Genuinely intrigued to hear some character death stories - the stupider the better
@denverarnold6210
3 ай бұрын
Does near death count?
@SGTcz90cz
3 ай бұрын
Mine wasn't stupid at all. More of an unintentional sacrifice. This was ME5e... Our Soldier (basically a Fighter reskin) went down. Me and the Vanguard (I don't know, maybe a Warlock of sorts with a teleport-to-enemy ability?) decided that was it, we were leaving. Unfortunately, our one companion was also downed and on death saves. So the Vanguard picks up the companion and books it away. My Infiltrator (imagine an Arcane Trickster, complete with the INT casting and invisibility on demand from lvl1) needs one more turn to pick up our Soldier and make a break for it. She never got her turn. This is a character whom I've created over a decade ago for a fanfic. That hurt. A lot. Partly because the fight felt pretty stacked, six enemies with multiattack, in cover, with no cover of our own, and only one of us had extra attack at the time. We were level 7, and ME5e is a lot more cover-dependent than base 5e (which means precisely as you think, Sharpshooter is even more busted).
@andeolevain
3 ай бұрын
I had one party member run after a villain who was very obviously baiting her into a trap. My own character was running behind, shouting to stop (I had more experience with D&D). She didn't listen, kept running in, and quickly died. Well-deserved death aside, I later sung in her honor next to the campfire that night. I looked up the lyrics for the song of Durin, from Clamavi de Profundis, and just sung the whole thing. I was very unsure if that was going to be nice or ridiculous, but it turned out great. I love when bards are more than comic relief, and the other players also appreciated it.
@mentalrebllion1270
3 ай бұрын
First character death happened this week. Lol so great timing! Honestly it was a good death from a story standpoint. Did it hurt? Yes! But I just muted myself and let combat keep going until I could gather myself enough to go back to laughing and joking with the party. I honestly forgot the cleric had a scroll of revivify. The thing is, my character’s death was a calculated risk. I was trying to keep the boss trapped in a stairwell until my party could make it over there (big map, lots of combat going on, chaotic but cool). I picked off a ton of health but took some heavy hits myself. My party got there just in time to see my drake (drakewarden) fade away, confirming what they felt over the soulknife rogue’s telepathic network, that my character died. Let’s just say the boss didn’t live long after that! Lol. Anyway, was a good death for the reasons I outline in my own comment to the video. I did get brought back which I’m happy for because god knows I didn’t have a plan for what character to play next!
@TheTinTop
3 ай бұрын
(Space campaign here) My Bard's love interest got kidnapped by the BBEG's army, so they went off on a solo rescue mission to save him because no one was willing to help. They infiltrated the planetary defense and blockades, only to be met with people expecting their arrival. After narrowly escaping, they find refuge in an apartment complex and grab some cans of beans (this will be important later). While trying to infiltrate the compound their love interest is being kept in, they step on a landmine, but are able to use the beans to transfer weight and not get blown to smithereens. They go to look through buildings for supplies, and find 6 captives actively in the process of being executed. Being the Neutral-Good, naive person they are, they make a distraction causing 2 of the 5 guards to run away, and cast Hypnotic pattern. Only 1 fails his save. The prisoners do not help, and my bard is killed in 1 round due to taking several critical hits. (2 Multiattack doing 2d12 base damage each)
@thunderwe_ryesiam
3 ай бұрын
I just glanced at the yellow text on the thumbnail saying "Dealing with death" and clicked expecting a D&D creator to give life advices
@Arlentric
3 ай бұрын
I knew I should've just done a super serious video on the stages of grieving
@nutsi3
3 ай бұрын
If you want a KZitemr that makes videos related to life advice and grief while also making videos about a game that’s hardly about that at all usually, just watch ibxtoycat.
@Yolo-Fellow-Kids
3 ай бұрын
@@Arlentric then why not make one
@RazorbackLOL
3 ай бұрын
I had a riddle for my players once which ended in an old decrepit house, and after my players finally figured it out, our 7 int barbarian decided it would be a good idea to hit the ground with his big warhammer. This led to the whole house crashing down (It was a big 4 Story house) in which only the rogue managed to pass a saving throw the rest of them tumbled down and were burried under rubble. This lead to the cleric, Fighter and Paladin dying a slow death while the barbarian raged and smashed his way through the rubble only to die afterwards since he smashed a lonely still standing wall to celebrate. The rogue just said afterwards he was glad at least they wont have to deal with the stupid barbarian anymore. The campaign continued with some fresh characters and the rogue who got into the habbit of stabbing dumb people. Ps. the barbarian players character name was smasher...
