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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2291206" data-attributes="member: 30035">My goodness you are bloodthirsty for someone with such a friendly moniker!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  I think it's perfectly possible to play a suspenseful game without killing off PCs willy-nilly.  The perception that D&D must be extremely deadly to be fun seems quite alien to me.  IMHO there needs to be a balance between "let the dice fall" and let the game be fun.  For some people there is no distinction, but that's not the case for all. It sounds like you have a good plan in mind to discuss this with your players, IamTheTest.  See what the player wants to do, and then try to accomodate that as best you can without too much house-ruling or bending the plot. In our group we allow wands to be purchased at half price if they have only 50% charges.  This helps us maintain our healing ability when our funds are low.</blockquote>