Cloning for chars

[Jatrell]

I am thinking of implementing a cloning penalty system rather than death and reroll. We all out a lot of time into these chars just to roll bad on 1 fight and get the old one s*** to the face. Please gimme feedback as GM's out there and let me know what you think.

If you die roll a D6. 1 dex, 2 knoledge, 3 str, 4 perc, 5 mech, 6 tech. You loose 1 point for whatever you roll for the cloning penalty. I still think this is a huge incentive not to die since upping attributes is so expensive. Let me know if you think there should be more of a penalty or if this just isn't advisable.

Thank you,
Jatrell
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[ZzaphodD]

If you are not sitting on an old abandoned (working) cloning facility I guess that the 'in game' explanation for being able to routinely clone the characters is the only problem.

Also, what about all the stuff the character has learned? How fast will the clone grow? Wouldnt there be a few months of absence at least before the new clone steps in? Wouldnt this cost a lot of credits?

It also reminds me of the Paranoia RPG, which may be a good or a bad thing depending on what type of game you want...
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[Guardian_A]

I REALLY dont like to kill characters if I can help it. After all, its about having fun and telling a good story. If one of my players characters falls in battle, I allow them a temporary wound, but that wound costs them a character point each round until someone can get to their side to help stabalize them. It tends to turn a bad situation into a desperate one.

This gives players a chance to save their character, but its at a steep cost. Its worked well for us on the few occasions its been an issue.

[garhkal]

Also, unless they are continually going back to said cloning facility to update the flash engramming they leave behind, there will be gaps in what the clones know.
And heaven help the party if the enemy finds out about it.. As they can (and should) blwo it the frak up to deny the party any more clones..
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[Fallon Kell]

Back when I ran a PC, I certainly would have abused the living daylights out of a cloning system. I would plan major sabotages with no exit routes, probably devise an effective plan to assassinate the Emperor, steal Star Destroyers by sneaking aboard and diverting engine coolant into the life support, and other things of that nature. Just by way of warning and all.
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[Esoomian]

I've played in a game system that used cloning as a way to avoid death.

Eventually it made the game less fun as people would routinely commit suicide rather than face a long journey to get back to base.

Not that I'm suggesting that a system that you propse would lead to that but be very careful before you take the sting out of death. It makes the heroic last stand more of an inconvenience.

Also don't Star Wars clones age twice as fast?
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[Azai]

I also feel, with the WEG D6 system, a cloning systems would be really difficult to adapt.

As WEG D6 is a lot more storyline, campaign that it would be hard to accomplish. More then just stats and gameplay.

[garhkal]

Heck, even ADND one of the first game systems out there which allowed 'bringing back characters to life; still had caps on how often it can be done (Limited to the con score). I can see nothing but abuse here.
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[ZzaphodD]

[Bren]

No CON limit for Raise Dead in the original D&D rules, just a vague statement that "if the character's Constitution was weak, the spell will not bring him back to life" without any detail on probabilities or what "weak" meant. Of course you only had 4 days for every level of the casting cleric > 7th before the body was no longer mostly dead and became all dead, as it were.

[garhkal]

[Bigkrieg]

I am not opposed to character death especially if it makes the overall story better and if it's dramatic. For example if your fighting the main villain and your killed in some dramatic fashion, it makes the character's death more acceptable. At least this is the case with the group I GM for. They are cool with character death as long as they die well.

I usually will not kill my characters because they roll poor (though they don’t know that). They know they can die if they make dumb choices however. Anyway, that’s my 2 cents.

[garhkal]

[Jatrell]

Well, I want death to be part of the game. Makes players think hard before they do something heroic seeing as it can end up being something stupid very quickly. But I also just didn't want them to take away all of their hard work. These characters require a lot of work. Not like D&D where you can roll a new char and instantly be equal to the group. Just trying to find a way around killing hard work is all.
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