D&D5E - How my first character died

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[@oOPPHOo]

Since we're all sharing our stories. My first PC death was in Tyranny of Dragons, specifically the early parts of Rise of Tiamat (incoming minor ToD *SPOILERS* in case you haven't played that storyline) The entire campaign had a rough start with lots of players leaving and joining. By the time we had some consistency, our DM proposed we skipped most of Hoard of the Dragon Queen (levels 1-7) and jumped straight to Rise of Tiamat (levels 8-15). We didn't have full consistency until we went to the Sea of Moving Ice where, long story short, my cleric of Bahamut got killed by an adult white dragon inside an ice cave. The longer (and hopefully entertaining) story: It was a lair action of intense cold that reduced me to to 0 hit points and on the round I rolled my first death save, my party managed to slay the dragon. I, however, rolled a 1 on my death save and even my +2 to all saves doesn't stop a natural 1 from causing two failed death saves. Without any healing left, the party were rushing towards me try to stabilize my cleric. No armor to slow him down, Erebas, the Dwarven barbarian, was the first to arrive. Sadly he did not manage to stabilize me and nobody else managed to get to me before I needed to make my next and possibly last death safe. With a +2, I only need to roll an 8 to buy me one more round... and I roll a 7... and the DM ends the session... I did the math for that one. With a +2, you have a 1.75% chance of failing your three death saves in just two rounds. After-match: The dutiful human cleric of Bahamut had died to one of Tiamat's chromatic offspring. The cleric could no longer aid in foiling the plans to bring back Tiamat, nor could he continue his own quest of resurrecting his master, a silver dragon who found our Cleric in an avalanche and whose ashes were partially stored within his holy symbol: a hollowed dragon tooth sealed with silver scale. No longer could he champion the ideals of Bahamut. No longer could he be a protector of the Sword Coast and his friends. However, his party were eager to bring him back. JUST prior to venturing out to the Sea of Moving Ice, the cleric had taught his wizard friend and fellow party member some divine rituals, including the Gentle Repose spell. Despite a long journey back to Waterdeep, the power of magic and two copper coins covering his eyelids, the cleric was brought back to Waterdeep no worse than when he died. The party quickly sought the aid of Onthar Frume, their loyal friend and an esteemed Paladin of Torm. He was quick to offer his help in resurrecting the slain cleric. Still, resurrection magic is harder to use than other types of magic and would require the contributions of the party as well (Mercer style resurrection shill check). The party tried everything. The barbarian threatened him to return. The bard sung a lovely, yet melancholic tune about his heroic deeds. The wizard begged for the return of the most welcoming friend he never expected to meet after being transported to this world. The wizard also offered up a black dragon egg. This egg and product of chromatic kind, our dear cleric of Bahamut had long wanted to destroy. Still, the wizard convinced him to let it have a chance to be a dragon of good and proof that not all dragons are evil. The opposite belief being the reason why his village killed his master, the cleric agreed and tried to cleanse any evilness within the egg with a prayer. Whether the prayer ever worked, nobody would know as it disappeared during the resurrection ritual in a beam of light. When the light vanished, the human cleric was nowhere to be seen as well. His armor and other worn possessions, however, were still there. Furthermore, they were worn by somebody else. Not a human, but a scaly humanoid creature with horns, and an elongated snout. The creature looked like a dragonborn, but something was unique about his scales. Instead of being the usual metallic breeds, these scales glistened with beauty of platinum. The resurrection ritual had failed, but the just Bahamut had intervened and brought his cleric as his chosen champion and a platinum dragonborn, possibly the first platinum dragon to be seen by anyone currently alive on the Sword Coast. I don't know if our DM decided to intervene just because she knew everyone wanted my character back and things would probably be easier that way as well OR if it was because my character had genuinely earned the respect of Bahamut. I can however tell you, to me me, it at least felt like the latter and it was honestly a super cool thing to have happen to the kind of character I was playing. It felt earned and it made me ecstatic. I know it was a lengthy story and I know it wasn't a perma death. Still it was my first character death and a super memorable one largely because of the after-match. I thank anyone who bothered to read through all of this. Unfortunately, the tale of our dear cleric ended like most do... with the players and DM having to discontinue the campaign 2 episodes before the final confrontation with Tiamat xD

[@BirdCyclops]

Noooo!!!! I got hooked and wanted to know the ending to this epic adventure and the aftermath for the heroic party! This was so well written I already loved the characters and I barely know anything about them!! You NEED to write these down somewhere I can read them fully because this sounds so interesting!!! Thanks for sharing this 😍

[@lucapiemonti3584]

This was an awesome event and very well written too! It honestly saddens me that i'll never know how it all ends... In my headcanon the platinum dragonborn saves the day.

[@oOPPHOo]

D'aww, you guys :') I really appreciate the kind words.

[@karolchruzik1919]

Did you long rested during village siege at the begining? I'm curently doing the same module as my first campaing and I didn't read much but I gotta know, are you allowed to long rest. bcs its lore acurate and all but I didn't imagine my first campaing to be challange run.

