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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Quixote" data-source="post: 6362325" data-attributes="member: 694">Rolling the Bones™My table has Rolling the Bones™.Here's how I determine death in my games: when a player falls to 0 HP, there are no negative hit points, no death saves; rather, the fallen player must Roll the Bones, which is a simple roll of 2d3.  On a result of double 3s, the character isn't just knocked out or wounded, but slain instantly (and often in gruesome fashion).I have a pair of very intimidating black d3s with big white numbers on them, ripped off from a couple of board games long ago, and a big leather dice cup dedicated solely to housing these two dice.  Whenever a particularly dangerous encounter or section of dungeon is imminent, the players will sometimes look askance to see if I've moved the Bones-cup from the bookshelf onto the game table.And ever since this one time in Quesquaton when a party of six players tried to assault an orc lair and lost three players, all of whom rolled double-3s and died on the spot, my players have developed a ritual around the bones.  Now, whenever a player character falls to 0 hp or fails a saving throw vs. death magic or lethal poison, all of the players will start to pound the table and chant, "BONES, BONES, BONES, BONES...!!!" as the leather cup comes out.  Then the unfortunate player loads one of the d3s into the cup—the bones are rolled one at a time, purely so that if the first roll comes up 3, the second roll is made with maximum tension.(In that same campaign, which we mostly played in my brother's apartment, we kept track of the total number of bones rolled and rolls failed using a bit light-up Schlitz beer sign that my brother kept on the wall near the game table.)</blockquote>

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