Stupid Deaths....

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

An absolute corker if I may say so. Me (Troll) vs AI Knight and AI Leprechaun. First time using Blood Moon. Anyway the Leprechaun and I both have Lycanthropy. He draws the event card "Angry Mob" and is instantly killed. My next dice roll I get to go to his space and pick up all his gear - and get insta killed by the same angry mob. So it's a stranger card not an event card. Next time...

Anyone can beat that ?

S.x.

[Fomalhaut]

I'm sure I've rolled doubles on a revealed Basilisk - my initial approach was 'what are the chances of rolling doubles?' then my obvious post-death thought was the dice are rigged why take the risk of insta-death for a 2 point trophy?

[sjgf]

I saw four AI characters get killed by the same basilisk in the same game once.

[vidal22]

lol-yea, game last night basilisk got two-one initial and one going to get his stuff, and it was dbl 6's against both

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

Originally posted by vidal22:

lol-yea, game last night basilisk got two-one initial and one going to get his stuff, and it was dbl 6's against both

The odds against that happening are not that high. Since the odds of being killed by the Basilisk are 1 in 6 the odds on it happening twice in succession are 1 in 36. Once A person has been killed by doubles from the Basilisk the odds on the next person to land on it being killed drop to 1 in 6 again. Three times in succession goes to 1 in 216, four times 1 in 1296. The real odds, particularly on the fourth one are lower because there are so many other cards or spells that could remove the Basilisk from play without those odds being tested. Still given the size of the community and total games played it can't be that unusual.

S.x.

[sjgf]

Originally posted by gallifrey:

Originally posted by vidal22:

lol-yea, game last night basilisk got two-one initial and one going to get his stuff, and it was dbl 6's against both

The odds against that happening are not that high. Since the odds of being killed by the Basilisk are 1 in 6 the odds on it happening twice in succession are 1 in 36. Once A person has been killed by doubles from the Basilisk the odds on the next person to land on it being killed drop to 1 in 6 again. Three times in succession goes to 1 in 216, four times 1 in 1296. The real odds, particularly on the fourth one are lower because there are so many other cards or spells that could remove the Basilisk from play without those odds being tested. Still given the size of the community and total games played it can't be that unusual.

S.x.

I know that the odds of a character getting killed are only 1 in 6 but when I saw that the Basilisk mentioned in my game above had killed four AI characters in the same game I decided that discretion was the better part of valour and so I just stayed the hell away from that monster. I didn't want to risk my character being victim number 5, even though the Basilisk guarded a huge pile of Objects and Followers and defeating it would have been very good for my character.

That Basilisk gave me the creeps ! Sometimes fear overrides logic.

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

Oh, old ham head himself gets to add to this one. Thief, storming it versus Warrior and Alchemist A.I, Str 7 , Craft 9, a ton of items and a horde of companions. So it starts to go pear shaped - I lose two lives on "Growing Suspicions", I lose another to that dragon with the breath attack that auto life takes for weapons or armour, so I go to the Chapel to pay for healing - forgetting that the Madcap changed my alignment to evil. Dead.

S.x.

[gamerhelligon]

So there I was, my preist against a prophetess and a Leprechaun. I was on the village space and used my last gold on an axe. 1 life left and no fate points. I roll a 2....now my choices are to land on the forest where there was a 8 str dragon I think it was, or the graveyard where good loses a life.

My poor little preist only had a strength of 2 still. So it was instant lose a life or die by dragon who could pretty much insta kill me.....I went down swinging, but sadly the dragon won..lol

[s54113]

Originally posted by gamerhelligon:

So there I was, my preist against a prophetess and a Leprechaun. I was on the village space and used my last gold on an axe. 1 life left and no fate points. I roll a 2....now my choices are to land on the forest where there was a 8 str dragon I think it was, or the graveyard where good loses a life.

My poor little preist only had a strength of 2 still. So it was instant lose a life or die by dragon who could pretty much insta kill me.....I went down swinging, but sadly the dragon won..lol

Saw similar thing happened to AI once.
Sage (evil, 2 S, 4 C, 0 fate, 1 life) on fields space between Graveyard and Village. Rolled and rerolled 5. What was the problem - fireland token on ruins, some enemies too. So, the choice was to be killed (either by Sentinel or enemies), to burn or to receive divine punishment.
He probably could escape death with appropriate spell(s), but looks like he had none of these at the time.

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

Thanks for the responses people. However as OP I would point out that a "stupid death" is not an inevitability on the dice roll, or the result of misfortune with the dice rolls. Being double "1"d, or even single "1"'d without fate by the Reaper is not a "stupid death". Nor is "Horrible black void". Even voluntarily taking on the Basilisk is not a "stupid death" - sometimes you have to take risks in the game.

A true, 100% verified "stupid death" requires an AVOIDABLE bad decision by the player - thus choosing to land on the Peasant mob as a werewolf, losing your last life in the Chapel going to heal after your alignment has been changed to evil.

S.x.

[vidal22]

Originally posted by gallifrey:

Thanks for the responses people. However as OP I would point out that a "stupid death" is not an inevitability on the dice roll, or the result of misfortune with the dice rolls. Being double "1"d, or even single "1"'d without fate by the Reaper is not a "stupid death". Nor is "Horrible black void". Even voluntarily taking on the Basilisk is not a "stupid death" - sometimes you have to take risks in the game.

A true, 100% verified "stupid death" requires an AVOIDABLE bad decision by the player - thus choosing to land on the Peasant mob as a werewolf, losing your last life in the Chapel going to heal after your alignment has been changed to evil.

S.x.

lol-true, had the evil chalice(forget its exact name) in a mp game. Caught in the city-hit madcap but then other remaining player got me with finger of death and won battle dropping me to 1 life. Went into the guild temple and only paid two gold so i would hopefully go to either the temple or warlock's cave cause there was a healing on the desert and i had a twist of fate spell for the next turn. Got warlock's cave and a quest that i don't even remember-but next turn-didn't roll a one but used my twist of fate to do so and as i was stepping on the desert space-the other player "wtf" and has the counter counted down i realized that i had dropped the chalice when the madcap turned me good-but i wasn't really paying attention cause i was already planning my glorious escape-which i did by dying in the desert-right ontop of the healer

[gamerhelligon]

So I was playing as an assassin. I just had my alignment changed from evil to good by a card. 2 rounds later, I rolled and clicked on the graveyard to move to so I could replenish my fate points for free.

I forgot that I got changed from evil to good..so lost my last life because I was an idiot. I blame my age for being forgetfull...it's my lie and I can tell it anyway I want :P