[@SciaticJones]

My Brother had two characters die really early on in Hoard of the dragon queen. He had one guy die in like the second encounter cuz he was stupid. And his second character Fent Duelian the fighter duelist died cause he ran into a sally port full of enemies (he had an AC of 18 so he was cocky but he got crit ). So far my normal monk is the only person who hasnt had a character die so we meme calling it the mumen rider anime cause its just a casual dude who hasnt died while all my buddies fancy characters like a bahamut worshipping dragon born warlock dies whilst my monk is doing stupid shit like mounting the flying blue dragon at the start. XD HE HAS HORRIBLE LUCK. My brother has rolled about 12 ones in the first session and the DM rolled about 7 nat 20s

[@DingoDoodles]

Dont worry this happens more often then you think. Love the art and the story telling 💪keep it up💪

[@BirdCyclops]

thank you so much! i adore your videos so much, this was a really pleasant surprise

[@zenissujose9123]

You two get a like for being great content creators smuch for you guys

[@BirdCyclops]

@@zenissujose9123 Thank you!!

[@lukasnox392]

the world needs more dnd

[@reese1719]

Love the both of your stories, as well as Puffin Forest :D

[@DAEsaster]

As a DM...he definitely should have told you that wolf spiders can't shoot webs Before you tried to jump

[@andrewmore6058]

My first character got ripped in half by a flesh golem made of dogs RIP

[@BirdCyclops]

Went out like a true hero

[@andrewmore6058]

@@BirdCyclops I feel guilty, I couldn't save any of the dogs

[@coreypolino8213]

Hearts out to you.

[@FilthyNobeard]

"Fuck damn! That's metal." Were the words that left my mouth as a knee jerk response to seeing that.

[@Tigercup9]

Flithy Nobeard Brb, gotta put that on a shirt.

[@graveyardshift2100]

My first character death was a mermaid bard, on a ship in the middle of the ocean. How does a mermaid die in such a favorable location? A lot of wizards casting fireball on said ship.

[@CoolVictor2002]

ah yes.. LE fire nuke

[@goblin7762]

ADVENTURE!!

[@theposhdinosaur7276]

My first character "death" was when my racist human ranger (who especially hated elves) split the party civil war style about whether to betray the evil king and join the good elves or not. Long story short, the evil side loses and my character disappears, slumped over on his horse's back, later to return as a villain npc.

[@johnabraham3109]

Sounds pretty interesting probably gave DM imagination juices going

[@theposhdinosaur7276]

@@johnabraham3109 I usually like to give my characters some kind of twist, another character I made for the same campaign was a Wizard/Bard that studied bardic magic as a more "natural" method of arcane study (since songs are just more natural incantations) he despised sorcerers for being born with magic, not having to work for it, and saw druids, paladins/clerics and warlocks as slaves to their power. Personality wise, he was a pragmatic leader type, who would massacre an entire village, if he could spin it into propaganda against the enemy (which he did)

[@kodi6197]

Who doesn't hate elves

[@michaelbell4930]

What exactly were you supposed to do tho? And wouldn’t that old man have known not to leave the circle? Like there’s mystery and then there’s just a blatant lack of information. I understand that maybe you the players could have asked but that tidbit was pretty vital and something the old man not only should have known but probably WOULD have told you guys.

[@andremilanimartin3338]

Yep, looks a a series of bad decisions by the DM. He could have just said, fine, they got the bird. Or fine, lets ignore the rule book and let the spider shoot webs. Or let them fall into an river that leads to an underground lake with a Abboleth inside XD

[@override367]

@@andremilanimartin3338 "Giant Wolf Spider cannot shoot webs, did you mean to turn into a Giant Spider, which can? Yes? Okay, done, you shot webs." or SOMETHING. As a forever DM I have no problem murdering my players, but it needs to be earned, this was almost on the level of rocks falling

[@Tsusagi]

Selling your stuff, damn should have let her fall.

[@bobfox3058]

My first character, Tetris Civilius, a human fighter and his party were actually beaten by the BBEG, so I am left on 10 health, the others even lower. Me, realising someone’s probably gonna die, decides that Tetris stands with his sword out, shouts to the party, “Get Out, I will hold him back” Classic Hero style and as our wizard tries to cast a spell, Fireball, rolls a Nat 1. The rest of the party runs as the cave collapses and my character holds his position. The Cave collapses killing me and the BBEG, and that was the end of the campaign.

[@lordilluminati5836]

well, that was good way to go I say

[@ROYBGP]

Fireball isnt an attack spell. It always hits, the feature makes a dex save.

[@bobfox3058]

We’re different then, our rule is that spells roll to hit like attacks with a sword.

[@ROYBGP]

Bob Fox maybe you play a different edition, like pathfinder or 3.5, w/e, but you should REALLY use those spells how they're written.

[@bobfox3058]

You can’t really argue with the DM, Plus being my first game I couldn’t tell the difference.

[@perfidiousprophet]

My first DnD character almost died because he got a -1 on a charisma check while trying to tell a speech. He ended up pissing everyone off while choking on air.

[@nightcollapse]

Were they offended by him choking? Lol

[@perfidiousprophet]

@@nightcollapse Probably

[@nightcollapse]

You: thank you all for coming to my spee- wHEEZE *foaming at the mouth, gasping for breath* fucK CALL FANTASY 911 Them: boo! *throws tomatoes on stage* get off stage, weirdo! Idk why this is so funny to me

[@perfidiousprophet]

@@nightcollapse basically, my character was trying to to speak to the enemies and lower tensions. He had this whole big talk in mind, but rolled terribly and ended up making the group of enemies even angrier. They all went for him and ignored the rest of the party.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

@@perfidiousprophet Ah, epic fail. As they say go big or go home. Not your fault it wasn't specified win big, right? ;)

[@BabzaiWWP]

Mine died from social anxiety

[@BirdCyclops]

This is way too real

[@kennethstory6186]

🤣

[@lahnhedberg3403]

My first death came quite quick. I made 3 natural ones in a row. These were my first times I rolled dice with my char.

