D&D Players, What are the dumbest ways you died?  

> A player killed a special needs kid who was making a lot of noise (it was dark, and he thought the kid was a monster). then killed his bereaved parents when they attacked him. > He saw a wanted poster for the man who killed these people. > Turned himself in. > when the guard put him in a cell, THEN he started claiming it was self defense, then claimed he didn't do anything. > He was hung from a tree for a triple homicide.

"OK, I'm going to cast a maximized Fireball right in the middle here." "While you're inside the orphanage?" "Yeah. ...Why?" Fire resistance 10 only does so much.

I was the DM for this game, I was running my modified D20 Modern zombie apocalypse homebrew. The players were warned about a crazy old man with a shotgun defending his store from looters, and decided to go talk to him. I warned one player several times, "You can see him through the window, pointing his shotgun at the front door, waiting to blast the first person to try coming in." The player, in all his genius, decided to walk through the door anyway and try to say he's friendly. I let the dice fall, and he took something like 35 damage from the blast (in a system where very few people had more than 20 hp) and got splattered all over the sidewalk. The player wasn't mad, he fully understood the risk he was taking. Still, fun story

A friend of mine made a deez nuts joke at the expense of the adult gold dragon that was present, and was immediately punted into the air. We still laugh about it from time to time.

wizard has a staff of the magi barbarian gets angry snaps staff over leg bard say "well gentlemen it's been an honor" begins playing the titanic theme

Our rogue died to a chair. It was a magic chair, to be fair. One that locked her in and electrocuted her with magic as she tried to disarm it with thieves tools and other rolls. But that wasn't the big issue. The big issue was that the chair was just 1 out of a circle of 10. And the rogue suspected unlocking all the chairs could net her some cool treasure. So when she unlocked herself from the first chair after getting severely electrocuted, she immediately sat on the second chair. And the third. And the fourth. And then she died, leaving behind one super crispy corpse and 0 healing potions for the party. Honestly, it was very in-character for her.

Challenged a god to a children's card game...... then got killed when I called out the petty SOB for cheating

The party wizard cast fireball. In an enclosed room. With a diameter of 20 meters. With the entire party INSIDE THE ROOM.

Not me, but one of the players in a Pathfinder game I was running. The party was fighting a Vescavor Queen. Vescavors are essentially tiny demonic locusts that swarm over everything, chewing through pretty much anything short of adamantine and letting out an incessant gibbering that can confuse people who hear it if they fail a Will save; the queen is more or less a horse-sized vescavor with the same abilities and the ability to control swarms of regular ones. Normally that would be a pretty standard low-mid level encounter, but this was in the main lair of the cult serving the BBEG so I decided that Her Majesty needed a little bit of a buff to make things easier. I gave her 10 levels of Warpriest with the major Madness blessing. What does that do, you ask? Well, it allows the Warpriest to, until their next turn, _choose_ the result of any confusion roll made by creatures within 30 feet. Most of the party was lucky enough to pass the Will saves against the vescavors' gibbering... all of them except the party's sorcerer. As this is going down, one of the players arrives to the session late and joins the game. I tell thr sorcerer to pick one of his offensive spells, and I roll to randomly decide who the sorcerer targets in his confused state, and... out of like *15* different combatants, the die lands on the number for the player who just arrived. ...The sorcerer picked disintegrate. And the new player failed his save against it. He was obliteratomized within 5 minutes of sitting down at the table. Fortunately nobody got upset over the whole situation (I felt bad, don't get me wrong). The player who died is a pretty good sport and thought it was hilarious. He had long held the title of "King of Nat 1s" among our group (we even got him a crown that he happily wore to game sessions), so the bad luck wasn't all that unexpected.

My Goliath barbarian kick flipped a tuna fish of a 150ft building. He did not survive

The best story I heard was a player with a newly minted level 1 character who was playing around IC while other characters were being created. Started jumping on a bed. Failed save, hit floor. took damage.... bled out and died.

