About a year ago. 1st session of a Stars Without Number campaign. We were trying to board an enemy ship and one of the PCs tried to toss a grenade at two pirates guarding the entry corridor. Player rolled a 1 and the random roll had the grenade drop at his feet. TPK. We couldn't stop laughing and it set the tone for the rest of the campaign (we started again playing the pirates whose ship we had tried to board).

This just reminds me that I have not been a Player in a while. I've GM'd the past four years only.

I lost a couple of 0 level characters a few months back. Before that? Blimey, about 2006 probably when a 3e Cleric bought the farm in the first session we played. In a pique of daring and stroppiness, i made another Cleric and this one got to 13th level. Hurrah!

A couple weeks ago.  Ran a BTB Basic game a while back, and the pcs were dropping like flies.  One guy must have lost about 20 characters.  Easy to die when you have 1 or 2 hit points.

Just remembered that I ran DCC RPG Sailors of the Starless Sea about a month ago. About 7 0th levels bought it that night but I'm not sure if that counts.

I guess 0 levels would count, technically.

I don't get to play anymore, just DM, but I have had a number of low-level characters die (I guess you could say I killed them off).  Memorable ones:

in an Original D&D game I had a guy die three times, we did the whole "Find you in a dungeon" shtick, just kept moving his prisoner's cell far enough from where he died so that he'd have time to roll up YET ANOTHER character.

Same guy, in an AD&D game, got his gnome magic-user trampled to death by Zuggmetoy's polyp form in T1-4, in her Interdicted Prison.

My nephew's first-level ranger died by FUS-RO-*boom* when he fired an arrow at a Gas Spore at close range.

Quote from: jeff37923;705502This just reminds me that I have not been a Player in a while. I've GM'd the past four years only.

Welcome to the club. I've gotten to play twice in the last 14 years.
But I do enjoy being a DM and I have various solo adventures I can work through.

25 years, probably. But I don't play D&D much. I DM it once in a while. (The last D&D campaign I played in was with 4e, and it sucked. We started at 8th level per the DM's decree. Years prior, I played in an Arcana Evolved campaign - but the party reached 4th level before we had a near TPK).

I ran The Lost City a couple years ago using Moldvay Basic. A Fire Beetle chewed up one of the 1st level PCs.

Months later, I ran a sandbox that pilfered liberally from Castles & Crusades modules. The party first had decision-paralysis trying to determine which adventure lead to pursue. Then, they decided to go waaaaay off the beaten path and explore spider-haunted woods. One 1st leveller got mangled by a Wereboar; another entered a moss-overgrown tomb and got hacked up by a skeleton.

maybe 15 years ago. Was asked to play with some peeps from school in a Forgotten Realms campaign set in The Time of Troubles (what a lame fucking name for anything).

Asked to borrow the Player's Guide from the DM, was refused. Asked to make a half-orc fighter, was refused. Was herded into making a human fighter-mage. Meh. My guy was first level, the rest of the party was 5th-7th, maybe higher.

Started in some city, in the midst of a crowd watching two gods physically fight. They hit each other and the city was consumed in a fiery holocaust. My character died within 5 minutes of me playing. I told the DM to go fuck himself and left.

That was the last first level D&D character I had that died.

About a year ago:

After a skirmish with a dozen or so brigands, my cleric was trying to ride back to town with a badly wounded thief (my PC was down to 2hp) as quickly as possible. Two of the surviving brigands shot the horse out from under him and the fall killed my cleric. The brigands killed the thief.

Quote from: everloss;705647maybe 15 years ago. Was asked to play with some peeps from school in a Forgotten Realms campaign set in The Time of Troubles (what a lame fucking name for anything).

Asked to borrow the Player's Guide from the DM, was refused. Asked to make a half-orc fighter, was refused. Was herded into making a human fighter-mage. Meh. My guy was first level, the rest of the party was 5th-7th, maybe higher.

Started in some city, in the midst of a crowd watching two gods physically fight. They hit each other and the city was consumed in a fiery holocaust. My character died within 5 minutes of me playing. I told the DM to go fuck himself and left.

That was the last first level D&D character I had that died.

And you were not in awe of that dm's sheer awesomeness?

But seriously, WTF!?!

Quote from: everloss;705647maybe 15 years ago. Was asked to play with some peeps from school in a Forgotten Realms campaign set in The Time of Troubles (what a lame fucking name for anything).

Asked to borrow the Player's Guide from the DM, was refused. Asked to make a half-orc fighter, was refused. Was herded into making a human fighter-mage. Meh. My guy was first level, the rest of the party was 5th-7th, maybe higher.

Started in some city, in the midst of a crowd watching two gods physically fight. They hit each other and the city was consumed in a fiery holocaust. My character died within 5 minutes of me playing. I told the DM to go fuck himself and left.

That was the last first level D&D character I had that died.

It's dickheads like that who stuck us with 3rd and 4th edition.

Just over a year ago.  Lance to the throat while jousting.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;706182It's dickheads like that who stuck us with 3rd and 4th edition.

4th edition GMs don't have truck with stupid bullshit like denying a player information, restricting choices for no reason, or starting a new character at 1st level in a group of experienced PCs.

And that retarded god-fighting plot could have come straight out of 2nd edition Forgotten Realms, so I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.