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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 4814933" data-attributes="member: 60965">I think PC death is less scary not only for the reasons above, but, at least in my group, the sheer number of different characters we want to try.  Lost your Paladin?  Sweet, now I get to try out the Avenger.  Lost your Wizard?  Cool, let's see how an Invoker does.  Etc...We haven't had any PC deaths in our level 1 to 16 campaign (though we did have two people turned to stone by basilisks at level 11).We've had a couple times where it was close - cleric had no healing left, people bloodied at the end of the fight, taking on 10-12 same level non-minions at once, etc - but as long as we kept a decent supply of healing potions and didn't run out of healing surges, we pulled through.  Our DM did say he pulled his punches in one fight at level 3, but we told him not to do it again and since he hasn't.My roomies and I are running 3 6th level PCs through Bordrin's Watch (Scales of War Adventure 2) and ended the last monestary fight with 2 PCs down making death saves and a bloodied sorcerer (that solo'd the last 3 orcs...).My buddy in CA has had a few PC deaths in his game, though 3 of them were PC vs PC(roleplaying reasons).  He did have 1 PC die(drown) and nearly have a TPK as the low-level PCs were crossing a river...  if it weren't for the Water Genesei, it probably would have been.I made a 4-encounter mini-adventure for him too that did end with one enemy (Illithid) escaped, 3 PCs dead, 3 PCs unconcious and stable, and two PCs with single digit hp at the end of the last encounter.  Those are the only other PC death examplse that I know of, and that's about as close to TPK as you get without being a TPK.Overall, I agree that the fight either is on the border of TPK land or is firmly in OK land.  The only exception would be is the DM has monsters regularly Coup-de-grace PCs that are down; he's going to see lots more individual deaths.</blockquote>

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