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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TaranTheWanderer" data-source="post: 9779203" data-attributes="member: 15882">It’s a dialogue between the DM and the player.The thing to remember is even if you concede and maintain control of the narrative you still lose. Let’s say you are fighting ghouls and the stakes are character death.  Meaning the ghouls will take an extra action to do a killing blow when you drop to 0.  They do this so they can eat you even if the rest of the party escape and they do it because they are smart enough to know the party has access to healing. Maintaining narrative control might be saying,I concede.  I choose that my character is unconscious and the Ghoul is either too distracted to do a killing blow or that it thinks I’m dead or that the blow that dropped me, sent my flying and rolling down into a ditch out of sight of the combat.  The advantage to this concession is you don’t automatically die.  The downside is your allies can’t heal you and you are out of the fight.The player may suggest this or the dm might suggest it.  If everyone is on board with the concession, that’s how the narrative plays out.</blockquote>