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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmadsen" data-source="post: 5042595" data-attributes="member: 1645">In real life, the winning side suffers casualties, and, if anything, the brave men leading the charge are most likely to be the ones taking lethal wounds before the enemy is routed.In a game where our heroes fight a dozen small-unit skirmishes per level -- where they can't help but be in the thick of it -- do we really want them to have a "realistic" chance of getting killed or maimed?  An 8% chance of "career-ending injury" per encounter would lead us to expect adventurers to make it to second level.That would be fine for NPCs -- who presumably aren't demonstrating "superior play" -- but it would play havoc with a typical campaign.  So, either the players need (subtle but effective) plot-protection, or PCs last, on average, one level.</blockquote>