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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 4030281" data-attributes="member: 704">I have a somewhat different outlook.  First, I am a tactical DM, and enjoy running fights.  Even easy fights can take longer than I would like to play through, so when a fight happens, I generally wont waste time on cake walks.  There are easy fights, but there is always enough firepower on the opponents side to be a non trivial risk.  Because I am a tactical DM, I enjoy being able to push as hard as the situation will let me.  The end result is that it is very possible for a player to die in a fight that is not at all plot critical.Another thing I have noticed is that players can get pretty attached to their characters.  If they roll up a character, and then eat a bad saving throw and die after only having the character a short time, the replacement character may as well be a clone.  I may drop someones character in combat, but I will give them every chance to keep it.  This means they can typically stabalize if they have an action point handy.I do not mind raise dead magic being in the game.  It should be somewhat rare, but ultimately, if a DM wants to, it is not too hard to create an excuse for a player to keep a character.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>