The Daily Grind: What's your funniest death

Probably not funniest, but dopiest (of the ones I'm willing to admit to).

WoW hunter, flying around somewhere in Outland, looking for herbs. Land to harvest something. Unexpected attack. Lay freezing trap and back up to get into shooting range. Step off edge of the world. Fall for what seemed like a very very long time. Oops.

In World of Warcraft I once was checking out my just received equipment trying it on , what I forgot however was that I was still underwater slowly drowning without noticing :P

In WoW, pre-BC (within a couple months of launch), I led a guild RP event in Gnomeregan (I was a gnome, traumatized by the destruction, finally coming back to come to terms). We had almost three groups, with at least 6 or 7 60's. As we were going down the final tunnel towards the last boss (the one with the lower ravine and the top side), either a hunter or a rogue aggroed a mob on the lower side. The mob then proceeded to run through the ravine and all the way back to us, gathering about thirty of its friends along the way. We were caught pretty unprepared and wiped. And that is how multiple 60 level characters all died in a level 30 instance.

In DDO in the magma field dungeon in the old Three Barrel Cove a friend of mine free fell from one of the random dungeon exits for 15-20 seconds of hilarious time, only for his fingers to catch the ledge at the bottom, about 10 feet from magma, and right by a previously undiscovered hidden chest.

I myself was thinking hot damn, you don't take fall damage if you catch the ledge with your hands. Me being as smart as I am used a feather fall item, got about halfway down, started to free fall and landed just a little to close to the ledge, broke my legs (died), and my corpse slid into the magma.

Way back when I was new to EQ, I think it was just after Kunark came out, I was playing my very first toon still. Trying to learn how to play, didn't even know there were websites set up that could help me out with things like quests and maps. One day about 2 weeks after buying the game, I decided to leave my home in Gfay and do some wandering. Took the boat to Freeport (that's a whole long story there), waited for someone to bind me at the gates because back then there were no soulbinders, then wandered around East commons for a while. I had just learned that hailing and talking to NPCs could get you a quest so I was seeking out new people to talk to.

After talking to the nice guards at the crossroads, I spied someone standing a little bit away. Oh here's someone else, let me go see what he has to say! So I run up to him and just as I hit my hail button, i'm splattered on the ground. WTF? I didn't do anything to him what happened? So i go back to claim my body and try to hail him again. Blam, I'm down again. Second time, I'm a bit more careful getting my corpse and grab it without getting agro this time.

I finally asked someone about why Kizdean Gix wouldn't like my little woodelf and learned all about the fun of factions in EQ. I did get revenge on the bastard when i could, I must have killed him about 100 times.

As bizarre as it sounds, in Age of Conan, the Chicken Seller is one of the toughest elite quest mobs early on. You need a group of similarly leveled PCs to take him on to finish a quest from his rival. I have died at the hands of the Chicken Seller more than a few times.

Don't mess with his chickens.

Funniest death moment for me came after the death. While playing around in the Dwarf starting area of WoW, my friend and I got whomped by that Yeti no one can ever quite seem to find. His ghost popped up as it should in the nearby cemetery, but mine got bugged and randomly popped up in the South Shore cemetery some three zones over.

After about 15 minutes of all the local level 28+'s oggling and laughing at me, /telling me to ask where I was corpse running to, or /telling me what a dumb g@Y n00b I was, some guy finally was sympathetic, and gave me the 3 silver to get a ride back to Ironforge.

Truth told, I did feel like a 12-year-old noob, as I was too low a level to have even a lousy 3 silver on me, and had to beg like those lameass moochers in the big cities.