Death saves

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I've never done it with 5e games because most of my players were new to the hobby and it was part of how they learned to play... I mean, it's right there on the character sheet. I'm not going to take something away from them just because I'm old and grumpy. I save my house rules for limiting pop-up healing, recovering from exhaustion, awesome criticals, and such.

Some of them are in a BECMI game I'm running and it took 4 character deaths for them to change their style. They now have the appropriate level of respect for the unknown.

I'm glad you acknowledge that it's a preference thing and not some kind of universal better option.
I'm also glad that you're getting in a BECMI game that's as lethal as you like!

Hope you and the players are having an awesome time. :)