PCs die when...

[Reynard]

I tried this one at rpg.net and it got a little side tracked, so I thought I would give it a go here.

Finish the following sentence:

"When I DM, player characters die when..."

 

[Crothian]

they die. It can be for a variety of reasons but never the same ones all the time. Adventurers live in a dangerious world and death stalks them froim the shadows.

 

[was]

...they knowingly do something REALLY stupid.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

... it's their time (especially, if they make mistakes) ....

 

[shilsen]

...players want them to or the PCs are out of action points.

 

[JimAde]

...it's dramatically appropriate.

 

[Beale Knight]

"When I DM, player characters die when..."

They reach -10 hit points without stabalizing. Sometimes it's a dramatic moment, sometimes it'll be when a kobold gets one last lucky shot with a spear. When it comes to combat, you just never know.

 

[3d6]

When they run out of hit points. I don't fudge rolls, so they can die in really any circumstances. I've had people die in random encounters before, actually, although I try not to let that happen. (If it does, I try to come up with a plotline derived from the random encounter so the death has more plot signifigance.)

 

[Peter Gibbons]

Finish the following sentence:

"When I DM, player characters die when..."

"...their luck runs out (or they do something stupid and/or inherently dangerous)."

 

[godawful]

... I didn't get any the night before.