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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9024901" data-attributes="member: 6877472">I see it quite a lot, and the reason is, simply put, that most DM's don't want to run low-challenge encounters, which are supposed to be the most common type of encounter.  They'd rather use most of their xp budget on big, challenging setpiece encounters, which of course, means that the enemies can rather easily knock a player to 0 hit points.  I saw it in Adventure League adventures, I saw it in home games, where you only have time for 1-3 fights per session, and I'm seeing it now in the megadungeon I'm playing in (Scarlet Citadel, by Kobold Press). When you have limited time, and want to have the game to be exciting, this happens.  Because something like "you come upon three orcs in a room", which, by rights, ought to be a standard encounter, you barely need to bust out the dice.And even in an easy encounter, enemies can be dangerous if they focus fire: in my last 5e session (that I was playing in), we actually came upon a room full of goblins.  It lasted 3 rounds, but only because our first turn was spent getting past a barricade.  The goblins were easy opponents, but the Ranger still went to 0 hit points because they were the first person to get past the barricade, and they got shot full of arrows for their trouble!So yeah, I pretty much see someone healed from 0 in at least half of all encounters.  I can't imagine my experience is all that unique.</blockquote>

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