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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 6488054" data-attributes="member: 20564">I feel this is rather one-sided.&nbsp; I know I have discussions with players when starting a new campaign, setting up the social contract, and lethality is a big part of that.&nbsp; I know that a &quot;well, you can't die even if you're stupid&quot; would have no interest to me as a player.I am in one game where after more than a year of play the DM badly misjudged the challenge of an epic campaign-arc-final-battle fight and while we accomplished our objective and freed them imprisoned angel, we all died.&nbsp; He then handwaved us being all raised by direct divine intervention, fully healed/rested and leveled up, in order to finish against the already hurt foes.&nbsp; I understand that he didn't want to end the campaign and he did a good job working it in story-wise, but that stole any sense of accomplishment from this major plot point that we had been building to for months.Different groups have different feels about death and lethality, and it can be a charged topic.&nbsp; Just saying to stay away from it isn't a universal answer any more than extreme lethality is universal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 6488054, member: 20564"] I feel this is rather one-sided. I know I have discussions with players when starting a new campaign, setting up the social contract, and lethality is a big part of that. I know that a "well, you can't die even if you're stupid" would have no interest to me as a player. I am in one game where after more than a year of play the DM badly misjudged the challenge of an epic campaign-arc-final-battle fight and while we accomplished our objective and freed them imprisoned angel, we all died. He then handwaved us being all raised by direct divine intervention, fully healed/rested and leveled up, in order to finish against the already hurt foes. I understand that he didn't want to end the campaign and he did a good job working it in story-wise, but that stole any sense of accomplishment from this major plot point that we had been building to for months. Different groups have different feels about death and lethality, and it can be a charged topic. Just saying to stay away from it isn't a universal answer any more than extreme lethality is universal. [/QUOTE]

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