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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6197092" data-attributes="member: 7006">I'll adjust the encounters mid-stream if I think it enhances the narrative.&nbsp; And I'm actually good enough at it that the players don't even realize it.&nbsp; For my players and myself, death is fine if it is a worthy death.&nbsp; One that will ultimately help the story of the campaign along.&nbsp; If it's meaningless (and not in the way a meaningless death is an indicator of the story spiraling downwards towards an inevitable conclusion)... then usually something will happen rather than the PC dying.&nbsp; Capture, major injury, the PCs spirit going to another plane and having encounters there in an effort to get back to his body, expectation that the party will be able to raise the PC easily, etc.The best stories are characters overcoming obstacles as they strive to achieve something.&nbsp; And that tends to end if the character dies.&nbsp; But if it turns out the player feels the story just isn't working the way they want it, or the player sees a grander narrative coming out of his/her character dying, then so be it.Or of course if the player just does something incredibly stupid.&nbsp; If he's cacked that way... the player knows and accepts the death as payment for stupidity rendered.&nbsp; <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 6197092, member: 7006"] I'll adjust the encounters mid-stream if I think it enhances the narrative. And I'm actually good enough at it that the players don't even realize it. For my players and myself, death is fine if it is a worthy death. One that will ultimately help the story of the campaign along. If it's meaningless (and not in the way a meaningless death is an indicator of the story spiraling downwards towards an inevitable conclusion)... then usually something will happen rather than the PC dying. Capture, major injury, the PCs spirit going to another plane and having encounters there in an effort to get back to his body, expectation that the party will be able to raise the PC easily, etc. The best stories are characters overcoming obstacles as they strive to achieve something. And that tends to end if the character dies. But if it turns out the player feels the story just isn't working the way they want it, or the player sees a grander narrative coming out of his/her character dying, then so be it. Or of course if the player just does something incredibly stupid. If he's cacked that way... the player knows and accepts the death as payment for stupidity rendered. ;) [/QUOTE]

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