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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8268758" data-attributes="member: 20564">There also seems to be a real confusion between "real fear of death" and "death" as well.  5e has a nice big buffer before actual death but where fear of death is there.  Many RPGs have them.Last campaign I finished death was absolutely on the table, I would ofter throw unfair encounters at the player calibrated to what I knew they could do, leaving many down or have gone down.  Number of in-combat deaths in those 7 years?  Zero.  Only character who died was one acting as a martyr to save another character during a skill challenge to escape a collapsing ice castle filled with frost giant zombies.You can really go all out at times, leading to potential death scenarios, that the players can work to avoid.</blockquote>