I've got two that qualify, i think. One is a case of "well really, he deserved it for trying to be a smartarse," and the other to my eternal shame is mine...

Case number one is Rolemaster. We've got a tricked out Warrior Monk with defences up the wazoo who hardly ever gets touched in combat. Trouble is, the player gets a sudden case of rules-lawyerism that begets his downfall. The party are wandering through an underground grotto, rock formations block the view, the ground is uneven and overall, visibility isn't great - there is no problem with the light however. So, the call goes out for the players to make a Perception check and we all have a go...However, the Warrior Monk's player sudden;y thinks aha! My spacial location awareness skill is better than my perception (that skill basically is like echo-location, helps in the dark, blind warriors and the like). So he closes his eyes, walks at the front of the group by 20 odd feet 'cos he's confident of you know 'seeing' better than anyone else. Anyhow, he contrives to fail his roll and promptly falls down a pit he would have noticed if only he had his eyes open...

This being Rolemaster, he rolls 100 for the crit result...bye, bye Warrior Monk.

Case 2 took place in the only 'evil' campaign i've ever really taken part in, although our idea of evil was stealing from each other and fucking each other over. Anyhow, my Assassin decides to off another character - a warrior tougher than myself. So i get a sleeping poison, daub my blade with it and await my victim in an allleyway. My plan, nick him with the blade, run away, then return once he's fallen asleep. However, in all the excitement, i swing away for a few rounds, hit nothing, get thumped and just when i thought it was all over i scored a hit! Having been rather carried away by the whole thing, i then proceeded to stand my ground for some inexplicable reason while the poison was getting to work and quite rightly got killed for my brainfart. The rest of the party came across my body and found the warrior sleeping soundly by my side.

An inexperienced player did this one:

The party (three people, two veterens and one newbie) is in an underground labrynth of interconnecting caverns. They smell something like rotten eggs and come accross a "pool of greenish liquid that blocks the path, it is too cloudy to see through."

Guess who dove in and attempted to swim accross.




Had another one where the PC's had reached about lv 12 when the party (of 5) met with some of their arch nemesis' in a big battle. The bad guys of course had a shit-load of underlings fighting at their sides. Though the PCs had managed to do some serious damage and despite killing off one of the main NPCs in the battle, it became apparent that they were not going to win. Eveyone began making a retreat. Everyone that is, except for the "i'm a fucking badass" ranger who decided to go head to head with a Minotaur. The Minotaur was beating the shit out of him and had him down to like 5 Hps (this Minotaur had something like +8 to damage) and the idiot ranger just stood there fighting him. Never ran away, never even tried to do something interesting. Just stood there toe to toe. An elf in front of a minotaur.

He died.

I remembered another one:

We were playing Paranoia. One of our PCs had psychic abilities but hadn't told anybody. The PCs got sent out to repair some malfunctioning war robots and got attacked by them. They were all down to like 5hp or something, when the psychic PC suddenly unleashes a bunch of lightning blasts at the robots, destroying them all.

The other PC's (the players that is), all looked at each other and then, almost as one, yelled, "He's a mutant!" And they killed him.

Quote from: Blazing Donkey;493994I remembered another one:

We were playing Paranoia. One of our PCs had psychic abilities but hadn't told anybody. The PCs got sent out to repair some malfunctioning war robots and got attacked by them. They were all down to like 5hp or something, when the psychic PC suddenly unleashes a bunch of lightning blasts at the robots, destroying them all.

The other PC's (the players that is), all looked at each other and then, almost as one, yelled, "He's a mutant!" And they killed him.

I'm not sure PARANOIA counts because that's exactly what's supposed to happen.  

JG

Yeah, that's not even particularly funny by Paranoia standards.

RPGPundit

There was that one time someone fumbled their grenade toss in the ammo dump. I imagined a pretty spectacular light show.