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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 37105" data-attributes="member: 354">Actualy, I agree with Reaper... The fun is in playing out the story for my group and I. Do players have situations where they could die? Sure. But, unless they did something to put themselves in undue danger, it's probably unlikely. I actualy have a few cinimatic rules at times however that prevent some of the deaths that would otherwise happen... Anytime a player would be killed with a blow, he gets a roll to shrug off a tiny fraction of the damage, for example. This allows for the "two combatants, beaten and bloody, both knowing the next hit will probably kill them" situation that you seen in movies and anime. Things like that. Actualy, I find I have quite a few player deaths, really. But in many cases, a PC brought it upon himself in order to die _heroicly_. There's nothing heroic in getting critical-hit by a random "mook" goblin. There _is_ something heroic in holding back a hoard of goblins in a passageway so that the rest of the party can escape. Deaths like this... cinimatic, heroic, emotional... these are the deaths I strive for in my games. Not "oops, I rolled a fumble and slipped while walking along a narrow path, so I fell and broke my neck" type deaths (That actualy happened in a game I played in to my character). Others may not that I have previously espoused a "let the dice fall where they may" attitude. This is still true, in part... I do play with what's rolled... it's just that I have "contingencies" in place (such as the last-chance check)... A very strict "let the dice fall where they may" attitude is employed only in the case of munchkins, which I thankfully have none of at this point. In other cases, well-played characters have a number of chances to avoid death. They still can die, mind you, it's just much harder. Of course, "heroic" villan characters also have all these chances... "mook" characters don't, though.I guess in the end, the "Did I do anything wrong?" question is best left to your players, though, not us. We can only tell you what we do, what we think... which in the end is meaningless. It's just our views. The real question is did your players enjoy the story continuing without undue hiches, or do they prefer to loose characters now and then? Talk with them and find out.</blockquote>

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