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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3630460" data-attributes="member: 13966">Yes, I've played in one or two games that were remarkably similar to some of your examples.  But I have the good sense to avoid sticking with a DM who just wants to waste my time.  I have no need to stay at a table where the DM arbitrarily seeks ways to slaughter PCs early every session and then laughs at the player for their 'misfortune'.I already admitted there are different degrees of Rat B@st@rdry in DMing.  And if your players are being hounded so much, it doesn't matter if you don't actually kill their PCs very often, as long as they're still spending their game-time being harangued, mauled, and stressed all the time, it's still not going to be fun for most players.Somehow I manage to keep my players entertained and feeling the tension when it matters, without annoying them constantly. -_-PCs still die, just not very often (the PCs have had enough close calls, and the occasional gruesome death, that they know well their mortality; those are just few and far between, but happen enough that the party is aware they can get TPK'd if they get too sloppy, so tough fights really do get tense cuz they know I aim to challenge them).</blockquote>