[@BirdCyclops]

I have heard of beginer's luck but this is quite the contrary

[@bindajoba9112]

I'm seriously impressed... Still, did you have to go to jail?

[@michaelmontemurno9554]

My first character died by being shot by arrows and trampled by horses as the rest of the party did nothing. ... Great first ever session of D&D

[@BirdCyclops]

PC deaths are either super deserved or just anticlimactic for some reason 😭

[@squareferret6606]

My first character was ate by my teammates. My second one was kilt by 4 goblins. My third one just got made! I HOPE IT DOESN'T SUCK.

[@michaelmontemurno9554]

I just had another pc death where me and another character were hit by a fireball and took enough damage to immediately die. What sucks is that we were the healers of the party.

[@BirdCyclops]

@@michaelmontemurno9554 wait what?? first arrows and horses and now fire? poor characters hfs

[@myaschuwerk1693]

Michael Montemurno in my first real campaign, on our third session, we had a near-tpk and everybody had to roll new characters except me. The blood hunter was a werewolf suppressing his transformations with drugs, and he ran out and lost control and I had to knock him out, the barbarian raged so many times he knocked HIMSELF unconscious, and the bard betrayed the party, killed them both, and was never seen again. 😬 I was the only character to survive the entire campaign with no deaths.

[@ww123456789thtssomgy]

my first character is still alive somehow after 2-3 years of sessions? And its not like i play it safe, i once walked into a minefield and survived about 7 landmines going off. (Albeit at negative hit points) And then that time we got into a fight with a mech and i was trying to detonate the missile on its back by punching them. Oh! i know! what about that time where we faced off against 2 armies of the wild hunt and survived? (we ran away, but we still fought a few guys). Im convinced my character just cant die.

[@Trojianmaru]

My first character death involved a level 7 Gloomstalker Assassin, sneaking into a dark room of Drow, assassinating one drow, then our human, the only guy without dark vision, kicks the door down, yelling "Don't worry small friend! I shall help!" ...... His lantern imulinates the room, turning my Gloomstalker invisibility off, while surrounded by 3 enemies....they destroyed me, n before anyone could reach me, I failed a death save, then crit failed. Thank god the GM was feeling merciful and chose to introduce a cleric npc to rez me, as it was still early into the campaign (it started as a temp replacement game, to tide us over while our usual DM was busy, so we started at 7th level

[@tarvoc746]

Your GM seems to be a bit of a jackass. Shouldn't he have told you about the not being able to shoot webs thing the moment you brought up what you were going to try? Although to be fair, you should have noticed that yourself, you built your character after all - but eh, beginner's mistake.

[@BirdCyclops]

Yeah! It was my fault for not checking first tbh, but hey! That's how I learn 😄

[@felixmeyn9811]

@@BirdCyclops Druids can not die when they are in their beast form. The moment their life points go to 0 they just revert. Any excess damage is not transfered to your humanoid form if I remember correctly. www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/91byec/druids_are_immune_to_fall_damage So your cahracter is actually still alive XD Leaving on a good note. Nice animation :) I really enjoyed it.

[@BirdCyclops]

@@felixmeyn9811 at least in 5E when a druid dies while in wildshape any damage points that exceed the maximum HP of the beast are directly reduced from the Druids total HP, so if you for example fall like me and take around 300 damage i still die :") thanks for the hope tho! just in case this is what the rules say about this: When you transform, you assume the beast's Hit Points and Hit Dice. When you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of Hit Points you had before you transformed. However, if you revert as a result of Dropping to 0 Hit Points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form. For example, if you take 10 damage in animal form and have only 1 hit point left, you revert and take 9 damage. As long as the excess damage doesn't reduce your normal form to 0 Hit Points, you aren't knocked Unconscious.

[@gokification]

@@felixmeyn9811 no damage does carryover and it was a 500 foot fall which means he took a maximum of 20 D6 damage When you transform, you assume the beast's Hit Points and Hit Dice. When you revert to your normal form, you return to the number of Hit Points you had before you transformed. However, if you revert as a result of Dropping to 0 Hit Points, any excess damage carries over to your normal form. For example, if you take 10 damage in animal form and have only 1 hit point left, you revert and take 9 damage. As long as the excess damage doesn't reduce your normal form to 0 Hit Points, you aren't knocked Unconscious.

[@gokification]

@@BirdCyclops but maximum fall damage is only 120 blud. And the average max height fall damage is 60 A fall from a great height is one of the most common hazards facing an adventurer. At the end of a fall, a creature takes 1d6 bludgeoningdamage for every 10 feet it fell, to a maximum of 20d6. The creature lands prone, unless it avoids taking damagefrom the fall. With the average hit points of a giant wolf spider being 11 and a 4th level druid average hit points being around 30 you would have had a chance to survive if he roll the dice but if the DM rules you die then you die Because in order to die you would have had to have taken 72 points of damage if you are at full health in your normal form

[@ender4652]

One of my characters died about 30 seconds after getting introduced into the campaign. He walked into the center of town that was under attack only to be crit hit with a javelin. Granted he was a lower level than the rest of the party but that was unbelievably fast for a character to die

[@davidd15377]

In my second-ever campaign the DM had us all hanging out in a tavern (as one does) and soon after we started, a cannonball came through the wall. Lo and behold, the bard with -2 constitution (it was her first time, and this was a level 1 campaign) is the only one on the side of the tavern that imposed disadvantage on the check everyone was about to make, rather than advantage. As we later found out, while this did knock her unconscious immediately before the first combat even started, the damage technically should have killed her outright. Our DM decided she didn't deserve to die for that, though, and she didn't make any death saves since we had a cleric with Spare the Dying.

