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<blockquote data-quote="Distracted DM" data-source="post: 9524727" data-attributes="member: 6894926">I assume you're referring to the folk that are in favor of &quot;character death can be off the table, there are worse things that can happen to a character than death&quot; line of thinking. In which case yeah there have been a surprising number (to me) of people on these forums that have expressed that preference. On one hand I am in favor of &quot;if the bad guys would actually want to capture you, then sure it makes sense that they do so. It's not a cop-out, it is a realistic way to keep the game going after a possible TPK.&quot; Some adventures like Red Hand of Doom actually have a sidebar for this. But on the other hand, I don't personally like things like: &quot;characters can't die, the Dark Powers revive you with a mutation or curse because living with this malignance is worse than death,&quot; which means that if you play long enough you will stumble your way to victory in Curse of Strahd.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Distracted DM, post: 9524727, member: 6894926"] I assume you're referring to the folk that are in favor of "character death can be off the table, there are worse things that can happen to a character than death" line of thinking. In which case yeah there have been a surprising number (to me) of people on these forums that have expressed that preference. On one hand I am in favor of "if the bad guys would actually want to capture you, then sure it makes sense that they do so. It's not a cop-out, it is a realistic way to keep the game going after a possible TPK." Some adventures like Red Hand of Doom actually have a sidebar for this. But on the other hand, I don't personally like things like: "characters can't die, the Dark Powers revive you with a mutation or curse because living with this malignance is worse than death," which means that if you play long enough you [I]will[/I] stumble your way to victory in Curse of Strahd. [/QUOTE]

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