Nov 22, 2022
Causes of PC & hireling deaths during 3 years of one D&D campaign, from “It’s a Good Day to Die” by Lyle Fitzgerald in The Dragon 20, TSR, November 1978. The author notes that this was primarily a wilderness campaign, and estimates they saw 1000 character deaths over 4 years but kept records of only these 600 in the most recent 3 years. “Misc. causes” includes 50 different monsters, 5 drownings, 4 staked after became vampires, rockslides, freezing, plagues, Martians, run over by a coach, and “done in by a whore with a hat pin.”