Over 100 Ways to Die (DnD Other)
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A compendium of all the known ways to die. Feel free to add.
| Deaths | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Spiked centrifuge |
| 2 | Ability Drain |
| 3 | Acid |
| 4 | Angry monkeys |
| 5 | Apocalypse |
| 6 | Astral cord severed when in Astral Plane |
| 7 | Avalanche |
| 8 | Banshee's keening |
| 9 | Be level one and try to take on a Worm That Walks with nothing but a can of insecticide |
| 10 | Be on the wrong end of Pun Pun's anger |
| 11 | Be the one who has to hold off 10,000 angry Dragonspawn on mounts |
| 12 | Be within five feet of the contact of a Rod of Cancellation and a Sphere of Annihilation |
| 13 | Beaten by a proverbial ton of bricks |
| 14 | Being absent and the other players remember to take your unconscious body out of the fiery pit the morning AFTER the battle (burnt to oblivion) |
| 15 | Being crush under the weight of a girallon from a 70ft redwood, SQUISH!!! |
| 16 | Being different from a beholder |
| 17 | Being Fallen Upon |
| 18 | One thousand pins causing 1 hp damage each |
| 19 | Being the target of an area spell with a 1 mile burst affect |
| 20 | Glancing blow by a steamroller squashes top 2 inches of your head |
| 21 | Bodak's death gaze |
| 23 | Brain Extracted (Mindflayer) |
| 24 | Break the Staff of the Magi. |
| 25 | Dropping a portable hole into a klein bottle |
| 26 | Bull-rushed off the edge of a giant chasm |
| 27 | Buried alive |
| 28 | Call a Balor's toughness into question |
| 29 | Call Bel a poor tactician |
| 30 | Calling a Great Wyrm Red Dragon's hoard inadequate |
| 31 | Hugging a Lich |
| 32 | Captured and killed (or tortured) |
| 33 | Caught in a collapsing building/tunnel/dungeon |
| 35 | Challenging Orcus to a skull-crushing competition |
| 36 | Choking/strangulation |
| 37 | Necrotizing fasciitis |
| 38 | Claim that Asmodeus can't plan for crap |
| 39 | Commenting on Orcus's weight |
| 40 | Covered in Salamander piss |
| 41 | Cow falling on top of you... only if you are a gnome or a kobold |
| 42 | Crucifixion |
| 43 | Curse |
| 44 | Dancing in an orc stronghold for no reason |
| 45 | Dancing with a giant with two left feet (Squished) |
| 46 | Decapitation |
| 47 | Dehydration |
| 48 | Disease |
| 49 | Disintegrated |
| 50 | Drawn and Quartered |
| 51 | Quartered and Drawn |
| 53 | Drowning |
| 54 | Eaten by rabid brownies (Cannibalized) |
| 55 | Eating a delayed blast fireball |
| 56 | Eat a piece of a troll and have it grow and burst through your chest |
| 57 | Eating alchemist's fire |
| 58 | Order a boyson berry pie; recieve a poison berry pie |
| 59 | Electrocution |
| 60 | Elf touch |
| 61 | Encounter with a gazebo |
| 62 | Swallowing a sustaining spoon |
| 63 | Erased by spastic player |
| 64 | Execution |
| 65 | Exsanguination (bleeding to death) |
| 66 | Fall down a multi-story building in a pail of slob and get slowly devoured by pigs |
| 67 | Falling |
| 68 | Falling into an iced over lake |
| 69 | Captured by evil dragon, which proceeds to do unspeakable things to you, may also result in this |
| 70 | Fight that Epic level death knight at level one |
| 71 | Fire |
| 72 | Flash Flood |
| 73 | Flesh to Stone, followed by destroying the statue |
| 74 | Forget that you can't fly at level one |
| 75 | Get a Battle Axe to the face |
| 76 | Get in the Way of a Lich's Disintegration spell |
| 77 | Get in the way of the tarrasque |
| 78 | Get Lazy, sleep for all eternity |
| 79 | Get sad and stop playing |
| 80 | Get Tiamat really, really mad |
| 81 | Getting so drunk you die from alcohol poisoning |
| 82 | Have a Dragon drop a ten ton boulder on you |
| 83 | Have Drizzt Do'urden's name while being evil |
| 84 | Having a party on a Lich's tomb without inviting it |
| 85 | Heart Attack |
| 86 | Heart eaten |
| 87 | Hit with a large stick |
| 88 | Holding up a Demon Warding amulet in front of a demon lord's face forgetting you're a half-demon |
| 89 | Hugging a gelatinous cube |
| 90 | Hurricane |
| 91 | Hypothermia |
| 92 | Hyperthermia |
| 93 | Illusion Magic (Phantasmal Killer, Weird) |
| 94 | Impaled on a stake |
| 95 | Insert two bags of holding halfway inside each other, reaching inside both, and pulling them into each other. |
