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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8708488" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I never said I wanted my elven characters to die.&nbsp; A PC dying is boring, 99% of the time.&nbsp; Even if they want to die a heroic death (i.e. so they can go to Valhalla), it can be more interesting for them to survive and live with what they've done.But I accept the curse for what it is.&nbsp; My PCs rarely die*, I could count the number that have on one hand and maybe even have a finger left.&nbsp; Unless they're elven ... or even half elven although that one did hit 3rd level before they died.&nbsp; I think I've almost made a couple of DMs cry because they felt so bad and then they give me a strange look when I just laughed and told them it was fated all along.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />As far as not dying, like I said way up top I run a very low lethality game but it's never really off the table and I don't take the narrative player decides route.&nbsp; It usually requires stupidity and/or taking a significant risk with the odds of death having been made clear.&nbsp; I'll even pause the game with a bit of metagame explanation if I think it's possible I've been unclear to get a &quot;Are you sure you want to do that?&quot;&nbsp; Unless of course a player wants their PC to die for some reason.EDIT: P.S. I'm being dead serious, every elf I ever play dies before they get to 3rd level.&nbsp; Last one?&nbsp; Last combat of the first game, a crit by a CR 2 monster (I forget what it was) took him out.&nbsp; One before that?&nbsp; Rolled sequential 1s on death saves.*The last non-elf to die, and the only 5E PC to die other than elves, was a halfling in AL at an interactive.&nbsp; They decided a Mouth of Grolantor was a cool thing to have charge into our group including my level 2 PC and then choose the &quot;attack everyone&quot; instead of randomly rolling and automatically did max damage instead of average or rolling.&nbsp; One of the few times I've been (moderately) upset about a PC death.&nbsp; Because it was just an asinine thing to do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 8708488, member: 6801845"] I never said I [I]wanted[/I] my elven characters to die. A PC dying is boring, 99% of the time. Even if they want to die a heroic death (i.e. so they can go to Valhalla), it can be more interesting for them to survive and live with what they've done. But I accept the curse for what it is. My PCs rarely die*, I could count the number that have on one hand and maybe even have a finger left. Unless they're elven ... or even half elven although that one did hit 3rd level before they died. I think I've almost made a couple of DMs cry because they felt so bad and then they give me a strange look when I just laughed and told them it was fated all along. ;) As far as not dying, like I said way up top I run a very low lethality game but it's never really off the table and I don't take the narrative player decides route. It usually requires stupidity and/or taking a significant risk with the odds of death having been made clear. I'll even pause the game with a bit of metagame explanation if I think it's possible I've been unclear to get a "Are you sure you want to do that?" Unless of course a player [I]wants[/I] their PC to die for some reason. EDIT: P.S. I'm being dead serious, every elf I ever play dies before they get to 3rd level. Last one? Last combat of the first game, a crit by a CR 2 monster (I forget what it was) took him out. One before that? Rolled sequential 1s on death saves. *[I]The last non-elf to die, and the only 5E PC to die other than elves, was a halfling in AL at an interactive. They decided a Mouth of Grolantor was a cool thing to have charge into our group including my level 2 PC and then choose the "attack everyone" instead of randomly rolling and automatically did max damage instead of average or rolling. One of the few times I've been (moderately) upset about a PC death. Because it was just an asinine thing to do.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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