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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epametheus" data-source="post: 1476578" data-attributes="member: 719">I rather nervous about killing PCs, too.  But then I finally did it (the player got cocky and got his PC into a situation where she was simply doomed), it was like a great barrier had been lifted.  The rest of the group knows that I'm going to try to put them through a meat grinder when I guest-DM, and they've adopted the attitude of "bring it on!"Low-level characters are expendable as long as they aren't central to the plot, but even a 4th level party can scrap together the funds for a Raise Dead.I've found the ease of ressurrection to be rather nice.  Especially once True Res enters the pictures; it'd practically an invitation to take off the kid gloves and test the limits of what the party can actually handle.I don't fudge the dice anymore, though I'll hold back if it looks like I have actually exceeded the party's capabilities.Though the closest I've come to the TPK was an encounter where I actually forgot that the party was Dimensionally Anchored by an Unhallow field, and so a TPK was averted because I completely forgot a rather important detail.Just give your players some clue as to what they're walking into.  Only fools expect to come back out of a dragon's den in one piece.</blockquote>