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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8348440">These both sound like great options to me <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=":)" /> I think for me it depends. I used to shield my parties from TPKs with the classic: you wake up in a cell. Over time I came around to the idea that the excitement of death from random dice rolls and combat just not going your way actually made for some of the funnest gaming if you are open to it (I reached this conclusion when I realized most of my group's best gaming stories revolved around unexpected disasters and unexpected successes). I found it both for myself as a player as a GM. But it does mean the group has to be down with it. For me, whether to go TPK or have them captured really comes down to the person who is delivering the TPK and what they want. TPKs don't have to be the end though. They can serve as a prelude to the next group of characters (especially if they assemble a team of loved one's motivated by revenge). I've even run campaigns in the afterlife when stuff like this happens (TPK is ideal for an escape from hell campaign if you want to honor the TPK but don't want it to derail the campaign----sending them to some kind of afterlife where they can try to escape back to the world of the living to finish the adventure they died on, can take a TPK and end it on a high note if that is your concern).</blockquote>

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