I was playing a Ranger and my friend was a Wildfire Druid. I cast Goodberry at the start of the adventure in case we needed to pop one in an emergency to keep us alive. While searching the bad guy's hideout we find what looked like a "health potion" but we didn't have time to identify it properly before combat started. At the end of the combat both of us were unconscious and I had two failed death saves. Mind you I still have 7 Goodberries ready to go. The cleric uses their last spell slot to save the Druid. The Druid's wildfire Spirit , decides instead of feeding me a goodberry, it would pour the "health potion" down my throat. And that was how my Ranger died via a Potion of POISON! We all had a good laugh after about how dumb that was.

Friend ate a rock in a cave which ended up being a high grade explosive killing the entire team

Our goblin rouge scouted the dungeon ahead, and reported that he saw a jelly cube up ahead. The barberian thinking it was food rushed into the dark hallway straight into the gelatinous cube trying to eat it.

First game I ever played that made me and my wife quit and exit the table. Trator "Newcomer" of a player puts my rabbit transformed character in a bag for "safety" and suffocates me to death and revives me as a slave zombie. Player was secretly in on some plot with the DM.

Character died by getting his chest caved in by a unicorn that had been drugged and was about to be used as a sacrifice. It seemed fine at a glance, just terrified, and it seemed to be listening to him, so he went to unbind it. First thing it did was crit. Needless to say, it did more than double his health-being a weak celestial warlock as he was. He died instantly, no hope of revival so early. If I'd managed to roll a little bit better I'd have been able to tell that the mystical creature was out of its mind and would attack the first things it could in a bid to escape.

1 sentence "you should shoot that" that being something none of us knew was very much explosive

I haven't died yet, but I came pretty frickn' close when our party was ambushed by a flameskull and our monk, who was the strongest party member at the time, was passed out drunk being carried by our fighter and our cleric! The only reason I survived was because I chose to be a barbarian, had I chosen a different class, I wouldn't have been able to tank the damage long enough for everyone to defeat the flameskull. The best part, however, is that this actually helped later on when I was hiding in a grave from some cultists. Because my body was so burnt from the flameskull, they thought I was just a corpse!

Mentioned this in a previous comment section, but my Teifling triple class (Sorcerer/Paladin/Rogue) jumped off an airship the moment he saw his ex coming with a crew on some Hellbirds. Not to get away from her, but to try and land on her Hellbird as she left through a portal to The Nine Hells. I don’t know what he would do if he had succeeded since she was much bigger than him, a Half-Orc Barbarian if that helps paint a picture of the size difference, and a lot stronger too. Doesn’t matter though, cause he failed and plummeted to the ground below which killed him instantly…maybe. So basically he and the party got gifts from a dragon named Kale, his was scaly skin that gave him the Lucky feat, and she said that if he had died then her magic would come back to her. So I don’t know if he really died, but if he is alive then he’s not in good shape. While he is a Tiefling, that’s only while on the Material Plane, his true race is that of a Demon. Our DM said that if a demon dies on the Material Plane then they go back home, but our BBEG knows this and supposedly set up an ambush. Problem is that was mentioned in passing convo, and our DM tends to be a bit of a troll. Either way, I’m not playing as him anymore so I’m considering that as a death…and a dumb one at that

Not me, but a friend. They were playing AD&D with some friends back in high school with their DM who I could only describe as "the DM from old man henderson" levels of petty. They were fighting a session long battle with a dragon mid air, the DM pulling every bull-crap tactic they could and getting mad that it still wasn't working. So with two PC's down and their flying spells nearing the point of no return. They managed to just barely take down the dragon with time left to land safely and gather their fallen comrades. Instead, the DM ruled that their flight spells wore off immediately and they fell to their deaths. That however, was not the dumbest part. That was when the DM also decided to have the dragons body coincidentally crash directly through the roof of a tavern, miles upon miles away, instantly killing the last living PC (the player couldn't make it that session) who had elected to stay behind and get sloshed.

