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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4511663" data-attributes="member: 29398">Sorry 'bout this, but I can't resist:"Save, save, save or diegently roll the dicemerrily merrily merrily killing methat's not very nice"And I have a game-wide Death Flag.  It's called my DM screen, and it's up every session.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If I as player know I can't be killed then I know that I as player *will* have my characters do riskier things than they otherwise might.As for those worried about the death spiral (example a few pages back was of a fighter who died, came back one level down, was then at greater risk of dying again to thus become two levels down, etc.), fear not: if things are going according to plan, there'll be enough death to go around that the fighter won't be far behind for long.  (that said, I *far* prefer 1e's Con-loss mechanic, if only because levels in my game are hard to come by)Someone way upthread said something like "This isn't hockey.  There's no need for a penalty box."  Would you believe that on my board there's a small rectangle chalked out that's often referred to as - wait for it - a penalty box!  If a character's fate is unknown due to being captured, wandering off, etc., the character piece goes in the box until its fate is determined later. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>

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