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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8855438" data-attributes="member: 6801845">It pretty much died down.  You aren't the only one that didn't have PCs dying in droves.  Even under completely different DMs in different states, the body count wasn't that high.  I was at a con playing AD&D when a DM killed my PC (a half elf of course) and he really felt terrible about it.  Said that he had been DMing for years and never killed a PC before.  I wasn't overly surprised, all of my elven PCs die so it wasn't a big deal.Meanwhile, the very first time I was a player in a 5E game my PC (an elf again, naturally) died at the end of the first session when a monster critted them and he was killed immediately.  Not counting elves, I could probably count the number of my PCs that died on one hand and have fingers left over.  That includes all editions, going back to the very beginning.  D&D has always been as deadly as the DM and group wants.</blockquote>