball at a party member for the lulz.
Eventually we ran into a patrol of fire giants. Our party could, maybe, handle 1 of them if we got lucky and my girl managed to actually hit something. No way we could handle an entire patrol. TPK soon followed though it was a bit ambiguous regarding my girl who, against all odds, actually managed to *hit* something and took down one of the giants. According to the GM, she was killed a few seconds after. I prefer to think she survived and fled and became the sole survivor of that group. Either way, officially, she got killed and the campaign was done.
I developed a lot of bad habits during that campaign, not just the cheating. It took a lot of work to get over them and I was really, really, bitter about that death. It took a lot of work to get over it and become a much better player on the whole as a result. I do see now there were things I *could* have done, but as a new player with no help, wouldn't have thought of. But still... been very bitter over that death for years as it felt very backhanded.
There's two characters that could qualify as my "first" character death, the technical first was a 5e "Ninja" via a stealth Focused Monk build; that was when 5e first came out and there weren't many official options to customize the character to really feel like "mine", hence why I don't usually consider them my first. Regardless, the story of their death was simple: The idea was to perform a kind of pincer maneuver on the Orc boss of a bandit clan who'd destroyed our caravan, given there was both a path only my character could reasonably climb, and the "front door" so to speak (it was a cave, so this basically just means the small incline upwards to his room as opposed to the cliff overlook)... This ambush utterly failed, and after being crit my character went down like soggy loaf of French bread.
The character that actually felt like "mine" that was the first to go down (and also the first Pathfinder character I played) was... Orphea. I played two games with this character at the same time, and both died, but the one that died first was a Bloodrager, and the other was a Sorcerer; both were Kitsune with Draconic Bloodlines. The former was in a Skull & Shackles campaign, where after being shanhai'd into Piracy (she was planning on becoming a pirate eventually anyways out of revolutionary spirt), but it turns out she was not exactly the best pirate. Her skills were in Diplomacy and singing, while her ability scores in Strength were "middling", something like a 16 (since Kitsune take Strength Penalties). Naturally this didn't bode well when the main skills for the campaign were swimming, climbing, and Profession:Sailing (The last of which based of wisdom, which she lacked). Despite everything stacked against her, she helped the party bard bluff his way out of being keelhauled by using dancing lights to back up the idea the bard pushed that killing him would be against Besmara's wishes (Besmara being the main Goddess of piracy). She also from what I remember nearly won a fight with a certain feral man enslaved by one of the officers, only to see when he gave up that he didn't want to fight, so she gave him a hug and abandoned the fight; not to mention I remember playing her as very much the boisterous tavern singing drunk barbarian type, which if nothing else did wonders for morale. Despite being less than ideal for skill checks, apparently her middling stats weren't much of a problem during combat, so long as I used the Rage Rounds (and associated Strength/Constitution bonus) wisely. Her death however, came when during a rescue mission into a flooded cavern, there was a "Devil Fish" (effectively a giant octopus or squid), which before fighting, she realized that fighting it would be suicidal... The new captain, the very bard she saved earlier and supported in a mutiny, told her to do it anyways or else be a coward deserving of being marooned, and so she waded into fight it, and promptly drowned; with the rest of the party shrugging and promptly leaving her to die. Needless to say I was quite furious, but I learned a valuable lesson on the nature of pirates in that setting.
Its both funny, and utterly crushing, that similar events happened to the other Orphea in a Reign of Winter campaign not long after, where we were walking along a river, and a chest of false gold lured one of the party members into being charmed by a fae creature that promptly attempted to drown them. This Orphea tried to pull them back, but in the process of saving them, got charmed, dunked into the water, dragged under the ice, and promptly abandoned by the party as they fled. She went over a waterfall, and needless to say, did not survive... This one actually crushed me more than the previous, given she'd lasted much longer than my other two characters up to that point. However, it was promptly overshadowed by the 7 following characters of mine that died in that campaign; promptly burning me out on tabletop for a while, and even when I felt like playing again, it would take years before I'd find another group.
