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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:08:06 GMT
From TUFFF... If it's arbitrary deaths you want, then Clash Of The Princes is the book for you! In The Warrior's Way (paragraph 449) you decide to overcome a giant anthill by hacking at it with your sword. You need to pass a Skill test to do it. If you succeed, you send the ants into a frenzy, but you're not really concerned by that because the structure topples down on top of you and squashes you flat!
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:08:40 GMT
From TUFFF... Being turned into an animal isn't technically a death, but it is humorous! You can get turned into a pheasant (The Warrior's Way, para 154), or a frog (The Forest Of Doom, 399), or even a particularly ugly fish (Demons Of The Deep, 95). Two of these come about by attacking lawfully-aligned wizards, which is only fair, I guess!
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:09:11 GMT
From TUFFF... Other adventure-terminating transformations include a spider (Scorpion Swamp and Spellbreaker), a newt (Midnight Rogue - and you don't get better) and a giant scorpion Portal of Evil). Include the Warlock magazine mini-adventures, and there's also a seal (The Floating City).
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:10:34 GMT
From TUFFF... ...a newt...and you don't get better ~ Vae Victis! ~
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:12:01 GMT
From TUFFF... You also can be transformed into a frog in Legend of the Shadow Warriors. I also found Black Vein Prophecy to have some hilarious deaths. The first being to just jump back into your sarcophagus and pass out. The second one when you've done everything right in the climatic war battle and you're told one final push could tip the scales in your favor, and then you're asked whether you hired mercenaries. If you did, the book says how miraculously armored mercenaries ride in toward you as you shout with joy and direct them toward your weakest lines of defence. Then they trample you and before you die you see them attack your army.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:13:22 GMT
From TUFFF... The Tunnels and Trolls chapter: Naked Doom has your hero attempting to remove the Hero Sword stuck in the wall. If you fail, you actually still get some reward to your Attributes but then you hear a voice chuckling, "Not really a hero". You are asked if you want to have another go and if you do, you get this: Two deep voices thunder, "YOU GET JUST ONE CHANCE - YOU ONLY GO AROUND ONCE IN THIS LIFE!" A stone door slides across the passage behind you, and the room, magically, instantly, begins to fill up with beer. You drown. Close the book.
Charming. No 'Better luck next time' or 'Roll up another character and try again'. Just: 'You die. Now piss off'. Two Words
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:13:43 GMT
From TUFFF... Another non-lethal one, this from the Make Your Own Adventure With Doctor Who book The Garden of Evil. Hubris causes you to transform into a bridge. Thinking about it, having the life sucked out of you by a table in Forbidden Gateway book 2 is pretty daft, too.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:14:18 GMT
From TUFFF... In the warlock of firetop mountain, if you pull the wrong lever at the first portcullis, and have exactly 2 stamina, you can die because you pulled it with your left hand!
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:15:02 GMT
From TUFFF... Is it really likely that you'll be in such poor health by then, though? It'd take numerous poor rolls in combat (against nothing tougher than an Orc), and deliberate neglect of Provisions to make such a fatality remotely plausible. In a similar vein, Lone Wolf 18 includes a section where you can lose a point of Endurance by having a cabbage thrown at you. A very narrow interpretation of the rules, and exceptionally careful taking of damage prior to the encounter, could theoretically leave you in a condition where the cabbage could kill you, but frankly, you've got a better chance of defeating Razaak in Crypt of the Sorcerer than of being cabbaged to death.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:16:17 GMT
From TUFFF... ...Frankly, you've got a better chance of defeating Razaak in Crypt of the Sorcerer than of being cabbaged to death. These things do happen though. Look at my seahorse death, snake bite death and tree jumping death... The last of which you nearly followed! ~ Vae Victis! ~
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:16:43 GMT
From TUFFF... The snake bite incident is pretty nasty, actually: roll an Initial Stamina of 18 or less (IIRC) and you can be seriously harmed, even if you haven't taken much of a beating beforehand. The sea horse and tree encounters both occur at some point after fights with opponents that have Skill scores higher than 6. The fake lever could only prove lethal to a seriously unlucky and careless adventurer.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:22:43 GMT
From TUFFF (January 2013)... Those infuriating passages you reach after making a rational, sensible choice...only to die horribly. Paragraph 8 from Appointment with FEAR springs to mind. I'm a superhero. I see a boy stealing a chocolate bar. I apprehend the young scamp and try to teach him right from wrong, because that's what superheroes do.
