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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vymair" data-source="post: 977671" data-attributes="member: 116">I picked 3-5, but I probably sit on the edge of 5/6 a year.  I was DMing weekly but recently went bi-weekly, so that might slow the kill rate down a little <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.I tend to run encounters which challenge my players, so mistakes tend to be paid for in lives.  Of the last three characters deaths in my game since I restarted my game in December 2002.1) The party split themselves across the bridge on the first fight of Forge of Fury and the 3rd level Halfling Rogue got pasted by Ulfe.2)  Orc Barbarians attacked the party at night and I critted with a Greataxe (Bad luck for the players) on a 2nd Cleric/1st Bard.3)  6th level Dwarf Wizard got trapped b/w two Barbazu and tried to tough it out, then I critted with a Glaive and polished him off.  I think he could avoided this one if he had cast invisibility instead of shield.I've also sent plenty of people into negatives but my players handle my very tough encounters very well overall.</blockquote>