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<blockquote data-quote="Chainsaw" data-source="post: 5195507" data-attributes="member: 70196">Back in middle and high school, when I would DM 2E, and we played on the weekends or after school, we'd just do something else after a TPK. No big deal, same as if someone lost a game of checkers or something. Characters died all the time and no one's real life identity was jeopardized or anything. There was a pretty good chance we'd either decide to watch Bloodsport, Cyborg or the Metallica tour documentary again (if it were night) or go outside to play football or catch or something (during the day). If we were lucky, we'd either have a parent (in middle school) or a friend (in high school) to drive us into town to screw around at the mall. We might pick up again the next weekend with new characters in a new dungeon. We might not. D&amp;D was just a game that we'd play sometimes when we didn't have something else to do.&nbsp;More recently, when I have played newer editions, TPK has been a pretty scary concept that people only mentioned with wild eyes, but ultimately it never actually happened - people had invested so much time writing a history or optimizing builds that they would have been really upset if they died. Our DM knew this and so there were never any TPKs. I'm not sure we were ever really in any danger, to be honest.&nbsp;I doubt it's necessarily editions specific though. My experience is that it's more age correlated - back we were younger, we really didn't give a crap. We were just filling empty time. As adults, I have found that people use the game more as an escape, so they maximize the fantasy and invest more emotionally.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chainsaw, post: 5195507, member: 70196"] Back in middle and high school, when I would DM 2E, and we played on the weekends or after school, we'd just do something else after a TPK. No big deal, same as if someone lost a game of checkers or something. Characters died all the time and no one's real life identity was jeopardized or anything. There was a pretty good chance we'd either decide to watch Bloodsport, Cyborg or the Metallica tour documentary again (if it were night) or go outside to play football or catch or something (during the day). If we were lucky, we'd either have a parent (in middle school) or a friend (in high school) to drive us into town to screw around at the mall. We might pick up again the next weekend with new characters in a new dungeon. We might not. D&D was just a game that we'd play sometimes when we didn't have something else to do. More recently, when I have played newer editions, TPK has been a pretty scary concept that people only mentioned with wild eyes, but ultimately it never actually happened - people had invested so much time writing a history or optimizing builds that they would have been really upset if they died. Our DM knew this and so there were never any TPKs. I'm not sure we were ever really in any danger, to be honest. I doubt it's necessarily editions specific though. My experience is that it's more age correlated - back we were younger, we really didn't give a crap. We were just filling empty time. As adults, I have found that people use the game more as an escape, so they maximize the fantasy and invest more emotionally. [/QUOTE]

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