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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boxstop7" data-source="post: 1052878" data-attributes="member: 8804">Here, here!  I sometimes wonder how I walk with that tube of jelly running up my back in place of a spine.  I fudge rolls when characters hit single digit hp, I don't use 'save or die' situations, and PCs only die if they do something unbelievably stupid (like a 3rd level wizard going toe-to-toe with a dire bear..."bah, how many hp can this thing have?" as he casts burning hands at a DIRE BEAR...didn't happen in my game, but I played in the game in which it did happen, and the poor dumb bastard would've lost his head in my game, too...).  The idea in my game is for the players to be the heroes.  I play in the Forgotten Realms, and I generally ignore the grandiose, epic heroes.  They're present, but my players are the local heroes.  No one bails them out.  If they fail, the town/mayor/local guard/whomever will suffer for it, and they know it.  Then, next time, maybe the next town over will ask their help in some matter.  I just don't have it in me to kill off PCs left and right.  Besides, I much prefer being cute and cuddly.  <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ~Box</blockquote>