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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Varianor Abroad" data-source="post: 3799038" data-attributes="member: 12425">Good preparation avoids obviously fudged BBEG death. If you want your villain to last, have a list of spells cast for the BBEG's benefit and potions consumed. (A potion of sturdying from Arcana Evolved, for example, adds +30 hit points. Makes a big difference for evil wizards.)Another excellent method is to roll dice on the table. Yes, a few specific numbers get out, but the players' comfort level rises when they see honest play from you. If a bad roll kills someone important, so be it. House rules, obviously, should be discussed with the players. At the end of the day, I think the ways the rules handle things in 3E empower DMs more than in previous editions. If, and this is the big if, you learn the rules well and how to apply them. That's where I see the 4E simplification of rules argument. Now I wait to see how it's been implemented before passing judgment. Who knows what it will really do?</blockquote>