Related to the in-game death of a player's character in an RPG.
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My players almost die in my encounters every time. Does this mean my encounters are too hard?
I'm running my first campaign with three friends. This is the first time any of us have done any table-top role-playing. I'm working the party through the H1: Keep on the Shadowfell campaign using ...
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Can you knock a Player Characters unconscious via damage without giving them the dying condition? [duplicate]
Can you knock a Player Characters unconscious via damage without giving them the dying condition?
For example, a level 5 human fighter has 3 feats: Unfailing Vigor, Disciple of Death and Stubborn ...
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GM attacking a recently stabilized ally: is this allowed?
The title pretty much sums up my question.
I was playing the Scales of War campaign with a group of friends, and my character was getting absolutely destroyed in an encounter.
I had failed two death ...
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Counting milestones for the death penalty
When a character is resurrected using the Raise Dead ritual, she gets a death penalty:
The subject returns with a death penalty: –1 to all attack rolls, skill checks, saving throws, and ability ...
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Memory After Death
A recent campaign started with the death of the party and reincarnation of the party with the premise of "we brought you back to find those who killed you". One player was concerned that these people ...
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How do I not cheapen death, while also respecting my players' time?
I DM for a group of very busy people, for whom the commitment of several hours a week is a real sacrifice: that’s a sizeable chunk of their free time for the week that I’m asking for.
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Can you start your turn when you're dead?
In my epic game, I am playing a level 30 Keeper of the everflow.
Keepers have a level 24 feature:
Life Overflow (24th level): Once per day when you start your turn at 0 hit points or fewer, you ...
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Death odds in Deathwatch
We have played 3 games of Deathwatch now and are getting the hang of it. But my players seem to get hurt a lot.
An example of this is a PC that has 21 wounds received 18 wounds from one enemy ...
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How do I help my players figure out how to stay alive in a realistically-deadly sandbox campaign?
Related:
What to do when a player character goes suicide
and
How can DMs effectively telegraph specific dangers in D&D?
I like playing sandbox-style RPGs (whether pen and paper or ...
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What to do when a player character does something suicidal?
Every now and then a player character does something extremely risky because "it would be fun." What are some good ways to handle this as a GM, for the different styles of play? I like playing ...
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How can I quickly get a player back into a session after their character dies?
As a GM, what kind of techniques could I use to help a player re-join the gaming session after their character dies? I want to avoid any major interruptions to the flow of the adventure. I would also ...
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What happens to you after you die in D&D 3.5?
I'm playing an assassin-ish rogue in a 3.5 with Nerull (the god of death) as his deity and decided to build his essential character around the internal struggle of justifying his chosen profession to ...
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How do you handle an early death in Dread?
Starting prep for a game of Dread. I am wondering what is the best way to handle an early exit for a character in the game? I understand the ghost or doomed method of allowing the player to continue ...
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A PC dies every session - bad tactics or the normal outcome of adventuring?
In the campaign I'm currently playing in we have had a lot of character deaths occurring recently, almost (if not every) session. The party are 13th–14th level and are taking on significant ...
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Techniques for allowing character defeat without character death
Character death can be extremely disruptive to an ongoing RPG, particularly in a game where character agendas are the driving force behind the plot. However, for a good story with a sense of conflict ...
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How should treasure parcels be adjusted to account for permanent character death in Dungeons and Dragons 4e?
In a D&D game I play, the party has had a 200% character turnover rate due to character death at low levels. Spawning at higher levels provides the incoming players with gear appropriate to their ...
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What about character death should be included in a social contract?
For a D&D (4e, primarily) game what about player-character death should be included in a group's social contract? What are some options for best reaching consensus about the possibility of death ...
