Dun dun dun, another one bites the dust!

[LagomorphPrime]

So I'm low on spells, we've seen heavy combat already, and I've got 3 nasty skeletons around me. The party rogue also happens to be in an adjacent square, but he has a high reflex save so I decide to go ahead and use my last 2nd level spell to cast Fireblast anyways. I drop 2 of the 3 skellies and the rogue.

Karma didn't like that though. The next round he has the ranger put him out (he was still burning a little) and the bard heal him back to consciousness, meanwhile I get critted by the last skeleton for 28 HP. I was at 17. Do the math. :spank:

So now I'm a pally of Torm. Gonna be some law and order around here for a change!

[Marsden]

May as well add to this thread...

Last night the bard triggered a fire trap (and failed his save).

A few minutes later the player remembered his necklace of fireballs (and was honest enough to mention it).

Necklace failed it's save - for 52 damage on 12d6 (not bad).

Bard - dead. Cleric - dead. Bard's cohort -8hp. Rogue - evaded :grumble: .

I use a fate-point mechanic, so they were only "mostly-dead", but with both the healers down...

(Eventually they used the glove of identification to get the command word of an item of healing so that the bard's cohort (revived by potion) could apply it repeatedly to the cleric).

Addition - meantime the Barb/Sorc was retrieving the mage, who had simultaneously managed to fall 40' through a hidden trapdoor and into a den of spitting cobras. Fortunately his familiar is a viper, so he could negotiate.

I was entertained by the whole affair :sagrin:

[BattleNymph]

My character dies routinely in our Saturday game. I have the honor of dying the very first adventure of the campaign saving another character (or trying to anyway). We get 1 free death so she was up and running next game.

Next time, holding off 6 orcs by herself (at level 2 ranger) to keep them from outright killing the downed body she's protecting. Whammo... at -9 (die hard so still fighting) she goes unconcious for some reason. Should have died but the DM had an NPC magically be there to throw sleep which magically managed to get all the orcs and the PC so he could save her.

Many other times like the one above....

Then a couple of weeks ago the whole party flees leaving my little ranger to cover their flight. So my level 5 ranger is fighting a bladedancer drow, a feral ogre and a feral bugbear (all with magic weapons) by herself at -4. Ogre kills her with a blow that did 28 points of damage. DM magically has one of the PC's whose player isn't there have an item of raise dead and she's back again, albeit minus a level.

Then last night, same ranger fighting an undead doing 30-40pts damage every blow (along with spells and such) and at -4 yet again when he has the ghost attack a different character rather than kill me.

She should be dead 5 times over. :sarcblink: And I wasn't even wearing a low cut top the times she died. :sagrin:

[Origen]

Puck hasn't died in a little while. *knock on wood*

With the sort of heavy hitting damage that gets thrown around right now in Dr. Merc's WLD campaign, I try to stay away from combat and leave it to the folks who can survive nearly 400 points of damage in a round.

[BattleNymph]

Puck hasn't died in a little while. *knock on wood*

With the sort of heavy hitting damage that gets thrown around right now in Dr. Merc's WLD campaign, I try to stay away from combat and leave it to the folks who can survive nearly 400 points of damage in a round.

You know, I can't even imagine that kind of firepower.

[Origen]

You know, I can't even imagine that kind of firepower.

I did a full attack action on an opponent. I think 10 out of 10 attacks. A metric butt ton of damage, despite DR. 20 points of Strength damage from Crippling Strike. 20 points of Constitution damage from a Greater Wounding weapon.

Then an enemy cleric wiped it all away with a Mass Heal spell.

I think I said something along the lines of, "Fuck this!"

[Paulypalooza]

You know, I can't even imagine that kind of firepower.

Play with Origen in an Epic campaign and you will see worse than that.