1st session. My bugbear barbarian heard some noises from a bush next to him. Since it was basicly our entire groups first DnD campaign and we had no real session 0, we weren't that well versed in the game mechanics. So I just...jumped into the bush. Nothing more. My idea was to surprise the enemies inside the bush by launching my 140kg ass onto them. Which I didn't communicate to the GM, so I just landed in the bush between 2 giant weasels, who promptly rolled higher initiative than our party and proceeded to beat the fur off me looney tunes style. Our GM described how the rest off the party only saw fur, giant weasels and *ouch!* *oof!* speech-bubbles fly out of the bush. I then missed my attack the first round and failed to throw one weasel off nearby cliff the second round and then went down. As a panicing beginner, I of course forgot to rage. Nice. The rest of the party only barley managed to survive and then drag me out of the bush xD

A friend of mine rolled a nat 1 for throwing an axe at an enemy, and it hit me, dropped me to 0 hit points, and my body fell from the vantage point we were on instantly doing enough fall damage to kill me…

We were playing Dungeon World, with quite a bit of homebrew. Characters of note: my dragonborn fighter, the dmpc fighter, and the cleric's god, Jibbers the fire breathing lobster living on Saturn. Our party was in the hometown of one of the party members, which happened to have been taken over by an evil death cult. We arrived just a few days before they were going to start a horrible ritual, using zombies made from the corpses of some of the townspeople, to basically make a zombie-apocalypse army. Of course, we weren't gonna let that happen. However, the cultists had a surprise up their sleeves: several gargantuan mounds of moving corpses, which they, of course, unleashed. The party had gotten separated, with my Dragonborn and the DMPC trying to evacuate people from the town to a nearby dwarf settlement we became friends with, while the others focused on the zombies and freeing the imprisoned townspeople. My character had bought a potion of flight from the dwarves, but was told to use wisely. Well, one of the corpse mounds found us, and began charging THROUGH several buildings to get to us. Now seemed pretty wise, so my character took to the skies, whisking away the dmpc out of harms way. However, my character couldn't just run and leave the people to die, so he carefully dropped the dmpc on a far-away roof, before flying back to the corpse mound. My dragonborn sent a prayer to Jibbers the fire breathing lobster, praying for some of his might and power, before using his dragon breath in an attempt to turn the corpse mound to ash. Well, Jibbers answered, and out from his mouth came an inferno, completely engulfing the corpse mound. Success! But, the unholy creature flailed its arms in pain, and one of them hit my character full-on in the chest, sending him off the cliff the city was built on (yeah, not the best location for a city). My guy, after falling hundreds of feet, was skipped along the ocean surface, before sinking beneath the waves.

7:32 I'm not very knowledgeable in D&D or TTRPG, so I may be wrong but being "made for melee" and being a sorcerer kinda conflicting career choices?

Gravity has always been the BANE OF MY EXISTENCE!!!! No matter it be at the table or in video games, it likes to remind me who’s in charge. Now, for my first ever D&D character, he unfortunately underestimated the distance of a gap to jump and promptly fell to his death after hitting every tiny climbable ledge that I fudged my rolls on too. Poor guy was a broken heap at the bottom, but what made this death even more embarrassing was HOW they managed to get his body back. Our caster (I forgot what class he played at the time) summon his familiar to get my body back. His familiar? A ferret. So imagine this small sized rodent SOMEHOW thanks to the dice rolls, managed to haul a scale male wearing fighter back up the ledges, all by itself, and succeeded so he could get revived! My friends never let me live that down xD

A heavily armed warrior named Gregory ran over open ground from the direction the enemy was expecting. Rough terrain slowed them down the entire way up a hillside but the player thought their armour would deflect or absorb most of the incoming fire directed their way. By the time they reached enemy lines on top of the hill, they had lost most of their HP due to accurate shots taken with calm care. His armour was so damaged that a standard soldier, little more than a conscript, felled him with a single blow once he got close enough. His body tumbled all the way back down, hitting many boulders and trees that he refused to hide behind on the way down. The party did not bother to attack the position and when they reached him, he had already passed away from the severe trauma he sustained from the trip back down the hill.

