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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retros_x" data-source="post: 9711052" data-attributes="member: 7033171">Yes, thank you for explaining the specific over general rule. However, it all needs to be measured. The bigger the exception is, the more unpredictable the game becomes for the players and thus they make less informed choices, which is IMO the death of good roleplaying. Extreme example: If my exception is "Against this monster combat gets resolved in one single D20 roll, on a 5-20 the monster wins the fight and kills you all", that is obviously a pretty bad exception and just because the system allows that, doesn't make it good.Less extreme obviously are 0HP death mechanics, but I still found them more on the bad side of "rules overwrite" ...... and they need to be telegraphed clearly, as I was saying in my post before. If it was only realized after the fact its a bad telegraph. Instadeath is not something that should get only a subtle hint, especially not something like "this monster looks really bad", yeah ofc. every monster looks bad and DMs try to narrate most encounters as dangerous and exciting. Players easily misinterpret something like this as the usual "hype" of the DM. For such dangerous abilities I think you need them to demonstrate on NPC, let the players see the effect, see the numbers popping up or just plainly tell them OOC.</blockquote>