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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9620814" data-attributes="member: 23751">No.&nbsp; He didn't describe that at all.&nbsp; The entire point of his post wasn't that you should kill off PCs or run an adversarial game, it was that he made an observation that the groups that did get unlucky rallied around that adversity and used it as incentive, rather than let it get them down.I haven't run a Gygaxian style game since 2e, but I still have observed since then that players like to be challenged.&nbsp; They like overcoming the adversity that challenges represent.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because then the victory over the situation actually means something.Many, if not most of the best stories my players talk about, and that I've heard strangers talk about, are those stories when they are fighting the BBEG and everyone in the party is down except for that one last PC who is on his last leg and will drop if he doesn't hit/crit/roll a 20, etc. and he does it.&nbsp; Those situations are the ones that make the best memories and stories.&nbsp; I've never heard someone talk about how 6 years ago they curb stomped the BBEG without taking much damage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 9620814, member: 23751"] No. He didn't describe that at all. The entire point of his post wasn't that you should kill off PCs or run an adversarial game, it was that he made an observation that the groups that did get unlucky rallied around that adversity and used it as incentive, rather than let it get them down. I haven't run a Gygaxian style game since 2e, but I still have observed since then that players like to be challenged. They like overcoming the adversity that challenges represent. Why? Because then the victory over the situation actually means something. Many, if not most of the best stories my players talk about, and that I've heard strangers talk about, are those stories when they are fighting the BBEG and everyone in the party is down except for that one last PC who is on his last leg and will drop if he doesn't hit/crit/roll a 20, etc. and he does it. Those situations are the ones that make the best memories and stories. I've never heard someone talk about how 6 years ago they curb stomped the BBEG without taking much damage. [/QUOTE]

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