I was in a very dangerous magic school, got lost in the hallways, went into a room that the door closed behind me and I got shredded by a gargantuan metal Worm

2nd level party barely survived a troll and drove it off. The others insisted on tracking it to its lair. As the only character with both tracking and enough wits to realise how dumb that idea was, i could have saved us all. If only i'd thought to lie and pretend to lose the trail.. But noooo. I had to go nd find it home where it and its two relatives were waiting for some home-delivered adventurers for breakfast.

evocation wizard being spiked by arrows in the front of the party although fighter, cleric and rogue had better chances as being tank than my character. had to overkill any target in range with damage spells and then fight close combat until the three ranged player characters behind me were done with their sniping contest. that being said, it was an absolute lightshow at the frontline and the wizard even leveled up a bit because of shared experience points. he finally died being basically abadoned and used as bait to lure a horde of elites out of cover for the three musketeers turkey shooting. magic missile, burning hand, sunbeam, sunburst resulted in high damaged opponents who were funnily enough finished off in close combat beaten by a staff. and then the enemy archers just emptied their quivers into the wizard. no sense of responsibilty from the party either, these safari hunters got themselves killed shortly after in a situation where they couldnt sacrifice anyone nor cooperate with each other (they just got trapped inside a dungeon and were unable too weasle their way out because they got buried alive).

Just remember players: If you said at the table that you’ll throw the paladin out of the hole, and you want to leave it as a joke, make sure your NOT rolling your dice while waiting for your DM to think of an answer, only for them to see it.

Never reach in the covered Cockatrice cage. I was 12. Poor Deff the fighter.

Eaten by a giant snail. My kenku barbarian (we were doing a short and funny honebrew) was eaten by a giant snail when the party was tripping out on some druid stuff in a jungle. She apparently thought it was a horse (she was trained and raised by a group of nomads) and animal handling didn't go over well (crit fail). According to the snail, she tasted like spoiled chicken and it oozed away. I was both mortified and dying of laughter as I proceeded to prepare a new character. RIP Spool the Fluff, you were the murder bird baby of the party.

We were in a bar when a pissed off husband burst in and rushes the Bard. This caused a all out bar fight where the Barbarian threw a mug across the bar and took out my character, the Wizard.

Don't think I'll ever forget the wild magic sorcerer who dropped a fireball on himself the first time he used any magic. He, and the rogue, did not survive.

By clicking first on this died from laughter

My dumbest death was rolling a nat 1 and that lead my first ever dnd character to be prone for the enemies to electrocute him to death

As of this video, only 2 days ago I ran a session that had a demon, a couple of elementals and 5 smaller demons. The 5 smaller ones had an effect that every time they take damage they give that damage back in a 30' radius with a save for half. Two of my duskblades kept getting close and hitting them while the gnome threw splash potions on them, so they just kept going boom boom boom with damage. One of the duskblades died but the healer was able to save them with a clutch spell that hurt them, I forget the name of it but it's like an empowered revivify. They did use the boom demons to kill the earth elemental, it died without a player ever attacking it once. After all was said and done everyone was in the low 20s or less of HP, hell the other duskblade only lived because he used vampiric touch on two of his attacks, gave him just enough to hold out the next series of booms

There was the attempt at getting a loan from a dragon it ended poorly

I was crushed by a floor. One of the other party members had found the location of the bbeg. He and I went to the cave to spy on him, get a general layout of the lair, and form a plan. We tripped a gravity trap on the way out. I failed my dex save to get out of the trap, made my dex save to catch a stalactite, and not take "fall damage" and finally failed the dex save to get out of the way of everything that was now flying at me from the ground. I was told to roll the damage as 1 die, which would be multiplied to get the full damage of 20 D12. I rolled a 12. I was a fighter, so no raging, and had nowhere near 240 hp. By request, I was crushed everywhere but my face (despite a low-ish charisma score, he was quite vain) .

