The Tomb of Annihilation

Fridge Stovington is decapitated by beast tamer Zuri's longsword in the coliseum, dying mid-battle before Doc's Divine Spark makes Zuri's head explode in retaliation.

Kaarl Korvax survives a brutal combat assessment in a hellish corporate compliance seminar, blasting one devil to ash and talking down a third to earn his freedom and a business card from Frecks.

Dahc Doorblack is downed by goblin bomb fire and finished off with a coup de grace while Thrain chooses to heal himself instead, leaving the party to scramble for a way to save his soul.

Bob Smith defuses a massive goblin keg bomb by cutting the green wire with only two ticks left on the clock, saving the entire boat from detonation.

Dahc's soul is transferred into a grung frog body just before the three-day deadline expires, permanently changing his form after his decapitation at the goblin camp.

Thrain is snatched by a fleeing terrafolk and dangled high above a cliff edge, saved only when Bob spears the creature mid-air and recalls the thrown spear to yank him back to safety.

Oak Bearsweat is gored and trampled by an enraged triceratops for nearly 70 combined damage, dropping to 1 hit point before Doc's desperate Spare the Dying and Healing Word pull him back from death.

Thrain leaps to the edge of the acid bridge and fires point-blank into the tentacle monster's open beak for a colossal 45 to 48 damage critical hit, killing it instantly after it nearly drowned him.