Over 100 Ways to Die (DnD Other)

A compendium of all the known ways to die. Feel free to add.

Ways to Die

	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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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.
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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.

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