Jon_Dahl
2013-08-12, 02:17 AM
We have the "best character deaths" thread, but in my opinion the very, very close calls are even better.
Two of my favourites:
#1: An 8th-level ranger PC led the party to a narrow mountain path. They walked and walked, until the path was cut. There are was a narrow chasm, only 5 ft. wide. Beyond that, the mountain path continued.
The ranger couldn't get a running start, so he jumped. He rolled 4 and fell of the mountain. Luckily he didn't fall too far, since he landed on a cliff and survived.
So he walked for hours and then casually, without saying a word, jumped off the mountain. It reminded me of this: http://img.pandawhale.com/26643-Jump-Out-Window-gif-AT8K.gif
#2: Another was the Master Thief.
Player had just created a new character, who was a CN thief (it was 2e). He walked into a tavern and saw our characters sitting there. Then he walked straight past us and went to loot our rooms.
The player didn't know that my character had a special kind of dagger of venom, which actually turned into ridiculously effective insta-kill poisonous snake (it was a fairly high-level campaign). I had that snake in a bag on the bed.
The thief-PC went to the room and touched the bag, and the snake bit him through the bag. The PC was lucky to survive, the save was almost impossible to succeed in. At that point, the character was less than 10 minutes old IRL.
Two of my favourites:
#1: An 8th-level ranger PC led the party to a narrow mountain path. They walked and walked, until the path was cut. There are was a narrow chasm, only 5 ft. wide. Beyond that, the mountain path continued.
The ranger couldn't get a running start, so he jumped. He rolled 4 and fell of the mountain. Luckily he didn't fall too far, since he landed on a cliff and survived.
So he walked for hours and then casually, without saying a word, jumped off the mountain. It reminded me of this: http://img.pandawhale.com/26643-Jump-Out-Window-gif-AT8K.gif
#2: Another was the Master Thief.
Player had just created a new character, who was a CN thief (it was 2e). He walked into a tavern and saw our characters sitting there. Then he walked straight past us and went to loot our rooms.
The player didn't know that my character had a special kind of dagger of venom, which actually turned into ridiculously effective insta-kill poisonous snake (it was a fairly high-level campaign). I had that snake in a bag on the bed.
The thief-PC went to the room and touched the bag, and the snake bit him through the bag. The PC was lucky to survive, the save was almost impossible to succeed in. At that point, the character was less than 10 minutes old IRL.