Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27070091-20161031185655/@comment-3463132-20161101045343

Ragazz wrote: i say death is good as a prefered result, but not a neccessity.

there are some good battles that dont end in death.

what matters is that combatant has to be actually defeated, regardless if its death or whatever. I personally like this approach- there's no reason to insist people HAVE to die and there is literally no gain for making a rule that it HAS to be so. By contrast, allowing people freedom to write their own endings allows writers more creativity with a positive result.

There comes a time when blindly following a rule can be detrimental.