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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 5273638" data-attributes="member: 78">While it is a matter of preference, I think there's some essentially disjointed elements when there's basically plot armor for characters to create an expected level of durability, but then introduce significant instant death chances back in - especially when those become common.  If you want a decent chance of death on common attacks, why bother with HP above 10?At high levels, lots of characters can have several killing spells or just do more than 50 damage, so combat is as about death lotto as anything else.As a player, I was perfectly fine living with save or die.  It generally just meant that you need some buffs like Death Ward in your stack.  And it produced some hilarious moments, like a powerful Death Slaad assassin taking a crit on an AoO and dying to massive damage or a buffed up silver dragon failing some pathetic DC Finger of Death from an item.  3e's combat tended to be strongly weighted towards offense anyway.</blockquote>