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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5480644" data-attributes="member: 6669384">A couple of points about our game, one general and one specific.Our game world is a collective one, where each player also takes turns as the DM.  We have an over all campaign goal that each adventure is supposed to work towards, but it's more a campaign theme than a hard objective.  We came up with a wold concept, set a goal, and then have fun with it.Changing the way Raise Dead works was a group decision, not something imposed by a single DM.  It makes bringing back the dead an adventure in and of itself, and rare enough that it's the stuff of legends.  The minimum needed is Plane Shift, which happens to be the same level as Raise Dead (conveniently enough).  According to the SRD, it deposits you on the "first layer" of layered planes, which in this case would be the gates to the Land of the Dead, or "Death's Door" as some might put it.  You can't shift, gate, portal, etc. directly *from* the underworld, you need to get back outside those gates.I can't really complain about the "No raise dead" rule because I'm the one who suggested it.  We've used it in other campaigns and it worked out wonderfully.  It made for grand adventures and a depth of story that gave the tales the feel of a legend.  Good stuff all the way.The more specific point is that the battle didn't run at all the way anyone expected.  The DM rolled a total of seven critical hits on our main meat shield over the course of three rounds.  That's right, natural 20 after natural 20, round after round, right in front of everyone.And our dice were as cold as I've ever seen.  Not just missing our attacks, but natural 1 after natural 1, round after round.  Our main meat shield managed to hit exactly zero times over the course of 5 rounds.  My Bard managed to roll 1s every round for 3 rounds.The way the dice were rolling, we would have lost that fight to a girl scout troop.But you know something?  That kind of thing happens, and knowing when to run away is part of good strategy.  The fact that we didn't was our fault, not the DM's and not the dice.But all of that is beside the point, a freak event in a single game.The DM has every right to alter any dice roll any way he or she wants, and if they say that there's an eclipse two days in a row, then that's what happens.  So I'm not exactly complaining about my character not dying on schedule.  I'm just asking how others how the feel about pulling punches in a game.</blockquote>

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