| 96 | INT point going so low that PC forgets how to breath |
| 97 | Jump into the Orb of annihilation. |
| 98 | Killed by a monster |
| 99 | Kissing a Poison Toad |
| 100 | Lack of air from high altitude |
| 101 | Landslide |
| 102 | Lava |
| 103 | Light a target on fire (via spell, torch, ect.) Then polymorph them into a cloud of hydrogen, and run |
| 105 | MAKE BARBARIAN ANGRY! |
| 106 | Make fun of an orc |
| 109 | Massive Damage |
| 110 | Mind explodes...body goes with it |
| 111 | Mooning a Bladeling |
| 112 | Multiclassing as a henchman |
| 113 | Natural one on a balance check over a pit of ghouls. |
| 114 | Old Age |
| 115 | Green slime bath bomb. |
| 116 | Out of ammo with zombies all around. |
| 117 | Party members forget they have healing items when you're at -9 HP and fail their stabilization checks. |
| 118 | Perfect Jump check followed by natural 1 balance check |
| 119 | Piss in a god's favorite shoe. |
| 120 | Piss off a dozen pit fiends. |
| 121 | Plane shift to positive/negative energy plane |
| 122 | Playing a Warforged and walking into a room full of Rust Monsters |
| 123 | Poison |
| 124 | Poking the royal guard |
| 125 | Poorly worded wish spell |
| 126 | Pregnancy complications for females |
| 127 | Put your head into a t-rex's mouth. |
| 128 | Quicksand |
| 129 | Rabies. |
| 130 | Rended by a girallon; ripped in half |
| 131 | Total protonic reversal. |
| 132 | Rocks fall, everyone dies. |
| 133 | Shot a whole repeating crossbow clip into the party rogue. |
| 134 | Sitting in a butcher shop during a Tarrasque rampage |
| 135 | Skinny dipping in demon ichor. |
| 136 | Slide 100 feet on sludge going down a down hill slope and hitting a wall for 25d6 points of damage (true story) |
| 137 | Sneak attacking your parties CE Warlock |
| 138 | Soul eaten |
| 139 | Spell backfiring |
| 140 | Spontaneous Combustion |
| 141 | Squashed by The Morbidly Obese Abomination |
| 142 | Standing between a dwarf and the last bottle of whiskey |
| 143 | Standing on the top of a mountain in the middle of a thunderstorm wearing copper armor screaming "ALL GODS ARE SISSIES!" |
| 144 | Standing on wrong side of universal-still-point immovable rod |
| 145 | Getting charmed by a Dancer (Ringmaster) and being told to do un-nameable things. In front of your party members. Then being pounded on by said party members who failed their jelousy saving throws. (Style points if you say "Worth iiiit!" as they pound on you.) |
| 146 | Sticking your head in a reactor. |
| 147 | Level 6 Exhaustion |
| 148 | Go to The Abyss and get pushed off the layer you're on when you can't fly |
| 149 | Anger 100 monsters your group summoned |
| 150 | Burnt by a giant fireball |
| 151 | Fight all 500 of those Kobolds in the tribe at once. |
| 153 | Teleported forward in time, then killed |
| 154 | Tell a Dwarf his mother's beard is longer than his. |
| 155 | The Fourth Wall is destroyed |
| 156 | Throwing a complete Necklace of Fire Ball Type VII at your feet to kill a baddie. The Baddie dosesn't die :( |
| 157 | Tell Tiamat Bahamut is better than her |
| 158 | Tell Bahamut Tiamat is better than him |
| 159 | Being a war-forged and getting attacked by a rust monster |
| 160 | Traveling to the astral plane and having your tether severed by an irritated panther |
| 161 | Tripping into the kings royal spear collection |
| 162 | Trying to tame a Tarrasque |
| 163 | Getting smacked over the head with a steel ukelele |
| 164 | Unlucky party member firing a ballista... Into your combat... |
| 165 | Using your new at-will-feather-fall by jumping to "scout" the dark-pit-into-the-dungeon-that-will-take-others-5-round-to-scale-down (alone in the dark with MANY monsters) |
| 166 | Walking into an assassin's guild with targets painted all over your body |
| 167 | The god of incredibly buff penguins, Pablo, smites you. |
| 168 | You jump off a very tall building, and are hit by a meteor when you land. |
| 169 | Your wizard casts a fireball spell in a room full of Oil, Gunpowder, and Alchemist's Fire |
| 170 | Your enemy casts dispel magic on you while in an underwater dungeon. (using breath water) |
| 171 | Steam-powered woodchipper. |
| 172 | 170 rabid ducks |
| 173 | In your sleep Mexican Demons make you overdose on diet pills |
