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hirch duckfinder
January 18th, 2003, 12:32 PM
i once knew a d&d character whose last words were " i bet this is a cloak of poison " . i had two characters who got eaten by other player characters in a glass lift in an imperial research base who got hungry while waiting for three max security bots to be called away on other business .
whats the funniest / best way you have lost a character ?
shield
January 18th, 2003, 03:13 PM
One of my players in a Call of Chuthulu campaign was chasing an arch cultist, when the cultist jumped into a lake to escape, the character followed. Unfortunately the PC though he was a Knight (yes he was borderline insane) and was wearing replica plate mail when he jumped into the lake to follow him. You can guess the rest - glug!!.

Cheers
Richard
Ellros
January 18th, 2003, 03:27 PM
Twilight 2000... jumped out in front of a jeep-mounted minigun in the dark, and forgetting I was still wearing the Spetsnaz uniform I had infiltrated in. Swiss cheese.
lord irial
January 18th, 2003, 06:34 PM
Okay, bear in mind this was in Paranoia, and about 15 years sgo. We had an entire party killed trying to enter and pilot a restored, classic 1963 Volkswagon Beetle. I think my character died with his hand caught in the exhaust pipe as the car started backwards down the huge hill that had given me my initial case of road-rash.
KrasnyKot
January 26th, 2003, 09:14 AM
It was in AD2300. All charactes driving in their APC, feeling quite secure because the Kafers had no chance to penetrate their vehicle with handguns. Than there appeared that Kafer Deathsled and one PC said: Cool, Tank to Tank fire. The difference between APC and tank is now quite clear to the Players. graemlins/toast.gif
rancke
January 26th, 2003, 05:38 PM
Originally posted by hirch duckfinder:
i once knew a d&d character whose last words were " i bet this is a cloak of poison " . i had two characters who got eaten by other player characters in a glass lift in an imperial research base who got hungry while waiting for three max security bots to be called away on other business .
whats the funniest / best way you have lost a character ?If this thread is moved to Random Static I have a great story about a death in my Paranoia campaign (yes, I do mean campaign :D ). Though in a way Paranoia is kinda cheating. It's way too easy to have amusing character deaths in Paranois.

As for funny Traveller character deaths... Nope, sorry, can't think of any. :(

Hans
Ben W Bell
January 27th, 2003, 07:08 AM
While running from a native militia unit one of the players was shot and rendered unconcious. So another of the party picked him up and slung him over his shoulder.

This slower him down a little and made him an easier target. Good job he had his friend as armour on his back. Needless to say the wounded one was rendered quite quite dead.
Burocrate
January 27th, 2003, 02:58 PM
First game, CT "Researh Station Gama"....bunch of d&d minded hack and slay characters running around killing stuff. Janitorial Robot comes around corner and blinds front two character by over loading it's one lamp. Characters in single file.

Character #1: "I'm blind?"

Character #2: (Also blinded)
"I'll waste it with my SMG!"

Character #1: "NO!!!" (those were his last words) :eek:
Father Fletch
January 27th, 2003, 03:06 PM
Players have made it into a Pirate base in an Oort cloud comet. While clearing rooms one of the pirates tosses a hand grenade. PC says, 'I will pick it up and throw it back' fails miserably and BOOM! graemlins/file_23.gif
WarriorKnight
January 27th, 2003, 04:48 PM
During a game we called hostage rescue using t2k rule, the SEAL TL ordered the team sniper to "shot the 1st person who comes out the door".....The TL opened the door without resending the order. ;)
woodmage
January 28th, 2003, 12:59 PM
Twenty years ago, in high school. Traveller campaign.

Nathan, the referee, at one point asked me what my character's religion was... I think we were on some high-government, high-law world and we were going through the administrivia. I replied "Nathanite".

A few weeks later, we still had this as a running joke... "How do you become a Nathanite priest?" "Fly into a black hole." "How do you become a high priest?" "Fly back out."

