Looking for stories of players who's idea of "helping" ended up making things worse.
be it casting fireball into a melee, or channeling negative energy to kill zombies, or blowing up the building everyone was in to try to kill the BBEG. just tales where the player made more problems in their attempt to solve a problem.
One player did animate a dead PC as a skeleton so he could walk to the priest to be resurrected, except in doing so "destroyed" his body thus requiring us to spend twice as much money to resurrect him. Oh and I supposed there was that time the wizard cast a sudden-maximized fireball against 2 mohrgs the barbarian was fighting and due to blowback rules ended up burning him for 54 damage. He made his death from massive damage save by 1 point (rolled a 3 and had +13). And the guy in an apocalypse world game who decided that the party's brainer (psychic) was the one betraying them so he opened fire into him and due to some weird rolls ended up getting outright killed before he could really fight back, died and left the party without any clairaudience-type shit to keep an eye on the enemy warlord the brainer had supposedly been "betraying" them to (he hadn't, there was a mole in their base who had access to radio and it was blindingly obvious because they gave the lost newcomer they rescued from the wasteland a job as their new radio operator with zero supervision).
>>54800319
I was very badly hurt in a superhero LARP. I was picked up by a bush ambulance and they were racing me to a hospital and then TORCH, the in game Avengers, came to 'rescue me' me thinking they were bad guys as my guts are falling out. They almost killed me to death!
>>54801815
My party is pretty good at avoiding stupid mistakes. However one time we were fighting an umberhulk and I was upfront. Our NPC companion who had been blinded by and artifact decided she would try to cast eldritch blast at it because things were getting desperate. She shot me in the back instead.
>>54800319
Playing Eberron, I forget where we were but we were stuck in a room with electric coils or some shit. Dragonborn decides to help by breathing cold onto the coils, coils explode killing him and damaging us. DM rules it that the dragonborn isn't dead but a lot of our magic eqipment is damaged.
I recently had a situation in dh1e where two allies were in melee with a dangerous enemy and had both used all out attacks. I decided to save them with a krak grenade... Which killed the enemy but detonated the ammunition on him. Which righteous furied three times.