I honestly only died because of a runic once. Blessed Val Spear, first hit para blow. I was killed by runics other times, but that's because I was bested, either I was stupid and didn't heal myself when I should have, or let off an explosion potion at the wrong time, or generally just died because of low mana or a few good hits.

But again, it was only once BECAUSE of the runic.

On OSI, how many times did you die as a direct result of a runic, where there was nothing you could do to prevent it?