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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vyvyan Basterd" data-source="post: 6112872" data-attributes="member: 4892">He said they encounter a wandering band of lizardfolk, he did not say they fight them. If you do attack the wandering band of lizardfolk as a low-level party then you learn the lesson of fighting when you should avoid doing so. Not a bad lesson for a new player to learn.He didn't specify any particular type of spider. The stats you give I assume are for a giant spider. Such detail was not given in his quick example. They could just as easily be a nest of tiny little spiders that do 1 point of damage when they hit. Neither of us know. Yet the point is that you set them against appropriate challenges.Survivability has much more to do with the challenges the DM chooses to confront the players with than their actual character stats.Mandates? No. Sorry, not buying that. Maybe you've heard horror stories of swaths of death in 1E AD&D, but that more likely came from more experienced groups upping the difficulty for a greater challenge. In my personal experience very few newbies died repeatedly at low levels. Also, getting involved in real action doesn't require combat! A murder-mystery scenario surrounding the lost elf in Mearls' example can be just as engaging and action-packed without resorting to combat and mandating hp or fate point buffers.</blockquote>