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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6699679" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>The DM doesn't usually need to fudge the dice to keep PC's from dying left and right, and can let the dice fall where they may, if the DM has so cooked the scenes so that the math wildly favors the PC's. Lucky attack by a monster will drop a particular PC in one round? Try not to use such a monster. Monster has a save or die attack that the party can neither prep for nor recover from? Try not to use such a monster.</p><p></p><p>The other trick to this is carefully and consciously not trying to win. As the DM, you have out of game knowledge about how to beat the PC's. You know that if you want to win, attacking the PCs with low hit points and ignoring the ones with high hit points is vastly more effective than the reverse. You know that if you want to win, beating down the healer early and often is much better than trying to beat down the tank. </p><p></p><p>But you can ignore your own insights and consciously choose to play into the parties hands. </p><p></p><p>In this manner, PC's really only die 'left and right' even when the dice fall as they may when the PC's split the party or play against their own tactical advantages - fragile spell casters in the front, beefy armored tanks in the back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6699679, member: 4937"] The DM doesn't usually need to fudge the dice to keep PC's from dying left and right, and can let the dice fall where they may, if the DM has so cooked the scenes so that the math wildly favors the PC's. Lucky attack by a monster will drop a particular PC in one round? Try not to use such a monster. Monster has a save or die attack that the party can neither prep for nor recover from? Try not to use such a monster. The other trick to this is carefully and consciously not trying to win. As the DM, you have out of game knowledge about how to beat the PC's. You know that if you want to win, attacking the PCs with low hit points and ignoring the ones with high hit points is vastly more effective than the reverse. You know that if you want to win, beating down the healer early and often is much better than trying to beat down the tank. But you can ignore your own insights and consciously choose to play into the parties hands. In this manner, PC's really only die 'left and right' even when the dice fall as they may when the PC's split the party or play against their own tactical advantages - fragile spell casters in the front, beefy armored tanks in the back. [/QUOTE]
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