@@liamzimmer5948Highly toxic moonshine only dwarves can tolerate without immediately becoming ill, had a lessened effect on my human character as he is a werewolf and lycanthropy has an effect on his metabolism and alcohol tolerance. Warlock decided to drink one shot (it's a house special at Lloyd's Tavern called Troll Killer) and he dropped on the floor the moment he set the glass down. I challenged our dwarf paladin to a drinking competition, we consumed three kegs of Troll Killer and kept tieing or nearly tieing on our constitution saving throws. After we had the last of the 3rd shine keg, we both failed the ridiculous DC 30 con save and we simultaneously collapsed. It's a good thing the town cleric is family, or I'm pretty sure our livers would have exploded.
We were Level 4. The party consisted of a barbarian, a cleric, a warlock and my monk. The barbarian had "adopted" a small group of wolf-puppies and somehow the warlock and the barbarian had a major disagreement (I forgot why) which resulted in the Warlock killing a wolf-puppy. The barbarian rage-crit-one-hit-downed the warlock and his demon-lord appeared. Though we got supported by the clerics god intervening, my monk kinda took a level 7 fireball to the face, while already low... Let's just say there was no need to make death-saves anymore.
I had one where I was killed by being shot at point blank by a Pirate Captain, then on the turn where I succeeded my death save I basically stood up just for that same Captain to stab me dead again. I survived the encore, but that was annoying for me.
Well he didn’t die from it but I feel it’s worth mentioning here because of how close a friends character came to dying over the most stupid of reasons. I’m playing a spelljammer session that allows for homebrew species so I play a Thrro Warlock, basically they’re a pretty grumpy teddy bear. This is at the start of the campaign where all the party members are meeting up before they get their first quest. Now one of the party members, a Aarakocra Fighter, was boasting about themselves and was lying about certain details which my character was able to tell were lies thanks to a successful insight roll. I figured it would be an in character thing for my Thrro to pull a prank on him in response by pretending to be his conscious calling him out for lying. Now I have to admit that I am still fairly new to dnd and still am learning the mechanics of the classes. What I had meant to use here was my Awakened Mind ability…. But a mistake was made and instead Dissonant Whispers was cast instead. Now upon realizing this screw up I actually tried to ask the DM if I could take back my action. Buuuuut well here’s where the dumb part comes in. The player of the fighter actually STEPPED in and insisted that I stick with my action. They wanted to look really cool passing the Will save and resist the spell. Me and the DM made very sure they wanted to do this and they said yes. We pretty much shrugged and they rolled the dice. They failed their roll. So I had to roll for damage and I kid you not my rolls were so high that the fighter was left with just TWO HITPOINTS after that attack! The DM described him hearing horrible voices whispering in his head that made his brain go into overdrive trying to comprehend the horrors he was hearing before they faded away. Thankfully since it was at the start we were able to heal the fighter up. But we still laugh at it as hard as we did then as it’s so hilariously stupid to think of how the Aarakocra fighter, that was introduced all cocky like, nearly DIED TO A SMALL PINK TEDDY BEAR RIGHT AT THE START OF THE CAMPAIGN OVER WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PINOCCHIO JOKE
Our team discovered that one of the Royalties benefactors was an ancient Wizard by the name of Al'Zhut. We discovered it's real identity, an Ancient False Hydra and our Barbarian decided to take a swat at the thing; the thing we suddenly forgotten existed before getting steamrolled by area of effect spells no one rolled high enough to deal with. The fact it wasn't at any point hostile with us and our DM asked "are you sure?" Made it all the more worse 😅
chaotic evil paladin party member pushed me, a chaotic good cleric, into a wall playfully. i rolled to turn around mid-push. got a 1. ran directly into a hole full of flesh eating giant mosquitoes.
Wasn't me, but in the first campaign I ever played, a level 1 wizard with 6 hit points fell down 20 feet of stairs. He rolled 6 on the damage and died instantly.
So, we’ve been playing a custom system Pokemon Mystery Dungeon themed TTRPG for about 4 months, playing as Pokemon in a world filled with other Pokemon, and being a part of a (somewhat shady) guild to help other Pokemon. Well, 2 weeks ago, the campaign came to a pretty abrupt end thanks to Team Beef’s (our team) handling one particular rescue in the worst way possible. So, Team Beef’s final mission was a relatively simple one: There’s some Pokemon in a village who have been kidnapped. Find out what’s going on and save the Pokemon. Pretty simple, right? All we needed was to do this one mission to get us out of debt that we got from essentially robbing a client (whole other story). Well, things went south pretty quickly when we got to the village, and found out about some Pokemon that appeared at night, taking Pokemon. So logically, our plan was basically to get captured by them, and figure things out from there. In practice, we were basically following along with some Spinarak who led us into a cave that had some strange mushrooms that were incredibly addictive, but also forced you into a hivemind situation (I’m still not 100% on the details for reasons that we’ll get to). All of us ate the mushrooms, not suspecting anything, and we woke up about a week or 2 later, saved by a separate rescue team. Also along the way, the Smoliv (little olive guy) on the team wanted to sell the mushrooms to make money but don’t worry about that too much. After waking up, starving, and having been pretty badly beaten, our new goal was now to get to the center of the cave, and do typical dungeon crawling stuff, fighting the controlled Pokemon. We all collectively forgot until about halfway through a big battle that “oh wait, we could’ve healed to full by resting a bit before charging right back in”, and everyone fainted, except for our Espurr (Psychic cat), named Tabitha, who up to this point was only about the 3rd most unhinged party member, and about to climb those ranks. Tabitha decided it would be a good idea to put all of the defeated non-party members into the river, drowning all of them (who as a reminder, were all innocent Pokemon), before using a now-dead Heatmor (fire anteater) to burn down the cave. With everyone in it, except for one of our team members who alongside 2 of the other Pokemon were able to survive. In total, for our mission, 2/12 Pokemon were saved, and the almost entire team died in the fire. Tabitha herself shortly joined everyone in death, and we completely destroyed the mission. OOC, after the Espurr started the fire, our DM had no clue what to do, and we were basically in a state where things were unsolvable without a full undo or a TPK. And thus, we all said farewell to these characters, and now The Tragedy of Pecha Village has become the basis for us essentially rebooting the campaign.