@SnowyOwl369
3 ай бұрын
9:46 OH NO! My identical brother, Fargrim the great dead as I live and breathe. Don't worry, I Targrim the great, vow to avenge my brother.
@TheRealMC_Gaming
3 ай бұрын
Love VLDL
@Demented_Rubiks_Cube
2 ай бұрын
Viva La Dirt League?
@TTM1895
3 ай бұрын
I'm old school. And by old school, I mean original old school. If a character died, the dungeon master got to keep that character as an NPC for later. My solution was to only play in the game with a copy of my character sheet. I can always join some other game with my original character sheet.
@jonathannelson103
3 ай бұрын
I never kept anyone's character sheet. I would just write "deceased" at the top of the page and let him keep it, you know, as a memento.
@denverarnold6210
3 ай бұрын
My favorite death: we were playing Curse of Strahd. At the end of a combat, our wizard was safely on a building, and titular Strahd, the bbeg, suddenly appeared behind him. Intended to just intimate us, he backhanded our wizard. He crit. Instantly killed him on the spot. With a bitch slap.
@m.s6832
3 ай бұрын
Expected to hear that he got bitchslapped of the building
@MemoristCed
3 ай бұрын
Wizard dies of 1d4 hand-catching damage?
@denverarnold6210
3 ай бұрын
@@MemoristCed more like 2d4+10, at least. Because vampire lord. And we're only lvl 3.
@MemoristCed
3 ай бұрын
@@denverarnold6210 Sorry, I was referencing a One-Shot Questers running gag.
@denverarnold6210
3 ай бұрын
@@MemoristCed it's all good.
@omegapanda9980
3 ай бұрын
I only knew this channel through shorts; and for some reason I never thought of the long form. Instant subscribe!
@Arlentric
3 ай бұрын
Welcome to more of me
@FattyMcFox
3 ай бұрын
My stupidest death was when the rest of the party got over confident while i was cautious, and they all went down and would have died had i hot pulled them out. They all vowed to be more careful next time but the DM got mad that i saved them and had a poisoned arrow i removed from the fighter cut my finger and poison me to death. i left that table but i heard later that the same DM is now mad that the remaining players overplan and over prepare.
@scioregis6381
3 ай бұрын
That sounds like a bad DM, killing your players because they don't play as you would like is not good.
@KnicKnac
3 ай бұрын
First character to actually die mid combat was my 3.5 ranger. We were in a castle siege and the lord of the castle joined the battlefield. He cast blade barrier. Reflex save for half damage to walk through. So I walked through it to get a better shot. Well I took 61 slashing damage and we used the massive damage rules. I needed a fortitude save natural 1 so my ranger was sliced. The look of shock around the table from five other players (6 total) as the DM leaned over the table to remove my token from the map was priceless. I embrace death in D&D it’ll happen. Bad rolls are random. Sure I’m invested in the character with custom art or playlist, etc
@porakiyadraekojin3390
3 ай бұрын
I haven't played dnd yet, but I do have a number of character concepts in mind. I've brought up my thief/fiendlock lizardfolk raised by cats that are secretly the lizardfolk's devil patrons. In the case he dies, a Tabaxi swashbuckler/hexblade/swords bard joins the group, but he's secretly the peader of the group of devils and intends on leading the party on a quest to revive the lizardfolk as a bigger and badder version of himself (devil ressurection version of the demidragon homebrew) :D
@robinst-pierre9600
3 ай бұрын
How to handle your character's death in D&D? PLENTY OF BACKUP CHARACTERS!!!
A campaign I was playing in where the only experienced player was the wizard, our DM was using soft rules for our party. Over time we began “steam rolling” the enemies he was putting us against, so he asked if we wanted the training wheels off. The wizard and I didn’t really want to, but everyone else said “Do it!” The very next combat the party’s other rogue was killed by stone statues and was reincarnated into a gnome. One session later I was railroaded into a trapped room being filled with water after rolling around a 35 in lock picking as a human rogue. This was in 3.5e.
