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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 3740694" data-attributes="member: 158">I've said it before, and I'll reiterate -- so many of the "war stories" gamers tell one another involve the death of one or more Player Characters in a past campaign in interesting or humorous ways. If a monster just beats you bloody, that often doesn't stick in our minds. Getting run over by the Steam Golem, being paralyzed while hanging from a dragon's neck and falling 3000 feet to your death, being spattered on a wall fired from a trebuchet, being petrified and made into a lawn ornament, disintegrated in mid leap over a chasm - all these make their way into "gamer legend". Even the famous "Gazebo story" involves a capricious and annoyed DM and an instant-kill effect from a monster. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The balance is making sure you don't die too often in the sum total of games played - that's the trick.</blockquote>