Glyfair
Explorer
PapersAndPaychecks said:Serious question: If death is not a risk, why roll the dice?
Why not just handwave all the fighting and say, "You meet a bunch of monsters and kill them. The loot you find is..."
Death isn't the only risk in the game. Sometimes in D&D the challenge can be just getting through the door. Maybe you don't die, but you don't save the princess. Maybe because you failed you are no longer welcome in the kingdom. Sometimes you just get thrown in prison.
There are many, many more risks than just life and death. In the real world risk are taken on Wall Street every day, but almost never are they directly life & death risks.