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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dareoon Dalandrove" data-source="post: 2019063" data-attributes="member: 2277">The thing with new players is most of the time you have an experienced group and a new person.  The rest of the group may have had characters that have been around for a few adventures and the players can all swap "war stories" about things that they have doen together.  This new person doesn't have any of this.  They're the outsider.  To have a character killed in the first session of play could be devistationg to some.   I think that in some ways it's like subliminal social rejection.  "They killed my character so they don't like me".  Also for some "experience gamers", by that I mean have played not played for years, they might have invested too much time thinking about what their character is going to do. So when their character gets turned into a puddle of goop, in a way, their dreams are shattered.  Part of this is has to do with most of the game happening in our imaginations.  We experience things through our characters.  So for some a mishape happens because they failed not that the dungeon is made to kill you.  Some people are better equipt to deal with this than I others I think and with experience getting flame broiled isn't so much of a problem the second time around.</blockquote>