Result: the boy pulls out a gun and shoots me at point blank range
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:23:40 GMT
From TUFFF... I close the door of the room and quietly I lie down in the bed and prepare myself to a relaxing and comforting sleep in the tower of Zambar Bone... Unexpectedly, my fully deserved rest becomes an eternal sleep. Razaak's apprentice
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:25:06 GMT
From TUFFF... Vag, you go to bed in freakin' ZAMBAR BONE's tower, the one you came to kill, and expected a good night's rest?
I'm guessing that if your great uncle dies and leaves you a fortune BUT you have to spend the weekend at his isolated mansion on the top of a haunted hill before getting the money that you, of course, are definitely going, right?
Those infuriating passages you reach after making a rational, sensible choice...only to die horribly.
Paragraph 8 from Appointment with FEAR springs to mind. I'm a superhero. I see a boy stealing a chocolate bar. I apprehend the young scamp and try to teach him right from wrong, because that's what superheroes do.
Result: the boy pulls out a gun and shoots me at point blank range That will teach you not wearing body armour ...er, everywhere. Speak in extremes, it will save you time.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:26:49 GMT
From TUFFF... Vag, you go to bed in freakin' ZAMBAR BONE's tower, the one you came to kill, and expected a good night's rest? Not only that, but you're doing this after Nicodemus (whom you (vagsancho) seem to admire and respect almost as much as you do Razaak) has told you that Zanbar Bone can only be defeated at night. Going to bed in the tower is about as rational and sensible as resurfacing at the start of Demons of the Deep. A slightly deferred Instant Death (if such a thing is possible), but getting killed by the Master of the House of Drumer as a result of choosing to fight the Earl is an ingenious twist.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:28:28 GMT
From TUFFF... Not only that, but you're doing this after Nicodemus (whom you (vagsancho) seem to admire and respect I would say there is a reason to my admiration for Nicodemus. Yaztromo is a great man and wizard who still believes in the good in the human being. Nicodemus, for other side, is the warlock who have seen all that the world has to show, all the Good and the Evil, all the greatness and the sickness that belongs to the human race, and discovered inside him that the human being, with all that he has, will never manage to transform this world in something good. He is just so tired from all the fragility, all the weakness, all the immorality and all the impotence which stifles in every moment every human being that he discovers that solitude is the only thing that he truly desires. I'm guessing that if I will still ever to be born in the world of Titan, I will inevitably meet him. Razaak's apprentice
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:29:03 GMT
From TUFFF... ...and risk death, no doubt. Maybe Nicodemus should retreat in a place that's less filled with scum and villainy. It might improve his morale. Speak in extremes, it will save you time.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:29:31 GMT
From TUFFF... In Masks of Mayhem, while down in the mine, I took a look at a puddle of water. Then suddenly, there was a shaft in the ceiling above me, from where an Orc could shoot an arrow through my neck.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:30:36 GMT
From TUFFF... In Masks of Mayhem, while down in the mine, I took a look at a puddle of water. Then suddenly, there was a shaft in the ceiling above me, from where an Orc could shoot an arrow through my neck. Don't you just hate it when that happens? Speak in extremes, it will save you time.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:31:06 GMT
From TUFFF... Puddles are often the more hazardous of obstacles that people overlook. Two Words
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:31:45 GMT
From TUFFF... I've learn that the hard way this winter.
*Oh look at this! Thank you for making me notice those holes I had previously missed!* *Goes shopping for new boots* Speak in extremes, it will save you time.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:33:30 GMT
From TUFFF... Vag, you go to bed in freakin' ZAMBAR BONE's tower, the one you came to kill, and expected a good night's rest?
I think I made the same mistake on my first visit to Zanbar Bone's tower! My reasoning whenever given the option to take a nap in Fighting Fantasy is: "my character is so badass, he can fall asleep in this creepy tower/mansion/dungeon and dream nothing but sweet, untroubled dreams of victory!" Not an instant death as such, since you get to roll against your SKILL to get free, but you can be smothered to death by the bed linen in one of the bedrooms in House of Hell.
