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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6567489" data-attributes="member: 2011">Total nonsense.You mean poor choices like the NPC hitting the wizard PC, he fails his concentration roll, and the four foes in the Web spell are now out of the Web spell? Sorry, you are just mistaken. Here is an example of two rolls (one good one by an NPC, one poor one by a PC), all in the space of a single turn, which can turn the tide of battle. No player choice involved, let alone poor choices. So obviously, your one die roll theory is in error.As for the "my fault" of my Wizard's two death saving throws, it happened to be two lightning bolts by the bad guys. My PC actually had 2 hit points remaining after the first lightning bolt, but that could easily have been 2 extra points of damage and a single spell that took him down.Two characters went unconscious last night with a single Dragon breath weapon. The party ended up beating the dragon and nobody died, but if someone had died (e.g. the dragon had rolled more damage on the breath weapon, or one of those two characters had been a bit more damaged before the breath weapon), does that mean that it would have been due to poor decisions? Obviously not. Nobody is omniscient, even the DM. The best tactics can end up screwing the party and terrible tactics can end up winning the day, just because of dice rolls.This concept that it has to be due to a single die roll in order for a PC to die from poor dumb luck is total crap. Sorry, you are just flat out mistaken on this.</blockquote>

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