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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Parlan" data-source="post: 4363615" data-attributes="member: 16808">The difference though is that the game is more fun when the players know whether a PC  is "just mostly dead" and can be saved by a healing or whether he's "all the way dead". Nothing sucks worse than blowing a round of actions and a healing potions to save the fighter who's already "all the way dead" but you just didn't know it.   And I'd rather have an action sequence like this, "Ok Bob, the BBEG just dropped you.  You're unconscious.  BBEG looks at your neck as if he's considering slitting it, just to be sure, but then he notices Sara's PC bearing down on him and apparently decides he'd better handle her first.  Oh wait, Sara, you're going to retreat and leave Bob all alone with the BBEG?  Are you sure?"Than like this:"Okay Bob, the BBEG just dropped you.  Oh, and don't bother rolling to stabilize.  He spends an action point to lop off your PC's head.  It's too bad you spend so much time on your backstory.  What's your next character going to be?" PCs get to know more metagame details just b/c they're PCs.</blockquote>