| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth) |
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| Subject: | Killing players |
| Date: | Fri Nov 30 05:50:04 2001 |
> > 1) For story purposes
> > 2) Because the character did something that realistically results in death
> > 3) Just because he/she can
>
> You forgot the last one:
> 4) Because something happened that should never result in death, but did
> acordig to the rules.
IMHO, that partly falls under #2, and partly under GM discretion to prevent it
from happening. I say this because the rules basically set out the way the game
world works -- but for the most part, they should be trying to model reality
unless there's a good reason not to do so. If there's such a reason, then it's
#2: the character did something deadly.
For example, take the overly-deadly parachuting rules in SR. If a player fails
this roll and the character would die, this is something that the GM should
prevent, because people parachute out of aircraft all the time, but only a few of
them sustain major injuries, let alone die. OTOH, if the game background said
something like that the technology for parachutes is still new and experimental,
then those rules might be realistic, in this game world anyway, and so a
character failing to roll the (real-world-realistically) ridiculous TN to
parachute down deserves what they get according to those rules.
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