... Eventually I managed to play a version of Orphea again in an Iron Gods campaign, "Orphea the Fourth" (with the other two being Orphea the Second and Third Respectively), and her deal was she fled to the deserts of Numeria to raise a family without the threat of drowning that claimed her mother and grandmother... The bulk of that tale is for another time, but this time she got a happy ending as a Demi-Goddess of Dragons, Lightning, Evolution, and Technology (among some other niche things); which served as something of a catharsis on my previous character deaths, along with getting to save a brand new "Orphea the First" from the shadow-realm.
Deff the Human fighter reached into a large covered bird cage. Cockatrice turned him to stone.
My first was a harengon chronergy wizard and all round good boy cinnamon roll, Enoch. Playing tomb of annihilation at camp vengeance I was on the back our party’s centaur ranger when an undead T-Rex broke through the barrier and chomped me, this is after a lengthy siege so I was basically tapped on spells, I had 29 health and he hit for 33 dmg. I ended up failing my death saves and described how his body “time-slipped” out of reality, to rest eternal on the currents of time. RIP Enoch, you were the best of them 🫡
Mine was an evocation wizard named valefor. It was my first ever character. We just finished conquering a flying castle from cloud giants and dragon cult members when we met a vampire that we decided to fight. We were a bit banged up but thought we could handle it. Welllllll… two of our characters got mind controlled by it. So valefor decided to cast every powerful spell he had on it to try and save his friends, but the rolls were not valefor’s favor. Our Goliath paladin artair, who was one of the mind controlled characters, went and swung his giant maul at valefor. The funny thing about that is that Artair and valefor didn’t get along and he didn’t trust valefor because he snuck out of their room and lied about what he was doing when they were supposed to be staying for safety reasons. Anyway valefor got whacked and dropped I went and rolled a death saving roll and got a nat 1! (Which we play is an instant death no matter what) as soon as I saw it I yelled NOOOOOO! Not gonna lie, I teared up a bit. The vampire let our team go after that. Everyone was devastated, playerwise. We had some close calls by this was all of our first death. The party tired everything they could to bring him back but he was gone. I remember going to work a few days later sitting in my car like man I miss valefor haha story wise l, it was handled well and was such a humbling way ending our part on campaign and made the story so powerful. He was a fun first time didn’t know what I was doing character!
Sunrise! He was a cheerful bee mage who's specialized in healing. So he (level 4), someone who had a crush on him (level 3), and two level 0 people went to a level 4 area (levels don't correspond to D&D levels btw, these are levels in this system, but level 4 is still much stronger than level 0s).
Anyways! So an average L1.75 party went to a level 4 area, barely made it out alive, everyone just fell asleep at the dungeon entrance with nobody keeping watch (despite the GM's warnings), and then we woke up to 3 bandits robbing us. So we woke up, Sunrise was on 1 HP so tried to scoot a little into the dungeon to avoid attention and heal, and then two attacks to his face killed him.
So oof there, anyways I cried for like the next hour, and was depressed and all for like 2 weeks, especially as the level 3 guy finally revealed to one of our mutual friends about his crush (somehow I didn't even realize he had a crush lmao, so that just hit me harder). I miss Sunrise, he was so kind to everyone
Mine was kinda comical. I was playing a half-giant in 2E AD&D. He was in love with a halfling. She ran ahead to scout an area that had magical lasers and screamed in fear. My character ran to the rescue and got cut to pieces by the magical lasers.
I had to reroll a new character since my dm didn't want my ranger to level up. So I told him I wanted to kill off my character my way.
The ranger died on shroom trip, falling after climbing up seeing Palor, falling backward, and accidentally getting tangled in the rope, the body dropped mid-air hanging Clayton style.
I have 2 deaths that I consider my first character death, the first being “garret greenbottle” the halfling cleric, while he was technically my first character death, I really disliked him as a character and was actually quite happy when he died, he was knocked unconscious by party members because he was a dick and then found and killed by strahd followers.
