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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7834504" data-attributes="member: 18">That reflects my experience as well. One PC insta-dying is annoying rather than scary, I mean the threat is scary initially but as soon as it actually happens, it becomes an inconvenience, meaning either a time out (usually undeserved, unlike many HP drop deaths) whilst you wait on a res, or rolling a new PC, which, depending on the edition and your previous PC may be anything from a mild relief to a huge time-waster. A 1000 word backstory and months of play has never changed it from "Ugh" to actually scary. Whereas 0HP in 4E and 5E has produced numerous high tension situations and made deaths feel far more earned and lead to much more "What could we have done better?!" soul-searching from PCs. Being on 0HP or even 4HP is terrifying because its ongoing and might be fixed or not. Dropping straight to dead is just like "Well that happened...".</blockquote>