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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bryan898" data-source="post: 2185752" data-attributes="member: 9085">Don't get me wrong, I enjoy when my players invest time in their characters as well.  But not to the point where they're unwilling to even attempt to try something for fear of losing them.True, but this DM doesn't seem to be that kind of DM.  I'd say on a time versus time comparison, the average DM invests more time than the average player.  Yes there are exceptions, such as the DM with a pre-packaged module, or the player that writes his story hour.  RttToH is sort of a railroad adventure, if I remember Acerack's motivations correctly, it's a do or die scenario.  That being said, if I were to convert a 300+ page module, and the player didn't want to do it because he was scared, I'd be a disappointed.  You can't tell me you wouldn't?  Especially if they didn't even try it.  If they got into it a bit, and thought it was too dangerous, then left, thats all fine.  But to not even try...Maybe it is what the DM has prepared for the grand finale, and he has revamped it.  I don't know, I don't follow the story hour.  I did read earlier, about the role-playing reasons that they would be reluctant to come back to life for.  But change in some of those cases that if they don't stop X from doing Y, then the world will Z.  Suddenly, it becomes a necessity to stop this, would the cleric still not want to return from his deities grace when he has a holy quest to finish?  Being a DM that lets the dice fall where they may makes him deadly all the time, but he might have a good hold on whats an appropiate challenge.  He will probably understand that if in 2nd edition a room had a great wyrm red dragon, it might be a better idea to change it to a CR more appropiate to the party.  I have a feeling that he didn't decide that since a demilich in the ELH is like a CR 27, he'll just keep that version and run it in the adventure, expecting his by then 18th level party to kill it.</blockquote>

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