Well, all good things must come to an end... the year proceeded, Nathan and I would be graduating, and moving out of town. The campaign was coming to a close.

We played the last adventure, turning the odds on some would-be hijackers and earning senior positions on a luxury starship. Then we surprised the referee... we hijacked the ship ourselves! (not difficult when most of the bridge crew plus the security chief are conspirators smile.gif )

After putting the officers, crew, and passengers off the ship, we plotted the course to the nearest black hole... and announced our intentions to become priests! Unfortunately, we didn't become high priests... the Navigation and Piloting rolls were good, but not that good.
hirch duckfinder
January 28th, 2003, 07:06 PM
Originally posted by Burocrate:
First game, CT "Researh Station Gama"....bunch of d&d minded hack and slay characters running around killing stuff. Janitorial Robot comes around corner and blinds front two character by over loading it's one lamp. Characters in single file.

Character #1: "I'm blind?"

Character #2: (Also blinded)
"I'll waste it with my SMG!"

Character #1: "NO!!!" (those were his last words) :eek: lol. dangerous places those research stations .
shield
January 29th, 2003, 05:40 AM
A bunch of my players were doing Argon Gambit, and decided to go to the Vilani gangsters house and intimidate him a bit. They took their only available transport - an ATV, lets face it it looks impressive. They planned to gatecrash his house - drive the ATV through the wall actually - very intimidating entrance.

Unfortunately none had ATV-1 (or any other ATV skill) and it ended up with the ATV in the gansters swimming pool and a lot of very wet PC. No deaths, but with this level of ability, there is plenty of time.

Cheers
Richard
RabidVargr
January 29th, 2003, 07:05 AM
Originally posted by RichardP:
A bunch of my players were doing Argon No deaths, but with this level of ability, there is plenty of time.
LMAO, love that attitude! smile.gif

RV
kafka47
January 29th, 2003, 11:15 PM
After being politely asked the Imperial Marines to leave the ship in Deep Space and climb on the hull wearing only vac suits, one player decided to get cocky and pulls out a laser pistol. The Marines, however, were armed to the teeth and in Battle Dress..

I tried to be generous but, this was too Munchkin for even me...
ninthcouncil
January 31st, 2003, 03:01 PM
Glossing over the character in a RuneQuest campaign of mine who *deliberately* destabilised a loose rockface while hanging from it, the stupidest Traveller death I've refereed -

The characters are in a firefight on board a grounded ship, and have been fired on from an open ceiling hatch. They have a man down, lying in the corridor. One of the characters has previously cobbled together a home-made grenade from TDX. He decides to throw it through the hatch. He succeeds. However, he has chucked it from the side opposite the hatch hinge, and it bounces back off the raised hatch, back down and into the corridor. Everybody gets the hell out the way. Except for the casualty. Cue player recrimination....
vegascat
February 2nd, 2003, 02:39 AM
Never ever get in a FGMP vs PGMP gunfight in the power plant compartment on a ship while jumping. The results, while spectacular, are fatal to all aboard.
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hirch duckfinder
February 3rd, 2003, 02:27 PM
Originally posted by vegascat:
Never ever get in a FGMP vs PGMP gunfight in the power plant compartment on a ship while jumping. The results, while spectacular, are fatal to all aboard.
graemlins/toast.gif more topical than you intended?
lightsenshi
February 3rd, 2003, 02:32 PM
Originally posted by hirch duckfinder:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by vegascat:
Never ever get in a FGMP vs PGMP gunfight in the power plant compartment on a ship while jumping. The results, while spectacular, are fatal to all aboard.
graemlins/toast.gif more topical than you intended? </font>[/QUOTE]That's one way to deal with those pesky enemy wessels. :D
gardclan
February 3rd, 2003, 03:18 PM
I once had a four man scout/courier crew put the poor beastie into a powered dive to escape an orbital patrol. The pilot was making his rolls nicely, but didn't even try to slow the ship until he entered the lower (standard) atmosphere of the planet they were visiting...

and then (after my warnings about the brilliant glow of the hull, hull structural integrity failure alarms, and the screaming warning buzzers from half the systems on the bridge) the pilot decides to try to cool off the white hot hull by kersplunking the ship into a frigid mountain lake...

