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Dragon 368 - Death Matters (But Never Happens)
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<blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4503019" data-attributes="member: 40961"><p>Remember, you get 3 failed death checks per encounter, not per time you drop below 0 hp. Fail a death check, get healed, rise to your feet, and drop again... and you've only got 2 death checks this time.</p><p></p><p>Also note that a lot of the non magical ways to stabilize or heal you involve letting you use your second wind. This is also once per encounter, and you may have used it trying to stay alive in the first place.</p><p></p><p>As for the general difficulty, please remember that an encounter of equal level to yours is NOT supposed to lead to character death. You should be able to get through encounters of even +3 levels to yours without character death, though at the +3 mark it may be a close thing, or you may have to use a lot of daily powers. The game is not designed to have equal chances of victory between the DM and the PCs. The PCs are supposed to win unless they make poor decisions, or take on obviously unsafe battles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cadfan, post: 4503019, member: 40961"] Remember, you get 3 failed death checks per encounter, not per time you drop below 0 hp. Fail a death check, get healed, rise to your feet, and drop again... and you've only got 2 death checks this time. Also note that a lot of the non magical ways to stabilize or heal you involve letting you use your second wind. This is also once per encounter, and you may have used it trying to stay alive in the first place. As for the general difficulty, please remember that an encounter of equal level to yours is NOT supposed to lead to character death. You should be able to get through encounters of even +3 levels to yours without character death, though at the +3 mark it may be a close thing, or you may have to use a lot of daily powers. The game is not designed to have equal chances of victory between the DM and the PCs. The PCs are supposed to win unless they make poor decisions, or take on obviously unsafe battles. [/QUOTE]
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