Death of a player "Character" [no one was actually harmed in the making of this post]

Baalshamon

We have all experienced the deaths of a favorite player. I would love to hear the stories of death that you have for your favorite character you have lost. As for me it was in a game called Fringeworthy. If you aren't familiar, the game is about traveling to alternate dimensions. I was playing a knight or paladin for lack of a better word. He was the most successful character I ever played and during the course of his life he completed the entire Dragonlance series of modules, the original Ravenloft, the caves of chaos, and dozens of modern and future adventures. The rest of the party was from modern worlds and used guns, grenades, and all sorts of other cool tech. While traveling in the world of Middle Earth we ended up in the land of Angmar and faced the Witch King in his own fortress. I charged as I often did and another player saw I was losing the fight so he shot the With King with a LAW rocket. The blast killed my character. I was so upset I nearly cried.

Steve

"Star Trek Late Night":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/star-trek-late-night

wolfhound

Jebuz Stephen ye nearly gave me a heart attack with "Death of a player" ... character, ok, much better. :)

JaymesBolton

i have to Second Wolfhound's comment. I thought you actually had one of your PLAYERS die.

Hmmm best character death would be the first (not the last) death of Father (now Grand Master) John Furkes. Father Furkes was a aberration blooded human monk (D&D 3.5) with 15ft long arms. He lost one of them when it was cut off defending an allied paladin and it was replaced with a adamantine arm made by Garl Glittergold. This particular (and first) death of his came at the end of a story arc about stopping a undead army. The party was trying to take down the litch leader (and the one powering the undead army) who was hiding behind a wall of screaming souls. Father Furkes decided that he, as a monk and with a god-crafted arm, would be the one with the best chance of getting thru the wall to get to the litch and find a way to get the rest of the party thru as well. So he put his arm thru the wall....and died. His soul then joined the rest of the screaming souls in the wall. The pole-arm specializing fighter then had a case he had been carrying around for about 6 months, given to him by an old, powerful artificer open up and reveal a spear inside. He then hurled the spear thru the wall and killed the litch. Luckily for Father Furkes he was given a few last words as his soul screamed thru the wall. He instructed his companions to give him the red potion he had been carrying around for a while (and only having a hunch on what the thing actually did) and hunch proved true reviving the poor monk.

Then they went on to do many different things, including accidentally moving the moon and unsealing ancient evil dragon gods (and putting them back in thier seals), having the fighter sells his soul to Asmodeous (the GM promises to one day run an epic game of us getting him back), blowing up a 2 mile deep and half mile wide pit of demons and devils and traveling thru space on a giant spaceship. Furkes other death was having a Balor cut off his head with his Vorpal sword.

-Jaymes

"Changing History":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/l5r-changing-history

GamingMegaverse

Sounds like multiple epic games already, Jaymes!

twiggyleaf

Ah, character death! So hurtful. So numerous! I cannot go down that dark tunnel....I cannot......I cannot!!!!

FrankSirmarco

All of the original investigators in my "Call of Cthulhu":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/cthulhusupremusest campaign are dead or retired as of our 4/7/12 session (I've been holding off on posting the Adventure Log while we mourned their passing). At the very least, the one remaining original investigator died doing heroic things in a highly cinematic fashion. Those original investigators had a very long shelf-life (for Call of Cthulhu investigators), and I think we'll miss them all terribly. However, their loss makes reliving their triumphs all the more enjoyable!

As for me, I've never had a character die that I was particularly fond of. I had a dwarven barbarian kick the bucket, but he critically missed so often, I was sort of hoping he'd get eaten by dire rats anyway.

Job

I've never had one of my own characters die because I've GM'd for pretty much my entire time in roleplaying games.

However, reading Frank's response above mine--and considering that I'm running a Cthulhu adventure--I can easily envision a TPK. I certainly hope that's not the case, though, since I'd rather see my players experience success (whatever that means in a CoC campaign). It would be hard for my players to retire in Antarctica. There are no asylums in Antarctica.

Job.

vstraydogstrutv

I actually died this past sunday. And my body was desecrated by one of the other PCs. And by "desecrated" I mean "mated with." We play with a bunch of sick moddlefockles. I hate my friends Q.Q

Black_Vulmea

My character, the "chevalier de Saint-Sauvan":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/le-ballet-de-l-acier/characters/foresta, bought it a couple of weeks ago. _C'est la vie, c'est le mort_.

That reminds me - I really need to spend some time catching up my adventure logs.

Mike aka Black Vulmea
"_Le Ballet de l'Acier_":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/le-ballet-de-l-acier - swashbuckling adventures in the age of the Three Musketeers and Captain Alatriste
Featured Campaign of the Month - August 2011

GamingMegaverse

Vstray- Wow, I think that is sicker than my group- I am jealous!
Black- Yes you do, yes you do.... It is missed!
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/

Baalshamon

Vstray, sounds like you wandered into one of my games. Good show. lol

Baalshamon

Call of Cthulhu, Stormbringer, and Ravenloft campaigns both have real high player death ratios. I kind of miss my days tramping around dingy little towns, running for my life from Deep Ones and Ghouls.