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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BryonD" data-source="post: 4972195" data-attributes="member: 957">Certainly any DM can kill any PC at any time.  And if it plays out that way, then you have a bad DM.There must always be a means for the player to weigh and control the risks that they put their character into.  That doesn't mean they always are promised that they weighing will be accurate.  And choices made in the past may certainly influence the level of control left in choices in the present.A PC railroaded into a 50/50 shot is lame.A PC choosing to take a 50/50 shot at saving the day or being annihilated can be way cool, either way it goes.  And a PC choosing NOT to take that 50/50 shot and going on to try to overcome the challenge in some other manner can be way cool, whether the PC ultimately becomes the hero or a dragon snack.Arbitrary itself is bad.  I agree.  But going all in before the flop is not arbitrary.  The result following that commitment ARE arbitrary and pure fate.  But that is not arbitrary itself, it is part of heroic adventure.</blockquote>