I had a character w/o dark vision who liked to throw lit torches down pits to see what was inside them. Often times, the DM would roll something to determine the outcome, usually monsters or nothing. One time, the hole lead into a pocket of natural gases, and... yeah... it only wasn't a TPK because the Rogue saved on Dex and the Tiefling Paladin also managed to save on Dex
My wizard died within 20 minutes of the first game session. The party gets collected at a tavern and off we go to the closest cave. We walked in had a short fight that we won and we were looting the room we were in. The rogue was looking for traps on a chest and I moved away to the corner. The DM tells me to roll a dex save. Nope I roll a 3 and this big block drops from above me to crush my character. I glare at the GM who I had issue with before over me beating him at a MTG tournament. He smiles and says “Your are dead.” The table is silent. The is a grown man about 35 years of age and I about 27 and I have been playing since I was 15 but this was the first game I had played with him since a long time friend of mine asked me to join the table in a new campaign. I told him with impolite language that it was a RICARD move on his part to just have corner of the room to have a trap that could kill a first level character off because of a block dropping on them. I asked to see his notes on the room and where he had put the trap in that exact corner. He said the game was still going on and he would provide the notes after the gaming session. I looked at my friend and then to the players. Everyone was silent. I picked up my papers and books and several other players and my friend started the same. The GM went into panic mode at that time and decided to recon the block falling. Several other players spoke up at this point saying it was Richard move and I asked him to go outside and wait until we could vote on the matter. We took a vote and I argued for keeping the GM in the group when others just wanted to start over with one of the other people creating a new game. We called the GM back in and everyone was sitting with their papers and books out. The GM was was better but was always a Richard to me.
Playing Call of Cththullu and the group was kidnapped while working at Area 51. Party gets gassed and knocked unconscious. When the party comes to, we are led through a series of rooms in what appears to be an insane asylum. When we each shown to a different room, we eventually find each other and sneak up on a nurse to press her for information. The nurse informs the party that she is one of the few humans here. The rest of the "people" are actually alien bugs, and they are looking to harvest every human here. The guards catch us while pressing the nurse for information. At night, we try to sneak out when a nurse sees us. One of the players stupidly ask, "So I hear you're a bug?" This nurse, being a bug, screeches and alerts everyone else. We run into a portal room, only to have bugs defeat us easily, harvest and preserve our brains, and force us to relive this over and over again until we give up all information on Area 51.
Well here's three I've experienced. 1: Tabaxi Rouge sneaks through a wizard tower. Steps on a magic carpet that suddenly flies up and flips the cat man down a magically endless staircase, his broken body is still stumbling through the dimensional loop dimension to this day. 2: Dwarf Barbarian tries out the cookies he just bought from the nice cookie gnomes. Forgot to ask what cookies it was and died due to an allergic reaction to sweet delicious chocolate chip almond cookies. He was allergic to chocolate, not almonds. 3: Kobold Fighter tries to push open a door in a dungeon. Crit on the roll. Roleplay my metal little dragon boy jump kicks the door down. DM describes how I kick down the door perfectly and fly into the open caping chasm on the other side. There was less than 5 ft of a ledge behind the door and by my description, I flew 10 ft past the door. I plummeted 200+ feet into the Underdark and the DM rolled a 1d100 on what I hit on the way down. He had a laugh as he described my kobold metal bucket hitting the left head of a rampaging demigorgon in the underdark and ending up with a smear on his forehead. The one positive my character did was give the demon lord of the abyss's left head one hell of a headache.
I once put together a halfling paladin. I have a tendency to roll low in whatever game I get in, and this situation was no different: I'd asked for a little task from the local temple in the first session. I had to put down some sentient shrubs dancing out of control (like the brooms from The Sorcerer's Apprentice). I was dying to these shrubs, and when I killed the last one, the DM's roll revealed a badger, which brought me to 1 health. I was saved by another member of the party, but the DM was horrified at my abnormally low dice rolls.
This is one of the many channels that has me wanting to play dnd, and my friend is about to introduce me into his campaign, so I’ll have my first game session here in the next couple of weeks
Not me but a buddy of mine in the ancient times of 2nd edition. He was a human fighter that had just found a nice heavy lance in the loot of our latest victory, so he decided he wanted to use it, though he hadn't taken any proficiencies in lances yet, he figured he would do so while practising with it. The next combat he took the lance, lept onto his horse and charged at the enemy. Rolled a nat 1 to attack. Ok the tip of the lance stuck into the ground, make a dex save to let go... nope. The lance jammed into the ground causing the fighter to catapult over the horse, fly 50 ft downrange and smash into a tree. The resultant damage was enough to kill him.
My DM had a magic scale that weighed your soul, my dude hand sold that shit for a garbage sword in his backstory. He ran and cannonballed onto that thing and immediately got dusted
I was at a con in the late 70s playing AD&D for the first time. L1 party encounters a red dragon in the first room. Breath weapon. Three of us were toast(ed).
The Arson Hobos thief died once by standing up to an ancient and powerful wizard that no one wanted to get in the way of. So she did, telling him no, he couldn't have what he wanted. He blasted her without a thought and had it his way over her dead body. When she was brought back, she was informed that was about as stupid as it got. However, it also made her famous for being the only person to have the guts to stand up for what was right. And she's not even that kind of thief. The Hobos Atlantean fighter has died twice. But neither was her own fault. She got blown up by an invisible chimpanzee and later murdered by a great big giant meanie head quest giver, just to prove he lacked compunction. She did get better both times but has started to say, "Why is it always me who gets killed?" To her credit, the thief has taken to saying, "Don't tell my partner I almost died again." She's at one death and three near deaths at this point, and again, she's not that kind of thief.
Level 1 monk, critically failed a dex check with a nat 1. While trying th jump from one second floor wondow to another second floor window. Dm gave me a good death the short version is my foot caught the window edge I fell 20 or so feet landed prone taking all but lethal damage and then had my throat stepped on by a horse running by ( the fall was 100% lethal but this made the story better )
Warlock decided to go in an area that was a tight fit for a human such as himself to chase down the halfling BBEG. So on his hands and knees he goes in to cast Arms of Hadar with the plan of nuke-and-run. Of course it fails to land properly and now he is stuck and going to die. I crawl in on my human paladin to rescue him, which I do but now I am considered prone. They land a few lucky crits and I am dead because of an impulsive warlock with half baked ideas.