The death that I consider my first proper death because it was a character I really cared about was Ash Jhinzu, a mothlin (homebrew humanoid moth race) swarmkeeper ranger, I played her as being a little bit feral from growing up in the wilderness, quite lonely, asocial but also maternal as she adopted a baby moth (not mothlin, just a moth) when she was young and raised it as her own daughter, that moth being the start of her swarm of moth. She had 2 major characteristics that contributed towards the circumstances of her death. 1) she had spent most of her life alone, no friends, no family, only her moth daughter (which she called fluffy Because she was very young when she adopted her) and later her swarm of moths who were all spirits apart from fluffy, this meant that when she met the party, they were the first real people she had met in ages and thus she was distrusting yet desired companionship and she started to grow closer to the party, quality 2) was that she was always considered prey, at the bottom of the food chain, what started as a joke in the party of mainly animal like races (the party also consisted of a Dragonborn, harengon and bat person, Ash was very clearly at the bottom of the food chain) I later developed into a major part of her character, no matter how hard she tried she always ended up being the hunted instead of the hunter, being forced to hide. However now that she had met up with the party she was able to actually hunt down enemies and beat them without having to hide.
This all culminated in the final session of the campaign where we had a massive battles against a horde of mutated creatures and an opposing spellcaster. As well as Ash, 2 other party members died, the first, the harengon, was killed by a demon she had summoned in the fight to assist us, only for her to lose control of her powers and it turned on her (this was relevant to her background), the second was the Dragonborn who was killed by another party member, the bat person, who the Dragonborn saw as a son, similar to the son that the Dragonborn had lost, the bar person had been mind controlled and permanently charmed by the spellcaster and they ended up killing the Dragonborn but not before the Dragonborn said in their dying breaths that they still believed in the bath person. Compared to them, Ash’s death felt very anti-climactic and unemotional, she was killed by a large bestial lizard creature the enemy spellcaster had summoned, ash was climbing a wall to escape (her moth wings were damaged so she couldn’t fly) but the lizard creature jumped up and bit into her leg before ripping it off, killing her before she even hit the ground.
At first I was a little annoyed at how Ash died, the campaign ended in an awesome way and I had previously mentioned I was ok with a character death but while the other 2 characters had climactic emotional deaths relevant to their backstories, it felt like ash was just killed for no reason (which to be fair, the only reason any of us died was because it was a really difficult encounter and we got unlucky, death was always on the table) but the more I thought about it, the more that her death felt like a very fitting conclusion based on her character, first, she was alone, after spending so much time together with her new party, her final moments were spent sad, scared and alone, she didn’t even have fluffy as she was with the Druid of the party as they had offered to look after her for a while, and secondly, she wasn’t being killed by a demon she had summoned, or a person that represented a lost family member, she was being killed by a primal, animalistic carnivore, a predator, and in its eyes, Ash was only prey, she had fought so hard to be a powerful hunter, but in the end she was nothing more than the dinner of an even stronger creature.
So I’m short, what I initially thought was a very lacklustre ending to one of my favourite characters, actually ended up being one of the most fitting deaths I’ve ever had for a character I’ve played, I’ll always Love ash and maybe I’ll bring her back some day, but for now, she’s resting peacefully as her spirit passed on with the Dragonborn as Ash had no one else to visit in the afterlife.
I've never had a character death, so if I may share another party member's story from the first campaign I played in... a few sessions earlier, my sorcerer had temporarily split off from the rest of the party, driven by an unwavering "leave nobody behind" policy to help cure one of the party NPCs of gangrene, telling the rest of the party "over my dead body" when they all voted to put him out of his misery. While I was off on my solo mini-arc though, the rest of the party pressed on toward the BBEG's fortress, and on their way had attacked an outpost. In this fight our other party NPC fell, but more significantly was the player character that fell in this fight: our ranger, Ted, was shot off his pet griffon by a goblin archer and fell to his death. No death saves, and not even a body to bury. When I found out about this later, I was in shock, since no such serious harm ever befell the party on my watch, and it kinda felt like a failing of my "leave nobody behind" policy even though ultimately I probably couldn't have prevented that death like I could the one I'd struck out on my own to prevent.
