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<blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 752899" data-attributes="member: 7394">I cheat to protect the lives of the characters. As a DM, I occasionally throw an encounter at them that they can't handle, at which time its really my fault and not the fault of the PC's. In those cases I usually find a way to keep them alive, even when their opponents should have slaughtered them, ground them up, and served PC burgers to all their evil friends. I will also cheat for the opposite reason. If they've just killed my arch villain after 2 rounds of combat, I'm going to do something to keep the encounter interesting. He might teleport away at the last second to a location where he can heal up. He might just have more hit points than he really should have, or I might equip him with a magic item to ballance things out a bit more.When I don't cheat is when the party members get themselves killed through their own foolishness. I had a 2nd edition game where the character was 8th level, down to 16 HP, and decided to go mess with 3 neo-orogs by herself. She didn't know that they weren't ordinary orcs, and she was so certain that she could take them herself that I didn't pull any punches when the completely oblitterated her.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Darrin Drader, post: 752899, member: 7394"] I cheat to protect the lives of the characters. As a DM, I occasionally throw an encounter at them that they can't handle, at which time its really my fault and not the fault of the PC's. In those cases I usually find a way to keep them alive, even when their opponents should have slaughtered them, ground them up, and served PC burgers to all their evil friends. I will also cheat for the opposite reason. If they've just killed my arch villain after 2 rounds of combat, I'm going to do something to keep the encounter interesting. He might teleport away at the last second to a location where he can heal up. He might just have more hit points than he really should have, or I might equip him with a magic item to ballance things out a bit more. When I don't cheat is when the party members get themselves killed through their own foolishness. I had a 2nd edition game where the character was 8th level, down to 16 HP, and decided to go mess with 3 neo-orogs by herself. She didn't know that they weren't ordinary orcs, and she was so certain that she could take them herself that I didn't pull any punches when the completely oblitterated her. [/QUOTE]

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