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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest 7037866" data-source="post: 9485523">LOL what are you talking about. I was discussing exactly 5E. No house-rules or whatever involved (at least not concerning PC death).Nope. Not at all. It might sound like that to you, but it is really your farily standard 5E game:[spoiler="PC deaths"]Party began with:A. Half-Orc fighterB. Drow rogueC. Kobold sorcererD. Human paladin.D died in the 1st session (at 1st level), 4th encounter, against 2 goblins and a goblin acolyte.  Goblin hit him and the acolyte hit him with an inflict wounds for high(ish) damage which overflowed his max HP, so instant death. The PCs were not near any sort of large(ish) town to get access to raise dead before the time limit expired.E. Half-elf warlock joined to replace D.C died at the of session 9 (3rd level), 38th encounter, against a ghost. He was a bit low on HP (above half). Failed death saves before anyone could stabilize him. The PCs were up in the moutains far from anyone who could raise him.F. Half-orc palading joined to replace C.E. Left for story reasons and (G) Dwarf sorcerer (divine soul) joined to increase party size to 4.G just died in session 21 (6th level), 75th encounter, against two sea hags and four sahuagins. Failed his save so was reduced to 0 HP vs. a sea hag. Failed his 1st death save. Sea hag "crit" him while unconscious to kill him. He was our resident healer. The players are hoping to get back to a nearby city before the time limit for raise dead expires. We will begin that journey tonight. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />EXTRA: we also had an NPC "sidekick" who kicked it in session 14 against some firenewts. Fell unconscious due to a fireball and a firenewt pushed him into lava. OUCH! Yeah, he died quickly.[/spoiler]Now, you might play in D&D games where every town has a 9th level priest with raise dead who will gladly use it before the PCs do a quest, or maybe they have the funds to just pay the priest for it? Or diamonds are found in every hoard to allow the PCs to use revivify IF you have a caster who knows it? But not every group rolls that way, and those games without a plethora of "raising" options are still VERY MUCH D&D!We are playing 99% RAW, by the way. We use the variant to reroll initiative each round (not a house rule) and use exploding critical damage (which has little mathematical impact on the game) instead of critical "hits" on the d20. To the deaths that have occured, the critical damage rule hasn't even been a factor.</blockquote>

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