@isaiahb605
3 ай бұрын
To clarify, my character survived with some sort of water absorbing dust the party warrior had found. My character epilogue died by jumping off a cliff thinking a cue ball was magical.
@herfriendscallherdez
3 ай бұрын
happy to hear you're enjoying dungeons and dads, it's long been one of my favorite podcasts and I've been trying to get more people to listen to it. welcome!
@Arlentric
3 ай бұрын
glad to be part of the fandom
@maxximumgaming1463
3 ай бұрын
The first time we played Tomb of Horrors was a triple TPK. Yes, we had three entire parties wiped out. It was traumatic at first, then humbling, then we just went full throttle maniac for the lols. But the character death that really hit home for me was my Half-Elf Fighter/Mage way back in 2nd Ed. In a standard Dungeon crawl, I found a mural with several small green pearls set into it. I took off my gauntlet, pulled a dagger and pried out on of the pearls into my palm. It came out VERY easily and landed with a wet splop in my hand. It wasn't a pearl at all, but a small globule of a green slime. It ate my hand and we all panicked. Then it ate my arm and we struggled to light a torch to burn it off. Then it ate my torso and I died. They burned it away and managed to save my head and both of my legs from the knees down and promised to get a Cleric to fix me. they didn't. At the end of the campaign, they dumped out the bag of holding and found my bits, almost completely rotted away...
@tenma8797
3 ай бұрын
I didn’t notice the hair lock until you pointed it out for me. 😅
@MiroMaitland-Thoresen
3 ай бұрын
saw the guide to death plug 8 miles away and was surprised by how helpful the video actually was!
@JohnPizzapasta
3 ай бұрын
I had the strangest feeling this was sponsored by Erevan's Guide
@Arlentric
3 ай бұрын
It was the perfect fit
@mentalrebllion1270
3 ай бұрын
Wow. Irony. My game from this week had me seeing my first ever death of one of my characters (almost 2 years, only less than a month shy, of being in the dnd hobby). I’ve had my characters go unconscious plenty of times but always was either healed in time or passed my saves. Technically, I passed the save I did roll but my character had angered the boss they were fighting (purposeful tactic) and so she was attacked and failed her death saves that way. Which, fair, I played that risk and this was consequences and the dm felt bad. It honestly wasn’t a bad death. Storywise it suited her so perfectly. It hurt of course, but I knew it was a good death. Luckily our cleric/bard recalled that she still had a scroll of revivify and managed to get across the battlefield to use it in time. I forgot she picked that up, as did everyone else. So I got returned to life to continue the campaign. I’m honestly super pleased about it. I think either way I would have been happy. But! I’m glad my first character death was one where it wasn’t permanent. And I can check it off the dnd bingo. Anyway, I loved the video. I’m just amused as to the timing of it lol. Oh right! I should probably explain the circumstances. So Tyranny of Dragons is what we are playing. I took the childhood friend bond they offer at the beginning. My childhood friend was put under the unkind care of one of the cult leader figures from the first half of the module (the hoard of the dragon queen side). My childhood friend, upon reuniting did request (and then tried to talk my character out of it) that I kill this terrible mentor of hers. My character and her party then infiltrated and successfully caused some chaos after a few days of information gathering. That’s the start of context. So the boss is up in the stairwell and coming down. My party is in the lower courtyard and trying to deal with a ton of other stuff. It’s also a large map. My character is at the bottom of the stairs so she opts to run back up and basically act as a blockade until the party can reach her and deal with the boss. In the mean time my character is using Zephyr strike to bypass the darkness disadvantage (dm allows me to understand the general area of the boss because of high as heck passive perception). I’m doing some major damage and managing to stay evasive but my character is taking some major hits from the few attacks that do connect. Eventually the fight makes it to the bottom of the stairs. I’ve had my character taunting this boss for a while now, calling her a coward and such and mentions right at the end that “someone we both know sent me along.” When pressed at sword point by the boss to say that person’s name my character laughs at her and I just have her say “I would never tell you that. Besides, regardless of me dying here, so will you. You aren’t leaving here alive.” And then she is cut down. My drake (I play a