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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 8567093" data-attributes="member: 4881">I am closing in on 50.  I started playing DnD in the early 80s (when I was in grade school and the cartoon was on TV).A few years back a.GM at my table was running a game wherey character was a Fighter from the Rules Cyclopedia.  1st level.  He set the game in the Harn world.One player lost a character to a single wolf in the first encounter.  For the rest of the first level we avoided everything, only fighting when we had no chance of sneaking or hiding.  We found just a couple bits of treasure since we avoided encounters.When I hit 2nd level my fighter had a dagger  some chain armor, and a single long stick I sharpened into a spear during the campaign.Eventually we found ourselves in a town where my destitute fighter was sleeping outside because I was homeless and didn't have money to afford a common room in the inn.At this point I tapped out and told the GM I wasn't interested in playing his misery filled campaign anymore.  It's simply not fun to spend my 4 hours a week I get to RPG playing some poopy character that is less successful at life than the actual life I am seeking a break from.If I want to get stomped on by a game I'll play a really difficult co-op board game.  Then my fellow players can share my misery and we can lose and try again after an hour or two.  If I am going to pretend to be someone I am not for funsies and entertainment I don't want that someone to be incompetent at their job...like say rolling up a 12STR fighter with a dagger and being afraid of a single wolf or random pit trap.</blockquote>

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