I kicked a homebrewed lightning monster from Monster Hunter in the Cajones. Next turn, it stopped my heart with 1.21 gigawats of electricity. My next character was bitten in half by some kind of ice- sabertooth creature.

I played in a Tomb of Annihilation game. That is all!

Our party nearly got wiped by... a broom. In the Death House of Curse of Strahd, we were exploring the second floor when I found a closet. My little halfling druid stepped in to check it out, and he finds a broom inside. He tries to take it, and it comes to life. Downs him in one hit and proceeds to start tearing up the party. They survived, just barely, but I bled out on the closet floor.

Came into this comment thread to make a reference, but Brian already made it in the outro.

I was lower level and just joined the campaign. We were in a house fighting against a horde of zombies (Halloween episode). Our wizard forgot that Fireball ignored corners and fried me.

Didn't die but went unconscious from this. My first time playing was in 3.5. I was a halfling druid traveling with a party to check out why the local fauna were acting super aggressive and attacking folks. We track the source of corruption to a lake where a crystal is seeping some dark energy into the water. I decide to bottle up some of this water so we can study it. Bit of failed Perception later and suddenly _something_ has bitten me hard and is trying to pull me into the water. We managed to disrupt and grab the crystal, and I learned two important lessons. First, I learned it's not wise to stay near the edge of the water when it's being corrupted. Second, I learned what a tojanida is.

I actually have a couple of them. First, I was a ranger Kobold that got cursed by some item that made me blind. So in order to compensate, I figured out a way in game to move and attack people with my teammates. We got a partner sepaeated, and eventually I got an item that cured my curse. Until then our other party member got back, and we started combat right next to it with no time to catch up. My main strat was to give advantage distracting the enemies with one of my features, so I did and soon after my just atrtrived partner casted Darkness around me and the enemies. Both ingame and irl discussed why he did that and he said cuz I am blind, I can fight in the darkness, while the enemie was torallu blinded. 1. I was blinded sgsin cuz of that 2. No one could give me directions 3. The enemies could see inside magic darkness

My character who was a mouse girl tried to tame a giant owl bear locked inside of a dungeon with the door slammed behind me. I had zero animal tamer skills, but was very confident since up to then I been successful on taming or intimidating monsters into submission. I rolled a 1. The DM rolled two critical nat 20s of the owl bear breaking through my magic shield and immediately killing me in one hit. It breaks out of the dungeon and runs over my entire party.

Well, there was that time I got blown to hell by an explosive suicide dwarf. That was a pretty stupid way to go out.

Hi. Don't know if i'll ever get to use it,so i am going to dump a character idea. A family of rabbit demi-humans,who are cursed to always stay at their level,1 to 20,and are trapped in another dimension,untill the one before them dies. Or maiby he just becomes a statue or something if i wanto it to be possible for them to be saved. They can be different classes,have a different personality, maiby to make up for the impossibility to level up,let them carry an abiliry over.

I was a barbarian with an intellect of 1. I fell in love with a rock. My party member throws my rock lover at a dragon to distract it. I ran after the rock and was eaten.