[@beingthatguy8298]

My first character died by the other players, or one other player. I was always dm for the past 3 campaigns we ran so my first time to be a pc. New guy to group made a chaotic evil character for his first dnd character and he had multiple occasions of murdering random npc's and doing nasty things to the body (ie hanging them with a noose made of their own intestines, WTF) we met a pack of wolves, I as a druid attempt to tame them and succeed, new guy kills all but one, I confront him and tell him to not kill animals (my character didn't know he killed people) then he murders me feeds my organs to the last wolf then kills the wolf. At first I thought that it was typical new player murder hobo behavior till this point cause the detail he went into with what exactly he did with my organs to feed it to the wolf and what he did with my tabaxis skin turning it into a coat and the process to do so. I never have and never will play with that psychopath again cause it felt like more than just murder hobo but him trying to live out his twisted fantasies, I mean I've made chaotic evil characters but they don't go as far as this guy.

[@shibemyths3054]

yeah.. what the FUCK?

[@jacobfreeman5444]

Sounds like he has anger issues. Doesn't like the word "no". I am surprised rocks didn't fall and smashed him from the middle of an open field.

[@ventexovakon2178]

That sounds fuckin' rad.

[@ridleykiller1994]

Yeahhhhh, that guy should've been kicked from the table. DM shouldn't have ever allowed it to get that far

[@pbovymligsvim4182]

dm stands for daddy master

[@BirdCyclops]

so many daddies

[@cohortceaser819]

You have quite the kink.

[@caseygrothe3791]

I love hearing about others experiences in D&D and like the animations as added storytelling. Please make more.

[@BirdCyclops]

will do! you should read the comments im having a blast reading all these "how my character died" stories

[@alexanderleonhem]

This video made me realize my first character technically never died. I feel like your GM should have given you a bit of warning.

[@enderex1653]

I don't know, maybe the wizard could've TOLD the adventurers he would DIE from leaving the space. They'd be a good idea XD

[@drizzt7dourden7]

"its a 3-5 hundret feet deep hole."

[@BlueSun_]

Your party members look like a mini evil Jester and a Rogue Traveler

[@BirdCyclops]

Hahaha they actually do in a way!

[@icefrout]

*cough* spiders don't have a lethal terminal velocity *cough*

[@BirdCyclops]

but this one is bigger than a tiefling tho, not a small one

[@oOPPHOo]

In 5e, giant spiders usually have 26hp. Fourth level druids usually have 22hp (assuming average rolls and a +1 con modifier). ALL creatures take fall damage up to a maximum of 20d6 (averaged to 70) when falling more than 200ft. Makes things easier to run for the DM. That said, I would probably have allowed the web a chance to work. You can't cover the entire hole in web, but you can shoot a string of web at the wall and then have both of you smash into the wall taking fall damage appropriate to the number of feet you were from it + maybe the distance you had already fell. If you survive that damage and, if I felt really mean (no that likely), I would have both people make con save with a DC based on the damage taken and calculated the same way the DC for concentration checks are calculated, just to see if you could ignore the pain enough to hang in tight. I hope that would make for a situation where it would be cool if it worked and understandable if it didn't. When you've already accepted the spider can catch up to a tiefling mid fall, I don't see how you would all of a sudden be a stickler for spiders not being able to use their web ability to at least somehow try and save themselves. Then again, it's not my table and I don't know what style of play that table likes.

[@Ezrakel]

@@oOPPHOo He did also say that wolf spiders in particular have no web. Everything else seems about how I would handle this situation as a DM.

[@oOPPHOo]

@@Ezrakel I missed the part about it being a wolf spider. Still, in my mind (and unless they work differently irl), wolf spiders definitely have some web spinning ability even if it isn't listed on their stats. Whether they can use that to instantly create a string of web strong and long enough to save them is another matter. Seems like a situation that calls for a Rule of Cool moment if you ask me though.

[@omgidkwhatimdoing9626]

@@oOPPHOo wolf spiders are a wandering spider that do not make webs, the only ones that make permanent homes live in burrows.

[@BIGESTblade]

My first D&D character? Well, I don't remember what he was like. But I remember my second one, loved him and everyone else loved him too. He died because one of my partymates just slapped a large shining orb which is generating a shit tonn of heat with Eldrich Blast. What could go wrong? Eaten 10d10 radiant damage into the face and died, but check this out: I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO COULDN'T ROLL 3 DEATH SAVES!

[@manueltoney7702]

Dnd is like the best board game with using the theater of the mind and also you get to play with friends if you have friends.

