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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wraithdrit" data-source="post: 785292" data-attributes="member: 10820">I used to be REALLY bad about this. I would pop my head up over the screen and ask, "How many hit points do you have left?" After a while, the PCs stopped answering. Shows they wanted to take their punches no matter the consequences. My problem is always when I OVER challenge a party and end up killing someone off I feel really guilty. One time had a good encounter of right CR set up. But circumstances just went against one particular PC in how the encounter went down and he ended up point blank to the single bad monster. Did I mention he was a mage? Well, whack whack whack he is a bloody pulp. I didn't pull the punches. Added up the damage (including the critical) and handed him a slip of paper with how much damage was on it, and asked him then how many HPs he had left. It took him to negative but not DOA. After the fact I realized I forgot to double the damage on the crit. He shoulda died. But I had already handed out the damage... What would you do in this situation? Let it ride, correct it (killing the character) or what? I'm interested in how others would run this.</blockquote>