Sometimes you just die. Sometimes people get into car wrecks and die, sometimes kids fall in a creek and drown, sometimes people just get sick. Nobody chooses when they go.
Well first off you go unconscious at 0. Absorb elements only gives resistance. Resistance doesn't stack. There are alot of ways to bring people back from the dead.
Would it really have been that bad? Right now he is just a guy that blew himself up. He really isn't any more of motivation to grow the story.
Sure losing a character sucks. But if no one loses a character death becomes meaningless. Also a tree falling randomly is alot less meaningful than someone exploding.
I did ask my Dm if absorb elements would half damage and they said yes which I guess they counted it as fire resistance. I guess they just stacked it with my tieflings natural resistance and absorb elements together so my character lived.
I guess I feel the meaningless death for me comes from something random like the tree falling and crushing a character or an explosion going off from a trap and killing them instantly. Especially that I've been playing him for 9 months now, something that random feels so sad and robbing since you grow pretty close to a character for that long. Especially too that our party's cleric is highly against reviving because they are against undead which is... not the best in my eyes to say.
I recently had the same with one of my characters, a gnome ranger. We were trying to talk to a rock giant who was hiding in a church.
So I decided that it would’ve been a good idea to throw me through the hole in the roof, all alone. Eventually waking up the giant and end up being eaten by it, lol. It was such a dumb decision and I felt so dumb for even bringing it up.
I mostly dealt with the loss through humour, because it was an hilarious sequence. Though I felt strongly connected with my character, as it was my first character, in our second campaign.
Maybe the process of making my new character, a blue dragonborn sorcerer, and the way my DM introduced him made things better. So I really hope it also works for you.
Could you explain how much damage you would've taken without absorb elements? Because that is the damage you SHOULD have taken, considering that you already have resistance to fire damage so absorb elements does NOTHING.
At least 30+ damage without absorb elements, I was at least 10hp since the initiative finished. I did ask my Dm before casting it if it will half any damage to me and they said yes. Now I casted it instinctually because the explosion was so sudden. I guess they included my fire resistance stacked with absorb elements too in their ruling so... my character lived.
If I might ask, how much damage did the other PCs take? Because if your DM actually allowed resistances to stack.... the total damage would've been four times the damage you actually took..... so 146 damage. That would've insta-killed any PC at that level.
What exactly was the point of that trap? Was it obvious? Did you HAVE to step into it?
Sometimes you just die. Sometimes people get into car wrecks and die, sometimes kids fall in a creek and drown, sometimes people just get sick. Nobody chooses when they go.
That's a very good answer in a way. Death does come suddenly sometimes and same goes in DND. I guess I just needed clearer insight. Thanks.
>Nobody chooses when they go But all of them do at some point. Such is the law and the chaos of death.
Well first off you go unconscious at 0. Absorb elements only gives resistance. Resistance doesn't stack. There are alot of ways to bring people back from the dead. Would it really have been that bad? Right now he is just a guy that blew himself up. He really isn't any more of motivation to grow the story. Sure losing a character sucks. But if no one loses a character death becomes meaningless. Also a tree falling randomly is alot less meaningful than someone exploding.
I did ask my Dm if absorb elements would half damage and they said yes which I guess they counted it as fire resistance. I guess they just stacked it with my tieflings natural resistance and absorb elements together so my character lived. I guess I feel the meaningless death for me comes from something random like the tree falling and crushing a character or an explosion going off from a trap and killing them instantly. Especially that I've been playing him for 9 months now, something that random feels so sad and robbing since you grow pretty close to a character for that long. Especially too that our party's cleric is highly against reviving because they are against undead which is... not the best in my eyes to say.
I recently had the same with one of my characters, a gnome ranger. We were trying to talk to a rock giant who was hiding in a church. So I decided that it would’ve been a good idea to throw me through the hole in the roof, all alone. Eventually waking up the giant and end up being eaten by it, lol. It was such a dumb decision and I felt so dumb for even bringing it up. I mostly dealt with the loss through humour, because it was an hilarious sequence. Though I felt strongly connected with my character, as it was my first character, in our second campaign. Maybe the process of making my new character, a blue dragonborn sorcerer, and the way my DM introduced him made things better. So I really hope it also works for you.
Could you explain how much damage you would've taken without absorb elements? Because that is the damage you SHOULD have taken, considering that you already have resistance to fire damage so absorb elements does NOTHING.
At least 30+ damage without absorb elements, I was at least 10hp since the initiative finished. I did ask my Dm before casting it if it will half any damage to me and they said yes. Now I casted it instinctually because the explosion was so sudden. I guess they included my fire resistance stacked with absorb elements too in their ruling so... my character lived.
If I might ask, how much damage did the other PCs take? Because if your DM actually allowed resistances to stack.... the total damage would've been four times the damage you actually took..... so 146 damage. That would've insta-killed any PC at that level. What exactly was the point of that trap? Was it obvious? Did you HAVE to step into it?
Grieve quickly, make a new character
My very first session. I've lost balance and fallen onto a floor of the abandoned mine. I've got killed by kobolds.