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Re: [HOE] Campaign Lethality WAS: Strain-based Martial Artists
> 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.
>
>
I feel the death of a character should only happen on three ways.
1) Hes a really idiot and does it to him self aka "Sure I'm psyker with 2
points of strain left, I can take 6 Automatons"
2) Its story related aka Heroic sacrifices that kind of thing
3) To Reassure them that they can die aka Kill one player(usually someone
who is geting borded with there guy) every few sessions to let them know
that they aren't immortal
No body has fun when there characters keep die every session. But you have
to make sure it happens or else characters will walk all over the G.M. I,
as a G.M., don't tend to find pleasure in killing of the entire party. I had
a friend who ran shadowrun who killed of every player every other session.
We went through 10 guys in two months. He couldn't understand why people
didn't want to play anymore. If characters keep dying then there nothing to
look forward to.
Dan
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