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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 5438317" data-attributes="member: 9053">I'd have to disagree with this point, as much as I generally agree with you and dislike SoD: you can learn something. You can learn to play D&D in a sort of "max protect" defensive mode where you have counters available for everything, and you go through the game 10' at a time tapping with your 10' poles.That's a rather extreme statement, but the gist of it stands: if you want to be successful at a game that has a large number of save or die elements to it, especially arbitrary ones, you have to learn to be prepared with scrolls, wands and defensive buffs operating all the time.I've played in more than a few games like this, and I absolutely detest them. There's nothing that makes a game less like the source material of books or movies than a group who over-prepares for everything. One group I played in, for instance had spells like Death Ward operating on the entire group all the time. One of the players maintained an excel spreadsheet of the group's buffing equipment. Wow that was fun.As an example, in the oft-used Medusa example, you can prep for it, and turn an exciting encounter into an absolute snooze fest. So yes, I think you can learn something from a SoD situation, I just think it might not be the lesson the GM might prefer you learn.</blockquote>