I remember when I was playing a human brawler in pathfinder. I told my dm that I wouldn’t b sad if I died because I had some cool back ups and stuff. Note I didn’t say kill me now I simply said I would be miffed. So the very next session we go to a dimension inspired by old movies and we find the peaches from the labyrinth movie. An npc gave me the peach, said they were safe, I failed sense motive, and I died via peach
mindless bard and paladin pranking the unfortunate rogue. after checking and disarming every chest in a room full of mimics and actual treasure chest, they thought it was funny to just push him towards the last one remaining. it was the boss mimic who got agitated and seemingly very motivated to kill the rogue on the spot. an overall loss though, they had to scramble the resources for a resurrection and a talented surgeon.
I force fed a moon elf lamb chops. they ended up kidnapping me and putting me in a basement with some invisible creature. I didn't die but still felt appropriate to share
My 8 lvl ranger got down in a melee combat, typical situation, he's quite squishy Point is, i got resurrected, and before i could get up and heal myself or somehow else secure myself, my fire genasi companion burned my ass on a nat 1 roll, and then right after i threw 1 on a death roll
Had my level 3 wizard die instantly during an interrogation. We weren’t the ones getting interrogated. (It’s was campaign setting where characters could summon and unsummon magic items at will, and the particular individual we were interrogating had a weapon that roles an extra die every time the same number is rolled in a row. They had disadvantage on the attack but rolled a Double Nat 20, Then another through silvery barbs then rolled a 4, a 4, 4 again, another 4 and… yeah that was the end of my wizard.)
Thrown through a wall of ice because the barbarian thought there’d be loot behind the wall and decided to use me and throw me through the wall. Nat20, I bust through the wall and collide with an aboleth, both of us take damage, and then fail two saving rolls and drown. Homie playing the barbarian just stands up, says sorry, and goes to another room where he loses it laughing.
We were fighting horde of goblins because we wanted theyr castle to rent it to rich idiots to make some fat god purses. We got surrounded, our warlock was sniping them from the back and my paladin who broke his oath to protect his friends grapped our rogue and threw him closer to warlock and shouted "You, run and live, I hold them back" Only problem was that our rogue had couple of beers and was not paying attention. He just used his action to run back to my paladin and both of us died. We banned drinking in the game after that
I was laughing at one of my teammates who decided not to look away from a nuclear Blast which made them blind And I was standing right next to a cliffs edge And I slipped cause I was laughing so hard and feel to my death
Had a dm have an open hand monk, rogue thing with a +19 and mods etc etc hit me with a quivering strike as I was giving a speach after holding the castle walls...... I failed their save against it and died mid speach after a 3 session fight
TL;DR First character ever was Chaotic Stupid, experiences Gravity. NOTHING will beat my first character's death for me 😂 Half Orc Druid, level 3. Chaotic Good, but as it was my first game...well, that's why I'm here. Main weapon was a set of Spears passed down in his family. Well, at one point the party was fighting near some sort of precipice, I think it was the edge of a cliff or ravine. At some point, I end up making a ranged attack...Nat 1, the spear goes flying off the cliff. Enraged, I attempt to throw the second spear, and...NAT 1 AGAIN! Well, my character had a deep emotional attachment to the pair, as he received one spear from his mother during his coming-of-age, and the other one from his tribe, who gave it to him when his father died on a hunt. End up failing an insight check to assess the situation... So, I jump after them. Off the cliff. I use Wild Shape to try and get out of dying, but I hadn't leveled up enough for any flying creatures yet. So my best chance was to Wild Shape into to try and tank as much damage as possible....but even then. I end up at the bottom of a ravine, taking enough damage to force a transformation back to normal and instantly dying. I learned a lot of things that day... Rolled up a new character, who I still play to this day. He remembers his stupid cousin and how he died over a couple spears.
So my character was drunk at the time because of a manticore bite (don't ask the dm had a wild imagination) and another player, a goose named Mike, who hits you with a mace if you say cheese. Me, being drunk said cheese. However, Mike had an elders blessing so he was basically a god. I got killed instantly.
During just a simple campaign that lasted a week I got killed by lava by not making a jump then when I got back up I got a boulder thrown at me and got killed again not a fun time.
While running Storm King's Thunder our party of heroes found themselves stuck in Bryn Shander (a human/dwarf city in the midst of a snowy wasteland) The city was under threat of bombardment from frost giants who were after the Ring of Winter (very powerful enchanted item) Our heroes rode out to meet with their leader under a banner of truce to discuss a cease fire, deciding that negotiations weren't going anywhere fast enough, our Ranger decided to loose an arrow at the leading frost giant's face and the party flees under magic darkness. Later, as the attack commences they decided this isn't what they wanted and tried again. The Ranger insisted on being present for the negotiations despite warning from NPCs and Party that's it'd be a bad idea. A three days peace was eventually brokered under the condition that the Ranger be taken into slavery. Party leader Rogue agreed. Later at the Frost Giant capital of Svardborg, the now slave Ranger sneaks into the Jarl's Longhouse, and thanks to a nat 1, falls from the attic into the Jarl's throne room. As the guard holds him in a clenched fist demanding what a slave thinks he's doing sneaking around, the Ranger pulls out a shortsword and stabs the hand he's in... And makes no attempt to break free... He just waits. The Jarls honour guard then throws him from the window of the throne room, over the frozen cliff, plummeting into the frozen over lagoon below and through the ice. First ever death I've had as a DM, and I don't know what the play he was going for was...
