arislyn played Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach [DVD-ROM]

Greed. T'was greed that killed my paladin. Alas! *sighs* I had finished killing off one of the optional kobold bosses in one of the quests and the reward chest appeared in a little nook back behind some bars. I opened the bars and triggered a trap that sprayed green death from three directions onto the chest...repeatedly.

I had not died, at this point. In fact, I had only taken a negligible l amount of damage in the fight. But, I looked at that sparkly, twinkling chest of goodies and said, "I bet I make my resist rolls."

WRONG.

I tried once and was knocked down to half my health. At that point, I should've been smart, chalked it up to bad luck and left. But did I do that? Noooo. I tried again. I failed my resist rolls, again. And, this time. I died.

You know, there's a reason I almost always play rogues in tabletop. It's because, deep down, I'm a greedy loot whore and my characters will always pay the price for my weakness. At least with rogues, they have a better chance of getting the loot and living to brag about it. :P