Most of the time, FF rewards you for falling asleep, e.g. staying at inns (to avoid a Wandering Night Creature), or as a stat bonus ("you feel refreshed, have +2 STAMINA"), or in Phantoms of Fear you must nod off to enter the dream world.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 16, 2014 14:33:57 GMT
From TUFFF... I see what you mean.
Still! For once Livingstone was actually being logical while setting a simple trap. It does not happen often. Speak in extremes, it will save you time.
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Post by nathanh on Mar 16, 2014 21:12:44 GMT
I was clawed by a cat while on 1 Stamina in Bloodbones...
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Post by deadshadowrunner on Mar 17, 2014 4:48:05 GMT
There was a part in Flight from the Dark where you jump from a speeding caravan but land badly and break it,losing consciousness. The text states:Unfortunately you never wake up,but it may be of interest to you that your head is now adorning the saddle of a Kraan.
The way Joe Dever wrote it makes me think that it's hilarious.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Mar 17, 2014 16:53:56 GMT
I was clawed by a cat while on 1 Stamina in Bloodbones... This sort of thing never makes the Background sections... "We've sent other warriors, but none have survived. The last one was killed by a cat." "A big cat?" "Well it's a bit on the fat side now, yeah."
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Post by Paul Mc on Dec 12, 2015 13:37:30 GMT
One bad ending had me in stitches. It was from a book called "house of horror" and was a sequel to house of hell. It was on the ff project site. On coming to a locked door you have the option to open it with an iron key (if you have it), use lockpicks (if you have them & you wont), or ignore the door. If you choose to use the lockpicks (that you won't have because there isn't any in the game)... a ghost appears and says I can't stand cheats, then whisks you off to where you got the lockpicks from, which certainly isn't anywhere in the adventure.
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Post by Paul Mc on Dec 12, 2015 14:17:05 GMT
I wrote a book called Satan's Academy (Was set in a School and had some house of hell traits). I was quite gruesome with my deaths, as writing deaths was my favourite part. But my most horrible one I think was this...
2 After looking around you realise you are in a bare room with grey walls, there is a window in the corner with bars over it, you look and there is a door with bars too. All there is in this room is a wooden bed. You have been captured and taken to a cell and you’re trapped! You let out a frightened scream. A minute later a horned demon comes to the door and opens it. “Time to be sacrificed” he cackles with an evil grin. You think about barging past but he is blocking the exit, you go to attack but you can see many demons arriving behind him. You accept the game is up and go with them. You are taken through some double doors and placed on an altar. You are then tied to a wooden stake on the altar. Looking round you see a congregation of people chanting and clapping to a ghoulish overture being played. The music stops and a vampire in a hooded cloak says a few words to the congregation. He then signals to the horned demons who are guarding the stake with you tied to it and as he does the congregation start chanting “Burn his soul!! Burn his soul!!” The bottom of the stake is then lit and the flames start covering the wood and you on it. You scream in agony, cry and beg for mercy as the flames burn you from your feet upwards. You look down in horror at burnt flesh dripping off your body. It take a whole twenty minutes of unbearable purgatory before you finally pass out from the pain, shock and burns.
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Post by marman on Apr 29, 2017 10:35:00 GMT
So I was reading 'Trial of Champions' and there's a death scene in the book which I thought was the best i'd encountered in any FF book so far.
I guess I should prefix this with a **SPOILER ALERT**
It was when I chose to eat the food of the Hill Troll. And it states that it's infested with Flesh Grubs 'which will soon hatch out and begin to burrow their way out of your stomach'. However this isn't like a normal death where the passage just ends. Instead you have to deduct 1 stamina every new passage you turn to until you die! I thought that was brilliant!
Anyway it made me think I want to know what people's most memorable or gruesome death scenes (in your opinion) are?
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Post by philsadler on Apr 29, 2017 12:28:38 GMT
The Black Pit trap (or whatever it was called) in Creature of Havoc. Whatever it did to you we shall never know because Jackson said it was a good thing you weren't conscious when you got to the bottom. Of course there's always the good old 'being eaten alive' by the ghoul or the 'being taken to hell' by the death spider endings.
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