What resulted was a rather large (some would say "earth shattering") kaboom, a steam plume about four miles high, a lot of hard boiled fish, and one highly fractured hull.

Needless to say, what was left of the crew DID NOT evade the orbital patrol.
DThomson
February 3rd, 2003, 04:04 PM
Over the years we have had a lot of roleplaying & as a result a lot of bizarro stuff. There was the DnD thief with wings and a penchant for divebombing enemies with an outstretched longsword, ususally causing more damage to himself (his second trick was to scout ahead, annoy the enemy & get them to chase him into the of unsuspecting arms of the rest of the party - cue much screaming when a level-draining spectre could keep up with him). And I have lost count of the amount of times my Travellers have crashed their ship into a planet.

But comic deaths ...

In TNE the classic was the jailed accountant who had a specially made heavy armored briefcase which he could hide behind. While escaping from his imprisonment his tragically low DEX meant that he fell out of a first floor window (that means second floor to you Yanks), the briefcase overbalanced him, he took the first part of the damage to his head, and then the second part, and then the third. One dead accountant and three (other)players peeing themselves with laughter ... :D :D :D :mad:

The clincher for us though has to be the same player though, in an Ars Magica campaign (punctuated by horror, realism and bar-room brawls). Fighting the nasties on the second (third) floor of a tower and losing, his powerful hedge wizard decides that defence is the best option. He casts a rampart of earth spell, hoping to create an impenetrable wall between his party of 6 and their foes. This works for two rounds, and then the whole tower - not built to withstand the weight - collapses, killing enemies and friends alike. The result - the wizard survives, as does one NPC servant. Cue Mr Accountant's player laughing and three non-plussed players with no need to dig graves! :mad: :mad: :mad: :D

Which all goes to show, if you ain't doing it wrong you ain't doing it right ...
Murph
September 10th, 2003, 09:27 AM
Love the Hollywood Overacting Effects table in Cyberpunk 2020. Great stuff. We added to it.
kaladorn
September 10th, 2003, 02:58 PM
Dear Lord, let me count the answers:

T2300: My character, who had spent the duration of the campaign avoiding space because I *hate* explosive decompression. How did I die? You guessed it. Why? Because the other PCs decided to have a major incident while attached to a beanstalk's orbital station and they threatened to blow up the powerplant. The authorities cut off our outer hatch then blew the capillary tunnel before we could (well, me....the loyal one gaurding the hatch who hadn't been involved in creating the situation...) get into vacc suits.

Traveller: A player who had been a rather murderous dupe for another player throughout a campaign (Rebellion time frame) was effectively collusory in his own death. The player who was using him realized it was time to sacrifice the pawn (to clean up things and remove a loose end). One of the other players tried to kill the dupe, and so he called his erstwhile friend and said he needed help. The plot-master said "come out to my boat, I'll have Sam meet you there." The dupe hopped on his grav bike and off he went. He was rather bionic (injuries in the service), but when he was met by S.A.M. in mid-air, that didn't help much.

Recently we had a player attacked by a randomly generated traveller creature. It was 65000kg. It was a trapper. It damaged him and knocked him out. Another PC leaped in to the rescue and picked him up and slung him out of the area, but got caught himself. A third PC, in an attempt to help him out, dropped the Scout Courier's front landing skid onto the creature. It didn't do the creature any good, I must admit. Nor, OTOH, did it do the character who was entrapped any good as the piloting roll was a catastrophic failure. OOOPS!

My favorite death from AD&D was a second level wizard of mine... we were attacked in a corridor by a bunch of while apes, mage at the back of the party. As the apes gradually dropped the fighters, then the sort of fighters, the poor mage was eventually left on his own. Knowing he was done for, he pulled out the wand he had found earlier and triggered it. Turned out to be a wand of ice and I'd set off and ice storm. It killed all the apes. Unfortunately, not knowing what it was going to do, I'd targeted it a little too close.... and it killed the 7 hp wizard too. Now I know how you find adventuring party corpses in modules....

