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<blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 8583904" data-attributes="member: 63508">Well as this change, you have to look at the junk we don't want to take from under the lampshade because we don't want to deal with the aftermath to the S of D.I mean.... half the major changes in D&amp;D over the years all come going from the Assumption of Running Multiple Expendable PCs to Assumption of Running One Not so Expendable PC.Few realize or are willing to vocalize the reason why 4e and 5e PCs are harder to kill. Tougher PCs who don't randomly die, aren't icky gray morally, and don't take off months of a time make better stories. 0e, 1e, and early 2e PCs had stories. But in the purely narrative literal sense, their stories were often terrible. They almost never follow a writting curve nd they usually exist in plotless or weak plot stories unless the DM forced the plot AND fudged dice. You write down a Old D&amp;D PC's life and hand it to a English teacher and you were getting a F back. D+ if you rolled well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Minigiant, post: 8583904, member: 63508"] Well as this change, you have to look at the junk we don't want to take from under the lampshade because we don't want to deal with the aftermath to the S of D. I mean.... half the major changes in D&D over the years all come going from the Assumption of Running Multiple Expendable PCs to Assumption of Running One Not so Expendable PC. Few realize or are willing to vocalize the reason why 4e and 5e PCs are harder to kill. Tougher PCs who don't randomly die, aren't icky gray morally, and don't take off months of a time make better stories. 0e, 1e, and early 2e PCs had stories. But in the purely narrative literal sense, their stories were often terrible. They almost never follow a writting curve nd they usually exist in plotless or weak plot stories unless the DM forced the plot AND fudged dice. You write down a Old D&D PC's life and hand it to a English teacher and you were getting a F back. D+ if you rolled well. [/QUOTE]

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