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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Byakugan" data-source="post: 6847552" data-attributes="member: 6816292">I tend to be a bit soft when it comes to killing players.  I am pretty good at balancing encounters to where almost everyone gets beat within an inch of their lives. I usually have a full tables so I can only get through a couple encounters in a night usually. So I try to make one of them pretty easy, and a harrowing one.  But I try not to kill the players where they don't have any control over.  That might come from years of old school gaming where as a player I detested things like permanent level drains, save or die things, and the permanent scars I got from playing Tomb of Horrors. For example A while back I surprised my PCs with a Carrion Crawler and I rolled double crits and near max damage on the poor 2nd level PC.  It was over 30 damage on a pc with like 14 hitpoints. That is pretty un-fun IMO, so I just turned one hit into a graze and the other knocked him out, giving the other characters a chance to save him.  in my experience I feel like getting close to dying lets me keep that feeling that i need to be careful and that my choices/tactics are important. I often forget to reward PCs with inspiration, so sometimes I figure out an occasional soft pitch to even out my karma <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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