I guess I don't get it. When we started the game with the kids (they were 10, 12, and 13 years old) Doug and I set some ground rules. D&D is like TV and the movies in your mind. And in those mediums the heroes never (rarely) die. So we set one rule that the heroes would not get killed dead. They could go down to zero hit points but never any lower. Since I was in the party I could guide them out of a serious situation before we were overwhelmed. One exception to the rule was my characters. Garth and Rankin were expendable. The kids had to know that it could happen to their characters but they didn't have to experience it.

It made life interesting for Doug because he had to craft his dungeons in those days with the idea that they would be a challenge but still not end up with the party in tatters.

The result has been a group that works together pretty well. There are 5 players and we each have at least two characters. We aren't a party, we are an army! We call ourselves the Green Dragons Wanderers. Our battles get pretty complicated. We have plenty of stories and quips and quotes from those adventures. You can get a taste of it from my daughter's website, Click here.