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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ARandomGod" data-source="post: 2627209" data-attributes="member: 17296">I kill PC's when they reach -(Con score + Level).Other than that I adjust encounters up or down in an attempt to challenge them, but not kill them. I don't like 'em to die, there are only a few deaths that a good storyline (of mine anyway) can handle before the story just unravels. I give them a large (con score) and progressively larger (plus level) negative buffer before death because it allows me to be more dramatic. I can not pull punches and still challenge a 15th level character without fear that he'll simply die outright from one hit. At higher levels a 10 HP negative buffer is negligible. When I have monsters that might schmack you for 30 or more a hit, and that might crit... and they get three hits a round... well, they NEED that larger buffer. And that's something a party might encounter in later levels of the game.I want to be able to put them up against that without fearing overmuch that I'll outright kill one or more characters before they know to flee... I've never had a worse gameday than the time I was a PC Arcane Trickster, with improved initiative, walking along at full health, fully buffed up, and then I was dead. Sure, the rest of the party avenged my death, the treasure was enough to res my character. But that was a horrible encounter. I had instant cast spells available to escape a bad situation (DDoor, teleport), I had a contingency spell that would have saved me if I hadn't died before being able to react in any way...And that I just don't like. THe battle was awesome for the rest of the party. And it would have been awesome for me too, if my HP's were just short of "dead".</blockquote>

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