[@girlontheoutside]

I didn't handle my first dnd death very well. My trash druid died in a ooze pit that the rest of the didn't see and jumped over said pit. My new character (another druid who was looking for her and drag her ass back to the druid enforcer organisation they were from) in that game would bully and physically threaten the party to bring trash druid back to life. The party did I felt bad after and apologized to my group and explained that this was my first death and didn't know how to handle it. They understood. But 2 weeks after, (I missed due to work) the boss battle that killed half the party (the only healers in the group) and derailed the story ..... On the bright side, I'm not bothered by my characters dying

[@tylerluu488]

My first character died because I rolled a one to loot a chest, I got a nat 1 so my dm rolled his dice to see what consequence would happen. He had gotten a nat 20 so he looks at his list to see what happens. The first thing he says is “oh no” he had explained that I had basically summoned the devil. Me and my group tried to run to the city to escape it. When we got their it had rolled an intimidate to control us. It had controlled me (lvl 1 ranger, so pretty much worthless) and someone else I can’t quite remember I just know it was one my teammates. Then someone else on my team rolled an intimidation to control the devil, he got a nat 20. We thought oh cool we r safe, we weren’t. The wizard tried to kill it with flaming hands, which broke the intimidation, but the devil was fire resistant. The whole town had been set on fire because of the devil repelled the fire everywhere. The dm trying to save us just said the devil disappears knowing it did its job. He however could not save us from the burning town, there are walls around the town so we couldn’t escape with going through the burning exit. Lucky for us there was a fountain that the fire wouldn’t Spread to. After we stood inside the fountain, one of my teammates was like “ high five we survived” and me naive I did so. He had flaming hand activated which exploded in my hand. He had also got a nat 20 which killed me. In short I died from a high five.

[@Corvin_Ito]

You summoned satan by trying to open a box

[@tylerluu488]

Vivika yep we had to end the campaign because of it

[@GalacticFox32]

@@Corvin_Ito When life really doesn't like you

[@GalacticFox32]

My first character died from impaling herself on a flipping bo staff in the most one sided fight because I had to fight a army (300 enemy's in 3 groups) of level 10 cultist by myself at level 3, and my second character died at level 1 because my friend made it where I had to fight a level *50 KARRASQUE WITH NO OPTION TO BACK DOWN BECAUSE STORY PLOT* ....this is why I don't like my friend being DM 100% of the time and I never get to be DM. Plus he never lets me look in the book inside and outside of the game with the addition of really bad luck

[@jacobfreeman5444]

@@GalacticFox32 ...do they go up to 50? I don't know, are you sure your friend isn't trolling you?

[@robinscompass5951]

At first I was like “oh no he died!” And then I learned he was a high elf. Now I’m happy he died.

[@anna-thealittek9662]

My first character death was due to standing too close to an exploding T-Rex. I wasn't even mad, because that's a pretty cool way to go.

[@kylestanley7843]

And how exactly did this T-rex explode? Lmao

[@l-gzy7400]

Kyle Stanley it just do

[@roadtripwarrior]

Your DM kinda sucks if an entire city was on the hinge of excistance from an old man leaving a small space. Thats not fun thats just frustrating. Traps are cool and all, but something that big should be given as knowledge to the players.

[@BirdCyclops]

maybe yeah, i haven't been a Dm for too long so i dont feel confident on judging his writing and such :)

[@roadtripwarrior]

I guess saying he sucks is a little harsh, it just seems like one of those moments where every angle you guys came at would have been thwarted. Which as a DM, I disapprove of.

[@BirdCyclops]

@@roadtripwarrior hmm i can see why you would tbh! its really neat to see so many DMs commenting on my video

[@roadtripwarrior]

@@BirdCyclops cool of you to stick up for your DM

[@DarkLycan89]

I'm still on my first character after 4-5 years of playing and it's not like I don't take risks. I just seem to be really lucky when it comes to rolls. To the point that we're going to be starting a new campaign with new characters because people just won't die XD

[@shadowwolf7771]

My first character died by toxic dirt mold from a small villages well. They weren't even in the well anymore, they were in a field by themselves and wanted to look around in their backpack, and some of the mold got in the bag. When they opened the bag the mold shot out into their throat and slowly choked them out while the rest of the party was celebrating in a tavern.

[@theatheistbear3117]

I remember how my first character died. In that session, we found an old man in a cave, waiting for a letter. One of our clerics knew from a rumor that the one that would give him the letter would be rewarded. So instead of doing the entire quest, I hit him with a FIREBALL for a total of 36 damage. Instantly killing him. It only got crazier, my entire group, except for the Bard, turned on me. That same Bard was also attracted to my character and was gay. My character didn’t feel that way about him. So the Fighter/Rogue charged at me and I attacked him. The Elf Wizard tried to bring me to the authorities, I declined. The other Cleric (who also Multiclassed into Monk) was furious about this betrayal (his and my character where bros up until this point), which made it kinda sad. My character tried to justify his actions, but the group didn’t agree with his methods at all. So without warning, the Demon Lord Graz’zt showed up and asked me to be his servant. I agreed, as did the Bard (Graz’zt offered me as a reward). The group ran off except for the Cleric/Monk who told the others that he would never forgive himself if he didn’t fight till the bitter end. This turned into an utterly badass moment, because he was only Level 6 at this point. Graz’zt tried to use Crown of Madness on the Cleric/Monk and the Cleric/Monk BARELY SUCCEEDED his saving throw. Then he made an attack, almost killing the Cleric/Monk. My character’s turn was now. I missed with my cantrip. And described how frustrated he was at this point. So I then made my damage roll for Scorching Ray, and I rolled a *NATURAL 1.* I took 36 damage. With my arm blown to pieces and with only 6 health left, Graz’zt teleported to my character and stabbed him through the head, killing him. The Cleric/Monk multiclasser summoned his God, the God charged at the Demon Lord and both vanished. Now with only the Bard and the Cleric/Monk left, he wanted to kill him. He would’ve done so too if it wasn’t for his God telling him that redemption was possible. And so just knocked the Bard unconcious. Now I play as my Sorcerer’s sister Eldritch Knight. Who’s not at all like her brother. Now, I spoke out loud how awesome it would be if my Sorcerer was revived as one of Graz’zt’s minions, and the DM seemed to have liked that idea, as he told the others that the Demon Lord had taken my body with him. Which probably means that he’ll be a Miniboss of sone kind. Needless to say, it was the best session yet!

