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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 7107913" data-attributes="member: 1465">This is pretty much my starting point for handling PC deaths. I do not need to house rule the death & dying rules to achieve this, or fudge rolls. In fact, I do not even need to stress too much about balancing encounters. Instead, I simply do so that when a PC "dies", we decide together (player and me, with input from anyone else in the group) what really happens to her. It could be anything from just staying unconscious for a while, be captured, suffer a temporary or permanent disability, lose equipment, trigger a side quest, or truly die. It depends on the player's ability to deal with her PC's death, on what the group think it's fair*, and on what makes for a satisfying story. If someone abuses the idea, it becomes unsatisfying and the players just correct themselves. But at the (very low) mortality rate of 5e, this is unlikely to happen.*and by the way "bad luck" is generally a not fair and not satisfying reason to retire a good PC, for me saying that death is deserved when someone just rolls poorly is basically punishing a player for something she's not guilty of; but at the same time, "unless the PC does something really stupid" is not a valid rationale for me, because this is a lot more subjective than what most people thinkThis approach totally includes the case when a player is fine with her PC dying (which is by the way what I prefer as a player for my own PCs most of the times). It just doesn't force it on anyone.</blockquote>

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