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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 3123788" data-attributes="member: 9037">This happpened in a game that I was playing in. We had a newbie player who was encouraged to write a background and realy think about her character.She spent a lot of time on it and was very exicited to finally play. In our very first combat an enraged barbarian with a great axe critted and killed her character. She then got to sit there for three hours working on another character and waiting for the right role playing moment to be brought into the game.It was so obivious that she was upset and that as the night wore on that she was bored she quit the game later in the week.She later told me that she had found the  night not to be fun and that she could find more fun ways to spend her time.It was really to bad because I think given time she would have been a good player. The little she played she was great she got into her character and added a lot to the role play.When I DM I roll behind a screen and as a player I will not play in a game that its let dice fall where they may. For a total newbie I would fudge until they got their feet. I fudge for my older players if they are doing everything right and are just having really bad luck with the dice.Yes characters die I won't fudge if they do something stupid or if they die in a well fought battle. But death is rare in my game. My players are very much into role playing  and developing their characters and wanting to have a believeable reason for a new character to join the game. Hey you look trustworthy join us does not work for them.</blockquote>

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