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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 3439145" data-attributes="member: 7533">Here's the Death and Dying house rule I've been using in my Iron Heroes game, lately:It's designed to keep characters on their feet (but debilitated) for a little longer after they've suffered a mortal wound, and to give them a better fighting chance at surviving a mortal wound.  Also, it makes higher level characters more likely to survive and recover from such wounds.Even so, I've just had two characters die in a single fight, and it could have been avoided by a little better tactics -- "Ignore the Captain, focus on the mooks!"   One character drowned while grappling with an animated suit of armor underwater (both had been bullrushed off the ship), and another went down to a critical hit from the Pirate Captain's greataxe. The terrible thing is, I'd actually pre-panned on having the crew surrender as soon as the Captain went down, had they focused on him both deaths would likely have been avoided.In other words, sometimes the problem isn't the lethality of the rules or the encounters...  Sometimes the problem is a cruel DM or reckless players. Each requires a slightly different solution.  Make certain you are solving the right problem.  It sounds like your players need a primer in basic tactics and resource management.  As a current player in a RHoD game, I know first hand that the game will chew up and spit out any PCs who can't learn those lessons quickly.He had a similar experience at the Skull Gorge bridge... We came upon the bridge sooner than expected and were unprepared.  One character died, and two more were close to dying.  We retreated. We came back with reinforcements, a battleplan and fully prepared for fighting a green dragon and a bunch of hobgoblin archers, and beat them handily (though our wizard was sorely hurt).  With that new point of view, we've had no such similar problems with any subsequent encounters.</blockquote>

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