I got ate by the King of Feathers. And also dropped by a Ptersaurman. And then the party ganked my character after I left. To be fair, I had all of them coming for being an incompetent jackass back then
I (the rogue) sassily mouthed off to the evil wizard, who was being powered by the phylactery of an arch lich. This obviously made the wizard really mad and I got power word killed immediately. The party managed to kill the wizard in some massive stroke of luck and I got revified afterwards. My rogue learned a valuable lesson that day 🙂↕️🙂↕️
Big enemy attacked me cause I was the healer. I tank 2 hits but the 3rd knocks me. Npc runs over and gets me back up at 4 hp. The artificer then casts Tasha's caustic brew at the big guy. Tashas caustic brew is a line attack.. so it hits me and the 2 npcs next to me. I'm down. 2nd Npc gets me up. Massive AOE hit from the big guy. The 2 npcs are down and I have 3 hp. But, I am a grave domain cleric. I can max my healing on downed creatures. I can heal them up to..... the druid casts Ice knife. The AOE explosion of the knife does 4 damage. I go down. TLDR my party decided to AOR attack the boss monster standing on their healer
Happened to a player of mine: Wizard decides to climb 100ft sheer cliff. Areyousure.wav? Yes because he will tie himself to the elf ranger. Neither of them have any athletics to speak of. First try the wizard fails, drops from above and smashes into the cliff. The ranger holds steady despite disadvantage. Wizard is at half health but insists. They fail again, this time close to the top and they both fall 90ft with the ranger having a cushy landing atop the wizard. Wizard was the only person proficient with medicine. Ranger walked away from all of this stupidity
the DM made "the mistake" of introducing a Pseudo dragon (those cute little mischievous buggers) on session 1. Had to throw the backstory and character i'd designed out the window and pivot to a character that'd have the traits and personality that'd attract the cute little thing.. in like ten seconds. X.X very unrealistic (strike one) I've been hit by a car and less thoughts and panic went through my head then compared to being told there's a Pseudo dragon in front of me. Like, i imagined those cute little champs would take me months if not years of sessions to even meet one. Nah here it is on session 1. So guess who broke his own rule of no Metagaming? Guess who failed miserably on every roll AND the DM caught on to my intent AND my metagaming so i got punished with lost hitpoints and 'suggestions' by the DM to cut it out. BUT YEARS OF WAITING soooooo i kept trying. Till one of my 'amusing' antics caused me to euh... i broke my own neck. fell off a table, slipped on some of my own caltrops (?) and broke my neck. 20-25 minutes into session 1.
Our boat crashed into a beach I rolled a nat 1 on my strength save and then flew into a tree and die to a coconut. I begin death saves and the final tally ends up being half and half with my final roll being a nat 1, my dm gives me advance and I roll another nat 1... My character died session 1, to a coconut. (I was brought back shortly after but still)
After resetting some stupid trap. "Okay, I walk up the staircase to the exit." DM- "You walk?" Me- "No, wait, I run!" DM- "Too late, you said walk!" (Rips up character sheet) $%^@! jerk.
Not me.... but a friend.... Missed a point blank headshot that ricocheted into his literal Brass (dragonborn) testicles causing him to yell like a girl than bleed out after swearing (in charachter) thar such an incident would never happen again. He got a Nat 1 to hit ans Nat 20 for damage.
Fight Club reference, can't be wrong. Now some notes about lactose intolerance - because I am among those who can not *sniff* enjoy dairy. Butter has no dairy, it is now a fat so there is no danger for those with lactose intolerance - enjoy. Some cheeses are made from non-cow milk sources - so check on that. But certain cheeses - in the making of - particularly hard and aged (really aged) cheddars - are safe to consume. Just so you know.
@@SoulcatcherLucario Most places that put a label on their cheese that is lactose free - and charge extra - do so without revealing it's always been lactose free.
@@vortega472...yes, which is why i said babybel is *naturally* lactose free, and is also not something advertised on the american label. i genuinely didn't know it was lactose free until just learning how it was made during a random wikipedia rabbit hole dive one night
Oh I got one. So I was kind of new to table top games,and we were at the time doing a post apocalyptic setting. Think of fallout. So the party was sent by a Friend of my pc named 6 to hover damn,and stupidity I jumped off of hover damn. Surprisingly I survived and then Diad by another pc who shot me in the head. Lesson don’t apply video game rules to Tabletop games
So our table did tomb of horrors mofief original version we adapted to 5e. It was my turn to dm this;. I opted not to reas ahead because i was also playing. This was a dream sequence and I was the first one out flipping a switch a statue fell on me and those pack of animals known as my dnd group though it was funny to have the statue have gigantic boobs. So in reality i got death by giant badonkadonks. I made them all pay as the tomb picked them off one by one.
This probably doesn't count, since it was (improvised) backstory, but trying to light a sword on fire while the character and the rest of the entire room was drenched in booze.
@@tuojiangoman3228 I've literally never seen Zoolander. It was actually panicked improvisation. The character was originally supposed to be based on Aaron Burr (as depicted in Hamilton) and I had read somewhere that he once wrote in a journal that he tried to light a gun on fire, so I used that as inspiration. Unfortunately, the sword itself wouldn't be enough to kill the character, (the recurring campaign starts with saying how your character died, which is something nobody told me, a first time player) so I had to use booze to make the fire deadly, and when I did that, it forced me to change the character's demeanor, because it wouldn't make sense. My inability to improvise turned a character concept from Aaron Burr to Alexander Hamilton.
My dumbest character death is also why I dislike paladins. Paladin of the party found out my character was evil by suddenly popping a detect good and evil while it was just the party at xamp and finds out my weretiger necromancer is evil. The book defined weretigers as always evil at the time. My character's backstory was antipaladin after one ripped the child from her womb. The paladin player had been stealing look a player's secrets when the DM went to the bathroom or while we were on break and decided to murk my character in her sleep. The DM was new and hated conflict so she allowed it to happen. I made it my life's mission to make sure this guy never liked playong at our tanle ever again.
I mean the player had fun but the DM was kinda a bad one. If you think a character wants dead ASK them dont take "i want to make a new character" with out them say when or how. Some people just want to retire adventures and not you know kill them off every time
Drinking competition, with a dwarf, enough said
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@@liamzimmer5948Highly toxic moonshine only dwarves can tolerate without immediately becoming ill, had a lessened effect on my human character as he is a werewolf and lycanthropy has an effect on his metabolism and alcohol tolerance. Warlock decided to drink one shot (it's a house special at Lloyd's Tavern called Troll Killer) and he dropped on the floor the moment he set the glass down. I challenged our dwarf paladin to a drinking competition, we consumed three kegs of Troll Killer and kept tieing or nearly tieing on our constitution saving throws. After we had the last of the 3rd shine keg, we both failed the ridiculous DC 30 con save and we simultaneously collapsed. It's a good thing the town cleric is family, or I'm pretty sure our livers would have exploded.
We were Level 4. The party consisted of a barbarian, a cleric, a warlock and my monk. The barbarian had "adopted" a small group of wolf-puppies and somehow the warlock and the barbarian had a major disagreement (I forgot why) which resulted in the Warlock killing a wolf-puppy. The barbarian rage-crit-one-hit-downed the warlock and his demon-lord appeared. Though we got supported by the clerics god intervening, my monk kinda took a level 7 fireball to the face, while already low... Let's just say there was no need to make death-saves anymore.
