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<blockquote data-quote="iserith" data-source="post: 8960744" data-attributes="member: 97077">Arguably, the dice are the most fair thing at the table though. They save you or destroy you, or the monsters, in more or less equal measure over time. What I see in your examples is the DM not agreeing to the stakes they themselves created by having rules or situations in play that can result in outcomes they don't want, thus incentivizing fudging. In effect, the DM is saying &quot;death is a possibility that can arise out of some element of randomness, except when I decide otherwise.&quot; Which means, ultimately, that when your character does die, it's because the DM said so because they could just decide that didn't happen by fudging. What a terrible burden for the DM in my view!Why not just take death off the table? Or set up some other means to resolve this (e.g. &quot;dead&quot; characters are actually just knocked out the scene and come back in the next scene) other than presenting it as one thing, but quietly changing it behind the scenes so it's really another? Why not just get it out in the open? What is gained?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="iserith, post: 8960744, member: 97077"] Arguably, the dice are the [I]most fair thing at the table [/I]though. They save you or destroy you, or the monsters, in more or less equal measure over time. What I see in your examples is the DM not agreeing to the stakes they themselves created by having rules or situations in play that can result in outcomes they don't want, thus incentivizing fudging. In effect, the DM is saying "death is a possibility that can arise out of some element of randomness, except when I decide otherwise." Which means, ultimately, that when your character does die, it's because the DM said so because they could just decide that didn't happen by fudging. What a terrible burden for the DM in my view! Why not just take death off the table? Or set up some other means to resolve this (e.g. "dead" characters are actually just knocked out the scene and come back in the next scene) other than presenting it as one thing, but quietly changing it behind the scenes so it's really another? Why not just get it out in the open? What is gained? [/QUOTE]

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