| 174 | Team-mates throw you across the room into a trap |
| 175 | Roll the dice and knock over your own figure |
| 177 | Use a variant rule without the dm's permission |
| 179 | Team-mate stabs you in the foot to stop you from ruining diplomacy while you are on low HP |
| 180 | Looking at Primus |
| 181 | Finding out Vaarsuvius' gender |
| 182 | Eating one of your companions, then their ghost rises to slay you. |
| 183 | Leaving insanity on the Epic level Monk With the powerful magical Katana (Nearly offed the sorcerer when this happened) |
| 184 | Having said Monk test out a very Suspicious magical ring |
| 185 | Sorcerer getting mind controlled into casting Finger of Death on said Monk.... and he gets a natural 1 |
| 186 | Being Chargon, our groups Half-dragon knight (No joke, on record he has died over 9 times) |
| 187 | Telling a Monk he is out of shape |
| 188 | Just being in our group of epic characters when they're Bickering over somthing |
| 189 | Being at the wrong end of the Kill count (the monk and the knight Kill as many enemies as possible, and at the end of the dungeon they tally up to see which has killed more) |
| 190 | Ticking off the wizard who knows how to cast 4 Magic Missiles at once, when you're on 2hp. |
| 191 | Lupus |
| 192 | Used as a sacrifice |
| 193 | Doing a lot of hard work getting an Airship to fly, then tripping off of it and falling to your death |
| 194 | Telling Red Dragons they're not allowed to do something |
| 196 | Using your body to slay an Ice Demon by teleporting 800 ft. above it and falling on it while carrying a 150 lbs. artifact. (The artifact was all that was left) |
| 198 | Drawing from the Deck of Many Things and getting a dread wraith to hunt you down |
| 199 | Getting your blood replaced with a magic potion. |
| 200 | Interrupt anything between a ranger and his girlfriend. |
| 201 | Jumping of a cliff into water, then realizing you are wearing a ring of water walking. |
| 202 | Forget the half-elf girl is a werebear. |
| 203 | Grope the female paladin who has something to prove. |
| 204 | Aggro all the monsters in a dungeon while scouting ahead. |
| 205 | Not believing the sign that says "Instant Death This Way". |
| 206 | Roll a natural one on a Ride check with a Chocobo. Use your imagination. |
| 207 | Flesh to stone, stone to mud, rainstorm. |
| 208 | Eaten by a big monster after losing your weapon in the fight. |
| 209 | Your monk is the only melee character in the party. |
| 210 | Staring contest with basilisk. |
| 211 | Burned at the stake. |
| 212 | Burned as a steak. |
| 217 | Getting blasted by a cero at all with out spiritual pressure. |
| 218 | Be family of a balor on his deathbed. |
| 219 | Say a pickup line to a disguised succubus. |
| 220 | Question Raziel's authority. (not Asmodeus', as he would make you live...) |
| 221 | Raging Barbarian tries to give you a health potion. |
| 222 | Fall for an undead nymph. |
| 223 | Put on a mask that has acid on the inside. |
| 224 | swim in a river and get swarmed by leeches |
| 225 | Light the barrels full of provisions on fire with a torch, when they are actually filled with gunpowder. |
| 226 | sentenced to death for your crimes |
| 227 | Be a non-epic half-dragon when the Dragonmoot is called. |
| 228 | Sliding down a 200 ft. cheese grater. |
| 229 | Sacrificed in epic spell |
| 230 | Mauled by cougar |
| 231 | Arm wrestle a silverback |
| 232 | Being caught making an omelette...with a dragon egg |
| 233 | sacrificed to dragon |
| 234 | walking in on a secret druidic ritual, depending on the druids |
| 235 | typhoon |
| 236 | calling a powerful devil a demon, or vice versa |
| 237 | tripping over your astral tether |
| 238 | losing your astral tether |
| 239 | mudslide |
| 240 | rockslide |
| 241 | killed by your own summoned creature |
| 242 | drowned |
| 243 | thrown from clifftop |
| 244 | Explosive Runes |
| 245 | fall and break your neck |
| 246 | Be Coup de grace-d by a familiar |
| 247 | Caught urinating on a shrine (by Gods or Clerics). |
| 248 | Cross your party then find out all your adventuring buddies have been evil doppelgangers for the past week. |
| 249 | Receive dinner invitation. Turns out you're the dinner. |
| 250 | killed by dominated party member |