My first, and for now, only death, was an Orc Ranger Rievald. It was Darkest Dungeon and Fear and Hunger inspired campaing with altered classes and races, and added features. Games were really fun, even tho one of our players got into a game planning to ruin it, but during first session he decided against it.He played Dark Priest Dwarf and in game he were known for doing crazy and harmfull stuff to party, but sometimes it were ending up in some good effect (Partially because of the Game specific mechanics, and partially because of the players action), so every character that interacted with him were at least holding a grudge, if not more. My character were often defending him.And he promised that if this Dark Priest will ever put their life in danger, he would kill him himself, So, one day our party were on a rescue mission, getting closer to villagers caged in bandints camp. After we barelly were able to get past all combat encounters, Rivald were able to succesfuly identify all traps that would set off alarms and started disarming them, he warned everyone few times about traps, and sent everyone to open cage where villagers were trapped, However Dark Priest decided to loot other houses. Bandits, of course, trapped them. And my character were disarming last door entrance to unchecked for loot house. Rivald, seeing that Priest getting close to door, warned him about trap again and asked him to hide. Dwarf noted that.... and tried to hide BEHIND THE TRAPPED DOOR. It of course setted of alarm, and being extremly weak after our battles we rushed to save villagers and get away. We were barelly able to get them out, but our Fighter rolled poorly and were cornered by bandits. Priest, being mostly out of danger, tried to hold bandits off by sacrificing himself. Running alone, in 20 bandits that were ~60 feet away from everyone else(exept the fighter) . Rivald, seeing this, were so enraged after loss of his Fight Friend, and remembering his promise, tried to kill Priest at his last moments... Sadly he missed all 3 shots, and one of bandits landed his arrow. Priest died right after that, and Rivald died before bandits even got to him, sad and enraged that he werent able to kill the one that doomed them all, but happy, that he saved villagers.
During that moment i were partially sad, but it was such an absurd fighting encouter stat wise, that i were laughing, dm putted one of ~lvl 11 bosses against us when we were lvl3, with ~40 or so bandits( in reallity 1 bandint could have killed us all, because we had like 1 hp each) , and it was my first character death, so i was exited to learn what gonna happen next.
My character was a human gunslinger, I had plans to make him go through a bit of a revenge villain arc. But one of the players wanted to change their characters so the dm and him come up with a plan.
We were trying to head to a spider god realm. But when we had to cross a web tight rope. The dexterity checks were low… me being a high dexterity missed them by 1 point.
Guess what was under the web tight rope? Nothingness…. But when my character fell, He was thanos snapped out of existence. Everyone was legitimately shocked and I was upset… The thing meant for one player killed my character…
I still play with them. We’re still good friends.
I remember the very first character I ever made, he was a heavily religious (standard) human Bard (I didn't know about variant human at that point)... The god he worshiped was the Traveler, who in this world pulled double duty as the god of heavy metal (Think Jack Black's character from Brutal Legend).
His name was Jerol Wulff & at this point in the campaign he had made an unlikely friendship with our party's Cleric, who was a follower of an old stuffy god, you know... like dad religion! The pair of them would often have what we later dubbed: Faith-offs where we were always trying to one up each other but would always have each other's back.
Cue the incident: I'm pretty sure this happened after I had almost single-handedly de-railed the campaign with my desire for mythril & I am fairly sure the DM was out for my characters blood a little, since during a fairly heavy combat encounter against a host of undead, culminating in a fight with a reborn Beholder, Jerol was taking most of the hits & kept having to be brought back up until the party were seriously running low on resources, they then decided to focus on killing the boss & deal with whatever happens after... Jerol however failed all his death saves and ascended up to the heavy metal version of the pearly gates to stand before his deity. It was a bitter-sweat moment until the Traveler opened his mouth to say: "It is good to see you my son... BUT IT IS NOT YOUR TIME!" before 'Sparta-kicking' him back into his body! We kind of forgot he had a magic amulat that acted as a one time resurrection item.
Still it was metal as hell!
Ngl… I just didn’t enjoy my first character so I stole from the barbarian and finished him like that. However my 3rd ish character was kinda funny in a way. It was a Druid who was isolated in his forests grove for his entire life learning to become the guardian of the grove. He was so enamored with the outside world. We were at a festival on a coastal town, it was a great time! My paladin got half of some sort of curated blade (we got to play 2 characters in this campaign), the sorcerer got his inheritance from his father. Our guard was down. That’s when a fog entered town, my Druid turning into a crocodile to go investigate only to find a band of pirates as well as an old party member coming to raid the town. My Druid was caught out from the rest of the party and got surrounded and swiftly knocked unconscious. The rest of the party couldn’t reach him in time before he bled out.
