Best of the Web - High Lethality Role Playing

Found an old post by Jeff Rients about the D&D Next playtest being overpowered called Dude, where's my first level?. The post was interesting, the comments more so. He followed up with another one called Why low level, high lethality?

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Lapidary Ossuary's post High Lethality as Game Balance directed me to Jeff Reint's old posts. That sort of thing is one of the great things about the internet and why I prefer everyone blogging instead of forums and/or the vile Twitter.