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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6044284" data-attributes="member: 22424">Right, so they're basically save points in video games?(Incidentally, aren't video games moving away from using these, because people objected even to being bumped back to the last &quot;save point&quot;? I thought the new standard was to just save regularly, and especially before every significant new encounter?)Well, of course it takes away a measure of risk! After all, that means you can't ever really lose; all you do is revert back to the save point. That doesn't mean it's inherently a bad thing - it's just a matter of playstyle choice.I personally wouldn't use such a thing in my game, and wouldn't play in a game that implements such a thing. I feel that without that element of risk there's little to no point in playing. But, of course, YMMV.Edit: Actually, my campaign did recently &quot;revert to saved&quot;, but it wasn't because of a character death. Basically, I screwed up on time management at the end of a session, leaving us stuck in the middle of a combat that looked like lasting another hour or so (and at 11pm at night, when we all had work the next day). Rather than slog it out to the end, or ending the session in mid-combat, we instead agreed to revert the group back to a point a little before that encounter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6044284, member: 22424"] Right, so they're basically save points in video games? (Incidentally, aren't video games moving away from using these, because people objected even to being bumped back to the last "save point"? I thought the new standard was to just save regularly, and especially before every significant new encounter?) Well, of course it takes away a measure of risk! After all, that means you can't ever really lose; all you do is revert back to the save point. That doesn't mean it's inherently a bad thing - it's just a matter of playstyle choice. I personally wouldn't use such a thing in my game, and wouldn't play in a game that implements such a thing. I feel that without that element of risk there's little to no point in playing. But, of course, YMMV. Edit: Actually, my campaign [i]did[/i] recently "revert to saved", but it wasn't because of a character death. Basically, I screwed up on time management at the end of a session, leaving us stuck in the middle of a combat that looked like lasting another hour or so (and at 11pm at night, when we all had work the next day). Rather than slog it out to the end, or ending the session in mid-combat, we instead agreed to revert the group back to a point a little before that encounter. [/QUOTE]

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