TL:DR My Druids first day outside of his grove gets killed by a band of pirates.
I was playing a water genasi warlock named Vay. The region is based on Indonesia, and apparently in indonesia there are GIANT MAN EATING CROCADILES! I was leading the party through the jungle and nat 1 my survival check. My death was quick.
Pathfinder 1st ed, and while my class and race was a complex one for a new player, I actually had an amazing first character death. An evil lamia was escaping off a decrepit bell tower via featherfall, and we had no way to immediately catch up with her, so I had the crazy idea to launch my kobold arcane trickster off the tower and basically divebomb her with his rapier aimed toward the first part of her he collided with. He managed to hit the mark as the rapier went right into the skull, and killed her instantly! .....along with my kobold! I have never had a better death than that so far, but it stunned everyone at the digital table when I did that. He was revived after that, and unfortunately the campaign ended up being very frustrating near the end-game, which eventually ended up with a TPK for our group and the BBEG of the game.
my first game back in the old days of adnd first edition our dm said do not get used to your character you will die your life depends on a dice roll. we all made 5 characters and the one that survived became our character. death is an adventurers bread and butter it comes for all sooner or later. i still have all the characters that died in a binder and use them as npc's.
Oh, my first character death? I was so angry, I ripped the character sheet up, along with the only familiar sheet we had because I wasn't paying attention. I was playing a male sorcerer in 3.5 D&D, and my character, a sorcerer that was going for the Elemental Savant prestige class, got killed by some demonic darkness bat creature, I forget what it was, but it was a CD 6 or 7. the character started at level 7, so we could take it. It was just bad rolls. The other players immediately resurrected the character and called me out for being so angry. And then I got to thinking. My character was already strange, because he had teal hair and purple eyes. Well, I then described as, how they resurrected him, he suddenly turned into a girl. I then explained a backstory I made up on the spot.
The character was born a girl and learned she had a thing for magic. She had learned early to be very vain, despite being a bookworm, so when she came across a wizard's tome that had a spell for changing how you look, she tried to cast it. Unfortunately, being a sorcerer, this backfired, making her permanently have teal hair and purple eyes. Even if polymorphed. Well, she later on found a ring of wishes with one wish left, and she wished to not be a teal-haired purple eyed girl. She should've been more specific because she turned into a teal-haired, purple eyed guy. The wish wore off upon death.
TL:DR I got really angry my first character death, but that spurred me on to be super cretive.
My current werewolf the apocalypse character is the son of my first one. Son-of-Harmony was a glasswalker galliard who ended up falling in battle with the endtimes book of third edition battling a wyrm with her pack. she chgose to sacrifce herself to let the oack get a better change to defeat the wyrm and was torn to shreds only to take her place among gaia. Stalks-the-Shadwws, her son who is a child of gaia ragabash still carries her klaive which is imbuded with her sprit who watches over her child. A fitting end in my opinion. She gave her life for her pck her kind, her family and hearth. And i was okay with it.
Tried to fight the BBEG early.
Thankfully it was a time loop game so nothing was lost. It did serve as a great hook though...
In the game I'm currently in right now, my character is the only party member to die. Especially twice now.
He is an assassin of the creed, much like the games, and hails from the desert we started in. However, neither of his deaths would be there. His first death would be a freak accident. While with his party on a visit to the Elf's high end family home, waiting in the guest dining room, he and the party's Human Sage argued the philosophy abd duty over the necessity of ending a life, while he watched here mess with a magic cube she found. As the rest of the party and the Elf brought in his parents to be introduced, the Sage solved one side of the cube and centered a unknown spell onto herself. An AOE of radiant light shot from the heavans, dealing a leathal amout of damage to the two of them. Now should they both pass, they would have both been conscious, but as my assassin still has a spot of damage and not had a full rest, he wasn't at full HP. On top of that, he had faild his save, meaning the total damage recived was enough to kill him instantly.
We laughed for about an hour over that fact that the party's healer of all people was the one to kill the very assassin she was lecturing. Luckily, we remembered that we had an artifact capable of rewinding time and undid his death as if it never happened.
