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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dunnagin" data-source="post: 5610344" data-attributes="member: 6679036">I'm really new here, so hopefully I'm doing this right.This thread seems a bit volatile, especially since it seems to be focused on a debate between two different play styles.Just out of curiosity, could each side (or anyone involved here) sum up the actual reasoning or potential outcomes of their style?Essentailly... why do you do it that way?As a long time DM, I have two thoughts which drive me to the middle:1. I have killed characters, characters have died from sheer bad luck in my games, and characters have died from "charging in headlong" and poor resource planning.This is just the story, no one has ever gotten that upset.2. I am loathe to let really great characters die THAT easily. I have been known to cheat a roll or two... perhaps fudge a call... because yes, there is investment there.I think players do enjoy the unpredictable nature of a game... otheriwse we would not use dice to determine random outcomes... so honestly, I cannot make a call on this one...some nights I'm a hardasssome nights I'm a softieIf you buy the pizza... well maybe that one external bit of resource managment has some weight with me as well <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>