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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 7990499" data-attributes="member: 14159">Violating this rule can be dangerous to the health of the hobby.My wife steadfastly refuses to play D&D or any other tabletop RPG.She tried 3 times when she was in High School.The first time, she spent several hours creating a character, writing an elaborate backstory, making sketches of the character, generating the character (and having to learn 3rd edition D&D to do so). . .. . .and the character was killed about 30 minutes into the session, in a dungeon crawl where the DM had her roll a saving throw for a trap in the dungeon. . .she missed, and was instantly killed by the trap.  It was lousy DM'ing on numerous levels, but taking a new player who was still learning the game and had carefully created her first character, and killing the character less than an hour into her first session left her with a bad taste in her mouth.(The two games after that weren't any better, but she still tells me about spending most of an afternoon making her 1st level Elf Druid in D&D. . .only to fail a saving throw and thus fall down a 100 foot pit trap in a dungeon.  Seriously, who puts a hundred foot pit trap in a dungeon for 1st level characters?)</blockquote>