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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8146213" data-attributes="member: 58197">I do technically play with the rule, but it pretty much never comes up, because I don't want it to (and I make choices, like average damage for monsters and not attacking downed PCs, that minimize the chances of it).My campaigns have strong overarching plots, and my players always have more character ideas they want to try. When a PC dies, the player just whips out the next concept in their personal idea file, but I have to figure out how to work the new guy's character hooks into the ongoing story and it's a real PITA. I don't want a lot of random death in my games; if one PC is unconscious, I want the other PCs to have the opportunity to save them.If you do something suicidal, of course, you die, and if your party members can't be bothered to save you, you also die. But otherwise, the threat of death is collective rather than individual. If the party really, truly screws up and can't think of a creative way out, they TPK and the campaign is over and I don't have to work anybody into anything.I have been thinking about trying a more &quot;episodic&quot; approach with stand-alone adventures lasting maybe 3-4 sessions, and one of the attractions is that it reduces the hassle for me when new PCs join the group. (Also, it allows me to run an adventure or two and then step back and let someone else DM for a while.) I might crank up the lethality for that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8146213, member: 58197"] I do technically play with the rule, but it pretty much never comes up, because I don't want it to (and I make choices, like average damage for monsters and not attacking downed PCs, that minimize the chances of it). My campaigns have strong overarching plots, and my players always have more character ideas they want to try. When a PC dies, the player just whips out the next concept in their personal idea file, but I have to figure out how to work the new guy's character hooks into the ongoing story and it's a real PITA. I don't [I]want[/I] a lot of random death in my games; if one PC is unconscious, I want the other PCs to have the opportunity to save them. If you do something suicidal, of course, you die, and if your party members can't be bothered to save you, you also die. But otherwise, the threat of death is collective rather than individual. If the party really, truly screws up and can't think of a creative way out, they TPK and the campaign is over and I don't have to work anybody into anything. I have been thinking about trying a more "episodic" approach with stand-alone adventures lasting maybe 3-4 sessions, and one of the attractions is that it reduces the hassle for me when new PCs join the group. (Also, it allows me to run an adventure or two and then step back and let someone else DM for a while.) I might crank up the lethality for that. [/QUOTE]

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