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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9643769" data-attributes="member: 7006">Heh heh... unfortunately, in my experience a lot of players who really love playing are also some of the most gun-shy and so afraid of losing that the idea of purposefully doing something that could get their character potentially killed is exactly the thing they WON'T ever do.&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=";)" />&nbsp; If the DM threatens them as part of the gameplay... well, that's kind of okay for them because that's how the game works and they have a subconscious belief that any encounter the DM puts in front of them has been vetted by said DM to not be too deadly.But they would never purposefully throw themselves into harms way because at that point who knows what kind of encounters they will come upon, and they could easily get overwhelmed and destroyed through their own choices.&nbsp; So it's safer to just not make a choice.&nbsp; Inevitable consequences are acceptable because they had no choice-- they were going to experience them regardless.&nbsp; But ones that came via their own decision-making?&nbsp; Nothing could be worse!Yeah, it's completely silly... but that's just how some players are.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9643769, member: 7006"] Heh heh... unfortunately, in my experience a lot of players who really love playing are also some of the most gun-shy and so afraid of losing that the idea of [I]purposefully[/I] doing something that could get their character potentially killed is exactly the thing they WON'T ever do. ;) If the DM threatens them as part of the gameplay... well, that's kind of okay for them because that's how the game works and they have a subconscious belief that any encounter the DM puts in front of them has been vetted by said DM to not be too deadly. But they would never purposefully throw themselves into harms way because at that point [I]who knows[/I] what kind of encounters they will come upon, and they could easily get overwhelmed and destroyed through their own choices. So it's safer to just not make a choice. Inevitable consequences are acceptable because they had no choice-- they were going to experience them regardless. But ones that came via their own decision-making? Nothing could be worse! Yeah, it's completely silly... but that's just how some players are. :) [/QUOTE]

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