Beaten to death by a drunk Paladin holding a Garden Gnome
lol what
I had one where I was killed by being shot at point blank by a Pirate Captain, then on the turn where I succeeded my death save I basically stood up just for that same Captain to stab me dead again. I survived the encore, but that was annoying for me.
That's what you get for pissing off Sheogorath!😂😂😂
They did all go a little mad
@@d1nodray I'm doing the fishstick,it's a very delicate procedure!😊😊😊
Well he didn’t die from it but I feel it’s worth mentioning here because of how close a friends character came to dying over the most stupid of reasons.
I’m playing a spelljammer session that allows for homebrew species so I play a Thrro Warlock, basically they’re a pretty grumpy teddy bear.
This is at the start of the campaign where all the party members are meeting up before they get their first quest. Now one of the party members, a Aarakocra Fighter, was boasting about themselves and was lying about certain details which my character was able to tell were lies thanks to a successful insight roll.
I figured it would be an in character thing for my Thrro to pull a prank on him in response by pretending to be his conscious calling him out for lying.
Now I have to admit that I am still fairly new to dnd and still am learning the mechanics of the classes. What I had meant to use here was my Awakened Mind ability…. But a mistake was made and instead Dissonant Whispers was cast instead.
Now upon realizing this screw up I actually tried to ask the DM if I could take back my action. Buuuuut well here’s where the dumb part comes in. The player of the fighter actually STEPPED in and insisted that I stick with my action. They wanted to look really cool passing the Will save and resist the spell. Me and the DM made very sure they wanted to do this and they said yes. We pretty much shrugged and they rolled the dice.
They failed their roll.
So I had to roll for damage and I kid you not my rolls were so high that the fighter was left with just TWO HITPOINTS after that attack!
The DM described him hearing horrible voices whispering in his head that made his brain go into overdrive trying to comprehend the horrors he was hearing before they faded away.
Thankfully since it was at the start we were able to heal the fighter up. But we still laugh at it as hard as we did then as it’s so hilariously stupid to think of how the Aarakocra fighter, that was introduced all cocky like, nearly DIED TO A SMALL PINK TEDDY BEAR RIGHT AT THE START OF THE CAMPAIGN OVER WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PINOCCHIO JOKE
That first story, according to the internet, is the most roguiest thing a rogue could rogue.
Uncanny dodge could maybe save someone from the blast but... not the fall-damage?
Also the gurgle at the end of that last cheese-story was AMAZING
Our team discovered that one of the Royalties benefactors was an ancient Wizard by the name of Al'Zhut. We discovered it's real identity, an Ancient False Hydra and our Barbarian decided to take a swat at the thing; the thing we suddenly forgotten existed before getting steamrolled by area of effect spells no one rolled high enough to deal with. The fact it wasn't at any point hostile with us and our DM asked "are you sure?" Made it all the more worse 😅
chaotic evil paladin party member pushed me, a chaotic good cleric, into a wall playfully. i rolled to turn around mid-push. got a 1. ran directly into a hole full of flesh eating giant mosquitoes.
...I'm noticing a theme of rogues and rangers having very intriguing death causes. 😂
Wasn't me, but in the first campaign I ever played, a level 1 wizard with 6 hit points fell down 20 feet of stairs. He rolled 6 on the damage and died instantly.
So, we’ve been playing a custom system Pokemon Mystery Dungeon themed TTRPG for about 4 months, playing as Pokemon in a world filled with other Pokemon, and being a part of a (somewhat shady) guild to help other Pokemon. Well, 2 weeks ago, the campaign came to a pretty abrupt end thanks to Team Beef’s (our team) handling one particular rescue in the worst way possible.
So, Team Beef’s final mission was a relatively simple one: There’s some Pokemon in a village who have been kidnapped. Find out what’s going on and save the Pokemon. Pretty simple, right? All we needed was to do this one mission to get us out of debt that we got from essentially robbing a client (whole other story).
Well, things went south pretty quickly when we got to the village, and found out about some Pokemon that appeared at night, taking Pokemon. So logically, our plan was basically to get captured by them, and figure things out from there. In practice, we were basically following along with some Spinarak who led us into a cave that had some strange mushrooms that were incredibly addictive, but also forced you into a hivemind situation (I’m still not 100% on the details for reasons that we’ll get to). All of us ate the mushrooms, not suspecting anything, and we woke up about a week or 2 later, saved by a separate rescue team. Also along the way, the Smoliv (little olive guy) on the team wanted to sell the mushrooms to make money but don’t worry about that too much.
After waking up, starving, and having been pretty badly beaten, our new goal was now to get to the center of the cave, and do typical dungeon crawling stuff, fighting the controlled Pokemon. We all collectively forgot until about halfway through a big battle that “oh wait, we could’ve healed to full by resting a bit before charging right back in”, and everyone fainted, except for our Espurr (Psychic cat), named Tabitha, who up to this point was only about the 3rd most unhinged party member, and about to climb those ranks.
Tabitha decided it would be a good idea to put all of the defeated non-party members into the river, drowning all of them (who as a reminder, were all innocent Pokemon), before using a now-dead Heatmor (fire anteater) to burn down the cave. With everyone in it, except for one of our team members who alongside 2 of the other Pokemon were able to survive.
In total, for our mission, 2/12 Pokemon were saved, and the almost entire team died in the fire. Tabitha herself shortly joined everyone in death, and we completely destroyed the mission.
OOC, after the Espurr started the fire, our DM had no clue what to do, and we were basically in a state where things were unsolvable without a full undo or a TPK. And thus, we all said farewell to these characters, and now The Tragedy of Pecha Village has become the basis for us essentially rebooting the campaign.
Here at Mr. Ripper the cheese is to die for
Literally tripped & died trying to punt a goblin off a cliff.
Getting headshoted by my own attack when playing in Starfinder, what thee actually hell! And it wasn’t even in a hard fight!
I had a character w/o dark vision who liked to throw lit torches down pits to see what was inside them. Often times, the DM would roll something to determine the outcome, usually monsters or nothing. One time, the hole lead into a pocket of natural gases, and... yeah... it only wasn't a TPK because the Rogue saved on Dex and the Tiefling Paladin also managed to save on Dex
Oh, I just rush at the frontline in every combat encounter, and is the one who initiate most of them, while being a rogue.
