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<blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 1972667" data-attributes="member: 10784"><p>Well, if you have to ask if you are a meanie, then you probably are!</p><p></p><p>Just kidding.</p><p></p><p>However, if you were planning on ending the campaign soon, you probably should have planned on dealing with PC death. Even if the PCs decided to run, what if one of them said, “I will hold them off while the rest of you escape!”? I know as a PC I had done that in the past in a similar situation at the end of a campaign.</p><p></p><p>You could always have a DM ‘deus ex machina” come into play as well. A passing cleric hears the fight and sneaks in to heal the fallen PC and then help hold off the bad guys? Or, maybe just a passing 1st level commoner cries out for the guard, scaring off the bad guys and then allowing you to patch up the fallen PC before he got to -10? Or, a gem or gold piece the PC was holding was really a talisman that casts cure minor wounds if the PC falls in combat? Or, well, you get the idea.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NewJeffCT, post: 1972667, member: 10784"] Well, if you have to ask if you are a meanie, then you probably are! Just kidding. However, if you were planning on ending the campaign soon, you probably should have planned on dealing with PC death. Even if the PCs decided to run, what if one of them said, “I will hold them off while the rest of you escape!”? I know as a PC I had done that in the past in a similar situation at the end of a campaign. You could always have a DM ‘deus ex machina” come into play as well. A passing cleric hears the fight and sneaks in to heal the fallen PC and then help hold off the bad guys? Or, maybe just a passing 1st level commoner cries out for the guard, scaring off the bad guys and then allowing you to patch up the fallen PC before he got to -10? Or, a gem or gold piece the PC was holding was really a talisman that casts cure minor wounds if the PC falls in combat? Or, well, you get the idea. [/QUOTE]
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