His second death is actually to be resolved next session. We're currently in a misty dungeon tainted by Fay magic. Everytime we enter a new room, we have to make a Wisdom Saving throw or suffer a prank like effect. Unfortunately, one of us failed so hard that if caused one additional failure for each of the party members. My assassin managed to recive two involving death. One where he is pushed out of body, and another where he is teleported to another time and place during a pivotal moment. This moment was another giant lazer beam being shot directly through a final boss from another campaign, in which my assasin was right behind of. Luckily, the double negative if death effects mean that they cancel each other and hell be back next session, because not all the pranks are permanent.
My first character death was my Kobold Alchemist named Glaz.
Glaz was a slave to the Drow, who rose to the surface after the death of Lolth and her final act of creating and spreading a deadly disease called Etterpox. Glaz and the rest of kobold kind, for whatever reason, are the only race naturally immune, so they were used by the Drow as vessels to transport and experiment with Lolth’s Gift. Long story short, Glaz teaches himself how to be an artificer, specializing in the alchemical, leading a revolution from his encampment and once escaped vowing to free all kobolds he could.
Fast forward to the final chapter of the campaign: Glaz and the party had reached the Healing Waters monastery, where treatment of the infected was practiced and dozens of kobolds were provided for. Unfortunately, as the party would discover, the kobolds were drained of their blood in a blood transfusion, using their natural immunity to cure the infected. To make matters worse, a high Drow priest named DarkBlade had made his way inside the monastery and was creating an army of Ettercaps.
After freeing the other kobolds in an act of revolution, the party rushed into the cave DarkBlade was hiding in. After destroying all his work and Glaz dealing the killing blow, they discovered a small child that the Human Rouge recognized from her home village, which was attacked. DarkBlade had infected the child with a highly mutagenic and near incurable strand of Etterpox.
The party returned to the monastery, Glaz hoping he could create something to cure the child, but it was clear he would not be fast enough. So, in a final act of kindness to thank the party for teaching Glaz what a true family was, he allowed himself to be drained of his blood so the child would live.
I, and everyone else at the table, knew that although this was a heartbreaking end to our campaign, it was such a fitting end to Glaz’s character arc. He had gone from a feral, out-for-himself nomad who only cared about fighting the Drow and freeing his own kind, to a caring and courageous friend who learned how wonderful the outside world actually was.
My first character death was Keth, Halforc with a homebrewed subclass of barbarian that was a lot closer to bears than the totem warrior is. From like a barbarian handbook. We were playing Lost mines of Phandelver that went off the rails. As most modules do.
Party of three. The dragonborn fighter, and dragonborn warlockm and myself. We have just found Gundrin we were hired to rescue from cragma castleThe fighter kills him because liked the evil direction of character more.
So they become agents of the black spider... tasked to eliminate all in phandelin. I did not agree with it. So I sent word to Sildar. Unfortunetly he arrives too late and it's more of a vengance mission instead of a stopping mission. so it was a 2v2. Sildar goes down. And soon enough... so did Keth. I did manage to KO the warlock though? but potion of healing being fed to them and all.
It was... a disappointing end. I guess the Dm shoulda been a lot more... proactive in stopping the sudden direction shift maybe? And send the character elsewhere? (OR MINE, and have me swap one in that was more in favor of evil stuff!) But we were near the end of the school year (freshman year of college) so the campaign would probably have needed to end either way, sooo..... yeah.
It was the fighter, warlock and mine first time playing dnd in a longer campaign really. The same fighter player went on to be the DM for a group of friends of mine for the rest of college actually. Great guy. Great DM.
In a later play of LMoP, he actually gave our first permanent PC death, Robert the Dreadfull, a tabaxi swashbuckler rogue, a nice sendoff. (Same character died sessions earlier thanks to a failed stealth roll and crit IIRC). That character made a pact with a fey. (or well, got a semi-cursed grass rapier/shortbow thing that can't hurt nature with it, which led to the pact) and... he died trying to use the fey pact level 1 feature to charm/frighten black puddings to move away from the path we were on.... yeah. that did not go well. With no body to revive, the dm instead made a tree grow in the place where he died as sort of a tribute to him. IDR/IDK what the player thought of it at the time though.)
