Characters Dying and/or Killing Characters.

[AcesAndEights]

Thats a really good idea. I never thought of using dissipate energy that way. I will have to remember that next time they bully my character in the Jedi campaign

[Endwyn]

I wouldn't do it often....you are just as vulnerable to it as the enemy is. There are lots of little tricks that you pick up over the years.
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Luke, I am your father.
That's impossible!
And Leia is your sister!
That's improbable?
And the Empire will be destroyed by..EWOKS!
That's...highly unlikely.
The Force? Bacteria called midichlorians.
If you don’t take this seriously I'm out.

[Esoomian]

[Endwyn]

In space combat we usually roll a D6 to determine how many rounds you have before the ship goes boom. It's no longer functional, it's going to go...now you want to know how long you've got. Either you make it to an escape pod or you don't. (Like you, we don't want to make it impossible to die but we don't want cheap deaths to pop up all the time.)
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Luke, I am your father.
That's impossible!
And Leia is your sister!
That's improbable?
And the Empire will be destroyed by..EWOKS!
That's...highly unlikely.
The Force? Bacteria called midichlorians.
If you don’t take this seriously I'm out.

[vong]

[Endwyn]

Some players aren't appreciative. During one game my friend told us all before it started it was going to be combat heavy and that we should pick our characters carefully. (We each had several and played whichever we felt like at the time.) He even indicated to the group the relative difficulty, by explaining the troubles one character experienced in the first small lead in to the game.

One player chose a glorified librarian and then became upset when she got shot. (She chose to stay behind with the Jedi when the Jedi told everyone to run and he would delay them for a few seconds to give them a head start.) The combat monsters ran in and shot at each of them. She took a shot to her arm and had taken enough damage to kill her by a lot. The GM decided to have her arm blown off, but even told her that some of it was still attached and if she was careful might be able to have it reattached with surgery and/or minor cybernetics. (Very generous all things considered.)

Anyways, she was very upset and ended up ruining the game. The GM was trying to avoid ruining the game by not killing her, but she didn't want her character to have a scar or anything.

Some players can't see the "give-me's".
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Luke, I am your father.
That's impossible!
And Leia is your sister!
That's improbable?
And the Empire will be destroyed by..EWOKS!
That's...highly unlikely.
The Force? Bacteria called midichlorians.
If you don’t take this seriously I'm out.

[vong]

yea. Sometimes I tell players to have a backup character - cause sometimes i have to let the players know they are not invincible, and their characters will die. If i am a friend with one of the memebers in my group, i will get him to make a character for the sole purpose of dying (only do this for new groups) that way the rest of the group knows im serious, and he gets a bit extra out of haivn go t kill a character
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[Endwyn]

Effective, but almost dirty...I see the merit.
_________________
Luke, I am your father.
That's impossible!
And Leia is your sister!
That's improbable?
And the Empire will be destroyed by..EWOKS!
That's...highly unlikely.
The Force? Bacteria called midichlorians.
If you don’t take this seriously I'm out.

[vong]

Its worked quite effectively so far, but now ive jynxed it, and it will fail.

also, sometimes i will do a combat all out in the open (epically after characters complain that im fudging the rolls against their favour) and when they see that its more the other way around, they shut up quite fast.

My favourite session involving this so far is one character complained every fight that i kept fudging rolls to get him hurt (granted, he got targetted alot, due to his larger scarrier size. who do you target, the wookie or the hot chick...) when he saw that he "died" 5 times in that combat (he was on an off day for rolling) and i saved him every time (granted, stuff started to go really wrong, and he know has no control over his bowels ) he has not complained since
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[AcesAndEights]

Wow, I really like that idea. I'm really tempted to do that if I run a game when I get back next semester. That would be a perfect way to start off a campaign.

[garhkal]

[Endwyn]

We usually roll a D6 for any "kill" roll on a ship that has a major PC or NPC. It gives them all time to try to get away. (Although, a one makes it hard to actually get away.)

It's just not heroic to bail ship way ahead of time and in Star Wars you can often go from fine to dead in a ship in no time.
_________________
Luke, I am your father.
That's impossible!
And Leia is your sister!
That's improbable?
And the Empire will be destroyed by..EWOKS!
That's...highly unlikely.
The Force? Bacteria called midichlorians.
If you don’t take this seriously I'm out.

[Endwyn]

[garhkal]

[Endwyn]

For the most part it does apply pretty far across the board. About the only thin not covered are "mook troops" like stormtroopers, ect. If anyone not traditionally considered cannon fodder is on the ship it has a chance to hold together for a little bit.

I could have worded it better before.
_________________
Luke, I am your father.
That's impossible!
And Leia is your sister!
That's improbable?
And the Empire will be destroyed by..EWOKS!
That's...highly unlikely.
The Force? Bacteria called midichlorians.
If you don’t take this seriously I'm out.