I mentioned this one a couple years ago for "Most Memorable Character Death" but it also falls under best "Worst Luck" since the poor guy was at the receiving end of some truly diabolic dice rolls.
I have played exactly 1 ninja my entire gaming life. His name was Oko-nishi (horrible I know). My lame attempts at a Japanese sounding name. In my defense at what I knew was a bad name, I made him a half-orc; because I could then blame his orc parent. It must have been around 1984-5 as I made him using the Oriental Adventure rules. My then DM and I had worked up a D&D combat simulator on the Color Computer 2 and we plugged him in with 9 other characters. He was attacked by a Black Dragon (or Red, cant recall) and killed. The dragon kept attacking him and only him. We had not worked out all the errors. In the end, he had been reduced to something like -70 hp. My DM offered to let him be ok, or keep him dead. We enjoyed watching it so much and getting the mental image of this dragon jumping up and down on my dead ninja that I felt it was a waste to say it never happened.
I never played a ninja or a half-orc again.
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