Re: [HOE] Campaign Lethality WAS: Strain-based Martial Artists

["Bob Fletcher" <bobfletch@erols.com>]

    We run two Pinnacle campaigns for my group, a Deadlands campaign my
friend runs and my own Hell on Earth campaign.  Both of them are played with
a "high hurt/low casualty" state of mind.  I make it as difficult as I can
for my posse, and I beat the living Hell out of them in the process, but I
haven't killed any of them yet.  It's not that I'm fudging dice rolls or
anything, but I think my group gives out more chips in general and I don't
go out of my way to kill characters.  No instant death stuff or anything.
I've only been running HOE for a couple months, but my friend has been
running Deadlands for two years and has only killed one character (the guy
was an idiot anyway, and we didn't invite him back), though he keeps
threatening to chop off one of the arms of my two-fisted hexslinger ;-).
Every group likes different styles of campaigns, but I know my group
wouldn't enjoy having two-thirds of them wiped out in the first phase of the
first round.



>> > We're both for equal opportunity PC kills. Playing "The Destroyer" from
>>Last
>> > Crusaders, she took out all but two of our six posse members on the Ace
>>of
>> > Diamonds of the first round of combat.
>>
>>You're kidding me!  Why do I get the feeling that the posse my group plays
>>with is way stronger than it's supposed to be?  I fought the S-Mart
>>Overlord
>>in single combat (as a Templar) with Evanor (the sword from Something
About
>>a Sword), diced him in half and walked away without a scratch...is it just
>>me?  BTW, my STR is now 4d12+9...insane, huh?
>>
>
>*heh* If you let any group walk away from Something... with Evanor, you're
>just asking for trouble.  :)  As we discussed a while back, just giving a
>Templar an armor-piercing sword or capability can open up a whole can of
>worms...
>
>Me, I destroyed it when some wacked out mad scientist from an alternate
>dimension convinced the PCs to give Evanor to him to use as a power source
>for his dimensional shifting device.  They hung out in the 1990's "real
>world" (the Reckoners' machinations had accelerated the HoE dimension's
>timeflow) for a couple of days before the HoE reality started to "leak"
back
>in.
>
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