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<blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5558795" data-attributes="member: 94022"><p>[MENTION=87912]Spibb[/MENTION]&nbsp; That's certainly a perfectly legit way of playing the game.&nbsp; Its just not what my group (and me personally) prefer.&nbsp; I think the problem I have with the &quot;character death only happens when they do something stupid&quot; is that one person's &quot;stupid decision&quot; is another's &quot;obvious decision&quot;.&nbsp; This can get particularly problematic when you, as DM, decide to let one character live because it was just &quot;bad luck&quot; but then kill another because it was &quot;stupid decisions&quot;.&nbsp; In these situations, the player of the dead character is going to be understandably miffed.&nbsp; Letting the dice be the arbiter does, in general, avoid these problems.&nbsp; Although I've had several deaths in 4ed, none of the players have been the least bit upset with how I handled it.&nbsp; In some cases they were miffed by what the other players did (like the Invoker who lit up the unconscious warforged to push him over negative bloodied), but never with my decision making.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Riastlin, post: 5558795, member: 94022"] [MENTION=87912]Spibb[/MENTION] That's certainly a perfectly legit way of playing the game. Its just not what my group (and me personally) prefer. I think the problem I have with the "character death only happens when they do something stupid" is that one person's "stupid decision" is another's "obvious decision". This can get particularly problematic when you, as DM, decide to let one character live because it was just "bad luck" but then kill another because it was "stupid decisions". In these situations, the player of the dead character is going to be understandably miffed. Letting the dice be the arbiter does, in general, avoid these problems. Although I've had several deaths in 4ed, none of the players have been the least bit upset with how I handled it. In some cases they were miffed by what the other players did (like the Invoker who lit up the unconscious warforged to push him over negative bloodied), but never with my decision making. [/QUOTE]

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