My wizard died within 20 minutes of the first game session. The party gets collected at a tavern and off we go to the closest cave. We walked in had a short fight that we won and we were looting the room we were in. The rogue was looking for traps on a chest and I moved away to the corner. The DM tells me to roll a dex save. Nope I roll a 3 and this big block drops from above me to crush my character. I glare at the GM who I had issue with before over me beating him at a MTG tournament. He smiles and says “Your are dead.” The table is silent. The is a grown man about 35 years of age and I about 27 and I have been playing since I was 15 but this was the first game I had played with him since a long time friend of mine asked me to join the table in a new campaign. I told him with impolite language that it was a RICARD move on his part to just have corner of the room to have a trap that could kill a first level character off because of a block dropping on them. I asked to see his notes on the room and where he had put the trap in that exact corner. He said the game was still going on and he would provide the notes after the gaming session. I looked at my friend and then to the players. Everyone was silent. I picked up my papers and books and several other players and my friend started the same. The GM went into panic mode at that time and decided to recon the block falling. Several other players spoke up at this point saying it was Richard move and I asked him to go outside and wait until we could vote on the matter. We took a vote and I argued for keeping the GM in the group when others just wanted to start over with one of the other people creating a new game. We called the GM back in and everyone was sitting with their papers and books out. The GM was was better but was always a Richard to me.
Playing Call of Cththullu and the group was kidnapped while working at Area 51. Party gets gassed and knocked unconscious.
When the party comes to, we are led through a series of rooms in what appears to be an insane asylum. When we each shown to a different room, we eventually find each other and sneak up on a nurse to press her for information. The nurse informs the party that she is one of the few humans here. The rest of the "people" are actually alien bugs, and they are looking to harvest every human here.
The guards catch us while pressing the nurse for information. At night, we try to sneak out when a nurse sees us. One of the players stupidly ask, "So I hear you're a bug?" This nurse, being a bug, screeches and alerts everyone else. We run into a portal room, only to have bugs defeat us easily, harvest and preserve our brains, and force us to relive this over and over again until we give up all information on Area 51.
Well here's three I've experienced.
1: Tabaxi Rouge sneaks through a wizard tower. Steps on a magic carpet that suddenly flies up and flips the cat man down a magically endless staircase, his broken body is still stumbling through the dimensional loop dimension to this day.
2: Dwarf Barbarian tries out the cookies he just bought from the nice cookie gnomes. Forgot to ask what cookies it was and died due to an allergic reaction to sweet delicious chocolate chip almond cookies. He was allergic to chocolate, not almonds.
3: Kobold Fighter tries to push open a door in a dungeon. Crit on the roll. Roleplay my metal little dragon boy jump kicks the door down. DM describes how I kick down the door perfectly and fly into the open caping chasm on the other side. There was less than 5 ft of a ledge behind the door and by my description, I flew 10 ft past the door. I plummeted 200+ feet into the Underdark and the DM rolled a 1d100 on what I hit on the way down. He had a laugh as he described my kobold metal bucket hitting the left head of a rampaging demigorgon in the underdark and ending up with a smear on his forehead. The one positive my character did was give the demon lord of the abyss's left head one hell of a headache.
I genuinely expected the first story to end with the rogue falling from the tower stupidly and dying.
I once put together a halfling paladin. I have a tendency to roll low in whatever game I get in, and this situation was no different: I'd asked for a little task from the local temple in the first session. I had to put down some sentient shrubs dancing out of control (like the brooms from The Sorcerer's Apprentice). I was dying to these shrubs, and when I killed the last one, the DM's roll revealed a badger, which brought me to 1 health. I was saved by another member of the party, but the DM was horrified at my abnormally low dice rolls.
This is one of the many channels that has me wanting to play dnd, and my friend is about to introduce me into his campaign, so I’ll have my first game session here in the next couple of weeks
a trap pretrofied me, and when my party tried to lasso me and pull me back my body shattered.
Not me but a buddy of mine in the ancient times of 2nd edition. He was a human fighter that had just found a nice heavy lance in the loot of our latest victory, so he decided he wanted to use it, though he hadn't taken any proficiencies in lances yet, he figured he would do so while practising with it. The next combat he took the lance, lept onto his horse and charged at the enemy. Rolled a nat 1 to attack. Ok the tip of the lance stuck into the ground, make a dex save to let go... nope. The lance jammed into the ground causing the fighter to catapult over the horse, fly 50 ft downrange and smash into a tree. The resultant damage was enough to kill him.
My DM had a magic scale that weighed your soul, my dude hand sold that shit for a garbage sword in his backstory. He ran and cannonballed onto that thing and immediately got dusted
I was at a con in the late 70s playing AD&D for the first time. L1 party encounters a red dragon in the first room. Breath weapon. Three of us were toast(ed).
Objective: survive
5:28 ok, that's just a dick move from the DM.
The Arson Hobos thief died once by standing up to an ancient and powerful wizard that no one wanted to get in the way of. So she did, telling him no, he couldn't have what he wanted. He blasted her without a thought and had it his way over her dead body. When she was brought back, she was informed that was about as stupid as it got. However, it also made her famous for being the only person to have the guts to stand up for what was right. And she's not even that kind of thief.
The Hobos Atlantean fighter has died twice. But neither was her own fault. She got blown up by an invisible chimpanzee and later murdered by a great big giant meanie head quest giver, just to prove he lacked compunction. She did get better both times but has started to say, "Why is it always me who gets killed?"
To her credit, the thief has taken to saying, "Don't tell my partner I almost died again." She's at one death and three near deaths at this point, and again, she's not that kind of thief.
Level 1 monk, critically failed a dex check with a nat 1. While trying th jump from one second floor wondow to another second floor window. Dm gave me a good death the short version is my foot caught the window edge I fell 20 or so feet landed prone taking all but lethal damage and then had my throat stepped on by a horse running by ( the fall was 100% lethal but this made the story better )
Picked up a cursed flute, failed con sav, got disintergrated and turned into a skeleton😅
Warlock decided to go in an area that was a tight fit for a human such as himself to chase down the halfling BBEG. So on his hands and knees he goes in to cast Arms of Hadar with the plan of nuke-and-run. Of course it fails to land properly and now he is stuck and going to die. I crawl in on my human paladin to rescue him, which I do but now I am considered prone. They land a few lucky crits and I am dead because of an impulsive warlock with half baked ideas.
