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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 8272431" data-attributes="member: 42040">Had my one of my first individual PC deaths in 5e last night, so it is possible - it was just under a very specific set of circumstances - and it felt so unusual that the players were sort of stunned by the outcome.We're playing in Chapter One of "Rime of the Frost Maiden," so I'll put the write up in spoilers. But basically we had three 3rd level characters (one player was out for the session) defeat a CR 8 encounter (2 CR 2 monsters and 1 CR 4 monster) with a single character death.[ISPOILER]The characters approached the den of a lesser giant in a narrow corridor. His ogre friend and cave bear animal companion couldn't get to the back rank without squeezing around another tunnel. Cleric boosted the frontline fighter's armor so the giant couldn't reliably hit and alternated using Command to keep the ogre running away and Healing Word to keep bringing the fighter up - who never had to make a single Death Save. The one character death was a squishy warlock who got attacked by a bear, who just went all in on the warlock - attacking him even when he was down. So two death save failures, and then unluckily the player failed the third one (but probably only because he forgot to spend Inspiration) - had he held out one more round, he would've been insta-healed and the encounter would've had no deaths at all.[/ISPOILER]</blockquote>