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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8783319" data-attributes="member: 29398">You seem to be wilfully ignoring the rather large difference between ever-present and rarely-present.Yes, things exist in the game that mitigate problems; but it's by no means guaranteed that any given character or even any given party will ever see some of them.Every party will eventually get access to Continual Light.  Not every party will see a Bag of Holding but one does show up now and then, and few if any will ever see a Ring of Wizardry (in 40 years I've never seen one either as DM or player).Fireball formation is unavoidable in close quarters, unless you want the party so spread out that they end up being fed to the foes one at a time.Every single item, yes.  Every single magic item plus important non-magical items, no; if you just get on with it efficiently.I'll always have people roll for their backpacks, for example, as loss of one means it's way harder to carry a bunch of small thngs around.  Ditto their mundane armour, sheids, and weapons.  And allmagic items must save.  But trivialities like the pair of gambling dice someone has, I'm not nearly as concerned about.Whatever happened to the idea of overcoming frustration itself being part of (or maybe even much of) the fun?This Bob-the-many idea is, IME, utter hyperbole.Maybe twice have I ever seen someone come right back with the same character after the preceding one died; and once of that twice was me when a cool character idea I had didn't get out of its first session (and in fact didn't even last long enough to introduce itself!), I came right back with the same character idea again - or as close as the dice would let me.  And we go through a lot of characters.Far more often, I see one player style a character after that of another player's character that has turned out to be successful.This is a very large point: the game is (and IMO should be) largely predicated on luck once game mechanics rear their heads.The lack of punishment is the reward. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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