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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hoffrg86" data-source="post: 9539586" data-attributes="member: 6792463">A weird question to me, I don't expect anyone to die nor keep a tally by session/week/campaign, but poor choices and maybe poor dice rolls can end up with pc deaths.I roll in the open, or in the case of my pbp for the pc's to see - my physical dice and/or randomizer "dice roller" are usually cursed and I can't hit for squat.So with that said, my 5e kill count is 0 over 10 years, quite a few knocked unconscious though. I've(i was a pc) only seen two permanent pc deaths, and that was Rime of the frost maiden [non-AL], I've never seen a player death in Adventure League(AL/8 years).The most harrowing 5e game I played was Baldur's gate - Avernous, in the final battle DM opened up with one or two meteor swarms(9th wiz spell), knocked out half our pc's(we 17/18th level). It was seat-of-the-pants and a narrow win with pulling a certain someone to our side - one guy lost his character to loosing his soul, that was about it. The CR was way over our average 4 person CR 17/18 party.They live, they die - I let the dice fall where they may.I tried 5e on hardcore mode(drive-thru 3rd party supplement), first level of Undermountain (5e) and still pretty easy for the 4 PCs - we let it go after they hit the second floor.  I got rid of short rest, healing by HD. capped stats to 18, slowed down healing hp rate. Only allowed PHB, and a few races. It was more fun to scale it back, but 5e doesn't do gritty well, it does do high fantasy legolas a'la lotr movie well though - if that's what you like.  Only way a character died in the lotr movie was being severly outnumbers lol /rip Boromir  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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