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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7809496" data-attributes="member: 29398">The lesson learned is very simple: adventuring is bloody dangerous!Put another way: D&D is war, not sport. <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=":)" />Actually, and somewhat counterintuitively, I find the game doesn't reward cowards nearly as well as you might think, thanks to individual xp per encounter.  With group xp, then yes: cowardice is overly rewarded.Heh - tell that to the Fighter from whom I get my name here.  Rolled up in early 1984 and still going* today.* - or he would be, if he hadn't recently been Thanos-snapped into some far-realm plane; leading to an in-progress (though on hold) adventure to go rescue he and a whole lot of other people.I think you have me confused with someone else.My position isn't that 4e is not D&D.My position is that 4e, despite some good-to-excellent individual ideas within its design, has enough bad ideas within its design to make it a version of D&D I wouldn't want to play or DM.</blockquote>