Baalshamon
As gamers we have all seen our share of great deaths. I am looking for something new, something I have never heard about before. I seek new ways to die.
~Steve~
"Star Trek Late Night":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/star-trek-late-night
"Duskreign's CotM 12/11":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/wyrmshadow/wikis/122011
"OP CotM 01/12":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/star-trek-late-night-januarys-cotm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=star-trek-late-night-januarys-cotm
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After losing his One True Love and Best Friend to each other, losing his Crown, and then receiving news that the port capital had begun flying his Friend's banner, he decided that the town had to burn. After a quick stop at a Dwarven brewery, he began covertly placing barrels of alcohol around the port, with the plan of blowing up the entire waterfront. He was spotted by the guards just as he began igniting the first barrel, but after planting dozens. He had planned on making it inland, but unfortunately didn't have time with the guards after him. He tried to dive into the harbor, which allowed him to avoid the first fireball, but he was killed when the pressure wave from the remaining explosions hit the harbor. Mission? Success. Unfortunately, not one he could celebrate.
After betraying (and almost killing) another member of his party, my dwarven psionicist, Baldric, fled from his party with a powerful magical item known as "The Doomsday Device". It was a sort of small nuclear bomb. The other character, who survived Baldric's attack, was a really bad-news guy called The Baron. He managed to corner Baldric in a collapsing pocket dimension. Rather than be taken, Baldric threw himself into the void, not knowing what would happen to him. The Baron, who found a Deck of Many Things and managed to pull a wish card used it to take his revenge: He wished that Baldric become a giant immortal dung beetle.
I've always looked back on that fondly, and have often pondered whether to include in my own campaigns the legend of a giant immortal dung beetle that is rumoured to have a world-shattering magical device secured in the centre of his ball of poo.
twiggyleaf
"Shimring - The Faces of Divinity":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shimring
(a multiplanar 3.5 D&D campaign)
"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member
We're crawling around in ancient ruins guarded by these large and very deadly constructs. They have massive impaling spikes on their back ... and Improved Grab. Those of you that play 3.5 can imagine how this goes. Oh ... did I mention they are spell immune? Yeah ... about the only thing that slows them down are walls, alas they have a burrow speed so they just take a turn or two and dig under the wall of force. yeah AC in the high 20s, spell immunity, a grapple that rivals God, and a breath weapon that paralyses.
So we make our way to the main hall where we have to secure this staff. There are three of these freaking things. We kill one, but are so beat up that we have to basically smash and grab, One of our comrades is impaled on the back of one of these creatures. SO we pull a series of desperate teleports etc. Dislodge him, and throw his unconscious body down a hallway, The monk steps in to distract the construct, completely oblivious to his own danger. He gets hit and grappled. MY character and the Goliath step in to try and hack the arm away that has him. We fail. He is impaled and dies while we withdraw, running for our lives.
The beauty of it was the guy playing the monk knew it was suicide. He just looks at us all and says, "This is what he would do. I'm at peace with it."
It was so awesome.
(dumb teenagers!)
On another note...playing palladium many years ago...I was a player. One of the other characters, a fighter type who played an incredibly arrogant and stubborn character, role played himself right into a fight he couldn't win. We were walking down a country road when we came upon a column of thousands of soldiers coming up the road from the other direction. At the head of the column was a gigantic man in gleaming armor. We were lowly leveled characters at the time so you can imagine how much more powerful and imposing this leader was portrayed to us. When our fighter refused to make way the commander gave him plenty of warnings. The DM made EVERY attempt to show the fighting prowess of the commander, but our guy just wouldn't budge. Even after the soldier jumped down off his horse and put on an exaggerated display of swordsmanship...STILL...the fighter refused to step aside...It finally came to blows. Needless to say our fighter died quickly. Role played to death!
dlaporte
"violent skies":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/violent-skies
So i had a translation symbiot fall on him from a tree> His first reaction was to panic and try to cut it off...rolled a 1...
Had another character fall into a dimensional hole trap. As he was falling, he saw a rock below him that was vaguely screw shaped...
Last good deaht i had, my Troll street samurai, was holding of a bunch of renraku security. Dual weilding panther assault cannons. managed to stay standing long enough to run out of ammo. He didnt make it, but the rest of the crew did
Most original way I died? I wished for a gnomish barrel submarine with a wish ring. I got teleported inside the right thing, but it was in the ninth circle of hell and was the possession of a titan-demon. The thing looked at me and I went totally insane.
twiggyleaf
"Shimring - The Faces of Divinity":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/shimring
(a multiplanar 3.5 D&D campaign)
"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member
*Party is traveling to dungeon and comes across a roper that captures a peer of theirs to bargain*
So, while they didn't die they were doomed to spend eternity in each others company, in a small room, and neither of them can die.
The party stayed together and visited them a few game years later...they were both completely insane and practicing hitting each other with various weapons.
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
"Duskreign's First Ever COTM":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/wyrmshadow/wiki_pages/112011
"OP's COTM April 2012":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/a-god-rebuilt-aprils-cotm/
Just trying to help out.