[@temporaryhalfdecentname8452]

The Atheist Bear I remember something similar to that happening for one of my first characters, as in the character coming back as an enemy of the players part I made Joseph Stalin as a Totem warrior barbarian for some reason and while other characters are describing what they do at the tavern, I describe him going to a street corner and trying to start a communist uprising in what is a town the size of Waterdeep with the inspiring leader feat (not how the perk works but it still sort of seemed reasonable enough for the DM). A few high rolls later and this has somehow worked, a large army of peasants stand behind me as I a march them towards the castle. The guards of course stop the large horde of peasants and crazy barbarian man and immediately ask them to leave or they will use force. Peasants back away but my character won’t back down and begins screaming about how he will slaughter all tyrants (bear in mind this was a normal monarchy that was in no way corrupt but this was a joke character after all.) Guards begin trying to stop him but he actually holds his own for a while, sweeping guards with his Greataxe off into the moat and throws one down the stairs and he takes quite a bit of damage. My character then dives backwards with his Greataxe behind him to move away from the guards while killing the guy behind him, which thanks to some really high rolls works somehow. Now that one of the men has just been skewered, dozens of guards surround my character and he quickly gets knocked down. He ends up in a sort of hospital recovering from his injuries. Other player character (supposed to be important noble in this town but is also a warlock) walks in and punches my character in the face, but it doesn’t really do a lot of damage because he’s a barbarian so it doesn’t knock my character out as intended. So you’ve just got this noble just beating up Joseph Stalin in hospital while guards have to remove him. My character then ends up in prison but after my army of 500 goats (yes, my army of 500 goats) storms the prison, they’re easily able to smash down the wall to my cell and I escape. I made a new character after this as he wasn’t seen for a while. Then, while the party are at another town, the door gets kicked open and he shows up (I got to control him which was a cool idea on the DM’s part.) Chaos insues as a level 20 barbarian fights a party of level 5s. Character charges the warlock and does a fair bit of damage, but my character starts to take damage so he has to call in his goat army which downs the wizard and eventually the two monks of the party eventually just punch him to death

[@theblazingcrusader6322]

My first character die by being smash under a giant sphinx head, I.e. I try to use strength check to stop it and got a nat 20, as it turns out there are things you can do in dnd that not even a nat 20 can save you from.

[@connerkline6269]

I only have one character who "died" and it was because my friend who was DMing at the time really liked the deck of many things, but we were all new to tabletop roleplaying so we had no idea what that was, also we were playing Numenera but he put it in anyway by making this diety guy offer us potato chips that when you took a chip it would trigger in the same way as the deck of many things. Well my character, not knowing anything was up with the bag, took a chip and was transported to the elemental plane of air, which according to our GM "Is just air, so your character just falls endlessly until he dies,". I argued that that probably wasn't the case and now I know I was right, but he was the GM so I didn't push it. It felt pretty stupid and I don't really play D&D with him anymore because he only plays in a way where he has fun and pays no mind to anyone else's fun, which usually results in him being a dick to everyone. Either way, that's the only tabletop roleplaying death I've ever had.

[@GalacticFox32]

Yep it's that DM oh joy such a good start

[@gamersagainstweedrepresent]

Also, while druids are in animal form, damage *does not* carry over. I survived jumping off a cliff by morphing into a goldfish.

[@BirdCyclops]

i mean, druids are literally gods

[@myaschuwerk1693]

Quackscope McGoose yes it does in 5e.

[@arcane_snail]

"We're practically gods"

[@tom3294146]

@@myaschuwerk1693 It doesnt

[@BirdCyclops]

Tom please read the rules for wildshape in dnd 5e, it specifically states that it does carry over all the excess damage

[@Kimcitaw]

Amo!!! Me acaban de pasar tu canal y PORFIS seguí haciendo éstas historias de D&D y rol en general, LE DAN VIDA A MI ALMA❤️

[@SciaticJones]

I'm really enjoying your D and D stories so please keep it up! I can't wait for the next one!

[@BirdCyclops]

ayy! next one will be up in around two days!

[@malteroboter]

Keep it up Adan! These are amazing!!!

[@SourSlasher]

I love it and yes I would enjoy if you continued with these stories they are probably as hilarious as this one

[@paulrudd1483]

Loved the video! Seems prudent to mention that most spiders have a non lethal terminal velocity meaning that they can't actually accelerate enough while falling to get hurt, they travel long distances by literally being carried by the wind and falling from the sky, so ignoring the inverse cube law I wouldn't make a spider take much fall damage

[@BirdCyclops]

ohhhh thats cool!

