Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory - Using Loses to Help Advance Your Story

The good guys always win or do they. It isn't often at the end of a movie the villains go over. But failure can be a great learning experience for the heroes if you can find the right balance of wins to losses. Its a hard thing to find but today lets talk about some of the issues with your players facing defeat.

Have you ever handed your player's a decisive defeat mid game? Have you ended a a story arc with the party's loss? How many wins to losses do you hand your opponents?

well, back in AD&D days, I DM'd Ravenloft 3 times, not once did the players get rid of Strahd, once was a TPK, another would have been but I decided to let them leave Barovia rather than slay them.