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From: Mike Hartmann <Hartmann@***********.M.EUNET.DE>
Subject: Re: Saving the Team by Self-Sacrifice
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 08:29:24 +0100
> How many of you players have GMs and other players bitch about your
> high level character?
>
> And when you and your team gets into a bind and you try to save the team
> by self-sacrifice your GM wimps out and lets you live?
>
> Is it cause he does not want your character to be immortalized by the
> action he took to save his team?

I don't think so. Many GMs are simply afraid of killing characters.
They fear that the player get annoyed.

> To you GMs out there has any of your players tried to do this? and what
> did you do about the situation?

Well, at first I'd make clear to the character that this action might
very well kill him (just in case he didn't realize). If he still
wants to do that (in order to save the team) I'd let him have a real
climatic showdown (because it is a hard decision to let your
character die). I'd give lots of opportunities for roleplaying the
"last minutes" trying to involve the rest of the team if they have
some kind of commlink.

bye mike

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