drakewarden) cries out and attacks the boss but it isn’t enough. The boss makes sure my character is finished off. The party is devastated. And as for why, it’s because we have a soulknife rogue. One of the abilities they have is to basically create a telepathic network for the party and our rogue had set that up before the fight broke out. The entire party felt my character go “offline” from that mental network and knew instantly she had passed. The only party member close enough to see my character’s body watched as my drake faded away and the boss standing over my character, still mad but satisfied. Let’s just say that the boss of that fight didn’t live long after that. My party cornered her and off’d her. It was glorious. As for why this felt like a good death, for the story, it’s because I raised so many “death flags” before that moment. Not only from the taunting I did and the prophetic words to the boss, but also from the reconciliation between my character and their childhood friend. I had also put the subtext in there that my character has long held a torch for said childhood friend. The childhood friend being worried about my character’s safety also raised another flag, especially when my character assured her that this is what she wanted to do on her behalf. And the major “death flag” probably was the Princess Bride reference I had my character make right before she parted ways with her childhood friend. Well, maybe also the promise to herself that she would tell the party she saw them all as friends and a promise to herself to see her childhood friend again, and then her dreaming of home and the past and a memory of a time she was reckless for the sake of her childhood friend. So you see all those flags? Yeah it was a good death…..but I had no idea what I was going to play afterwards so I’m SO glad that my party brought my character back!
@JohnR31415
3 ай бұрын
Early game 3rd edition… wizard gets swept into a sewer and chooses to drop into a pool rather than (likely) fail a strength check and fall in uncontrolled. Despite the pool having been described as looking “like the Star Wars trash compactor” I hadn’t really expected there to be a crocodile in there - and hadn’t appreciated the radically different swim mechanics in 3 compared with 5…
@natehill123
3 ай бұрын
Good advice that I kinda may need to use for a player (me) I have already needed to rule a few to many death saving throws
@SillySyrup
3 ай бұрын
I feel like if I ask my players to take a moment of processing a character death, the only thing that'll turn into is an unnecessary, awkward silence. Any thoughts on how to avoid that?
@alexlee4154
3 ай бұрын
If you explicitly say "everyone be quiet now" thats going to be turbo cringe. You can encourage it by describing the death with tact or by saying something like "your friends death weighs on you heavily" but fundamentally if your group doesnt bite, just roll with it. It doesnt really matter in the end if death feels low stakes if thats what the group wants
@Arlentric
3 ай бұрын
Processing the current death doesn't need to be a moment of silence or anything like that - but as the previous comment has suggested, just putting the bait out there to see if anyone does want to do anything in that moment, otherwise you can absolutely move on. Just work within how the players react
@mysticwarrior8785
3 ай бұрын
Genuinely forgot for a moment that arlentric was a critter and then my childhood axe kicked me in the face when he mentioned “i haven’t been a critter in a long time but…”
@ArcadeRing
3 ай бұрын
0:46 I recently started a solo campaign with my friend and I am the dm,and I’m brand new to it,unrelated though, I am a teeny bit railroady
@Hutdawg
3 ай бұрын
Let’s raise a glass to Slogg, and his friendly reminder that you shouldn’t bring real life feelings into a session. It’ll make you feel invincible hahahah
@Arlentric
3 ай бұрын
1000000000000% 😂😂😂😂
@ronly_driver
Ай бұрын
One of our current characters needs to die for a custom build that player has, and as his character is my character's brother, we've decided it can be part of my current wizard becoming my next character, which I was already building as a warlock and I'm likely going to end up sacrificing him to save the rest of the party because most of the crew likes their current characters a lot, and in the process making an eldritch pact, somehow losing my spellbook, and waking up with no memory of the 200 years I've spent studying in the temple, my old party, or my dead brother. The rest of the party probably won't trust me for it, and I will have no memory with which to defend my actions. The DM has okayed the concept and left it to us and the game to figure out the details, so we'll see how the dice roll.
