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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 2626730" data-attributes="member: 172">I don't kill PCs. I provide them with the rope, then they hang themselves. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I went with the "let the dice fall where they may", but that doesn't tell the whole story. In some ways, I am of the "when dramatically appropriate" school.You see it's like this: if I don't think pc death is warranted, I don't put a situation in the game that would kill a PC. When I want death to be a possibility, then I ratchet up the danger.I find people who complain about "instant death" traps and the like to be rather, um, blind to their condition. I find it odd to complain that the dice produced a character death when you, the DM, are the one who decides to put that potentially deadly situation in the game. I am of the mindset that if you don't want character deaths, don't fudge the dice, because if you do that, they just become a placebo for your predetermined idea of the way the game should go. You should be making those sorts of decisions before the dice ever hit the table. If you don't want death, don't put potentially deadly situations in the game!With this in mind, I don't make off the wall encounters potentially deadly. But when I want a grim, dramatic encounter, I put in tougher opposition and let the dice fall where they may.My mantra is thus: Don't roll a dice unless you are willing to pay the price. Which is to say, don't design anything into your game unless you are willing to accept all possible outcomes, otherwise you are just wasting your effort.</blockquote>

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