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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psimancer" data-source="post: 1701734" data-attributes="member: 13037">You are 100% correct in this! And I perceive that to be an issue…The story should never be a slave to the mechanics of the system and this is what we have here. It should be the story that influences how the mechanics work…Every time that you come across a situation that cannot be accommodated by the rules it erodes the suspension of disbelief in the game. The rules should be fluid enough to adapt to any situation… and to a certain extent we have achieved that here with the 'one or more opposed roles leading up to the CDG'…And to all the people that say, ‘but it’s un-heroic for a PC to die like that’; agreed, but that should not be a system enforced restriction, but a DM discretionary one. The DM should reserve the use of a CDG to dramatically appropriate situations (like the one described by Stormborn with the barber)… And to those that say it should be resolved by a surprise round sneak attack; lets be honest, a high level character is not going to die from that under any circumstances. IMHO a blade across the throat should at least have the potential to be lethal… and with a CDG it does… Anyway, that’s my two cents worth….</blockquote>