| 251 | Travel to the Gods meeting plane to entreaty them for help and then discover an amusing consequence of scale and planer travel in that all the Gods are 100x your size. Then be crushed by a Lawful Good God placing his wine glass down upon you. |
| 252 | mistaking a dragonborn for a draconian |
| 253 | being a gnome in kobold territory |
| 254 | being a kobold in gnome territory |
| 255 | brain consumed by illithid |
| 256 | Spend a night with Malcanthet (Almost worth it) |
| 257 | Killed by vengeful ghosts |
| 258 | sink into a tar pit (on the bright side, your bones will be preserved forever) |
| 259 | Crystallized |
| 260 | Enemy sticks an immovable rod into a body cavity, pushes you off a cliff, then uses the command word to activate it. NOT a good way to die. |
| 261 | Flesh to Ice. The temperature is above freezing. |
| 262 | Kill a dragon in flight, only to be crushed by its corpse when it hits the ground |
| 263 | Turned into a tree; later cut down and used for furniture construction |
| 264 | Incarcerated until your death |
| 265 | Critically fail your Spellcraft check while casting an epic-level spell |
| 266 | Successfully disbelieve an illusory pit that isn't actually an illusion |
| 267 | slain by your own spell, after it gets turned |
| 268 | taken by roc, fed to nestlings |
| 269 | Mauled by a Deinonychus pack |
| 283 | Tossed off a cliff and getting eaten upon impact by tiny slimes. |
| 284 | Duel a vorpal longsword wielding Blackguard. |
| 285 | Get Spartan-kicked by a wizard copy of yourself into a prismatic sphere. |
| 286 | Hill giant rolls a natural 20 with power attack as you flee from it. |
| 287 | Riddle Golem sends you to a plane filled with liches because you failed to answer it's riddle. |
| 288 | Drow Priestess casts hold person on you, right when you're within striking distance of six elite drow warriors. |
| 289 | Get cornered by a vampire lord that's twelve feet tall, pounded the Paladin in your group to near death in two rounds, and you have 34 HP left. |
| 290 | Open a door to an evil wizard's tower. Get meteor swarmed in the face by said evil wizard. |
| 291 | Challenge an epic Necromancer to a mage duel without death ward. |
| 292 | Thrown off a Necromancer's tower by a red half dragon while in your undergarments. Half dragon then kidnaps your girlfriend so he can sacrifice her. |
| 293 | Critical disintegration from epic beholder. Group puts your ashes in a jar until they feel like bringing you back. |
| 294 | Sprint across a slippery pipe as you chase after a tiefling that took your dragon orb. You slip and fall into a pit of acid. Rogue companion trys to fish you out with his spear before you die. Get accidentally critically stabbed in the neck by the rogue. |
| 295 | Fail a balance check while running across a tightrope, and plummet into a battle between 10,000 chaotic evil blackguards in a 20x20 ft. room, all of them wearing spiked fullplate armor and wielding vorpal swords. |
| 296 | Tell an ancient Terrorwing dragon that you are not afraid of it. |
| 297 | Stabbed in the foot by a vorpal sword when the enemy rolls a crit. |
| 298 | Strangled to death by a ladder. |
| 299 | Falling in your own Handy Haversack and suffocating. |
| 300 | Get teleported to the Far Realm by an evil beholder, where you are chased down and eaten by a pack of intelligent, chaotic evil, pac-man like aberrations who like the way that your elven wizard tastes. |
| 301 | Stabbed with a swordfish. |
| 302 | Eat a wand of fireball that has been glued to a rod of infinite expansion. |
| 303 | Have the spells perpetual motion and hold person cast on you at the same time. (If you have an evil DM, you will be torn in half as part of your body cannot stop moving, and part of it has to stop moving). |
| 304 | Be bitten by a werewolf with silver teeth. |
| 305 | 20th level rogue sneak attacks you with a rusty spoon, and rolls a natural 20. |
| 306 | Stampede of sleipnir |
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| 308 | |
| 309 | Rogue opens door to walk-in freezer and peeks inside; ogre chef uses prepared action to smash skull in with tree trunk rolling pin. |
| 310 | Party gets attacked by horde of zombies in foggy graveyard when you don't show up to a session, and your character gets dominated by a vampire spawn and blood drained 30 feet away. At the end of the session the other party members ask each other where your character is. |
