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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Electric" data-source="post: 5624109" data-attributes="member: 6679554">Not "can't" kill really. Just "less likely" to kill, or at least less likely to kill directly than something like actually pitting 1st level adventurers against a ghost that the majority of them won't be able to hit. It is, as you and the GMG say, like a trap. It's not the poison dart that kills you, it's the ability damage from that poison dart causing you to fail a crucial roll later that kills you. (Or any number of similar things...)And the players don't have to know they aren't in that much danger. Knock 'em to low health, mix an occasional real combat encounter with an occasional fake one so they're always worried that anything that pops up might be real... In my Eternal Darkness example, low sanity would rarely (if ever) kill you. Low sanity messing with the game while something else was trying to kill you on the other hand was a very real danger.It does help a bit yes. And I have access to a copy of the GMG by the way, but I don't own any of the books myself (a housemate of mine owns it and doesn't mind lending it).Curse of the Golden Spear sounds like useful reading on the subject. Makes me wish I had more time to go out and find it. Also makes me wish I had money to spend, but alas such is life.</blockquote>