Random Death

[Agelaus]

We were playing and our character randomly died. We think this may have been due to us ending a turn on a spawner, but not sure.

[scott_smart2000]

The only ways a character dies in Gloomhaven is due to having 0 HP or only having 1 available card in your hand and no more than 1 card in your discard so you can't end up with 2 cards to start a turn. Now, a wound on a 1 HP character would kill you randomly as that ticks at the start of a turn, but you get a pop-up on that. So, more than likely it was the character getting exhausted from burning all but one card (any active cards don't count to the 2-card requirement so view them as burnt too). You always have to watch that as you get going in this game, especially with the Spellweaver character you start with, but you'll run into longer missions that can tax all of your characters.

[Agelaus]

This was super early in the scenario though.

[scott_smart2000]

Well, you could have had to burn a bunch of cards due to damage so a character didn't die leaving your hand and deck empty, or you ran into a bug because ending your turn on a spawner definitely doesn't kill you. It just spawns the new enemy on the nearest adjacent space to it same as if the enemy spawned last round didn't move.

[hELP]

Since getting the Jaws of the Lion DLC and starting a new campaign, we have also had this happen to us. With 5 or 6 cards remaining in the hand or discard pile, the character dies at the end of the round, claiming there weren't enough ability cards remaining.