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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shilsen" data-source="post: 2649949" data-attributes="member: 198">I doubt that it's always the case, but I believe that a lot of the time it is. That's definitely the case for me. In both of my Eberron games, I allow the use of 3 action points to turn an effect which would kill the PC (whether spell, blow, trap, or anything else) into one that renders the PC unconscious and stabilized at -9. There is almost no availability of resurrection magic in my game, so a dead PC means a new charactermust be created. Not only do some of my players not want to have to create new characters (it's too much trouble for the newbies and they really like their current ones), but it would be a problem for the campaigns since they are extremely PC-driven, with the plot and direction of the campaign arising almost totally out of PC backgrounds and choices. Plus I'm a tough DM and seriously challenge PCs during combat, and according to my calculations, without the 3 action pt rule mentioned above there would have been a dozen PC fatalities in 30 sessions (between the two campaigns). So PC death is substantially more of a negative than a positive in my game, and will only happen when a player wants to play a new PC (may not happen even then, if the old PC becomes an NPC). If there were easy and available resurrection in the game, PC death would be an option, but since there isn't, it isn't.</blockquote>