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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Akaiku" data-source="post: 5559493" data-attributes="member: 82224">Perhaps if the gm doesn't like world building, encounter planning and such... they should quit gming? If they DO like that, how does how much effort they spend on doing something they enjoy doing have any real weight in who deserves happiness at the table?More to the topic. Actual death at the table doesn't need to be on the table. However, you can totally use imagination to have your character adequately afraid of death and do reasonable, in-character actions to avoid it. If you are playing dnd for a high score, you probably need to make a scorecard to go with it, as the default rules have the 'party' get max points eventually. If you are playing it for plot, suspension of disbelief should swing hard enough to 'pretend' that actions have potentially fatal consequences. Often that's eaiser (at least for me) then the whole dude at a table is actually a super hot elf or a super strong dragon monster or that every non player person in the world IS ACTUALLY THE SAME GUY.</blockquote>