Dude I played in a one-shot suffered from near total aphasia and could only do the penguinz0 WOOOOOOOO, ended up being sacrificed to the negative energy plane cuz he literally could not say no. Our group’s headcanon is if you ever end up in said plane you can just barely hear his jubilant screams no matter where you go.

running a game back when i was like 13 in 2e, and after many warnings that the upcomming bossfight was going to be a deadly one, and knowing they were facing a 2e death knight, when the party were challenged to either choose 'their greatest warrior' for 1 on 1 combat, or face his champions alongside him in group combat, the mage stepped forwards and named himself the 'greatest warrior' of their group. 'you are no warrior, do you choose death?' says the death knight 'i can take you without taking a wound' says the mage. 'die' says the DK, using his power word: kill. (they had both a cleric with ressurection, and a rod, but the mage was still salty.)

A while back I had a character that was doing fly-by attacks, I declared that one of the Orogs he was fighting saw him and did a 'brace against charge' stance, he still charged in for his attack, I rolled a nat 20, longspear is 3x damage on crit. So he flies straight up with a shattered spear buried in his torso, the rogue with no points in survival or medicine attempts to administer first aid by pulling the spear out... nat 1. I made him roll fortitude vs. the damage of her horribly ripping the spear out of his body, nat 1. With I think 7 hp left, he passes out some 40' off the ground dead falling to the ground. I gave them 1 round to save him, I allowed the ranger to have her Dire Wolf animal companion dive in and snatch him before he became a grease stain on the ground. I tallied it up, had he not been caught he would have went -13 hp and been dead dead. Not a kill story but close enough to count :P

Died to.... a 🐐... it was a tough battle trying to kill a abolith out in the open, I got flung across a wheat field near a private farmers land and when i woke and sat up, i was greeted by a pissed off goat who killed me with a nat 20.... despite all my tricks... the goat bypassed all and cracked my skull so bad that i was just very unfortunate.

Its not only one chatacter that die but its a team whipe For context Its a homebrew dnd with a completely remade spell, custom spell,Character and such and to cut it short the campain main objektif was to save the princess from the big bad So we finally arrived at the big bad Castel and the entrance was guarded by alot of skeleton one of my friend which is a mages said to the DM "hey can i use all of my power to summon a Giant fireball and shot it toward the entrance" and the DM said"okay but you gonna need a really hight role to pull this off and you also gonna need to roll Twice the first roll is to see if you manage to pull it off and the second one is for accuracy" The first roll he manage to get 20 which mean he manage to summon a fire ball that have the same power as a God dam nuke But the second role are a 1... A God dam 1 So the DM said "As you about to fire the Giant fireball you accidently slip on a rock and insted of shooting it forward you shot it up to the sky and it definitely wont comeback down later"and then we continue like nothing happen but a soon as we clear all of the skeleton the DM look at us with a smile in his face and said "The fire ball that was previously fired come down from the sky and explode right next to all of you"and since we just finished fighting the hoard of skeleton our hp was really low which meant all of us died to it

I’m the dm for a kinda dnd. My brother jumped off a bus which put him at low health.later he decided to eat some nuts to heal. He rolled a low number and choked on one. It took a while to bring him to a resurrection shrine.

My party's half ork barbarian were killed in the beginning of the campaign, in the arena. He had the habit of hurting everyone, who commented negatively on him being half ork. Our party had a wizard, and a priest(both female), who couldn't understand, that they will be hit, if they call the half ork stinky, and stuff. So from the beginning, they had a rather violent relationship. So, when the halfie died, they were reluctant, to hurl his body to the nearest temple, and pay 1000 gold for resurrection. But we did. I played as a thiefling wizard with a witty, and smartass personality, so i always tried to smooth things between them. So, when the priest resurrected the half ork, and he went violent, robbed from a glorious death, and our priest had to heal him from the brink of death, it made things a little rough between the half ork, and the girls. We barely left the temple, and they started to blame him, and calling him names, like dumb ork, and stuff. And of course he went full kill mode-with barely enough health points to stand. The girls draw the conclusion, that he had to be put down, and i draw the conclusion, that the girls shouldnt play caster characters if they dont have the smart to realize, you should not be racist towards a sensitive half ork. I intervened, as usual, but they decided, thet i have to be put down too, because i "took the orks side". So yeah, they obliterated us with area magic, because the ork was unarmed, and hurt badly, and i only used defense, and secape magic. We died very much, and the campaign failed before we even got the main quest from the NPC.

