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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9724506" data-attributes="member: 29398">If the PCs are going to win anyway then in that case I wouldn't change a thing: the crit happens and the character dies.&nbsp; As a group they still get that same feeling of triumph of having won a hard-fought victory, only that victory came at a cost.I'm referring more to a situation where three rounds into a battle the PCs are already in serious trouble and have barely laid a scratch on the enemy, they have no retreat or way out and are rapidly running out of rabbits to pull out of their hats; a TPK looks inevitable.&nbsp; Here it's occasionally* fun (particularly if the PCs have a Cleric among their number) to &quot;fudge&quot; by having a divine minion show up and somehow save the day.....and said minion might ask a favour in return at some later time.....* - as in, maybe once every five or ten years, best done only after the players have forgotten the last time it happened.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9724506, member: 29398"] If the PCs are going to win anyway then in that case I wouldn't change a thing: the crit happens and the character dies. As a group they still get that same feeling of triumph of having won a hard-fought victory, only that victory came at a cost. I'm referring more to a situation where three rounds into a battle the PCs are already in serious trouble and have barely laid a scratch on the enemy, they have no retreat or way out and are rapidly running out of rabbits to pull out of their hats; a TPK looks inevitable. Here it's occasionally* fun (particularly if the PCs have a Cleric among their number) to "fudge" by having a divine minion show up and somehow save the day.....and said minion might ask a favour in return at some later time..... * - as in, maybe once every five or ten years, best done only after the players have forgotten the last time it happened. [/QUOTE]

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