Unpopular D&D Opinions

[Tanarii]

To me, even in a heroic gateway, combat should be dangerous. It's something you do not because there's an orc in a 10ft by 10ft room. You initiate combat because you're hungry, the orc has pie, and not being hungry is more important to you then not dying (replace pie and hunger with any relevant MacGuffin and emotion). My favourite part of Unknown Armies is that it's combat chapter opens with six ways to avoid a fight because sometimes you don't want the shineys that badly.

Important to note, "not dangerous" = "D&D Heroic" is a fairly new WotC interpretation of D&D Heroic.