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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8130743" data-attributes="member: 6779196">While that is pretty absurd, the circumstances surrounding that character death were very unusual. They were facing a superior force, which may have upset some fans because they were clearly not meant to be able to win that encounter. They also had a guest character on for that episode, and she was not pulling her weight in the fight - the player made a lot of&nbsp; intentionally poor tactical decisions and voluntarily gave herself disadvantage on most of her rolls because her character was a former member of the group they were fighting, and was afraid of their leader. The character who died was a Bloodhunter - a custom class Matt Mercer designed, which have a number of features where they can sacrifice their own HP to buff themselves. The turn before the he died, he used one of these abilities despite being at very low HP and engaged in melee with the leader of the enemy group, who they knew could hit very hard. So there were a lot of factors that made the death seem very avoidable, which made it a lot more upsetting for a lot of the fan base.Still absurd to demand a public apology from the DM. That kind of stuff happens in D&amp;D all the time, it’s a normal part of the game, and an important one at that. But, you know how the internet can be sometimes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 8130743, member: 6779196"] While that is pretty absurd, the circumstances surrounding that character death were very unusual. They were facing a superior force, which may have upset some fans because they were clearly not meant to be able to win that encounter. They also had a guest character on for that episode, and she was not pulling her weight in the fight - the player made a lot of intentionally poor tactical decisions and voluntarily gave herself disadvantage on most of her rolls because her character was a former member of the group they were fighting, and was afraid of their leader. The character who died was a Bloodhunter - a custom class Matt Mercer designed, which have a number of features where they can sacrifice their own HP to buff themselves. The turn before the he died, he used one of these abilities despite being at very low HP and engaged in melee with the leader of the enemy group, who they knew could hit very hard. So there were a lot of factors that made the death seem very avoidable, which made it a lot more upsetting for a lot of the fan base. Still absurd to demand a public apology from the DM. That kind of stuff happens in D&D all the time, it’s a normal part of the game, and an important one at that. But, you know how the internet can be sometimes. [/QUOTE]

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