That first one... Playing DiA as a Bane acolite... on your first DND ever... Without really knowing who Bane is... And wearing Bane symbol in the open...
No I really can't see why it gone wrong.
I blame lack of session Zero.
In all honesty, that is some pretty good group of players you have there dude.
Keeping character and player separated is not easy task for many. DnD groups disband for lesser reasons than actively working against the party, betrayal and murder. I know it would give my DM a headache but if you all had fun that all what matters
Dwarf fighter. I can't remember his name, because I didn't really roleplay (which was for the best). Ran into a fight against an ogre and got 1 hit killed by a crit. In retrospect i probably should habe asked what an ogre was
TFT my character Yzor. He died, in a duel, I shrugged and made another character.
Not a Death, more written off. The party was in the nine hells for the end of a campaign. I was a Divine Soul Sorcerer Celestial Warlock multiclass. We were on a timed escape, skill challenge style encounter as the building we were in was collapsing in on itself. We were also being accosted by several demons and devils. We get to the exit and there was a rather stubborn toll collector, who was our gateway into the nine hells. We had a deal, and he decided to make some last second alterations to it. Never trust a devil, right? Well. Luckily, our party druid had a homebrew scroll that was gifted to us earlier in the campaign: a warped scroll of Planeshift. The problem was we had a 6-person party, and it would only Planeshift 5 people. So, I eldritch blasted the demon that we sided with temporarily away from the spell (repelling blast) and got some long awaited get back while the rest of the party planes planeshifted back to the material plane. A fitting end for Nytus Anthon, killing demons in the hells.
My first death, and how did I react?
I dismantled the DM's playgroup, took the players and made my own playgroup.
It was entirely deserved.
My first character was a halfling rogue named latorska. After we killed a den of goblins and big bears, latorska found a statue that was worth 500 gp (my dad was dm for the first time and didn't really understand how much that was and neither did I ) so afterwards we went to a tavern to celebrate. I had sold my statue on the way and this being my first time playing DND not understanding that everything had consequences, I bought 500 gp worth of ale and drank it in one sitting. Latorska was so drunk she ended up climbing the tavern and my dm made me roll an acrobatics check. I rolled a nat 1 and ended up falling and breaking my neck on impact. It was a good laugh but I was still a little annoyed that I died of being a drunk idiot
It would be amusing if Graham reappeared in another game because he had gotten whisked away right before the explosion to another time.
It would be easy to explain off.
Not mine since I'm the forever DM, but first player death was hilarious: Mage decides to scale 200ft cliff for no reason. But since he's not stupid, he'll tie himself to the elf ranger and they'll climb together. The elf can't climb either. They make it almost to the top with the mage going first but then the mage drops and does a whole pendulum swing into the rock face. The 9 str ranger SOMEHOW makes the roll at disadvantage so the mage gets an opportunity to grab onto the cliff face. He fails. The elf fails his regular str check and they both fall with the elf landing on top of the mage.
The funniest part of all of this is the moment the damage is rolled and we realize that was enough to instakill the mage, the mage player pipes up and says "Aw shit I just realized I had fly on my spell list". Well not anymore, your character is a meat pancake with a badly bruised elf sitting on top of him
I have one from wrath and glory a warhammer rpg. Mine was a kreigs man named jim who wanted to die for the emperor yet the party kept him alive. Threw out the story he became stronger than most human in that setting. How he died was kinda epic. There was a khorne deamon prince i dont remember the name of him but he was to much for the party. So jim the kreigs man dispite being out if his weight class went to a melee clash with the deamon prince to die for the emperor but more important to save the others. He died giving that prince one hell of a fight.
In the only still running campaign I’m in, I play the last original character. Everyone else’s character either died, or just had left the game unwillingly. But all of that changed one day.
Chapter 2 of this campaign, we went after this big bad vampire lord. And I had the esteemed honor as a barbarian, to put him in a choke hold. Like laying on the ground belly up with him on top of me, choking him relentlessly as the sunlight came up. But of course, dm pulls some typical dm bullshitery (he’s like my best friend) and command word “kill.” As I felt my heart and lungs stop, I utter the last words of my Barbarian, which are very important to him and our late fighter as he and the vampire slowly drifted off into death. And thus, all of the original characters, are now dead.
