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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8687414" data-attributes="member: 93670">[USER=6779196]@Charlaquin[/USER] noted it in <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/why-my-friends-hate-talking-to-me-about-5e.689734/post-8687391" target="_blank">post95</a>, when players need to take the risk of fights more seriously it raises the stakes on any individual fight.  On that bolded bit though it also makes those monsters scary even if the group is high enough level to flat out <a href="https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/roflstomp" target="_blank">roflstomp</a> it.  Take an ogre or a troll & a badass dragon and look at how they play out. the ogre/troll really aren't very dangerous foes & are virtually incapable of killing a PC in a party once the players are  past level 4-5 or so , so instead you need a whole bunch of them & they still aren't a concern unless you have so many on the battlefield that they might as well be a swarm.  The dragon isn't much different, sure a crit might drop bob from full to zero & a regular attack might drop alice from bloodied (or worse) to zero, but even something like the ancient red dragon only has 3 attacks & probably needs to drop bob on the first hit in order for the second two to matter unless bob is just behind the dragon with nobody capable of using a cheap potion/healing word so he can disengage & run to the back lines or something.With a system where you just up & die at zero -10 or whatever it means that the ogre troll and dragon are always scary because they hit hard enough that you better be high on health with high ac or doing what you can to move away.  Walk an troll up towards a wizard in robes while the party is fighting a lich they expect to kill & that troll's approach really isn't even a concern in standard 5e even if the approach is a full on dash up to melee.  In the past that troll was a concern to most any player& even a zombie skeleton or kobold closing in on a wizard was terrifying.</blockquote>

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