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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3454637" data-attributes="member: 158">First of all, congrats on your break. Sometimes, it does take a break to see a fresh perspective on life in general, not just gaming, and if the circumstances around gaming EVER causes you physical stress, it's time to step back and evaluate it, and put it in perspective. The thing to remember there, though, is that(A) Some people really are that careless in life (and when someone makes the news from it, many people call it the scurrilous name "the Darwin Awards.") <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> Some people pay the price for their lack of caution, and others go on to greatness from their luck and sense of timing. (B) Since D&D is a game at its heart, some people love to live vicariously through the game and try things they'd never do in real life due to self-preservation and common sense. Many of us want to be the ones who throw caution to the wind and find out what it feels like when they get lucky from it. For this reason, I REALLY wouldn't take it too seriously, because we can be as cautious as we want in real life, but many players want to use the game as an escape for a bit, whether for a bit of vicarious butt-kicking, or exploring what it's like to be a daredevil, or to acquire powers such as they'd never have in reality. (After all, if they were REALLY that interested in self-preservation, what the hell are they doing adventuring in the first place? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)</blockquote>

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