[@dbulletj2200]

Keep doing them please they're amazing!!

[@jinxtheunluckypony]

My first character was killed in his first combat because the dm made me start at level 1 in a level 4 party.

[@myaschuwerk1693]

Oof, that's why I do milestone levels. It just isn't helpful to have players who are behind.

[@greanbean2075]

I'm excited to learn more about that goo man

[@The-EJ-Factor]

Here’s what the DM forgot a spiders terminal velocity is small enough that it can survive any fall.

[@michaelminugh5357]

Definitely more, I can’t stand letsplays, but I love animated D&D stories like this! I see great potential here, great for a 1st vid!

[@dalinbascom3508]

AAAAH!! So good.

[@joesgotmore]

Indeed..keep up the videos. Very entertaining. :)

[@cage5577]

Better than slowly dying near your whole team and bleeding to death because they forgot you were dying.

[@CoolBoyShane]

This was very entertaining! You have a very appealing comedic style!

[@BirdCyclops]

Thank you!!

[@discotuti6692]

Love this kinda vids keep it up man, earned a new sub too

[@BirdCyclops]

Thank you! Will do

[@Tkdean]

I think i have a clinical addiction to dnd scores so if you do more i will watch them :)

[@qwertyasdf787]

Seriously though, fair play to you for jumping straight into druid as your first character, seeing as how complex they are to play, especially when you're a new player.

[@witchBoi_Connor]

My first-ish character almost died in the first session I used him because the final boss of the one-shot had a fucking gun, and nearly solo’d our entire NINE PERSON PARTY. He didn’t die, though, because I got a nat 20 on a death saving through, so my halfling fighter picked himself up and then... missed his attack on the bad guy. Oops.

[@BirdCyclops]

nine people?? you had just one DM take on so many?? thats really cool

[@kennethstory6186]

Keep up the good work Alan

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

My first character TECHNICALLY died at the BBEG of the lvl 1 dungeon. He was a ranger who was low health from the BBEG's minions, and the storm cleric pulled a last-resort AOE attack and sent me into death saves, but then revived me.

[@LordLions13]

Dude i honestly thought you were a native english speaker! Awesome vid! My first character death was in Warhammer Fantasy, my elf thief got pierced in the lung by a spear from a dwarf guard while trying to flee prison. RIP. Cheers from Brazil!

[@LordLions13]

Also it was literally the first session hahaha, i mostly DM (5e) and when i got to play that happens lol

[@kys8787]

Very nice video!

[@cavareenvius7886]

great video. keep up the work

[@Oddmanoutre]

Given the very tenuous nature of the magic market, I get the impression that your DM was looking for a way to end the campaign that seemed better than "I'm really tired of this."

[@leandrodecarli986]

Gotta love the ending theme

[@BirdCyclops]

Glad you liked it!

[@ggmauve]

*-DND Beyoooonnnddddddd-*

[@amadeusgamer7000]

but when the druid dies in wild shape just become his original form

[@DartsyArt]

This is great!!! I can't wait to see more from you in the future! Totally subscribed :)

[@BirdCyclops]

Ahhhh!!! Thank you so much! I was watching your latest video a few hours ago

[@DartsyArt]

@@BirdCyclops You're welcome! I love seeing new DnD content creators!

[@Biodeamon]

I once saw somebody step into a magic circle and just instantly zapped into red mist because they didn't bother checking a room

[@BirdCyclops]

That's harsh, but a good lesson??? I'm so conflicted about this

[@roguespectre9656]

I’m guessing that the bard in this group is like Darla Dimple... Then again, Darla was more so chaotic evil with her mannerisms.

[@TheRichmaster24]

this was pretty fun

[@goshohgosh4568]

Lol these beautiful old animations are so so so so beautiful. B

[@GaymerMonkey]

Loved it. Do more videos for sure!

[@benhedley6010]

Like your story, please keep them coming.

[@BirdCyclops]

will do!

[@stateofhibernation]

Yes plz more just subbed love a good d&d story

[@BirdCyclops]

thank you so much! working on another DnD video rn ;)

[@reyntime8735]

My Cleric had his eyes and brain ripped out by an imp

[@diarrheadan3601]

My first barbarian “half-orc”(he was a human with a cursed orc arm) died fighting a simic hybrid poisoner in a gladiator match. I just had to out DPS her with frenzy, but near the end I started to roll badly and she took away my halberd. Then my DM rolled a critical that brought me to 1 hit point from endless endurance. On my last hit I fell unconscious from its toxic skin and the simic put a spear into my back.

[@mightymonkie3798]

My first death was a meme run and I died of aids. I'm new to the game but it's fun whenever we play. Keep it up my guy ✋😂👌

[@jope4384]

Epico video amigo ;P

[@satanisslacking924]

I haven't had a character die yet in the year I've joined my Pathfinder group but the longest living character Mo died tragically falling from a height, getting revived, only to be crushed by the falling bad guy who died to. And since Klaus and Mo were good friends Klaus knee that Mo wanted his body to be returned to where he was raised, which was a underground kobold city. In which they asked the party to join their feast celebrating Mo's life just for the party to find out that Kobolds eat the dead. Yeah, it was... Something.

