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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8726288" data-attributes="member: 50987">Sorry, I got swept up in the waves of hyperbole.&nbsp; The tide in the thread started to drift from 'make changes to combat' to 'stack the odds in the party's favor' and so forth...I lost sight of the shoreline for a minute.&nbsp; One minute I'm musing about whether or not the players expect their DM to fudge in their favor, and before I know it I'm shouting about character death.The buoy I was swimming toward was:&nbsp; losing a battle isn't a bad thing.&nbsp; It's not a symptom of a poorly-designed encounter, or evidence of an adversarial DM.&nbsp; It's just a thing that can happen per the rules.&nbsp; Even if characters get killed, character death needn't be permanent, and usually isn't permanent thanks to magic.&nbsp; It's been my experience that characters die very rarely in 5E, and when they do it's even more rare for them to stay that way.&nbsp; The idea that a character would become unplayable forever because they died during an encounter is strange to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 8726288, member: 50987"] Sorry, I got swept up in the waves of hyperbole. The tide in the thread started to drift from 'make changes to combat' to 'stack the odds in the party's favor' and so forth...I lost sight of the shoreline for a minute. One minute I'm musing about whether or not the players expect their DM to fudge in their favor, and before I know it I'm shouting about character death. The buoy I was swimming toward was: losing a battle isn't a bad thing. It's not a symptom of a poorly-designed encounter, or evidence of an adversarial DM. It's just a thing that can happen per the rules. Even if characters get killed, character death needn't be permanent, and usually [I]isn't[/I] permanent thanks to magic. It's been my experience that characters die very rarely in 5E, and when they do it's even more rare for them to stay that way. The idea that a character would become unplayable forever because they died during an encounter is strange to me. [/QUOTE]

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