From ATS: Common Causes of PC Death

[Morrolan]

From my own history (out of 34 gone):

• Storage - 8
• Killed - 26

The Dead:

• NPCs - 18 (IIRC, one was on the order of a PC) (most common is spider-related problems - 5)
• Falls - 3
• PCs - 2
• Unlisted - 2 (IIRC one was a mercy death from my byn sergeant after a gith attack)
• Death flag - 1

[BleakOne]

Yeah, more than half my PC deaths were from doing something stupid. Worth it though.

[Recharge]

I refuse to stop doing stupid things. It may not be smart but its still fun as hell.

[Patuk]

I refuse to stop doing stupid things. It may not be smart but its still fun as hell.

[HavokBlue]

My longest lived PC continues to be the one I did the most stupid things on (fight a dujat in a storm with a skinning knife, wander naked into the red desert, try to join the militia as a breed, walk around Allanak in Tuluki noble armor etc etc).

[Lizzie]

#1 reason for PC deaths:

XD

True fact: When XD's last character was a little boy, he followed a trail to find silver. He found the halflings, but when he asked for silver, they refused to give it to him. This is why we no longer have halflings.

[Malken]

I don't think I've ever been PKed, except for that one time when I wanted to quit Borsail because I told them their clan was boring, ICly, like, 8 years ago.

[hyzhenhok]

My record from 2007 to January 2012

7 PCs dead to aggro NPCs
4 PCs dead to non-aggro NPCs that I stupidly attacked
--> One was a backstab mistargeted at a mount. The guy mounted on top sat there and laughed.
3 PCs PK'd
--> One of these, I backstabbed an NPC Templar for my dwarf's focus. He merely knocked me out. The PC Templar who showed up to deal with it was not lenient.
1 PC dead to running from soldiers
1 PC dead to eating something poisoned
1 PC dead to falling

5 PCs stored (3 were long-lived)

[MeTekillot]

I've been PKed twice.

One was by somebody who I still think is a nob to this day but I will not go further into it.

The other happened so fast that I hadn't realized what happened until the mantis head.

[BleakOne]

There's two PKs that I've done which I regret. I was a n00b at the time.

[Kismetic]

It's hard to regret PKing when you're playing true to the character/scenario.  If we wanted to play MUSH, we'd be doing that.  As for deaths, I have to agree with staff answers.  Generally, stupidity.  Or good, clean fun.  Or both!

[Ender]

Here's my personal death stats:

Total: 18
Death from NPC: 9
Death from PC: 4
Storage: 4
Deathflag: 1

I'd say about 75% of my deaths were stupidity, and the remaining 25% were fitting ends to the character.

[Scarecrow]

It's hard to regret PKing when you're playing true to the character/scenario.  If we wanted to play MUSH, we'd be doing that.  As for deaths, I have to agree with staff answers.  Generally, stupidity.  Or good, clean fun.  Or both!

True, but some PK's even ones with RP backing, when you're the PKer, sometimes you feel a little bad afterward because you had to end someone's character. I have felt this a few times myself.

[solera]

I think I've had 12.
1 noob disconnect
1 stored (interim pc)
1 accidental poison
5 wilderness NPC  (elf, tembo, kryl, carru, spider)
1 NPC soldier
3 PC's who my PCs had irritated by stealing stabbing and blasphemy


7 of the deaths were a combination of ic influences and my stupidity ,( 3 overestimating the effectiveness of my skillz or a superior attribute and too much faith in the  F1 key.)
1 I suddenly wanted to chop things up.

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charge carru         with a PC that had spanned 3 years.
1 was pure stupidity on the part of my PC
3 were inexperience of the game world, not really understanding that it is dangerous out there.

[CravenMadness]

Every character I've ever had die, was due to player stupidity.

[IntuitiveApathy]

17 total characters done for me:

9 - NPC
1 - Poison
1 - Falling
3 - Storage
3 - PK (one of these was when I was afk, and the newbie in the sparring room decided he wanted to spar me.. to the death)

[Lizzie]

Most of mine were assassinated. Most of the rest were stored. A very small handful were attacked and killed by gith/raptors/random NPC mobs.

[Jestor]

Total: 29

NPC: 16
PC: 3
Death Flag: 1
Stored: 5
Poison: 2
Immortal Fury: 1

I got a kick out of reading the NPCs that have killed my characters.  More halflings and gith than I remembered.
Immortal Fury isn't as cool as it sounds!  After returning from a almost 6 year break (back in '09), I wished up saying I think this guy is too old to live.  Heart Attack!?

[Barzalene]

Total: 29

NPC: 16
PC: 3
Death Flag: 1
Stored: 5
Poison: 2
Immortal Fury: 1

I got a kick out of reading the NPCs that have killed my characters.  More halflings and gith than I remembered.
Immortal Fury isn't as cool as it sounds!  After returning from a almost 6 year break (back in '09), I wished up saying I think this guy is too old to live.  Heart Attack!?

Do I count as one of the three?

(Does it still count as death by stupidity if it's someone else's stupidity?)

20 years in. Still feel bad.

[Ayamane]

Immortal Fury isn't as cool as it sounds!  After returning from a almost 6 year break (back in '09), I wished up saying I think this guy is too old to live.  Heart Attack!?

They can do stuff like that? Dang, I kinda wish I'd gotten the guy run over by a Wagon or something instead of storing. Would've at least made people smile.

[Fredd]

I have a charecter notes request in, I will post all my stupidity when it gets back, so I got all the up to date stupid crap i've done since my last one a long while back.

[brytta.leofa]

22 - NPCs (5 to spiders; otherwise, it's a nice mix)
18 - stored
3 - poison (from NPCs)
1 - dehydration
1 - desert elf PC
1 - Nilazi PC

[Ayamane]

As far as my own running total goes, it's something like

3 - NPCs
2 - Stored

I think the NPCs were all Kryl, but I may have tried to mug an NPC in the 'rinth or been mugged, I can't remember. Don't have the logs anymore, sadly.

[palomar]

3 stored
2 PK'ed
2 poison
14 NPCs (halflings, scrabs, rinthis, templars, raptors, wezers, inix)
1 environment
1 dehydration

[ShaLeah]

 33 total
- 8 stored
Leaves 25 that count, of those:
1 - Suicide which was actually - Immortal Fury, come revel in your power!!!!! (stupidity, that was mostly -player- impatience rather than character unraveling)
1 - Fall (stupidity)
1 - Quitting out while in negative HPs (stupidity)
2 - soldier deaths (stupidity)
1 - arena deaths (gladiator - still stupidity)
4 - NPC deaths (all stupidity)

15 PK or PK related deaths, whether they be arena thrown, soldier ordered, one on one or whatever. Most of my deaths are PKs.

That totally makes me happy.

* ShaLeah .... who apparently makes characters everyone loves to hate enough to kill.... w00t!