Being a food taster for the king, who is typically aware of the fact everyone hates him and many told him they wish him death.. Why I was here and did that..? Oh, yeah. I was visiting with my team and people told me to keep him busy while they stole the treasure room.. I was hungry and though the food seems good. And didn't know any of the risks.. Mmh, I should have maybe attempt a perception check first hand. Or even hystory.. Matter of fact, I simply died.

Large mountain goat on mountain pass above a cliff. I miss the attack as it's sleeping, it head butts me off the cliff and i die.

Didn't read the rules and didn't know about disengage action, so I couldn't escape two monsters who appeared near me and had 10ft reach(no beef with DM about targeting me, everyone had those monsters around them), and so my first attempt at playing bard ended in the first game because I rolled two Nat1's on death saves. DM allowed me to roll an extra death save and it also was Nat1. My next character was rogue and survived till the end of campaign

Didn’t actually die, but in the first session of our campaign, my tiefling rogue was bitten by a poisonous snake after a battle with kobolds (we were level one to start) he climbed onto a large boulder to get a better view up ahead that because of dm shenanigans had a snake sleeping on top of it, then when searching for a place to make camp he decided to bed down in a cave while everyone else slept outside, what can I say? He was a shithead with low wis/int. He wakes to find he’s sleeping in a lynx den. He was mauled into unconsciousness before the party saved him. Fun times

First campaign ever played, second character in (first character wasnt working out for me so I was allowed to switch), first session with new character, took a job to clean out some sewers (hadnt met the party yet so it was solo) and got knocked out by a ratking. I only survived thx to plot armor which was a goliath npc that saved me

My monk character names Narcian died in a, not necessarily stupid, but very amusing way while fighting an ulitharid (big mind flayer) Narcian: stuns ulitharid with stunning strike and lands 4 attacks Ularithid: becomes un-stunned and sends out a mind blast which stuns the entire party and drops Narcian to 6 HP Narcian: (stunned and nearly dead) “do you worst” They certainly did their worst alright, Narcian took exactly 69 damage and had his brain eaten, as I said, not stupid, just funny in hindsight

I wanted to mess around a little with Dragonflight, so I built myself a tank oriented silver Dragon and went to see if the guy could solo hoard of the dragon queen... he died in the third encounter with some cobolds... action economy...

I tried disarming a crossbow trap once with black powder and my pet dragon's breath. It did not go well.

A level 14 shadow blade assassin awaiting his mark on a rooftop in the rain. Struck by lightning and killed. Not even the DM kept a straight face. My character was a great PC. The only overpowered item he had was a dark energy short sword. Struck by lightning. Sad.

PANR has tuned in.

I forgot that the Dwarf Monk was a Weretiger and was taunting him from a flying position just out of (Dwarf) reach. He killed me in one round when he shifted.

We were following a magic deer through a waterfall and my brother went first. The DM went “Jumps through the waterfall…” *rolls 2d10* “…and dies.” Serious “What?!??!” From my bro before the DM laughed and said he was fine.

i didnt *die* die but i was brought down to 0 after walking into a closet and getting attacked by a broom... we'd just finished fighting a living suit of armor and i was down to 4hp and we were right next to a small closet. so i walk in looking for a place to sit that was defensable and a flying broom shot out and smacked me for 6 damage. and then our ranger used druidcraft to light sheets on fire which spread throughout the room nearly roasting me. fun times.. thankfully my dark gift symbiote was able to automatically get me up without needing to roll death saves or i may have actually died

BBEG told my character that he will let my friends go if I unalive myself on the spot: -You promise, Pinky promise? - …Yes … -Grandug trust you bye bye Unhonourable mention in one of groups I used to play we had bard who had long history of “death by snu snu” Pro tip never seduce low int monster 2 size (or more) bigger than your character (f.e. fairy bard vs. Half-giant NPC)

