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It's IMO an unfortunate attitude that has little to do with what most any character would actually do in the fiction.

Corpse run!

Captured by the bad guys during a cut scene? Of course they take all your gear and instead of using it so you can retrieve it later, it...

When I threw a pack of Rust Monsters at my group, they players reacted with much more (genuine) fear and trepidation than they had...

Soap opera amnesia!!! Finally, after four weeks at St. Elminster's Hospital in Dagger Creek, Jon Patrick awakens from his coma. He looks...

Just have the table go the video game route. Resurrected players respawn somewhere else...somewhere far, far away from their gear. :)

From henceforth on this Mississippian thread, in reference to future missives about dastardly, tyrannical DMs, I reserve the right to...

We're all allowed to state our opinions as long as we respectfully state our opinions especially when we disagree ... although some of...

It would certainly winnow out a lot of casuals. Jury's out on whether that's a good or bad thing, but I'd lean toward bad. Were I to...

Modern D&D only has death as a hard-loss condition. TSR-era D&D offered a host of other options. :) Level drain was a good one: a loss...

Changing the PC-playable species options from what's in the PH is a houserule all day long.

I'm fine with players suggesting houserules as long as I retain veto rights. I don't want to say 'incapable' as that's a bit too...

Indeed, but there's still the basic instinct to not lose. Loss conditions include character death, level drain, petrification, item or...

Over the course of decades of D&D play I've never had a DM that truly shared authority. Even with my wife, she and I share the same...

Ok so, let's say that, I don't know, 75% of DM's are good DM's who don't need to share authority because they're so good that their...