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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5901136" data-attributes="member: 9037">I have played in games where we didn't die. Games like 7 Seas with death removed even DnD. In these games there were other consequences to failure. For example losing a complete level and any magic items you got that level if you hit -10.Believe me it made for tense combats because no one wanted that. We played smart and combat scared us. It never once felt hollow. The type of game you describe would feel hollow to me because if someone dies every session it gets hard to form any attachments. It would be just like a video game.Also it would be hard to keep introducing new characters. Does your group just handwave it away and do the you look trust worthy join us?You are making some assumptions I don't understand. You seem to be saying there is two ways to play high death count or no death count. There is a middle ground where death can happen but be rare. Also your comment about TV is not my experience when I watch it I know that the Enterprise is not going to be destroyed and everyone is going to die. What I find interesting is how do they fix the problem. Having the characters die is not going to make it more on the edge of my seat.As a matter of fact where TV is concerned I wouldn't enjoy as much it if a character died every week. I might still watch but I wouldn't develop any attachment to the characters. It is why I am not a huge fan of Game of Thrones.   My favorite book series Katherine Kurtz's Deryni has character death but it is not the whole sale slaughter as Game of Thrones.</blockquote>

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