[@shotakun8509]

My first character died by a Giant crocodile trying to save someone else from the party

[@hobowithabow9865]

My first pc was Stor: a super bulky human barbarian that died to a demon that scare him to death But now I'm playing his brother Torm (another human barbarian) that wants to kick gum and chew ass until he'll avenge his bro

[@eleanorcarpenter37]

Charging the boss one 1 hp after he already knocked you out once in one attack with the only reason you being up being cause you rolled a nat 20 is a great idea

[@pericoel21]

Me encantan este tipo de vídeos, es genial como D&D te da libertad total pero de repente hay una regla que dice que no puedes lanzar una telaraña y CHOF

[@yam3946]

YOUR FIRST CHARACTER WAS A DRUID?! U ok?

[@BirdCyclops]

i was new to the game and the concept was just too cool to pass up!

[@DiemosT113]

Yes keep sharing!

[@spiritofchaos58]

After a death like that, I bet Discord was howling at the moon with anger! Im sorry i had to

[@BirdCyclops]

your joke was so good youtube held it for review

[@Em3.14re]

☜(ಠ_ಠ☜) Boi

[@BirdCyclops]

@@Em3.14re ikr, i dunno why this apparently greased the system's gears

[@phoeberia2734]

-smacks- No. Bad.

[@spiritofchaos58]

@@phoeberia2734 i deserve it

[@MaestroOblidemon]

That ending song catched me totally off guard

[@alexhackett1312]

My first character death was to a Boneclaw. Turns out that strolling into a pitch black room with only a bull lantern when you know that your enemy teleports through darkness is a bad idea. Worst part was the rest of the party didn’t know what had happened until their poor Eladrin Bard’s corpse was flung at them from the darkness followed by a massive clawed hand trying to snatch another player.

[@buggoth]

I’ve DM’d for D20 & playtested a few homebrew systems for about 8 years now. However, I haven’t EVER played as a player in D&D. Except now after tonight, we’re playing Curse of Strahd. We’ve got two clerics and myself as a fighter. I’m probably going to die because I’m playing lawful good & I have a vendetta against the undead.

[@dappersama]

Amazing

[@marisapyav4688]

Mi primer personaje murió por beber demasiado y esconderse en un armario cuando el edificio se estaba quemando. No murió del todo porque el dm me dio la oportunidad de revivirlo (ya que no pude asistir a esa sesión y le pedí a un amigo que hiciera de mi personaje por mí) pero aun así fue una experiencia.

[@fabiodelaroca1665]

Please more dnd, this is AWESOME!!!!

[@retosius7962]

*so this is where it began*

[@shadowhog777]

I'm pretty sure all really needed was some bird seed.

[@shadowhog777]

Maybe polymorph into the bird's opposite gender.

[@BirdCyclops]

Ohhhh that might have worked, we didn't really do any insight rolls to see if it had any agency of its own

[@julierose689]

Depends on the lvl of the druid. You need to lvl 8 to change into flying creatures and the fact that Adan was still using wolf spider I doubt his druid was that high. I've made that mistake in the past when I wanted to change I to a bat for a stealth mission, I was lvl 5. Changed into a mouse thinking I would just go unnoticed until I ran into a wolf that tried to eat me lol. I killed it with my mighty stick. Getting back on topic the cr1 Giant spider is the one I use to annoy my party members more than anything. They need to climb anything, I web 'em and carry them up it or just shoot flying party members out of the sky lol. I'm my defense they were asking for it.

[@SadDragonNoises]

"When in doubt, let the tiefling die."

[@BirdCyclops]

so wise

[@seamusryan6580]

If you die in beast form, shouldn't you just revert to normal with the previous HP? Unless there was THAT MUCH DAMAGE (enough to kill the spider and then still have at least double your total HP). In which case, no body of anything could've saved Frieda (I know that's spelt wrong)

[@BirdCyclops]

damage was enough to kill me, i dunno about how Frieda really survived since it was way too long ago for me to remember

[@InquisitorThomas]

Adan I imagine that the DM took some degree of pity on you, "okay my player is basically sacrificing himself to save the life of another party member, It'd be such a dick move just to say no, your sacrifice is meaningless."

[@snakblade4117]

just going to leave my short character death here i pulled a jack daniel.

[@iGuttsi]

My first group heard of an "abandoned" dragon lair.. Long story short it came back, my 7 int half orc barbarian thinking.. OH ME HIDE IN GOOD SHINYS PILE.. Saw him dive in, fire blasted the gold pile.. He has a very pretty tomb in a dragon lair now

[@connortg5]

discord: *saves freja's life* freja: *sells all of discord's stuff instead of keeping it as an item of sentimental value or something*

[@connortg5]

thanks Adan! geez, this comment got a

[@BirdCyclops]

They call me quick hearts McGee

[@warrenokuma7264]

My first character died in the arena bleeding to death from a magic fist spell, his blood soaking into the sand.

[@Guydude777]

Always run before your wizard starts dissecting the supposedly dead dragon who's actually just in a vegetative state from a spell. Else they're gonna be melted, and your Halfling Warlock (me) will get chucked off the mountain and go splat. And that's how my first character died.

[@BirdCyclops]

for some reason "go splat" made me crack up

[@pierpaolomercurio]

this dm... sucks my 1st character died cause he was an half orc barbarian who taunted literal sarkhan vol and got incinerated

[@BirdCyclops]

damnnn

[@AdamKaiser1]

Bork, Pressing F