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theworldbrewery · 6 days

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in that 154 session campaign, how many pc and npc deaths? and how many of those were inflicted by pcs?

This party had a devoted cleric, a bard with Healing Word, and for a long time they had a ranger with limited healing magic, so it was pretty tough to kill them off. The final count:

Gadao, earth genasi monk (guest character): 0 deaths

Blue, aarakocra bard: 0 deaths

Oggie, aasimar cleric: 1 death, self-inflicted

Leap, tiefling ranger: 2 deaths, 1 of which was inflicted by the party (it's complicated) (the player retired the character, and I had the character possessed by an enemy solar and the PCs killed the solar + the former PC)

Nasseff, warforged fighter: 2.5 deaths (the .5 is when he was disintegrated into ash to be transformed into a devil after breaking a contract with an erinyes)

Coreopsis Lance, dragonborn paladin (temp character): 1 death

Gloria Sicklemoon, air genasi monk (guest character): 1 death

Alice, half-orc/wood elf sorcerer: 1 death in her backstory (reincarnated from wood elf into half-orc), 2 deaths inflicted by party members (2nd death led to reincarnation back into wood elf), 3 deaths inflicted by me (one was a death-by-mindflayer that I allowed her to bargain away at the last second based on Campaign Themes but she very much did die she just had divine intervention in exchange for giving up her wild magic abilities to manipulate luck)

Alice, after dying the second time, started calling herself 'Alice Twice-Dead.' Upon dying the third time she went for 'Alice Thrice-Dead,' and after the fourth death she switched to 'Alice Oft-Dead'.

3 of the above-listed deaths happened in the same evil fortress -- Alice died there, then when the party tried to rescue her corpse, both her temp character Coreopsis and her party member Nasseff died and were revivified.

#d&d #ttrpgs #rpgs #dungeons and dragons #pc death

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oldschoolfrp · 1 year

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Causes of PC & hireling deaths during 3 years of one D&D campaign, from “It’s a Good Day to Die” by Lyle Fitzgerald in The Dragon 20, TSR, November 1978. The author notes that this was primarily a wilderness campaign, and estimates they saw 1000 character deaths over 4 years but kept records of only these 600 in the most recent 3 years. “Misc. causes” includes 50 different monsters, 5 drownings, 4 staked after became vampires, rockslides, freezing, plagues, Martians, run over by a coach, and “done in by a whore with a hat pin.”

#D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #Dragon magazine #PC death #death mention #dnd #Lyle Fitzgerald #Dungeons and Dragons #TSR

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brewerssupplies · 2 years

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I made another video! It’s just a short video about me causing my first ever PC death in D&D a few years ago. Hope you enjoy!

#dnd #youtube #animated?#animated #d&d #dungeons and dragons #dungeons & dragons #pc death #character death #tarrasque

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my-confessions-my-life · 8 months

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Dungeons and Dragons Confession 2:

I'm deeply frustrated that I asked my players if they were okay with dying and it turns out, not really.

They said yes, but while one player handled their death well, the other did not.

It was pretty explicitly stated that the action would lead to death. It was a pretty clear Save or Die situation they could've walked away from.

They chose not to walk away.

They rolled badly, and were actively dying.

I gave them a moment to save their companion who wouldn't have died, but would've been trapped, but the PC was gonna die. We go through the whole thing, I narrate the scene and about to end the session so I can figure out what to do next-

Immediately the players wanted to retcon how the scene was set up in a way to save the character of the player who has, in the past in this game, dared me to try and kill them.

We are past the scene now. It was retconned and they were saved. I didn't want to fight them on it because it was late, and I want people to have fun! But It is deeply frustrating.

I plan to bring it up as we get into the next session and see if they are still comfortable as players with their characters dying or not.

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #pc death #frustration

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actuallycherub · 1 year

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I can’t put all of the art I have of her in one post, I wish I could

Asha, my Star Wars dnd character of 3 years died last night. I’m grieving in my own way, and I already miss her so much. Ive watched her develop so much over the years, I’m heartbroken and devastated.

Though, I have a feeling if I play my cards right, her story is not done.

I’m playing Viess now, her girlfriend and lifelong partner. I thought I could play to the grief really well.

Anyways, enjoy some pieces of Asha 🧡

And in turn see how my art has improved by drawing her over and over again. These pieces span from 2020 to 2023.

#character death #pc death #dnd #Star Wars #this is my way of grieving I guess #and a way of posting when I don’t have any art to post #I have a feeling I won’t be drawing for a bit

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burnt-to-cynders · 11 months

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There are few things in this world like an emotionally exhausting DND session.

#dnd #pc death #except he didn’t die #which I’m really glad for #but also raises several disconcerting questions

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bamsara · 22 days

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The Rehabilitation of Death

Chapter 17: Drunken Gods

On this day, The Lamb declares a holy day. For a wedding, for a feast, and for a festival to celebrate the grand harvest.

Despite his initial reservations (and after a particularly horrid nightmare) Narinder decides to attend, if just to please the Lamb well enough that they'd leave him well enough alone after. That's the only reason, surely.

With followers intoxicated, the cult becomes a ground of wild party, and Gods are not immune to the temptation of overindulgence.

There's music, fighting, flirting, more fighting. There are shenanigans all evening; including but not limited to: uncomfortable socialization, reminiscing on one's past, impulsive decisions of the close-proximity sort, hide-and-seek games, and sparring with drunken, uncontrollable bloodlust that may or may not lead to a near-mental snap with eldritch power when you remember something you weren't supposed to.

Read Tags/Notes for Warnings. Chapter Wordcount: 25,674

Happy Reading!

#writings #trod au #the rehabilitation of death #narilamb #i know theres many spelling and grammer errors but I physically need to step away from this word document for a bit klsdghlsd #plus arson cant load ao3 very well so ill have to edit it on the different pc #btw i completely cut the dancing scence out #i had to #It will come back though i prommy

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sea-buns · 11 months

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Zac trying so hard not to metagame Colin's suspicion level of Raphaniel and Brennan trying equally as hard to keep Raphaniel from falling into an unrealistic obsession with Colin is not the rivalry I was expecting but I'm here for it

#dimension 20 #d20 #the ravening war #trw #colin provolone #bishop raphaniel charlock #zac oyama #brennan lee mulligan #u ever post something the day before an ep and just pray to whoevers listening that it isnt immediately negated by new cannon?#not even by like a pc death what if they become besties in ep 3 what do i do then #in theory i guess i could draft for later but i have no impulse control especially not with these good food ppl

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53v3nfrn5 · 11 months

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