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Being a collection of messy sorcerer deaths. Use for particularly dire magical mishaps or upon magic-user death for interesting variation. Consider crossing off entries when used and replacing with new options (unless you think it would be interesting for another magic-user to dissolve into green slime or whatever).
- Acidic blood dissolves body
- Head explodes, gore sprayed 10′ radius
- Body falls apart at the joints, no bleeding
- Flesh dissolves into green slime
- Drawn and quartered by invisible forces
- Blood turns to deadly poison (1 dose/level)
- Bones vanish, body collapses like rag doll
- Body becomes portal to random dimension
- Spine/ribs gain malevolent sentience and tear themselves out (1 HD)
- Pillar of incandescent fire, all within 10′ save or take 1d6 heat damage
- Irreversibly transformed into brittle glass; shatters at slightest touch
- Internal organs swell 10 times in volume and burst from body
- Metamorphosis into a dead tree-like thing, filled by foot-long worms
- Spirit driven insane and forced from body; treat as hostile wraith
- Pulled down to hell by clawed arms; portal remains for 10 minutes
- Aging process accelerates such that an entire lifetime passes in seconds
- Transforms into ash from outside in and crumbles or blows away
- Body absorbed into shadow; attaches to companion as double-shadow
- Implodes to chaos opal: detonates when thrown (3d6 damage, 10′ radius)
- Confused hostile goblin emerges from caster, old body shed like skin
This is your plot to prevent me from intentionally failing my checks, then? =P
I rolled a 16. My life flashed before my eyes. Literally!