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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 1535991" data-attributes="member: 172">Generally not.Occassionally, I regret not having taken out a party member or two in an encounter I expected to be tough.But TPKs are a buzzkill. You gotta all work up new characters. You gotta halt the game, or find a way to work the new characters into the storyline.Story time:Way back when, the players in a game I was running, the whole party, thought a series of bad rolls and bad character design choices, died at the first challenge.I stuck to my guns, confident that it would demonstrate in my world, death is close at hand.They may well have learned that lesson that day (though the same could have been demonstrated with one death... BID).But I think, in the long run, I was the one who learned the lesson. That pretty much ruined all chance of fun for the night. I don't need to do that.I still don't like to fudge, but I try to spot ahead of time if an encounter has a good chance of causing trouble.</blockquote>