| 311 | Have a hobgoblin roll three 20s against you with his shortspear on your first ever round of combat playing the game. Welcome to D&D. Your first character is never any good, anyway. |
| 312 | |
| 313 | Be at 6 health and mouth off to a pixie, making him slap you for 24 points of damage. |
| 314 | Your paladin kills a dragon that to bargain for his life was about to tell you where the strongest sword ever was, after saying "there is no bargain with evil". |
| 315 | Getting a crit on a monster with a magical sword that damages you for twice as much |
| 316 | Channeling your highest level spell slot into an explosion to save your party from an angry swarm of giant sentient ants |
| 317 | Having a Great Wyrm Blue Dragon's tail smear you along the floor of a cave while your party's Samurai prepares his first attack |
| 318 | Deciding its a good idea to fire an arrow at a Balor while the rest of your party runs away |
| 319 | Be a cleric when your party's warrior needs to prove his cruelty to a Nightmare |
| 320 | Having a speed of 20ft in any situation that requires retreat |
| 321 | badger the DM, asking to mount your wolf repeatedly while already on your wolf |
| 322 | Wild magic |
| 323 | You are fighting an exact copy of yourself that makes the exact same movements your character does, including the rolls. You stab your copy with a vorpal sword in the chest, and roll critical |
| 324 | Paralyzed by eating the wrong sort of berry and then have party members that think that submerging you in a body of water might snap you out of it... yup |
| 325 | Making sure you fail one of your CON saves while fighting lycanthropes, so you can become an awesome werebear, but in the midst of your first ever transformation the ENTIRE FREAKIN' MOON GOES 'BLOOEY and all the lycanthropes die. Oh bother |
| 326 | Getting randomly eaten by a fish. |
| 327 | Surviving the fish but drowning after getting out of it. |
| 328 | Throwing a scimitar to the feet of a bow wielding explorer, who had her bow ready to attack any strangers. |
| 329 | Insulting the healer when low on hitpoints. |
| 330 | falling 60 feet straight down onto a blood giants spear |
| 331 | To be continued |
| 332 | True Polymorph into a male drow and try to become a cleric |
| 333 | Challenge a shark to a swimming contest and make deep incisions in your flesh |
| 334 | Strap a thousand kegs of gunpowder to your waist, coat yourself in gasoline, cast wall of fire in the area directly surrounding you, and cast fireball centered on yourself |
| 335 | Cast magic missile as a 9th-level spell on the tarrasque |
| 336 | Be level one, go to a forest known for its giant elk in the middle of mating season, and cover yourself with goat piss |
| 337 | After studying for hours, casting wish for the last time in your life, and gaining 5 levels of exhaustion, figure out the gender of Corellon Larethian |
| 338 | Trying to roll Persuasion to not have the king execute you after you killed his wife, and then rolling a natural 1. |
| 339 | Rules Lawyering so much your DM gets pissed off, so they throw Chthulu in power armor at you |
| 340 | Going into the Curse of Strahd campaign and deciding to fight Strahd in your first session |
| 341 | Getting Power Word Kill-ed by a lich because you interrupted their monologue |
| 342 | Touching LITERALLY ANYTHING in a dungeon, then it turns into a Mimic and eats your arm |
| 343 | Annoying a Way of the Open Hand monk when you don't have proficiency in Constitution saving throws |
| 344 | Casting Enlarge/Reduce on your stomach so you can eat more |
| 345 | Touching that snake which the DM said was "totally normal" |
| 346 |
Challenging the Ruler of Warriors to a fight |
| 347 |
Going for a "peaceful" swim in Loch Ness and meeting this |
| 348 |
Annoying the DM by doing something that they SPECIFICALLY said that you shouldn't do, despite attempts at bargaining. |
| 349 | Getting your skeleton dropkicked out of your body. |
|- class="even" | 350 || style="text-align: left;" | Goblin sharpshooter rolls a natural 20 on your level one wizard. |}
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