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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 7197176" data-attributes="member: 6877472"><p>How much of a problem this is, is of course, dependent on how often you're asked to make saving throws. Some of the old school adventures in Tales of the Yawning Portal seem to have you make saving throws constantly, with some terrible results for failure.</p><p></p><p>("See you in five thousand years!")</p><p></p><p>I don't have much in the way of data on this, just a few really bad scenarios- which I don't know how common or uncommon they were. A character being destroyed by a critical hit which brought them to less than half hit points, with the rider of "make a constitution save or have your permanent hit point total reduced by the damage dealt; if this would reduce your hit points to 0, you die". Not one, but TWO bad experiences with banshees. A few creatures that give you the poisoned condition, along with "while you are poisoned you must save against some even nastier condition".</p><p></p><p>Poisoned, by the way, I consider vicious because the disadvantage it imposes makes everything else you have to deal with much more dangerous. </p><p></p><p>Anyways, thanks for the replies, so far, it seems like this is less of an issue than I thought, based on my experiences so far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 7197176, member: 6877472"] How much of a problem this is, is of course, dependent on how often you're asked to make saving throws. Some of the old school adventures in Tales of the Yawning Portal seem to have you make saving throws constantly, with some terrible results for failure. ("See you in five thousand years!") I don't have much in the way of data on this, just a few really bad scenarios- which I don't know how common or uncommon they were. A character being destroyed by a critical hit which brought them to less than half hit points, with the rider of "make a constitution save or have your permanent hit point total reduced by the damage dealt; if this would reduce your hit points to 0, you die". Not one, but TWO bad experiences with banshees. A few creatures that give you the poisoned condition, along with "while you are poisoned you must save against some even nastier condition". Poisoned, by the way, I consider vicious because the disadvantage it imposes makes everything else you have to deal with much more dangerous. Anyways, thanks for the replies, so far, it seems like this is less of an issue than I thought, based on my experiences so far. [/QUOTE]
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