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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:24:00 No.14751167 View View Reply Original Report

>D&D 3.5
>playing a level 8 human duskblade
>fighting two wyverns as a random encounter
>get hit by one wyvern's sting during the first round, nothing else hits me
>deals only a measly 6 damage
>DM reminds me to roll a Fortitude save because wyverns are poisonous
>miss the save DC by 2
>take 12 Constitution damage
>I have only 12 Constitution
>my face when

This game doesn't exactly give characters heroic deaths all that often, does it now?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:29:00 No.14751194 Report

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It's a game. The result of the dice are random. So you "randomly" get a good or bad result. Just because your one death this time involved dying like a little bitch doesn't mean that happens every time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:30:00 No.14751203 Report

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You should try Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. That way your deaths will be heroic compared to the ones where you die of dysentery.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:30:00 No.14751206 Report

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I have a lot of players in my group who can't take any kind of failure and it really bothers me. Like, they fail a roll and they're all "Gah I'm so worthless!"

I can't even imagine what killing one of them would be like.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:32:00 No.14751222 Report

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>Pathfinder
>PC is playing a rouge as a bard
>he gets the shit beat out of him
>he almost died
>DM makes him roll for divine intervention
>he makes it
>He has a +8 to damage because he can bend the laws of physics

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:32:00 No.14751223 Report

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It's fucking wyverns man!
Be glad you didn't die by a long fall of falling rocks. I heard some die by literally drowning in shit.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:33:00 No.14751226 Report

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I had an Inquisitor that got reduced to -19 HP by a Pizza Golem's slam attack. Mushed half-boiled dough/cheese covered corpse.

My last character was a Gunslinger who got digested by a wurm. Just...digested. And then another party member stole his priced rifle (even named the fucking thing).

Pic related, it's the concept behind my new Monk/Warblade"Fuck both of you assholes" character. (+22 on Acrobatics (Jump) checks, always counts as a running jump, can give him another +30 on it by changing stance and spending 1 ki point)

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:35:00 No.14751242 Report

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>>14751167
>I MADE A CHARACTER SO IT MUST BE A HERO EVEN IF I PLAY AND DIE LIKE A LOSER AND IT WOULD BE COMPLETELY UNREALISTIC FOR ME TO BE THE ONLY HERO AROUND. SO THEREFORE I'M ANGRY THAT I DIED AN AVERAGE DEATH IN A LAND FULL OF AVERAGE PEOPLE AND I'VE COME ONLINE TO BITCH ABOUT IT 8======================D~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:36:00 No.14751245 Report

Quoted By: >>14751260 >>14751285

well, bullshit happens, after all.
Seriously, though, if there was absolutely no risk at all, there wouldn't be much tension either.
Compared to other way more gritty systems, actually, both D&D 3.5 and 4.0, are pretty lenient on that side.
You can't really complain, all considered. In 2e, for example, even the most measley enemy, if played smartly could kill easily a mid-high level character.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:37:00 No.14751260 Report

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>>14751245
Common housecat vs. level 1 PC. All I'm going to say.

Well, that and "AHAHAHA DID YOU SEE THAT CAT HE RIPPED OPEN HIS STOMACH LIKE A BALL OF YARN."

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:38:00 No.14751263 Report

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>>14751167
Wyvern Venom is one of the nastiest poisons in 3.5. Injury DC17 base, 2D6 con initial, 2D6 con secondary. You get a second saving throw against the secondary effect, which occurs a minuite after the first failed save. Also worth a massive 3000GP per dose, second only to Black Lotus Extract (A mighty Contact DC20, 3D6 con initial and secondary)

More to the point though: Why did you only have 12 con for a fighty class? That's just asking to die horribly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:40:00 No.14751285 Report

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>>14751245
I'd say that death is a very serious risk in 4e, but it's a much more deterministic system. As in, PCs have an extremely low chance of being killed off in an encounter of their party level or lower, but encounters of their level or higher are serious, serious threats to their lifespan.

Compare that to games like 3.5, WHFRP, or even L5R, where it's the opposite: weak encounters can easily end PCs' lives, but PCs stand a better chance at hard encounters because of how swingly the in-game luck can be.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:41:00 No.14751287 Report

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>First time playing a PnP rpg
>D&D 3.5
>Playing a cleric
>Party meets outside a tower to get out of the rain
>Hear kobolds on the other side of the door
>Paladin insists we peacefully ask for shelter
>Knock
>No response
>Open door
>Spear to chest
>Nat 20
>Tank 15 damage
>Have 9 HP
>Spend entire encounter unconscious in the rain

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:41:00 No.14751291 Report

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>>14751263
>More to the point though: Why did you only have 12 con for a fighty class? That's just asking to die horribly.

25 point buy and needing my Strength and Intelligence high.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:44:00 No.14751301 Report

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>Running through heavy rainstorm on grass
>Perception check: Natural 1
>Fortitude save: Fail
>"You run into a caravan you completely failed to notice and get knocked unconscious."
And my character did not wake up for the entire session. MOTHERFUCKING EXCITEMENT.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:46:00 No.14751318 Report

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>capture another party in a campaign where we roll in groups of three
>they bitch that our group has more xp and it isn't remotely fair
>we found them unconscious with one of their member's already dead
>they say we are ruining their chance to have fun at this campaign by killing them and making them reroll
>they are only level 1
>we decide to give them a really obvious in character way of escaping as a mercy, we even tell them out of game
>they use it to kill my character

If we didn't happen to have a potion of revival shit would have gone down.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 16:59:00 No.14751392 Report

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even when your character is around epic levels death is really big and around every corner

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