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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6755557" data-attributes="member: 29398">Squishy characters can still take risks commensurate to their squishiness.If that careful play leads to repeatedly exposing other characters to risks they wouldn't otherwise have to face, then I'd say yes - either by the game not giving that character as many xp or by the rest of the party tossing that character to the curb.How?And to make up for the times it doesn't work out - the deaths, the level losses, the adventuring time missed due to being in jail, etc. - the game-based rewards gained for that character should be higher when it does work out...this is my entire point!Depends.  If the lack of risk-taking is simply because the player's unsure of himself then no, to begin with.  But if it's simply a means to survive while others die then if I'm playing one of the characters who dies (which is my usual situation) I'm going to be a tad cheesed off.  And sometimes less-experienced players are the most gung-ho of the lot, so that one to me holds no water.Lan-"a game where no-one wants to take risks soon becomes very boring"-efan</blockquote>