But of course everyone is a magiccaster so they brought me back. Yay
I think my characters might be immortal
Although, there was a time with my first character when me and the DMPC were both knocked out by a giant, DM was really new, so he just had the giant capture us instead of a TPK. (I was the only player other than the DM.)
a bard in my very first time joining my friends playing dnd3.5 ... died in the very first session by splitting from the group and opening a door. a black bear killed him after i brought him to 0hp. endurence is a bitch.
i wanted to get up and go, because i thought thats how it works. was almost crying. the dm pulled a deus ex harp and resurrected my bard.
this was 21year ago. still playing with the same gm. but 5years ago we switched from dnd3.5 to savage worlds.
I got pissed. My first character death was by a hardcore gm who tried to make a point about my characters. He killed not only the first character I showed, but the next three extra characters as well, I already sent them to him for approval by the by. Still ain't got no clue why he did it.
The old human monk I made died of old age because the gm told me to roll a Con save to see if he could get out of bed. Crit failed, and the gm rolled on a table and told me he died of old age.
My lizardfolk cleric was a worshipper of a god of storms and destruction and I gave him the wanted status as part of his backstory. One of the players rolled history, gm told him about my bounty and killed me on the spot.
My dwarf ranger got transformed into a wolf by a case of magical casting failure by a group of elven agents sent by a family of noble elves, whose heir he had beaten up apparently. The elves got transformed into rabbits. I tried to get to a temple to get the transformation removed or hide long enough for it to wear off. A group of guards skewered me with spears.
My elf wizard who ran away from his corrupt noble family got run over by a carriage driven by his family's servants.
This was all in the first hour by the way.
I made Gnomegar the barbarian which was the start of a story of madness and absurdity. Gnomegar survived for ten years through the gm or the other player's bs by retaliation with my own bs. Sadly however the gm died a couple of years ago, didn't even know his name since we chatted through texts, so I guess I got the last laugh. Gnomegar lives on forever somewhere in the multiverse. Surviving the wrath of the creator(gm) who sought to destroy him.
The gm and the players were great roleplayers, and they taught me a lot about playing RPGs and how to make the most of a bad situation. And of course, how to bs your way to victory. I am starting to think the gm regretted killing off my painstakingly made first 4 characters and just let Gnomegar survive whatever bs he and the party got up to.
It was a rough and downright shitty start but... it was fun... those ten years...
I was a warlock of a homebrew race, and my patron was essentially a JoJo stand. How did I get away with this BS? The dm is my best friend.
Anyway, we played a couple sessions, and I was wildly overpowered, since I was basically playing two characters. Me and the dm decided I was too powerful, and quite frankly, it was a stupid character. We retroactively retconned my character surviving a boss fight which had otherwise been a tpk before our next session.
I then introduced my new character, a lizardfolk druid with 20 strength, and a not too great wisdom. I killed everything with dual Warhammers and basically carried the party. So I was wildly overpowered again! Also both of my eyes got shot out. But we had some magic glass eyes so yay!
We had another boss fight, and my druid grabbed a relic which basically turned him into demonic lizard carnage, which I was fine with.
We have a new campaign in the same universe, and my character survives as a bounty hunter who my dm uses as an NPC!
Died in a barrel of my own piss session one ... Right after a bar fight and a series of extremely bad rolls running from guards. I am not a lucky person.
Well you shouldn’t have your brotherly rivalry get involved in DND
10pm gang
Cool
Hear this a pc that saw 17 pc deaths over his life and he never died it was 3rd edition, he was a clerig an old one, the reptilians were winning several parties were fighting Seth, the world was collapsing every in game month a gax friend would die and he kept learning the rash reality of war why wouldnt selune help him why couldnt he revive his fiends, he needed to get stronger he did but along the way he saw more friends die, thr man was broken why would selune allow this, evetually this went to 3.5, and more friend's died he was always late to revive, why would selune do this, because his godess was shar playing with him he only knew much later this went to epic levels, and when he managed to start reviving old friends their souls denied, this broke a oh so broken mortal, after seth waa repelled, he later in anguish killed himself and become a lich, and said, if you dont come willingly to life i will bring you back in unlife, now i use gaxx as a villain in my 5e canpains
Hi