D&D 5E Do PCs at your table have script immunity?

[Charlaquin]

Depends on the campaign, but usually option 3.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Yes. I find death fundamentally boring, so the story better be real good to justify a death.

 

[Maxperson]

I voted other. PCs can die to a little bad luck or bad decisions, but I won't let super duper bad luck kill them. Death is mostly permanent in my game. Raises are rare.

 

[Jacob Lewis]

Good adventure stories are about the journey, not the destination.

 

[Lanefan]

As revival magic is available in my game (provided your character or the party can afford it) your character is free to die whenever it likes. Some have become very good at it.

Death-revival cycles do have a lingering cost, however, in that (with rare exceptions usually involving Wish) you come back permanently down a point of Con.

Edit to add: not sure why this thread is tagged as 5e-specific when the question is equally applicable to all editions.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

I voted for number one assuming, "die" means permadeath. They are high enough level to use resurrection magic, so characters occasionally die, but can always be brought back.

 

[LordEntrails]

The games I've run for the last decade or two don't have a script. So there is no such thing as script immunity. So I voted other.

As for PC death, sure it happens, but it really only happens if their are multiple bad choices and/or rolls. I absolutely refuse save or die, or any other single choice/roll resulting in character death.

 

[overgeeked]

I absolutely refuse save or die, or any other single choice/roll resulting in character death.

Same. I hate those kinds of gotchas. For TSR D&D games I tried save or 1/2 max hp in damage for a time. But that wasn't much better, so I just give traps and the like damage dice and PCs can save for half.

 

[Bedrockgames]

As a player I definitely have more fun when script immunity isn't in play. This can vary depending on the system and style of play. Generally speaking though, I like the thrill of combat with the threat of death by the dice. When I am GMing I prefer no script immunity. But I am flexible on that based on the group. If I am running for players who just aren't into it, I can adapt; I just find it much more engaging and more fitting for my GMing style to have no script immunity). We had a character death last night actually (life force drained by a giant supernatural snake).

 

[Smackpixi]

It always seems to me the people enthusiastiac about death possibility in these discussions aren’t the people doing the dying. Or aren’t the people that spent months working on a backstory For a promised year plus campaign. The answer is never what the dm wants their Game to be like really I think, it’s what the players want, the majority wants, everyone gets a vote but the dm just has one.

I feel like TPKs or player deaths should be allowed to happen, but then the players determine what’s next. Is resurrection a possibility or not? Is the TPK the end or do you want something to follow? I get how revealing that the end may not be the end if the players/s don’t want it to be removes the scariness of death For future deaths, but again, it’s what the players want. Take some time with the death, what do we all think this should mean, what kind of game are we playing…all that. Some DMs want these to be hard rules set ahead of time cause they believe it makes things matter. I don’t think it does. Feel like every death is a discussion, what does this one mean, and how are we gonna handle it.