@slayerman517
3 ай бұрын
My character died charging head first into a tribe of kobolds… I was then revived and forced to serve the god of death and essentially made into a hitman
@davewest2271
3 ай бұрын
You can't just say daddy master like that, we need a warning or something 😭
@Robbieman
3 ай бұрын
First time I played D&D in the first combat session I got hit with a crit and was immediately unconscious then I rolled two 1s on my death saves so in the end the character I put 9-10 hours in died in 5 minutes.
@loke6664
2 ай бұрын
No death can be a bit problematic since players tend to realize that no matter what they do they wont die and most players will abuse that to a ridiculous degree, A fun take on this is to let the player die and then suddenly and unsuspectingly they respawn for no good reason but feel like crap for a few hours, something no NPC ever did. That will drive your players mental, wondering if they are stuck in a video game or if some God of unknown alignment need the player to do something. Generally, most DMs tend to kill of a player if they fail while doing something stupid but might let them survive if they acted smartly and just rolled poorly. That way you reward thinking but don't punish then for having bad luck. Then we have us Grognars, in our games you might have to avoid certain fights unless you planned well for them in advance. You might not always be in a fight with Fortuna on your side so maybe you shouldn't get in a fight with those rude knights or take that bounty paying 10 times as much as any others without a bit of research first. That might sound harsh and it is, but it feels a lot more rewarding when you actually succeed with something. I think for a campaign, it is something players and DM should discuss. The right difficulty for one party might not be the same for another. When you are running a one shot or something that takes 2-3 sessions you can use a bit more varied difficulty since it allows the players to try out new things. Yeah, everything should not be Gygax Tomb of horror with 1st AD&D rules since that is basically a death sentence for the entire party. Running that module once can be fun though, but you should explain that completing the module is seen as a badge of honor and only a few players ever completes it, not just send the player into it like any other dungeon (or they will be mad). If you really don't want you PC to die, be creative. Maybe they are Isekais who are stuck in a game and respawn with some death penalty or get some mental issues after a while... Maybe they become undead or A god yells at them for dying before they have done the specific task they wanted them to do so he/she rezz them. Do a Kono Suba and have the NPC cleric have some weird magic that can bring them back to life (which do brings up some questions...). Just don't let them think there are zero consequences to acting like a suicidal moron because that will not be fun for anyone in the long run.
@Ringohulk777
3 ай бұрын
I'm overa year into my first campaign. I have lost 12 characters. My most recent character was petrified into a chocolate statue by a pie tyrant, a pie themed beholder. We plan to eat him because food.
@fairy.lights
3 ай бұрын
That reminds me of this one undeveloped character I had where the only trait they had was cannibal
@Ringohulk777
3 ай бұрын
@@fairy.lights love that. Sound awesome
@alchemist0019
3 ай бұрын
I mean considering that in greek mythology the god of sleep is the twin brother of the god of death wouldn't a downcast version of power word kill be power word sleep. I know dnd doesn't have greek gods but i just think its a funny image to have the enemy general just get instantly knocked out and then get jumped by everyone as hes in a coma like state.
@JustSomeGuy3669
3 ай бұрын
Dongeons and daddies is the best I watched and finished it and its the fucking best well i can just call it ALRIGHT 😅
@Arlentric
3 ай бұрын
Genuinely OBSESSED
@JustSomeGuy3669
3 ай бұрын
Like hollyshit man what episode are you on i really dont wanna spoil anything for you
@FluffertonsTheFirst
3 ай бұрын
I retired my dwarf palidan and he became a vampire so my new goblin artificer had to kill him
@lightwolf293
3 ай бұрын
it all fun and stuff, but i made a character, and my brother kill me with a thunder clap when we are in a cave
@AlisaShepard
3 ай бұрын
why thefeck you did say abiiut that hair... NOW IT BOTHERS ME 😁
@I_LIKE_CHEEEEEESE
3 ай бұрын
Personally I think I'm at first but I not wanting to be boring like the rest I'm going to say about DND death, I don't accept it. I just say no.
@justinlawrence6790
3 ай бұрын
Word from the wise. Quit listening after season 2.... it's so much worse afterwards.
@sness1328
3 ай бұрын
#d
@PuddleBubble831
2 ай бұрын
Or have revivify.
@2xturtle
3 ай бұрын
Very e
@saidcarrot
3 ай бұрын
Why did you tell me I wouldn't have noticed the hair otherwise, and it's very annoying
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