I remember when I was playing a human brawler in pathfinder. I told my dm that I wouldn’t b sad if I died because I had some cool back ups and stuff. Note I didn’t say kill me now I simply said I would be miffed. So the very next session we go to a dimension inspired by old movies and we find the peaches from the labyrinth movie. An npc gave me the peach, said they were safe, I failed sense motive, and I died via peach
mindless bard and paladin pranking the unfortunate rogue. after checking and disarming every chest in a room full of mimics and actual treasure chest, they thought it was funny to just push him towards the last one remaining. it was the boss mimic who got agitated and seemingly very motivated to kill the rogue on the spot.
an overall loss though, they had to scramble the resources for a resurrection and a talented surgeon.
I played a stare contest with a medusa and roll a 1 on save
Any level 0 Dungeon Crawl Classic characters deaths are always fun and dumb XD
I force fed a moon elf lamb chops. they ended up kidnapping me and putting me in a basement with some invisible creature. I didn't die but still felt appropriate to share
My 8 lvl ranger got down in a melee combat, typical situation, he's quite squishy
Point is, i got resurrected, and before i could get up and heal myself or somehow else secure myself, my fire genasi companion burned my ass on a nat 1 roll, and then right after i threw 1 on a death roll
Had my level 3 wizard die instantly during an interrogation. We weren’t the ones getting interrogated.
(It’s was campaign setting where characters could summon and unsummon magic items at will, and the particular individual we were interrogating had a weapon that roles an extra die every time the same number is rolled in a row. They had disadvantage on the attack but rolled a Double Nat 20, Then another through silvery barbs then rolled a 4, a 4, 4 again, another 4 and… yeah that was the end of my wizard.)
the last one sounds like sheogorath
Thrown through a wall of ice because the barbarian thought there’d be loot behind the wall and decided to use me and throw me through the wall. Nat20, I bust through the wall and collide with an aboleth, both of us take damage, and then fail two saving rolls and drown. Homie playing the barbarian just stands up, says sorry, and goes to another room where he loses it laughing.
We were fighting horde of goblins because we wanted theyr castle to rent it to rich idiots to make some fat god purses. We got surrounded, our warlock was sniping them from the back and my paladin who broke his oath to protect his friends grapped our rogue and threw him closer to warlock and shouted "You, run and live, I hold them back"
Only problem was that our rogue had couple of beers and was not paying attention. He just used his action to run back to my paladin and both of us died.
We banned drinking in the game after that
I was laughing at one of my teammates who decided not to look away from a nuclear Blast which made them blind
And I was standing right next to a cliffs edge
And I slipped cause I was laughing so hard and feel to my death
My friend in a campaign lost a life to a stardew Valley Slime after I failed to befriend it. We had multiple lives so she came back but still.
Had a dm have an open hand monk, rogue thing with a +19 and mods etc etc hit me with a quivering strike as I was giving a speach after holding the castle walls...... I failed their save against it and died mid speach after a 3 session fight
TL;DR First character ever was Chaotic Stupid, experiences Gravity.
NOTHING will beat my first character's death for me 😂
Half Orc Druid, level 3. Chaotic Good, but as it was my first game...well, that's why I'm here.
Main weapon was a set of Spears passed down in his family.
Well, at one point the party was fighting near some sort of precipice, I think it was the edge of a cliff or ravine. At some point, I end up making a ranged attack...Nat 1, the spear goes flying off the cliff. Enraged, I attempt to throw the second spear, and...NAT 1 AGAIN!
Well, my character had a deep emotional attachment to the pair, as he received one spear from his mother during his coming-of-age, and the other one from his tribe, who gave it to him when his father died on a hunt. End up failing an insight check to assess the situation...
So, I jump after them. Off the cliff. I use Wild Shape to try and get out of dying, but I hadn't leveled up enough for any flying creatures yet. So my best chance was to Wild Shape into to try and tank as much damage as possible....but even then.
I end up at the bottom of a ravine, taking enough damage to force a transformation back to normal and instantly dying.
I learned a lot of things that day...
Rolled up a new character, who I still play to this day. He remembers his stupid cousin and how he died over a couple spears.
So my character was drunk at the time because of a manticore bite (don't ask the dm had a wild imagination) and another player, a goose named Mike, who hits you with a mace if you say cheese. Me, being drunk said cheese. However, Mike had an elders blessing so he was basically a god. I got killed instantly.
During just a simple campaign that lasted a week I got killed by lava by not making a jump then when I got back up I got a boulder thrown at me and got killed again not a fun time.
While running Storm King's Thunder our party of heroes found themselves stuck in Bryn Shander (a human/dwarf city in the midst of a snowy wasteland) The city was under threat of bombardment from frost giants who were after the Ring of Winter (very powerful enchanted item) Our heroes rode out to meet with their leader under a banner of truce to discuss a cease fire, deciding that negotiations weren't going anywhere fast enough, our Ranger decided to loose an arrow at the leading frost giant's face and the party flees under magic darkness. Later, as the attack commences they decided this isn't what they wanted and tried again. The Ranger insisted on being present for the negotiations despite warning from NPCs and Party that's it'd be a bad idea. A three days peace was eventually brokered under the condition that the Ranger be taken into slavery. Party leader Rogue agreed. Later at the Frost Giant capital of Svardborg, the now slave Ranger sneaks into the Jarl's Longhouse, and thanks to a nat 1, falls from the attic into the Jarl's throne room. As the guard holds him in a clenched fist demanding what a slave thinks he's doing sneaking around, the Ranger pulls out a shortsword and stabs the hand he's in... And makes no attempt to break free... He just waits. The Jarls honour guard then throws him from the window of the throne room, over the frozen cliff, plummeting into the frozen over lagoon below and through the ice. First ever death I've had as a DM, and I don't know what the play he was going for was...
I got ate by the King of Feathers.
And also dropped by a Ptersaurman.
And then the party ganked my character after I left.
To be fair, I had all of them coming for being an incompetent jackass back then
I (the rogue) sassily mouthed off to the evil wizard, who was being powered by the phylactery of an arch lich.
