Comments on: Party pooper: 5 ways to wipe out your D&D party

By: Takaiteishu

Takaiteishu — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:24:18 +0000

Well, just earlier this week I was playing in a campaign where I am a chaotic evil and cannibalistic half-orc barbarian teamed up with a stupid evil (yes that is his alignment) naked sorcerer. We call the guy playing the sorcerer Caboose because he acts like the character from Red vs Blue, but anyway, the two of us were meeting the last source of evil in the world when the party idiot decides to take said last source of evil’s head off his undead body and start quoting Shakespeare. Insert instant kill. Then insert my character carving up his remains to eat later.

By: GergLeft

GergLeft — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:02:09 +0000

it was actually my brother’s PC, but our party still remembers it and believe it to be a good death. Kalmon Vox, a Radiant Servant of Pelor, along with his party have been captured by a lich. DM admittedly had put us into an no-win situation. We were told to surrender and join the liches forces, or die….well, an RSoP certainly wouldn’t join…one Bolt of Glory to the lich, and then the cleric was destroyed (I forget what brutes were around the party but between the brutes and the lich there was plenty of power to kill all the PCs in one fell swoop). My pc, a chronically confused half-ogre warhulk ended up joining the lich’s forces. Now I play the cohort of Kalman Vox and have made it to Demigod (using 3.5 Epic Destinies).

By: The Gouge

The Gouge — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:53:27 +0000

I was sitting in on one of my cousins game sessions and witnessed this excellent kill:

The players were in a large subterranean room fighting an Earth Elemental, when one of the players, a rouge, retreated to a smaller room (I can’t remember why) and the Elemental sunk into the floor to pursue it. The rouge reached the room, and was waiting for the other players when the elemental dropped through the ceiling and the floor, taking the rouge with it. The only trace left of the rouge was a shiny silver spot on the floor of the cave where his mithral shirt had fused with the stone of the floor. The DM made this spot a recurring feature of the dungeon whenever they played this setting.

By: gorgardard

gorgardard — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:56:40 +0000

This is kind of wierd. I know most people had a sympathetic attatchment to the first character they ever played… not me. I hated it from the get go.
First off, I had wanted to play for years, and my best friend was interested, but his complaint was that D&D was “Too generic”(because an endlessly customizable game is completely generic, obviously). He spent a lot of time playing WoW too.
So then the WoW d20 game was released. My friend got really really excited. So he bought the books and I thought, hey, fuck it, its almost identical to D&D(in fact the game is D&D, except you can play orcs and goblins and trolls and night elves, etc…)
Problem was, he got his other buddy who was big into WoW to play too. So they essentially went with the idea that if they picked characters who kicked ass in WoW, it would work in the RPG too. So…. I wanted to play a ranger. I’d always wanted to play a ranger. Problem was, there was no “Ranger” class in this game. My friend told me the “Scout” class was the same thing, so I rolled up a Night Elf Scout. Turns out the class that was closer to ranger was the “Hunter” class. This wouldn’t have been so bad, the scout was pretty close too. However, my two fellows decided they would play a Night Elf Shaman(aka Druid) and a Goblin Tinkerer. So, basically, we had a level 1 Goblin who did FUCK ALL in the dungeon, because he needed to invent things before he could do anything cool, and our shaman was so physically weak, I had to tank. I was constantly low on HP, begging the shaman for heals, and constantly falling unconscious. IN THE MIDDLE OF COMBAT.

So when my character successfully killed a doppleganger, had 5 hp left, and had to drag around the unconscious body of our shaman, I was never happier when I ran into an undead horse(our DM was wierd) that killed me. After that I rolled up a Human Rogue and enjoyed bringing him up to level 7. The end.

By: timbvampire

timbvampire — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:54:19 +0000

The general idea is to screw them over at every turn but make them laugh about it. It works fantastically if you make them use their heads and work together as well as use their own skills to obtain an item or goal. I have had sessions were every player hated anther in the party but was forced through different circumstances to get over it and work together or die. In the end my players were plessantly surprised and psyched to play the next quest.

By: PondScum

PondScum — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:33:08 +0000

That’s a great idea timbvampire! Just the thought of a party that’s been through hell and back slowly turning on each other until they finally murder one another puts a tingle in my spine. Deception, misdirection, guile – might go well with a horror campaign so that the party is totally freaked out. Your players would have to be into it though, otherwise this would get boring fast

By: timbvampire

timbvampire — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:52:56 +0000

All those are fine ideas but why not talk them into killing themselves or even better… “GREED”, killing each other?! You can make it funny, heroic, end of the world, and epic all at once and in the end your players will laugh and thank you for the time of thier gaming lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It works TRUST ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Evil Laugh)

By: StandardFiend

StandardFiend — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:19:30 +0000

I had my PC’s wandering through a miniature version of Ravenloft for part of a campaign, and they made it through to the top of the castle by employing incredible ingenuity and, of course, luck. They were a force to be reckoned with, both physically and mentally. They went out onto the castle’s battlements, and a zombified Red Dragon, the “pet” of the castle’s keeper, appeared and began making strafing runs at the PCs, whose only method of defense, since none of them could cast spells, were stationary crossbows mounted between the buttresses. As the PCs began losing, one of them ran away by himself and got trapped in a hall of living statues, where he was inevitably slaughtered without his companions’ help, and the other two, even having heard their friend’s cries of pain as he was hacked to bits, resolved to keep firing tiny pointy things at the huge, armored, undead dragon. In the end, they all became crispy critters, because they wouldn’t trouble themselves to duck back inside beyond the dragon’s reach. I had hidden some Arrows of Dragon Slaying nearby, too.

By: Yax

Yax — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:56:43 +0000

Death by red dragon is always acceptable.

By: Bird

Bird — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:07:30 +0000

What about the Death by Red Dragon. thats just about its own category.