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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4044420" data-attributes="member: 29398">True enough...OK, you've taken death out, and that works well for you by the sound of things.  However, there's others here who'd go a step or three further; not just keeping key characters alive but also keeping key story items safe from harm or loss, hence my example of what happens to the Sword of Mighty Swordiness. (the more times I type that, the more I realize I just *have* to chuck an item by that name into my game...) <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=":)" />Different breed of animal.  Players (and by extension, their PCs) don't usually have choice over the game *rules*.  But they do have choice over the game *story*.  Almost unrelated.Fine.  But I'll go out on a limb here and guess you did away with PC death for reasons of player enjoyment, rather than to save the story.Nice! <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=":)" />  Good on them for doing it, and good on you for rolling with it. My argument here is not necessarily with removal of PC death in general (that's a bigger and different issue); not, at least, this time.  My argument in this particular thread is that removing PC death *because it is inconvenient for the DM's story* is wrong, just as not allowing the PCs to throw the Sword of Mighty Swordiness (ha! got it in again! <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=";)" /> ) into a lava pit is wrong for the same reasons.Lanefan</blockquote>

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