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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 3247732" data-attributes="member: 30035">I suppose I ought to butt out since I'm not a DM, but my DMs don't post here. I've played with 3 different DMs regularly for the past 10 years. None of them have ever permanently killed a PC. Two of them share a house rule that if someone can get to you with any healing effect within the same round the PC dropped to a negative equal to CON (we use that instead of -10), you've been rescued from death's door. The other DM just fudges the damage if it drops a PC to death.Oddly, the DM who fudges is the one who runs the most episodic campaign. He doesn't have any overarching plot that requires the participation of these and only these PCs. He just doesn't like dealing with new characters. He's also very resistant to someone swapping out for a new PC. The other two DMs don't have any specific rules for swapping characters as far as I know. Both of them run overarching plots and would prefer to stick with the same characters from beginning to end. But if someone is truly unhappy with a character and wants a change they will work with that player to accomodate this desire. I like to think I would respond reasonably well to character death. I'd be disappointed, since I usually have goals I'd like to achieve such as entering a particular prestige class or finding some item or person. But I also have lots of other character ideas and would look on it as an opportunity to try something new. I'm pretty certain, though, that at least one other player in the group would not react at all well to losing a character. I expect that if this player lost a PC we'd have to do a lot of wheedling to get the player to come back to the game. I imagine some folks would say 'goodbye and good riddance' to that player, but for reasons I can't go into (the player might see) that would not be an ideal resolution. So I guess I'll just get accustomed to never losing a PC.I should add, however, that contrary to the belief that no threat of death takes some of the fun out of the game, I still find every challenge thrilling. I get very tense and do my best to take actions that will minimize unnecessary risk for my character. There are times when no one will be able to get to my PC to heal her and I know my DMs will let her die. Even the rules-fudger would probably have to let a PC die if the death was due to some massive spell effect that disintegrated the body.</blockquote>

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