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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8607309" data-attributes="member: 29398">I'd just let the dice have their say.  Some days are just not your days. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That said, very rarely - as in maybe a half-dozen times in well over 35 years - I'll grant some sort of divine intervention if I feel the problem was my fault to start with either through faulty narration or poor encounter design/choice.  But sheer bad dice luck?  No.I speak from recent experience here: in the game I play in, the last adventure saw me playing a third or even fourth-string character because my more powerful all had bigger things on their plate, or were already in the field elsewhere.  The party's PC level range was 7th to 13th - I was the 7th - and the wealth/gear of the PCs was about commensurate.  Biggest disparity of all: her hit points were slightly over one-tenth that of the party's main tank.Even with that, I managed to find ways to make my PC not only contribute but find a way to pull off her share of (to use your term) Cool Moments.  It's just a matter of playing within the character's limits and, sometimes, thinking outside the box.  Oh, and being willing to take an occasional risk. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Yet I didn't die, lots happened, and the things that got done were mostly by us as a group rather than by individuals.</blockquote>

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