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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cangrejoide" data-source="post: 4397952" data-attributes="member: 62237">Well thats from the POV of a player, but its even worse from the POV of the GM. Consider my ealier Shackled City post in this thread. It took us more than a year to reach the last epic encounter. And on the first round of combat my players lost miserably.  It was so demoralizing that even with divine intervention my characters ( and me as a GM) did not want to continue playing, just because the momentum of the action, and even the sense of the epic moment was lost.All those months setting up for an encounter, all the time spent preparing encounters and prepping NPCs was lost. Heck if we would have died after 5 or 6 rounds of heavy combat would have been an acceptable loss, but just lossing the first round to bad rolls sucked the fun out of the campaign.And yes I could have told the players that it sucked and they could have re-rolled, but how is that any different from just saying okay you guys are the heroes just narrate how you beat the bad guy and lets forget rolling dice for this session?In the end I would just quote what one of my players said the next session we had :"Why are we even playing D&D again, we wasted a whole year on that lets do something else were we can really feel epic", and to my dismay all of my players agreed and so did I.</blockquote>