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Sara :
im a firm believer that players should be willing for their characters to die, because without stakes what is the fun
2025-11-25 01:49:24
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Jon-Charles Page :
We covered this in session zero. My group voted - No resurrection. Revivify is the only available spell. We called it hardcore mode. They once ended a dungeon with 3 levels of exhaustion, no spell slots or potions left. Told me the stakes is what made it fun.
2025-11-25 13:37:37
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Joe Walda :
My group gets to play AT MOST once a month. But the conversation is usually: Death is a real thing that can happen. If I poorly design an encounter, I will adjust. If you make bad decisions or the dice aren’t in your favor….. time to make a new character.
2025-12-14 04:21:24
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Historically Black Dice :
How pcs react to failure is so important
2026-01-04 00:43:01
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The Red Lich of DnDTikTok💀 :
...I'm taking notes. My first modified Strahd campaign had my players meet a Night Hag in disguise and 1 or 2 characters wanted to throw hands. They Barely talked their way out of it. Buuut now I'm thinking I should've let the Hag get mad and reveal herself. Then teach a lesson.
2025-11-25 14:12:40
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Wingle The Wizard :
running away is always an option and if the players are going to make decisions they get to understand that there's consequences to those decisions. end of story
2025-11-25 18:57:55
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🌸Jackie🍉 :
As a person who had a fear of failure, DnD taught me that no matter what failure is an option and sometimes it can make the situation funnier. Or I can strategize. Either way I've learned to embrace it. But yeah if they were warned it's on the Game master. However I would probably do something where the party is revived by a necromancer that they now owe a debt to or fight their way out of the underworld
2025-11-25 17:34:30
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improvgm :
“They were told the weren’t ready for.” What else did they think the GM should do?!
2025-12-21 02:28:59
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Buster Prime, Goblin Huggrnaut :
I had that arc with a character of mine. a teammate was slain by a cult group led by a werewolf. my character was saved by others when he was inert (warforged) and his friends death remained his failure. until he trained and took the werewolf out, and wears the pelt as a cloak
2025-11-28 09:56:26
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Cyrinae Fox :
when DM fiat rescues the players from consequences, I feel like there's no point in playing well.
2025-11-26 04:16:41
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Serra of Antifa :
I think giving your PCs some plot armor can make the game more enjoyable as long as the AC is balanced
2025-11-25 20:08:18
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SmokeDragonJester :
i have a specific campaign written out where if the party gets tpk'd they come back later in the campaign with various undead templates as the big bads curse to remove the god of death causes random groups of undead to form
2025-12-29 21:48:22
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TacticalCamper8510 :
excellent point!
2025-11-26 14:44:49
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Dream big build small 🇺🇲 :
If the players choose to blatantly ignore clearly foreshadowed warnings and danger signs, it's on them.
2025-12-23 15:38:34
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That Beard Guy :
I always say I will not actively TPK you but bad decisions and bad rolls will.
2025-11-25 20:58:22
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Danny Edwards :
Two of three of my players were trying to fight the Baba Yaga AT LEVEL 1. Thankfully the third party member was able to talk everyone down or I would have allowed her to wipe them because they weren't heeding her warnings.
2025-11-24 23:53:36
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GeekGirlLyssa/GeekyKatze :
Agreed. ESPECIALLY if you gave them fair warning that they aren't ready to go against that enemy and did so anyways. Like, FAFO is a good motivation for players.
2025-12-02 23:19:40
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John Fysch :
There’s a reason there’s no CR in the early editions. Every encounter was potentially deadly and charisma & morale mattered.
2025-11-25 21:39:56
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Krieg (Steven) :
100% removed a player awhile back for always deciding to not participate in any scenario that could fail. and be would sit there and ask if he could do his own thing alongside the party. once even asked for a private session for what they were doing during the party was doing the main objective
2025-11-25 09:51:32
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JediPond :
Failure adds to the story and makes it more fun and interesting. 1000% agree
2025-11-25 16:19:37
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Sara Roberts :
This. This this this THIS!
2025-11-25 11:26:47
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Dice&Autism :
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup all of this
2025-11-25 05:26:55
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Dreadbartender_Prime :
I occasionally use interludes where players play characters in a side story that challenges the forces of their main character villain this lets them experience the power of the villain without direct confrontation.
2025-11-25 04:58:29
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wovaka :
there's a balance to strike. you want to foreshadow. you wanna warn and you want consequences for failure to grow in time
2025-12-24 00:52:42
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WokeDuelist :
My group seen that failure can have consequences that changes the world more drastically and in interesting ways than success. Like how they failed to save the goddess of magic, and a series of events led to Vecna rising as the new caretaker of the weave.
2025-11-24 23:50:33
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