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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5770865" data-attributes="member: 22424">Ironically, I think that is great for advanced players!In my experience, new gamers are sold on the idea of being the great hero, of having mighty adventures. Conan, Aragorn, Han Solo, Batman...I can think of few things worse for such a player, after having created their first character and out on their first adventure, to suffer a single lucky hit from a random orc, and just die. Chances are, they'll never play again.This opens up some nasty choices:- You just suck it up, and quite likely lose the player forever.- The DM can fudge the rolls to keep the PC alive. I hate the idea of advising that as a policy. (Granted, I hate the idea of losing potential players to a bad crit more, but if we can avoid both...)- Play at a higher level, with the resulting increase in complexity.Actually, this whole topic is probably one of the ideal subjects for the DMG to discuss under modularity. Perhaps something like, "Beginner tier characters purposefully start with an inflated number of hit points, to help new players learn the game. If you want a more lethal low-level experience, do the following...")</blockquote>