First PC Death – Day 6 D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop
This is day 6 of the of d20 Dark Ages’ D&D 40th Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge! Based off of the challenge’s prompts I will be sharing personal stories about my history with Dungeons & Dragons every day in February. You can hop to another participating blog by using the links at the end of the article or click here to see my previous answers.
Day 6: First character death. How did you handle it?
I’m no stranger to PC death. My friend and I in the same Eberron game had a running competition to see who could get the most characters killed, I think it ended five to four in her favor. We didn’t actually try, mind you, but our characters always managed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. But my first PC death wasn’t in my Eberron game, it was my rogue-turned-bad-guy in Pel’s Midnight game from Day 4’s answer. I was a bad guy in disguise posing as my character, doing my best to cause chaos while I could. That character certainly died and it was pretty fun!
But I don’t feel like that meets the spirit of the question, I didn’t exactly “lose” while being a double agent. My first real PC death was a wizard in 3.5 Eberron. After losing an encounter I was kidnapped by a recurring villain who happened to be a ghoul. He tied me to a chair in the sewers under a city and gave me a few bites. While my friends searched for me, the ghoul watched as my ghoul fever progressed. They didn’t find me in time and my transformation was complete! My character left the stage as a hero to become a ghoul in the background.
Later on with the same group we started a side-story in the same timeline with new eeevil characters. We eventually caught up to my ghoul wizard who was trying to find his own way as a conflicted evil NPCs. Fast forward a year and I took control of him and successfully regained his humanity by stealing his soul back from Eberron’s version of Hell!
All in all, death was a fabulous experience.
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