This obviously made the wizard really mad and I got power word killed immediately. The party managed to kill the wizard in some massive stroke of luck and I got revified afterwards. My rogue learned a valuable lesson that day 🙂↕️🙂↕️
Big enemy attacked me cause I was the healer. I tank 2 hits but the 3rd knocks me. Npc runs over and gets me back up at 4 hp. The artificer then casts Tasha's caustic brew at the big guy. Tashas caustic brew is a line attack.. so it hits me and the 2 npcs next to me. I'm down. 2nd Npc gets me up. Massive AOE hit from the big guy. The 2 npcs are down and I have 3 hp. But, I am a grave domain cleric. I can max my healing on downed creatures. I can heal them up to..... the druid casts Ice knife. The AOE explosion of the knife does 4 damage. I go down.
TLDR my party decided to AOR attack the boss monster standing on their healer
Happened to a player of mine: Wizard decides to climb 100ft sheer cliff. Areyousure.wav? Yes because he will tie himself to the elf ranger. Neither of them have any athletics to speak of. First try the wizard fails, drops from above and smashes into the cliff. The ranger holds steady despite disadvantage. Wizard is at half health but insists. They fail again, this time close to the top and they both fall 90ft with the ranger having a cushy landing atop the wizard. Wizard was the only person proficient with medicine. Ranger walked away from all of this stupidity
the DM made "the mistake" of introducing a Pseudo dragon (those cute little mischievous buggers) on session 1.
Had to throw the backstory and character i'd designed out the window and pivot to a character that'd have the traits and personality that'd attract the cute little thing..
in like ten seconds. X.X very unrealistic (strike one)
I've been hit by a car and less thoughts and panic went through my head then compared to being told there's a Pseudo dragon in front of me.
Like, i imagined those cute little champs would take me months if not years of sessions to even meet one.
Nah here it is on session 1.
So guess who broke his own rule of no Metagaming?
Guess who failed miserably on every roll AND the DM caught on to my intent AND my metagaming
so i got punished with lost hitpoints and 'suggestions' by the DM to cut it out.
BUT YEARS OF WAITING soooooo i kept trying.
Till one of my 'amusing' antics caused me to euh... i broke my own neck.
fell off a table, slipped on some of my own caltrops (?) and broke my neck.
20-25 minutes into session 1.
Our boat crashed into a beach I rolled a nat 1 on my strength save and then flew into a tree and die to a coconut. I begin death saves and the final tally ends up being half and half with my final roll being a nat 1, my dm gives me advance and I roll another nat 1... My character died session 1, to a coconut. (I was brought back shortly after but still)
After resetting some stupid trap. "Okay, I walk up the staircase to the exit."
DM- "You walk?"
Me- "No, wait, I run!"
DM- "Too late, you said walk!" (Rips up character sheet)
$%^@! jerk.
PANR has tuned in.
Was the character who was turned into cheese a blue tiefling?
Not me.... but a friend.... Missed a point blank headshot that ricocheted into his literal Brass (dragonborn) testicles causing him to yell like a girl than bleed out after swearing (in charachter) thar such an incident would never happen again.
He got a Nat 1 to hit ans Nat 20 for damage.
What is it with rogues and throwing questionable objects?
Non of my characters have died yet
Fight Club reference, can't be wrong.
Now some notes about lactose intolerance - because I am among those who can not *sniff* enjoy dairy.
Butter has no dairy, it is now a fat so there is no danger for those with lactose intolerance - enjoy.
Some cheeses are made from non-cow milk sources - so check on that. But certain cheeses - in the making of - particularly hard and aged (really aged) cheddars - are safe to consume. Just so you know.
found out babybel is naturally lactose free, so for those squeamish against alternative cheeses, that's a great one to get :)
@@SoulcatcherLucario Most places that put a label on their cheese that is lactose free - and charge extra - do so without revealing it's always been lactose free.
@@vortega472...yes, which is why i said babybel is *naturally* lactose free, and is also not something advertised on the american label. i genuinely didn't know it was lactose free until just learning how it was made during a random wikipedia rabbit hole dive one night
Oh I got one. So I was kind of new to table top games,and we were at the time doing a post apocalyptic setting. Think of fallout. So the party was sent by a Friend of my pc named 6 to hover damn,and stupidity I jumped off of hover damn. Surprisingly I survived and then Diad by another pc who shot me in the head. Lesson don’t apply video game rules to Tabletop games
Not me but
Ran straight into a kobold nest
I was a caster kobold and max dmg him killing him
So our table did tomb of horrors mofief original version we adapted to 5e. It was my turn to dm this;. I opted not to reas ahead because i was also playing. This was a dream sequence and I was the first one out flipping a switch a statue fell on me and those pack of animals known as my dnd group though it was funny to have the statue have gigantic boobs. So in reality i got death by giant badonkadonks. I made them all pay as the tomb picked them off one by one.
This probably doesn't count, since it was (improvised) backstory, but trying to light a sword on fire while the character and the rest of the entire room was drenched in booze.
Zoolander reference?
@@tuojiangoman3228 I've literally never seen Zoolander. It was actually panicked improvisation. The character was originally supposed to be based on Aaron Burr (as depicted in Hamilton) and I had read somewhere that he once wrote in a journal that he tried to light a gun on fire, so I used that as inspiration. Unfortunately, the sword itself wouldn't be enough to kill the character, (the recurring campaign starts with saying how your character died, which is something nobody told me, a first time player) so I had to use booze to make the fire deadly, and when I did that, it forced me to change the character's demeanor, because it wouldn't make sense. My inability to improvise turned a character concept from Aaron Burr to Alexander Hamilton.
If they mistook you for cheese why would they turn you into one?
My dumbest character death is also why I dislike paladins. Paladin of the party found out my character was evil by suddenly popping a detect good and evil while it was just the party at xamp and finds out my weretiger necromancer is evil. The book defined weretigers as always evil at the time. My character's backstory was antipaladin after one ripped the child from her womb. The paladin player had been stealing look a player's secrets when the DM went to the bathroom or while we were on break and decided to murk my character in her sleep. The DM was new and hated conflict so she allowed it to happen. I made it my life's mission to make sure this guy never liked playong at our tanle ever again.
And did you succeed?
@@yaqbulyakkerbat4190 Yes. I have a whole 3 part horror story over it.
I mean the player had fun but the DM was kinda a bad one. If you think a character wants dead ASK them dont take "i want to make a new character" with out them say when or how. Some people just want to retire adventures and not you know kill them off every time
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From what I’ve seen, DND is a game where you can create a detailed character and then watch them die to a snake or do stupid stuff. Splendid.
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