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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9791528" data-attributes="member: 29398">Perhaps and understandably unclear in my post to which you refer, I was speaking about the game (both at-table and in-character) rather than the real world.[USER=3400]@billd91[/USER] seems to have read me bang-on."You don't get to play any more" is Chick-level hyperbole.  This isn't Black Leaf dying and her player getting tossed out of the game because of it."You don't get to play for a while" would be accurate, and maps nicely to a hockey player taking a penalty or a rugby player going off injured: sure they get to play again, just not right now.Here, as a player, I wholeheartedly disagree.  Knocking off the BBEG with one lucky roll is great!   We live to fight another day and still have all our resources - high fives all round!Why is it so much fun?  Because we as players know - or should know - that had luck run equally hard the the other way we'd be hosed, with maybe some characters dead and the rest fleeing for our lives.As a DM, losing in one shot less fun; but then the DM expects to lose anyway.  The only thing that changes here is the manner and speed with which this loss is inflicted.Big monsters acting alone do need some beefing up, for sure.  That's been more or less the case in every edition.</blockquote>