The dumbest way I died was because of my trigger happy mage friend that has a thing for fireballs. I was playing a rogue and I was up stairs in a tower enemies came I. Amd he decided to cast fireball apparently forgetting I was still inside. Needless to say my escape was covered by fire and my only other choice was to jump 80ft to the ground and by this time I only had 10 hit points left. But then again none of us could get out we all died. The enemies didn't even kill us our own party member did.

story at 8:17 I'm pretty sure they are playing The Emerald Spire (megadungeon for pathfinder originally)

This isn't dumb in the sense of me making a dumb mistake, but more a stroke of dumb unluck. This was the first combat of the entire campaign, level 1, my fresh off the presses Bard is trying to distract a Bugbear that was the leader of a goblin raiding group. He got attacked by said Bugbear (his name was Klarg btw) and this man hit me for 18 damage because he crit his attack and also rolled well. Klarg killed me *instantly*, I had 9 health. No save, no get out of jail free card, one shot dead, goodbye. Luckily my DM was also of the opinion that it was BS to die literally turn one of the first combat of the first session in a brand new campaign, so pulled out the ability for me to make a deal with Lord Death (yes, the one from Soul Eater, we're all anime nerds at this table) to become a Meister in exchange for being returned to the material plane right as rain, so overall it's been a good thing!

Oh boy, so. It was a pokemon game. Had just had a pokemon battle with another PC the previous session. He didnt make it the session I died. (I jokingly blame him) because we went off into the wilderness immediately afterwards. Well, when my entire pokeparty was half HP or lower. Went off by myself to look for a psyduck, found it getting bullied by some poliwhirls. Tried to intervene, realized how fucked I was. But it was too late. And my pokeparty went down (except for my ghost pokemon) and I couldnt escape. So, when I died. It piloted my body back to camp. But Rex Goodman was already as good as dead.

My players weren’t the smartest party and constantly nearly killed each other while going through a dungeon I made. Then the barbarian off my party tried to seduce the dragon I put there. I planned that the dragon would try to negotiate with the Dragonborn of the party and let them through unharmed. So as the barbarian rolls a nat 1 on his seduction the dragon just stomps him killing him instantly.

I was new to dnd to a campagn that was already being played but still at level one. I was a cleric and only one other person had a healing spell the bard. We where fighting a mindflayer and i got knocked down and for some reason the bard used me as a progectile and killed me

It wasn't me that died but one of my party members decided to try and kill me with a dager but in the end I just killed him without taking a single point of damage because my armor class was like 19

Lets just say...the bugs were yummy to my elf.

I didn't die but this is the dumbest way I killed a party member: Little kobold failed an acrobatics check while the pirate ship we were on was fleeing the imperial navy so he got stuck under a lifeboat and was being crushed, I(standard brawn half-orc barb) tried to lift it up but failed, wizard of ours used magic to lighten the boat's weight and the DC became 5 but I rolled... Nat 1... Beheading the kobold with a boat that weighed lesser than a bag of feathers

I got ate

You guys have lost characters??

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Older edition. Planescape campaign. We'd established early on that my Paladin's Detect Evil ability worked by giving a directional headache, with a severity proportional to the amount (and distance from) anything Evil. So, we were chasing someone through the streets of Sigil, and accidentally triggered a portal (our target hadn't, but we didn't realise that at the time). We found ourselves on another plane entirely, with no sign of the guy we were chasing. So, to try and track him, I fired up Detect Evil. Scanners.gif Turned out, we'd accidentally portalled ourselves to one of the Nine Hells, and my Paladin had literally had his head explode trying to sense evil. Whoops.

Rogue barely got away from a giant snake with 1HP, ran one square off the current map, fell off a small incline, and had to start making death saves