New Posts For Thread: Character Death: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tombhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29385861/Character_Death:_Or_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_TombYour players have done it again. They've pushed their luck to the limits, made all sorts of extreme and havoc-inducing decisions, and despite your best efforts (and fudged dice rolls bordering on an obscene insult to the Game Gods) they've found thePlayer C (allows dice-rolls to decide his fate because he chooses death every time if it comes up): Wow this is intense! I wonder if my character will make it? I sure hope so! If I make it to the skeleton, I hope it's not an undead. This character ishttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29385861/Character_Death:_Or_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_Tomb?post_id=524716737#524716737Player C (allows dice-rolls to decide his fate because he chooses death every time if it comes up): Wow this is intense! I wonder if my character will make it? I sure hope so! If I make it to the skeleton, I hope it's not an undead. This character isWed, 03 Oct 2012 08:16:47 -0500Player C (allows dice-rolls to decide his fate because he chooses death every time if it comes up): Wow this is intense! I wonder if my character will make it? I sure hope so! If I make it to the skeleton, I hope it's not an undead. This character ishttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29385861/Character_Death:_Or_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_Tomb?post_id=524700445#524700445Player C (allows dice-rolls to decide his fate because he chooses death every time if it comes up): Wow this is intense! I wonder if my character will make it? I sure hope so! If I make it to the skeleton, I hope it's not an undead. This character isTue, 02 Oct 2012 16:36:39 -0500The house rule makes no judgment as to why a player would want that control. It is irrelevant. That the player's participation, hoops or no, is at stake and the character is their toy to begin with is a fact. The house rule recognizes that fact and ghttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29385861/Character_Death:_Or_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_Tomb?post_id=524700067#524700067The house rule makes no judgment as to why a player would want that control. It is irrelevant. That the player's participation, hoops or no, is at stake and the character is their toy to begin with is a fact. The house rule recognizes that fact and gTue, 02 Oct 2012 16:24:34 -0500That's your prerogative, of course. One that I've heard mentioned before, at least a couple times in this thread, so I won't hold you to it if you decide to re-engage.http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29385861/Character_Death:_Or_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_Tomb?post_id=524696335#524696335That's your prerogative, of course. One that I've heard mentioned before, at least a couple times in this thread, so I won't hold you to it if you decide to re-engage.Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:26:47 -0500Many of those DMs you reference are basing their assertions on anecdotal evidence. "My players wouldn't like it, therefore you are wrong." One wonders if they're even telling the truth. But, of course, one doesn't have to wonder long if we simply dishttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29385861/Character_Death:_Or_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_Tomb?post_id=524695861#524695861Many of those DMs you reference are basing their assertions on anecdotal evidence. "My players wouldn't like it, therefore you are wrong." One wonders if they're even telling the truth. But, of course, one doesn't have to wonder long if we simply disTue, 02 Oct 2012 14:12:45 -0500