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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 8226190" data-attributes="member: 9213">Yeah I'm not a fan of that. It's one of the reasons I stopped listening to Critical Role. I know everyone prioritizes the narrative part of the game but for some of us it's also A GAME. It's not a novel or movie and in my preferred style of play? No one has plot armor. I do ALOT to put narrative control into my players hands in the form of Hero Points and typically when adjudicating If it comes down to calling a rule I'm usually doing it in the PC's favor unless the rule is GLARINGLY clear it should go otherwise. I ran a 10 year COTCT game and the players lost more than a few PC's during that game. The players did a great job of setting up future new possible PC's and integrating them into the story. Only ONE player played his PC from that very first level to level 15-16. He died once (from two really bad die rolls to save against a death effect) but the party was high enough level at that point and cultivated contacts to get him raised by a trusted Cleric ally. I guess I dont view character death as anything but a speed bump to a solid campaign. The narrative still goes on and can still be VERY strong. One of the PC's used a playtest version of a class early on and decided that they didnt like the way the character played. We agreed to make that character an NPC  and they made another PC. That PC made it all the way up to high level and actually completed their specific mission. Together we set up working the original PC back into the game so by the time they were ready to retire the "new" PC the "old" PC rejoined the party with a new effectiveness and mission that was in line with the old group. Your players can be very effective co-showrunners if you engage them!</blockquote>

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