Making combat less lethal.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by DeadParrot

This. I don't understand why so many RPG players assume that all combat encounters are designed for them to win and that retreat is somehow never an acceptable option.

By the time you're engaged in something that can reasonably be called a combat encounter, retreat is often not an available option. Successfully running away from a close combat engagement is not easy (either in reality or TFT).