Through the years, there have been many character deaths, in many campaigns.
The current ratio is something like 10:3...
In any case, any deaths not specifically mentioned as otherwise, are deaths that occurred in my campaigns.
Should I ever run Paranoia, the list should jump somewhat...
Please mail me , here, or at my address at the bottom of the page, to tell me about your witty deaths...
And Im not a gleeful satanist, for those wondering.
DEATHS:
2)Trying to steal from Khelben Arunsen. The character didn't actually die, but should have, when a web spell fired from the tower knocked him from a 40' climb.
3)Staying in a war torn city, and then displaying a 1,000gp gem in the busiest area.
4) NPC death: The wealthy Swashbuckler of the group decided to buy a ship.
This lead into an adventure where the group and ship was attacked by Sahuagin and Sharks.
The party didn't exactly excel at underwater fighting, and so they had to retreat on Griffon back [I'll explain elsewhere...]
However, the Priest/Bard type person decided to pick up the captain, and was going to rescue him.
But instead he asked him 'Shouldn't the Captain go down with his ship?' and dropped him 30' onto the sinking ship surrounded by sharks.
5) Irritating your friends. The thief who did this was a 1st level, in a game where the others had progressed to 8th while he was on holiday.
Not only this, but he also has a habit of annoying people. So one day, when he's introduced to court, he walks up to the head Mage of the city, named Xathar, because he is a beholder polymorphed, and called him
'zaffy'. He proceeded to then annoy Xathar, as well as the rest of the party.
Eventually, they paralysed him through magic, and sold him to Xathar. The thief had already sold his soul to a witch in exchange for being turned back into an elf, following his death at the hands of a dragon, and subsequent reincarnation...
So he made another deal with the witch in order to be rescued, but was later sold back to Xathar by a Guild of thieves he had irritated.
Then he made a deal with the Mists of Ravenloft, after he eat the heart of a man who was paralysed, in order to appease Xathar.
When he was eventually executed for multiple murder, he'd effectively sold his soul to so many people, there was something of an argument in the realm of the dead.
DRAGONLANCE FIFTH AGE:
1) Whilst aiding a caravan travelling to Thorbardin, the party had need to investigate a cavern.
But they had no lanterns. So the Gnome Tinkerer nicked the Paladin's armour, and used it to make a Bull Point Lantern, and cast an illusion to create a new suit of armour so the paladin didn't notice.
Eventually the Paladin worked it out, and attacked the Gnome. Whose friend was a Minotaur.
The Minotaur picked him up, and then the paladin proceeded to attack him. Then the Minotaur bashed the Paladin's head repeatedly against the wall, until he was most definately dead.
BirthRight: 1)Blood challenging. I know this is obvious, but one player lost 4 half-dragons in one day, because he had no patience.
2)Killing Peasants. One regent gathered all his peasants together to find who had been making slurs against him. When they said nothing, he began to shoot arrows into the crowd.
It was due to luck that he survived hanging.
Ravenloft: 1)There was an ogre who turned on the rest of the party, an elven archer and a pyromaniac pyromancer.
The ogre was hit in the back of the head with a greek fire, and three arrows. He was then left in a burning building, which the players proceeded to blow up.
Cross-Over, submitted by Steve Canfield: An Immortal and some other denizens of the World of Darkness
needed to make a hit and run drive by shooting, in order to kill an Immortal enemy. They decided to use explosives instead.
So they drove outside the building they wanted to destroy, containing said Immortal enemy. They got out of their vehicle, a bus.
Several of the enemy's henchmen shot the Immortal member of the group, but he ignored the bullets, obviously, and threw a stick of dynamite at the building and the enemy Immortal. Sadly, however, he had a dog, who ran after the pretty sparkling stick.
The dog then returned the stick to his master, [who had by now retreated to the bus with the others], who was obviously playing fetch... The bus blew up, and the Immortal was a crippled sole survivor.
The Rival Immortal then cut his head off.
Werewolf: Now I have had several party kills occur in my Werewolf games [I don't start off the players by the way].
But this is the funniest, simply because out of a party of seven, there were two survivors roughly.
There was a Get Of Fenris in the party, played by someone I don't like much, but that isn't important.
Neither is the fact that he has died in 2 out of 3 games that I run...
He challenged the Silver Fang member for leadership of the party, and killed him.
The group then immediately split into two groups, one who had liked the SilverFang, and the others who supported the usurper, or James.
A large combat broke out, during which a GlassWalker Theurge on the SilverFang group's side summoned a Pattern Spider and made a deal -
Gnosis containing Garou dead for their assisstance.
Whilst the two groups attacked each other, the Spider spirits ensnared James, and started to bind him.
In the meantime, the SilverFang faction had slain the usurper faction with no casualtys on their side. There was a third faction in the party of non participators [one], and one of the
Usurper Faction changed sides when he saw how the fight was going.
It was at this point that the leader of the SilverFang faction, a Red Talon, ran up to the cocoon of James, and stabbed him many many times.
During this, the party completely failed to achieve what they wanted.
By the way, I just remembered that this wasn't solely the fault of James.
What had happened that a player called Stacy wanted to kill a random old lady, which annoyed the SilverFang leader for obvious reasons.
She hadn't done anything wrong. So he challenged and killed the murderous werewolf, which sparked off James's rebellion.
Vampire: This was one in which James died again. He played a Malkavian, and played him almost too much in madness - excuse me for thinking that pretending to be a lamp post doesn't help the game...
Anyway, he met a Malkavian who believed himself to be the Crow. And James refused to take the shot gun seriously, and was blown into pieces before being crucified.
I remember the wonderful phrase that he then uttered: 'Why would he kill me? I'm a Malkavian as well!'. Someone who hasn't quite grasped the finer points of Kindred...
Vampire: Also in the Crow adventure, this was when a vampire [player] killed an old lady for her blood, and crushed the toy she had bought for her nephew.
Unfortunately for him, there was a Protector of Humanity styled Mage in the party, who turned the vampire's blood into lighter fluid
after inviting the vampire into his Sanctum...
He then finished the Vampire by shooting him with a shotgun and piling him into a fire place.
Babylon 5
A very good game in many ways, but with us it always dissolves into sillyness. The following death [s?] came from advetures run by Dave Trebus, since I don't run this game.
However, I also had the fortune to be present at the pant wettingly funny events.
A Narn who pissed off the rest of the group: This was played by someone with the flair for irritation, coming up with choice phrases such as 'can I pick-pocket the ship?',
'Can I get hold of a gun?' before the adventure had even started, and 'I'll shoot run of them' when he had lost his arm.
On the bright side, he was stupid enough to attack 100 Shadows, having previously thrown away his PPG. doh.
Amusingly enough, this didn't kill him. However, he had previously attacked the leader of the group, so we stunned him.
The sadistic co-pilot, Helena Prosperity Lovecraft, strapped him onto a table naked, with a steel cutter working its way towards his dick.
When he escaped the cutter, and attempted to shoot said co-pilot, we had great fun shooting off his limbs.
I love the hit location rules. 'specially since he kept taking tertiary burns to the groin!
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