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<blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 4780540" data-attributes="member: 80487">Nothing brings a fact home like experiencing it. I had some experienced 4E players giving a go at playing 1st-level characters under OD&amp;D rules. Their vulnerability was theoretically and mathematically clear, and they got to see that other adventurers had met bad ends, but these fellows got away with a string of good luck saving them from their own bad tactics.Then there was an occasion when they got involved in checking every part of a dungeon room except the one big, obvious place where a monster could hide. The sounds of its invisible stirring had an appropriately creepy effect, and the players had plenty of opportunity either to bail out or to take prudent measures to meet an assault.In the event, it was SNAFU. They had their first PC casualty when the ghoulish thing slew a magic-user with one hit. The immediate effect of the shock was to galvanize them into concerted action, and they felled the monster. More frighteningly, it recovered from its seeming demise. In the end, they reduced it to scattered ashes. As it happened, they also took away a rich treasure ... but they were reeling a bit from the death.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ariosto, post: 4780540, member: 80487"] Nothing brings a fact home like experiencing it. I had some experienced 4E players giving a go at playing 1st-level characters under OD&D rules. Their vulnerability was theoretically and mathematically clear, and they got to see that other adventurers had met bad ends, but these fellows got away with a string of good luck saving them from their own bad tactics. Then there was an occasion when they got involved in checking every part of a dungeon room except the one big, obvious place where a monster could hide. The sounds of its invisible stirring had an appropriately creepy effect, and the players had plenty of opportunity either to bail out or to take prudent measures to meet an assault. In the event, it was SNAFU. They had their first PC casualty when the ghoulish thing slew a magic-user with one hit. The immediate effect of the shock was to galvanize them into concerted action, and they felled the monster. More frighteningly, it recovered from its seeming demise. In the end, they reduced it to scattered ashes. As it happened, they also took away a rich treasure ... but they were reeling a bit from the death. [/QUOTE]

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