Have you ever had one of your D&D characters die? Was it because of roleplay choices or just bad dice luck? Did you enjoy making and playing a new character or did you find it difficult to be ‘new to the party’ or to separate player knowledge and character knowledge?
Just looking to get some conversation started around here.
You know, in ~14 years of playing, I don’t recall ever having one of my characters die-die. (My current Pathfinder fighter gets knocked out and almost dies virtually every session, but we have a healing cleric and a sorcerer with a couple healing spells to keep my dumb ass alive and so far, so good. ❤️🩹)
My poor spouse, on the other hand, lost his very first character at a pretty low level. 4e cleric got critically glue potted by a kobold and then toasted by a dragon. (He later looked more closely at the rules and realized the DM may have made an error in determining ongoing damage from the dragon’s breath weapon, but ah well—such is ttrpg life. (And death.) Made for a memorable conclusion to his first character’s brief adventuring career.)