Paranoia would be too easy to find a good death from. A surprising number of them begin with the phrase "Let's see what this new device from R&D can really do!" or "Hey, why are you pointing your gun at me?!".
Whipsnade
September 10th, 2003, 03:59 PM
Gents,

graemlins/paragraph.gif So many and so little bandwidth...

Traveller

Me in 'Across the Bright Face', upon finding our party's ATV blocked by rioting miners on Dinomn, "I'll fire the mining laser over their heads, that'll get them to disperse."

Two PCs during 'Twilight's Peak' who ignore the warnings of the leaderless and soon to be suicidal Droyne Warriors and stay to try run a 'First Contact' scenario.

PC captain(!) who avows that his Marava-class trader can 'outrun' the cruiser's spinal mount.

PCs who believe they can swing on a rope made of bedclothes from one level to another inside 'Research Station Gamma'.

PC who believes he can jump between two interurban trains, each moving at 50km in *opposite* directions.

Me, "All he has is a knife? Good!"

Half of a party of PCs who believed you can hike 40km across a salt pan with *no* water whatsoever.

PC who, despite having no demolition skills, decides to blow open a safe and 'shelters' himself behind a desk in the same office as the safe.

PCs in Chamax Horde who decide the only way to prevent the nuclear bombing of the chamax infested penninsular is to sabotage the planet's nuclear weapons program. It may be a backwater world, but guards are guards.


Space:1889

Me, during a boarding between flyers on Mars; "C'mon laddies, one taste of cold steel and they'll all surrender!"

PC on Venus, 'Nonsense, snakes do *not* grow that large."

Me facing rioting towns folks along a distant canal and speaking to interpretor; "Tell these savages I will not put up with their beastly behavior one minute longer."


En Garde

Me; "The best swordsman in Paris? Excellent, win or lose, I'll make a name for myself!"


Sincerely,
Larsen
kaladorn
September 11th, 2003, 02:05 AM
These stories of LEW's remind me of a worthy almost death:

Party of various dwellers of the Underdark in the custody of slavers (something to do with some shenanigans at a temple and not being willing for all of us to sacrifice an appendage). Knowing that when we're chained to the oars, we're dead men, I decide that I'm going out fighting on the deck. I race up to the Captain, whip my chains around his neck, and (realizing I have a high constitution and he has likely a lower one and is higher level) I decide to take him overboard for a little 'underwater breath-hold experiment'. As it turns out, he daggers me a few times while we're down there (meanwhile my fellow slave PCs are using thumbs in eye sockets, throat biting, and other waaaay overboard techniques to clear out the major slavers).

The funny part is, I expected to die when I went overboard (hoped not to, but didn't expect to live). In the end, the Captain drowned. I did not.

Why?

Earlier in the adventure I'd picked up and put on a mysterious necklace/amulet. It turned out (though I had no idea when I went over) to be a necklace of adaption. I could breathe water.

Handy that. Turned a suicidal move into a Brilliant Strategy (as opposed to my usual, which is the reverse....)
Zutroi
September 12th, 2003, 08:45 PM
I ran a physician character in a Harn game, and was superficially wounded in battle with some Gargun (for the uninitiated - Orcs, for all practical purposes). Looting the bodies, I insisted the greasy concoction they carried must be some kind of salve, everyone else thought it was most likely poison. Certain I was right, I smeared the stuff on my cut, promptly keeling over dead.

I STILL say it was ointment! graemlins/file_21.gif
kaladorn
September 13th, 2003, 02:24 AM
Originally posted by Zutroi:
I STILL say it was ointment! graemlins/file_21.gif You were just hyperallergic and had an anaphalactic shock reaction. Obviously, someone else should have tried it as a control.... ;)

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