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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6782307" data-attributes="member: 6701872">I don't think 5th edition is actually quite as &quot;weirdly lethal&quot; as it seems to someone who has some prior knowledge of D&amp;D versions besides 5th, or at least I don't think anyone that actually reads and understands the various bits of advice and guidance that 5th edition gives on establishing and running encounters is going to find quite as much lethality as folks coming to 5th edition with confidence that they know how to run a game are finding.Of course, that is likely me over-estimating the ability of brand-new DMs to counter-balance how most folks underestimate them... and possibly projecting that because I've not had a single character death at all, let alone the &quot;well, something crit so someone died&quot; that other version of the game made a common occurrence no matter the level of the characters involved, that other folks having characters die (unexpectedly, at least) are doing something that they don't have to be doing to cause those events.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6782307, member: 6701872"] I don't think 5th edition is actually quite as "weirdly lethal" as it seems to someone who has some prior knowledge of D&D versions besides 5th, or at least I don't think anyone that actually reads and understands the various bits of advice and guidance that 5th edition gives on establishing and running encounters is going to find quite as much lethality as folks coming to 5th edition with confidence that they know how to run a game are finding. Of course, that is likely me over-estimating the ability of brand-new DMs to counter-balance how most folks underestimate them... and possibly projecting that because I've not had a single character death at all, let alone the "well, something crit so someone died" that other version of the game made a common occurrence no matter the level of the characters involved, that other folks having characters die (unexpectedly, at least) are doing something that they don't have to be doing to cause those events. [/QUOTE]

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