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<blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1880578" data-attributes="member: 633">In my campaigns, I avoid random deaths and always make sure that the PCs know when something is really dangerous. There are infinite ways to do that in the context of the story. Sometimes I let them hide and witness the BBEG cleave an ogre in one blow. Or have someone tell them that they saw the wizard cast meteor swarm. Or by killing off an NPC in a spectacular way. I think that walking into a TPK that they had no way of knowing about is about as random as it gets.&nbsp;&nbsp;After that, though, no blows are pulled and no errors are forgiven. If they missed the hint, it's their problem. In my Warcraft campaign we had 15 sessions, 3 deaths, and 2 very close calls, and no coming back to life is currently available, so I don't think I can be considered a softie.<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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zappo, post: 1880578, member: 633"] In my campaigns, I avoid random deaths and always make sure that the PCs know when something is really dangerous. There are infinite ways to do that in the context of the story. Sometimes I let them hide and witness the BBEG cleave an ogre in one blow. Or have someone tell them that they saw the wizard cast meteor swarm. Or by killing off an NPC in a spectacular way. I think that walking into a TPK that they had no way of knowing about is about as random as it gets. After that, though, no blows are pulled and no errors are forgiven. If they missed the hint, it's their problem. In my Warcraft campaign we had 15 sessions, 3 deaths, and 2 [i]very[/i] close calls, and no coming back to life is currently available, so I don't think I can be considered a softie.;) [/QUOTE]

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