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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 9702481" data-attributes="member: 58416">I'm not sure if this is an adequate response. It's more just related thoughts that were on my mind as I was coming out of the gym.I would agree that many games (especially more recent ones) do not allow for a character to die in one hit.However, some do. (Heck, in Dungeon Crawl Classics, it's expected that some characters die during the intro adventure. You figure out which character you will be by seeing which one of the level 0 characters survive.)I'm certainly not opposed to playing games that have more of a cushion around PCs. I've had a lot of fun with various editions of D&D.At the same time, some of the rpg memories that I have that kinda broke my brain where things such as realizing in D&D 4E that remaining in the mouth of an alligator and continuing to get chewed on was a good tactic because the creature would struggle to get through your HP and it couldn't attack the other party members while you were in its mouth. It also includes things like realizing that cinematic tropes like hostage situations are wonky because even a critical hit likely won't do much to the PC grappled by the villain. In both of those cases, how my character is interacting with the game world is at odds with how I imagine a scene from a book, movie, or TV show playing out (even considering that protagonists are often protected).Being a (as some people say) Big Damn Hero is a lot of fun. At the same time, I feel that heroes seem even bigger when the challenges they face have some teeth.There's a satisfying middle ground somewhere. I'm honestly not sure where I'm going with this or how it relates to the thread. Just offering a little more conversation.</blockquote>

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