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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AuraSeer" data-source="post: 977194" data-attributes="member: 1331">Exactly! It's a game, not a novel. The idea is for everyone to have fun, even if the DM needs to modify his grand vision of a perfectly realistic world simulation.Some people say "just roll up another character," but that's hardly a trivial operation. We play a single two-hour session per week, and the players IMC are not all experts on the rules. Creating a levelled character, choosing feats and skills, and purchasing equipment, can take as long as an hour. That's half a session that the player is just sitting there flipping pages in the rulebooks, not participating in the game that he took time out of his schedule to play. Wasting 50% of your game time for a week is not considered fun.That's not even counting the extra time that some gamers spend on our characters. We prefer to keep them around, rather than discarding them because of a few low rolls. If my campaign used the 3.5 cost for raise dead, my 9th-level PC would have had zero wealth left after his second death. When he rolled yet another natural 1 on a save and died for the third time, Andy Collins wanted me to burn the sheet, trash the backstory, chuck his campaign diary, destroy all the work I ever did on the character, and start the whole thing over? Because he thinks it'd be "special"? Andy must be a real jerk.</blockquote>