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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9536133" data-attributes="member: 6801228">The adventure I posted with the Gnolls revolves around a dungeon. Per the request of the player who wanted me to run the adventure, death is completely off the table. Not even the monsters will die. If defeated the party is captured, and will get a chance to escape. If they fail in the escape attempt, that character is permanently lost to the Dungeon. After the fight I'm talking about, I revealed part of what that means in this section of the dungeon they are in. One of the players felt the appropriate response from their character was to vomit in horror. Character Death is not the Holy Grail of all story telling. It is not the Ultimate Silver Bullet, without which all stories fail. Character Death is a tool, and one of the least interesting ones to leverage. In fact, it is such a tool that its OVERUSE is often cited as the downfall of a story.</blockquote>